It was raining lightly when I woke this morning so I stayed in bed for an extra hour. When I made it to the main house I found Dan prepping the walls in the kitchen to install some kitchen cabinets. Most every one here is an early riser except me, which fortunately for me is ok with them. Mostly they go to bed earlier than I. I have to stay up to after midnight to use their internet which is non metered from midnight to eight in the morning.
Making dough for bread
Dan said to get the bread dough ready to go, so I made up a batch of dough for bread.
After making the dough, I put it to rise. Once Dan was finished prepping for the cabinets we both went outside as the rain stopped except for a light mist.
Fixing up the gas tank
We checked the bottom of the gas tank for debris and water, but found it clean.
We put Recto seal also known by plumbers as yellow snot on all the fittings and put the filter and meter and hoses back together to seal it all up. All the fitting were leaking when we got here.
Looks good and shouldn’t leak when they put some gas in it.
Puttering around
Dan and I spent the rest of the day puttering around and enjoying the day.
Deer at the salt lick
Toward evening the deer came down to the salt lick. They were watching something off to the right that I couldn’t see right away.
Some elk show up
What they were watching was the elk coming into the field which soon showed up.
Breads not working out
We wanted to bake the bread before going to bed, but it didn’t rise fast enough so Dan punched the dough down and put it back in the pan to hopefully rise through the night and be ready to bake in the morning, maybe. I make my yeast from flour and water as store bought sometimes is grown on corn and not safe for me. It’s a simple process to make yeast, but sometimes I don’t let it mature enough before using it, but that’s all part of the game of bread making.
Weather coming in
We are expecting rain showers maybe with some snow showers for the next week or so which means another blanket on the bed in the van.
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.
