I started off the day moving 4 wheelbarrows of woodchips to the raspberry patch. I figured that would get me started and it did.
Overflow bottle mounting
After that I opened up the van to figure out where to mount a radiator bottle for the overflow. There’s not much room to mount a tank in there so it was a bit of a puzzle.
I tried this bottle first but it had a problem.
It was too close to the exhaust system and might melt.
Tire pressure check
I set that aside and checked all the tires and the spare for proper tire pressure. The spare was almost zero so it might have a slow leak hole in it somewhere so I’ll keep an eye on it and see how fast it loses it’s pressure.
And fun greasing
Next it was time to grease up the parts so I got the grease gun out and crawled under there and got it done. Keeping things greased keeps these old things from wearing out.
Back to the water bottle install
I decided to try some other plastic bottles for the water tank. After much messing around I was able to put this one in sideways. It just fit real good and was easy to install. I need to cut out the bottle for the hose at this point and fasten the bottle in.
Success
The return hose is hooked up and the bottle is fastened in with some tie wraps that should hold. That turned out better than I thought it would.
Spring indicators
It was a sunny day out, spring time weather. The daffodils I showed you the other day haven’t bloomed yet but are really ready to pop.
Ha, a popped daffodil which always means spring to me.
Egg production up
The chickens laid more eggs today maybe because they like the sun.
Hauling more woodchips
Towards evening I hauled 4 more loads of woodchips to the raspberry patch which pretty much did me in for the day so I did some chair hopping.
Raspberry plants
After that I planted about ten extra raspberry plants I had left over. I put them around the yard so I can grave on them as I walk the yard.
After dark I went out and closed up the chickens. My new roosters are making too much noise at night which means to quiet things down it’s butcher time so I had to select the ones for the deed and put the in a separate cage for the night. They squawked a lot and weren’t happy. I think I need to let it get darker so they are calmer during catch time.
Nice sunny day working and puttering around the yard.
Still snowing up here, no way I can even see any of my Daffys…
I just used and empty washer fluid bottle for my Samurai, why try and find an original?$$?
Got your travel plans figured out yet?
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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.
Still snowing up here, no way I can even see any of my Daffys…
I just used and empty washer fluid bottle for my Samurai, why try and find an original?$$?
Got your travel plans figured out yet?