Today was to be a fence building day. I’m building a chicken grazing pen and am ready for the fence posts and fence wire to go up. The grazing pen is just an enclosed area that I can let the chickens in to eat the weeds and things that grow there. I will water the area to help things grow faster so there’s more for the chickens to eat.
I’ll start here at the new gate and go down along the driveway.
I’m putting in steel fence posts along here. First I have to line them up.
The fence comes down along the driveway and makes a turn back behind the bamboo. I’m lining up the fence posts making sure, I hope, not to drive any of them into any water lines which go through this area.
The fence goes down along here where I cut the trees out yesterday. This is the end I’ll start running the fence wire from.
Cutting fence wire and putting it up
I’ve got a piece of fence wire up and am measuring and cutting another piece which is on the ground on the right.
Here is the wire I’m putting up from another angle.
About this time my brother Tom came by to cut up some logs he had stored in my yard. He then split them up.
I wired the fence wire to the steel posts and got this much up before I ran out of fence wire.
Ran out of wire
I made it to the driveway with the fence wire and will have to get some more wire to finish this up. I need some hinges for a walk through gate too so I’ll need to make a trip to town soon.
Fence posts ready to go
At least all the fence posts are up so there isn’t much left to do, although I want to make some spots in the fence to get the tractor in there if I need to.
That was enough work for one day and besides it was almost dark so I quit for the day.
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.
