It rained some early this morning but it had stopped by noon.
Not wanting to hang around the house, I put the chain on the saw and gassed and oiled it up and headed up to the forest to work on more downed trees.
We usually don’t have this many trees down, but some of the rain storms were fairly windy this winter.
Since the weather guys said there might be real light rain showers later today, I only put on a light rain jacket and took off, taking my chances, which turned out not to be too good.
Doing ours first
I rode up through here, but didn’t go over this water and went up the road behind me instead. I was going to go over to my Cousin’s place, but instead I thought I should work on our place first and if I had enough gas I’d finish at my Cousin’s which wasn’t the case.
Lots of work
Going up that road, I ran into this rather large mess of downed trees and there was another bunch about a 100 feet up the road from that.
I started by throwing all the loose stuff off the road and then started cutting.
I was doing good and had all but one little inch limb to cut and that took the chain off the bar.
Clear the road
At least I got it all cut before the chain fell off and about the time I got the road cleared, it started to rain real light which the weather guys said it would about this time.,,,,,,,,,,, But.
I left that big log for now as it was unstable and might fall on me if I messed with it.
The light ran was picking up as I headed out, going under this stuff I didn’t get to, just up the road.
Getting wet
I had to stop here to move these tree limbs off the road and by now, it was raining fairly good.
I continued on down the road and stopped under a big tree, thinking I might wait there until the shower passed, but after waiting a few minutes with the rain increasing, I decided to make the dash for home which was only about a half mile away.
Sky let loose
I did get a bit wet on the way but good thing I headed for home because just after I got to the house the sky let loose for about a half hour and then turned to showers.
I went in the house and changed out of my wet pants and stayed in for the rest of the day.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
