I started the day out using the vacuum clearer in my house for a bit. But after about five minutes my back said it didn’t like that, so I had to give that up. At this rate, it’s going to take me a long time to get that vacuuming done.
Lazy day part
Once I got it going again, I didn’t really have any plans to do any projects for the day.
So, of course that meant I did a lot of chair hopping around the yard just sitting around and enjoying the day and resting the old back.
And of course there were a couple naps thrown in there too. I did do some work checking out a new video editing tool on my computer on and off.
Setting up the job
An hour or so before dark , I decided to at least get the tools and stuff together as the chicken pen needed some repairs and I bought some wire the other day to do that.
Here’s my wire and the tools and clips I need to do the job. I got those together and wasn’t sure if I”d do anymore on it today.
Eventually I took the tape measurer to the chicken pen and measured a couple of panels that needed to be beefed up and came back and got the two panels cut to size.
After a short rest I got one of the wire panels installed on a gate to the pen and my back said it’d had enough so getting that done was better than nothing. :O)
Rat control
I watched the rats again last night with my cam. It at least seems there are less of them. There’s no way to know for sure whether they got done in or they just don’t like what’s there and haven’t come back. I would think that if they just didn’t like what was there, at least some of them would come back for more.
Right now I have three small ones and I think a larger one that may be momma working on the bait. Momma seems to be more couscous and I’m not sure she’s feeding on the bait or not. I’ll be watching her more carefully and we’ll see what happens. If that bait works, at least some of the little ones should disappear.
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.
I know your pain. I’m allergic to vacuuming!