I could hear the rains pouring down early this morning as I lay in bed thinking about getting up to go check out the old dirt road I’ve been working on , expecting the worst as along with the rains the wind was blowing too.
Roof
When I went outside, I noticed a big piece of my metal roof was on the ground. The wind had done some damage over my car port, which wasn’t really too bad. I’ll get that all screwed back down after this storm calms down.
With the high winds, I put the chainsaw in my side by side, just in case and headed on up through the state park to check on the old dirt road.
Surprised
I was expecting some damage, but to my surprise, I made it all the way to the top without getting my shovel out or my chainsaw. Things were looking better than expected.
I drove over to my cousin’s place on top of the hill and gave them a report and warmed up a bit.
Since I had nothing to repair, I headed back down the hill.
I did stop here to do a bit of shovel work, just because I could, not that it really needed it.
I wanted to slow down that water going down the road on the left in a tire rut. It really wasn’t too bad. The water on the right is running off the road as it should so was ok.
I moved a couple shovel fulls of dirt so the water would go across the road and off it which only took a minute.
Park guys
Since I had all this extra time now, I rode on over to the state parks shop and shot the bull with the guys in there for awhile. They were working on sharpening up all their chainsaws and tools so they’d be ready to go once the rains stopped.
I headed on home from there and found these tree trimmers on the road outside my place. It seems they were trimming some trees out of the way that might fall onto the nearby power lines.
It continued to rain for the rest of the day, pretty heavy at times.
That meant I’d spend the rest of the day in the house, taking it easy.
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.
