It was fairly warm when I got it going today so I did a lot of chair hopping and thinking about how to make the rest of the van’s radiator baffles.
Baffle construction
I took the two pieces of metal I cut yesterday and began to turn them into baffles for the sides of the radiator.
Bending
I had to bend them to fit the spot they were to go.
As the day warmed up I did some more chair hopping and a nap or two until it started to cool down a bit in the evening.
The chickens were ready to get out into the front yard so I opened the gate for them.
Completing the baffles
Each baffle needed to be hand fit so I worked on that and got them mostly finished up and ready to go. I need to do one more baffle for the bottom and then I can finish it all up.
I put a sprinkler on in the yard in the late afternoon.
Eating fruit
And I ate some of these grapes.
And some of the mulberries that were black and ripe.
Helping the citrus trees grow
And the last thing I did before dark was to fertilize my citrus trees.
I used fish emulsion so had to mix it up trying not to get any on me as it smells pretty bad.
The citrus trees are starting to grow more since I’ve been giving them some fertilizer.
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.
