Shop to you drop, not me. I just get in and get out. I needed some food and I need a new wind breaker/rain coat. I went over to Santa Rosa in a light sprinkle and first went to Sports Authority where I’m always looking for the right color of coat for a wind breaker. I like green, just green, like forest green, not some bright lime green thing, I like to blend in when I’m out and about, especially when I’m kayaking. I’m not into the bright oranges and things city type people seem to like best. To each his own. Of course since there are more city type people that like those bright colors, that’s mostly what you’ll find in the store, so that’s why I have to keep checking in the store for new items that match what I’m looking for.
Now, the old wind breaker was a good one, but I wore it while I was trimming berry vines on trails once too often and for the last year or so, I’ve had some little invisible holes in the arms, so I’ve been looking for awhile now.
I got lucky today, found a North Face one, forest green, my size and only a hundred dollars. That might seem like a lot to some, but a good wind breaker/rain coat is worth even more than that. It’s the thing that can make or break a bad weather day and make a bad weather day more enjoyable. So, yes, I’d pay a lot for a coat that does the job.
After that, off to Costco to get some food. Since I have this problem where I’m allergic to things made from corn, I have to be real careful what I buy. About ninety percent of products in stores have something in them made from corn, so it’s a real challenge to find corn free items which I can eat. And the worse part is you have to be a scientist to know what on the label is made from corn as it isn’t usually listed, as made from corn. Takes me about twice as long to shop now that I have to read all the ingredients each time I buy something.
Somehow, I still managed to find 220 dollars of food.The items I can buy are usually the more expensive ones. Just the way it is.
I also bought six pairs of real nice boot type socks. I’ve been having a problem with my feet burning when I hike. I think my cushions on the bottom of my feet have thinned with age, or less use? The socks seem to help relieve the problem, as I’d bought some before and give them a try out.
After that, I went over to visit my friends Marty and Patti. We discussed a trip to his cabin in Boonville in a couple weeks to plant some fruit trees that I want to transfer from my yard. They are all volunteers that came up in the yard on their own, but in the wrong places. Several of them came up in my blueberry patch, can’t have that. :O)
I did a little work too.
Alter that, I came home and put the groceries away and then went outside to see about taking apart a planter bed, so I could get some more volunteer trees out of them without too much trouble. I was going to take that planter bed apart anyway. I can use some of the dirt to fill the holes where I want to plant the cherry trees., so there is a plan of badness to all this. Taking those planter boxes apart wore me out and it was almost dark by then. In the house I went and got the fire going in the wood stove and a little nap was indeed deserved. :O)
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.
