I had plans to finish that spring I was working on yesterday, but Barry showed up for a bike ride in the forest, so plans changed. A bike ride in the forest gets priority as it’s a good way to get a lot of needed exercise. Because we ride in the hills, the body gets a good work out, just trying to stay on the dirt bike, so that’s why it wins and it’s fun too.
Gassing up his dirt bike.
I left my camera home accidentally. We rode around the hills for awhile then went up to my cousin’s place that lives up on the ridge top and had a good visit and then we went riding again.
After that, a nap was needed to rest up a bit.
Yard puttering
Later in the day, I moved this rat bait station out of the sun and into this shady spot as with it in the sun, I got a lot of false motion detections because of the sun’s shadows moving around in the leaves. The shade should reduce those a bit. The cam is in the blue box and is hooked to my computer. I seem to have the rats under control as none have showed up to chow down, which is a good thing as they were over running the place.
Citrus trees
Then I put the sprinkler on my citrus trees as I’m trying to get them growing more.
Coffee plants
My coffee plants aren’t growing much so I put some fertilizer on them and have been giving them more drinks of water. This isn’t really the right climate for them, but I thought I’d give them a try just the same.
Van work
In the evening, I got to work on the van. I’m working on cleaning up this rat nest of wires for the van’s electric fans to make them easier to service when something goes wrong.
I had to get under the van to take some bolts off to remove the electric fan to work on that a bit to make it easier to take off if I need to, out on the road.
I removed the electric fan and put some longer mounting bolts on it to make it easier to remove when on the road and something goes wrong with it and I need to find out what went wrong. I had to work on this on the last trip, so that’s what prompted me to improve this.
Van’s flat tire
A commenter said tire shops won’t fix sidewall punctures, by law, so I had another look at where the hole is and marked it.
The little hole is between the black lines and is very small like a wire or nail went through it. I think I’ll take it to a tire repair shop and see if they will fix it or not. The tire is almost brand new, so if they won’t fix it, I’ll get a repair kit and fix it myself, especially since it is just barely in the sidewall.
I spent the rest of the day chair hopping around the yard and taking it easy.
I want to see a picture of your bearded face. And taste the spring waters. Do they need a house sitter on top of the ridge this summer? Finally in southern Oregon hiding from the heat in mountains.
I need some rat knowledge. What kind of bait are you using? Didn’t you mix it with grain? I’d like to set up something in my yard that the birds cannot get into. The rat traps aren’t working. Thanks Bob ……
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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.
I want to see a picture of your bearded face. And taste the spring waters. Do they need a house sitter on top of the ridge this summer? Finally in southern Oregon hiding from the heat in mountains.
I need some rat knowledge. What kind of bait are you using? Didn’t you mix it with grain? I’d like to set up something in my yard that the birds cannot get into. The rat traps aren’t working. Thanks Bob ……