I rode on up to check on the road. All looked good and nothing to do on it today, so I went for a ride and stopped here at this overlook on our place.
It was one of those nice days.
I rode down to this water pool to have a look.
It’s only a small pool of water, but still a nice spot. I looked for mosquito fish in the water but I didn’t see any, so I should restock them soon as they eat mosquito larva.
Trail work
Eventually, I made it down to this spot. A trail goes on up along the little creek here and I wanted to trim some brush on it.
The trail goes by our family memorial.
And on up along this little creek.
Here’s a better shot of the little creek that goes on up along the trail.
I didn’t have much to do on the trail and most of it was clear of debris.
But I did find these trees that had fallen across the trail. They’ll need a chainsaw to clear them off the trail.
This is some of the little brush bushes I wanted to trim off the trail, so I took care of that. They are sprouting up from a cut down tree.
I went on home after that.
Windshield
With most of the rains done for the year, it’s time to remove the windshield from Hondo as it causes a vacuum when riding around which pulls in lot of dust into the cab area. It’s easy to remove as it had a bunch of big plastic clips that hold it on.
Kinky hose
A number of years ago, I bought this hose from Costco. It’s a piece of crap as it kinks real easily and is a pain in the butt to use. That’s the new one I just installed.
And that’s the old kinky one I took off. I also put a sprinkler on in the yard to get the grass to grow for the chickens.
Woodchips
I needed to pull back some of the woodchips that where leaning on my avocado tree, so I took care of that with the pitchfork.
Old van
And it was time to get the old van started up and put out in the sun to air it out from sitting in the shed all winter. I had to put the dozer battery in it as it didn’t have a battery.
It started right up, but I found the gas pedal was stuck when I drove it out of the shed.
I tried lubing the pedal first, but that’s not where it was stuck so I investigated and found a throttle cable had frozen up, so I applied oil until it freed up.
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.
