I heard there was some rain coming in soon and this is the sky when I got it going today.
Van ignition switch
I had another look at the van’s ignition switch I need to replace. It looks like it will be easy. While I was looking at that, my brother Barry drove in.
He was going up into the hills to clear roads and trim some brush off them too, so he could get his truck up there to cut wood soon. I said I’d catch up with him, up there, a bit later.
Lotsa turkey vultures
While I was sitting in a chair getting ready to ride the dirt bike up into the hills, I noticed a lot of turkey vultures flying around up in the sky near where I was going. Over fifty of them I think. They seemed to be just flying around enjoying the day.
Road work or exercise
Eventually I hopped on the dirt bike and took off for the hills to see if I could find where Barry was. I had a nice ride riding around looking for him with no success until I started back and I heard him down the hill a bit so I headed that way and caught up with him here as he trimmed some branches.
We continued on down the road to the next tree that needed trimmed. While he cut I threw little rocks and sticks off the road and then helped him clean up the debris.
Big log
And then off to the next one at this big log I’d removed part of it the other day and he wanted to remove more of it to make it easier to get by.
He’s trying to get it to roll out of the way. I helped and we got the road cleared. He was pretty beat after that.
Rest area
We weren’t far from our resting area on the hill top so that’s where we went for a good break. Barry had a hard time getting it going from here but he did want to do one more trail.
View
View from our rest spot on the top of the hill.
Eventually Barry rested up enough to get going again. He cut this one but there was a much bigger one just down the trail.
This big old rotten one took a lot of work to clear it off the trail.
Shaky one
We got that trail cleared then went down to this spot. I advised to leave this one alone as it’s high in the air and might roll down the hill when cut, but he wanted to get it out of there so he took a careful cut on it.
Leave it along
As he cut through the log, it rolled down the hill slightly and set up to be even more dangerous. It wasn’t much trouble to get him to leave it along. Maybe during the rain it will fall all the way down onto the road. If we’d had a rope we would have pulled it off the hill. One of the reason’s he decided to not mess with it is he was tuckered out from all the exercise he was getting. :O)
Guerneville overlook
After that, the day was about done and we headed for home going by the overlook where we can see the little town of Guerneville nestled in the forest by the river.
We made it back to my house.
Barry took off for home and I headed in for a much needed nap.
Getting ready for some rain
A bit later I went out in the yard and chair hopped and made sure I was ready for some rain, putting some stuff away.
Yummies
I did eat some raspberries as they are just starting to get ripe.
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.
