I wanted to get the pipeline trail pipes hooked up today. I started by digging a shallow ditch across the road where the pipe crosses it. The ground was hard and I only had to dig down a couple of inches to protect the pipe from tires.
Then I walked out the pipeline trail and started moving the black plastic pipe onto it so I could hook it up.
I moved the older pipe onto the trail.
And then pulled the rest of the old pipe from down below the trail onto the trail.
The spring water was flowing down the pipe so I hooked up the final coupling and I was good to go.
That was all I wanted to get accomplished on the pipeline today, so now I needed to take it easy so I rode on over to the small pond and checked it out and got a drink of water from the pond’s spring water inlet.
Then I rode around some more and stopped at Choker Spring for another drink of water.
Overlook
From there i went to the overlook spot on my cousin’s place and sat for a good long time enjoying the day. Those clouds are smoke from a forest fire northeast of us. It was good the smoke stayed over there instead of on top of us.
While I was sitting there I was spooked when my neighbor rode up behind me on his electric mountain bike.
We shot the bull for a good while then we went for a ride so he could show me what that electric bike could do. I rode in Hondo.
He did pretty good getting around on the electric bike but on the steeper hills he had to peddle like hell. I think my older legs would cramp up doing that. The electric gave him quite a bit of assist, but he still ended up peddling pretty fast to get up the steeper hills.
Eventually he headed for home and I did the same thing for a nap.
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.
