I got an email from Marty this morning saying he’d come by if I’d be home, so about an hour later he showed up in his jeep.
Sitting in the chicken pen
We spent most of the day sitting in the chicken pen with the chicks shooting the bull.
Yummm mulberries
We did walk around the yard sampling fruit and berries. He especially liked the big black mulberries that were getting ripe.
He also took some of the ever bearing raspberry plants I’d dug out of the blueberry patch to plant in his yard.
Jeep ride up the hill
Later in the afternoon I suggested a ride up to the top of the ridge in his jeep, so we jumped into his jeep and took off up one of the roads to the top.
Hilltop view
We stopped at the top for the view and a break here.
Looking down at the little town of Guerneville. A bit of smoke in the air but not as bad as most places.
We then took some other roads back down the hill going through here.
Eating mulberries while you can
Once we got back to my house Marty said he was heading for home, but first he thought he should have some more mulberries while he could so we visited the mulberry tree and ate some berries.
He took off for home.
Picked some pole beans
I needed to pick some of my pole beans as there was getting to be quite a lot of them ready to pick so I did that and now have a big bag of them ready for the pressure cooker. I cook them for about three minutes in the pressure cooker and cool them down right away and they are nice and tender.
I still need to get them cooked.
Recovering takes a lot longer
I spent the rest of the day taking it easy chair hopping and just resting up from all the hard work I did moving dirt a few days ago. I find at my age it takes awhile to recover from such exertions, a lot longer than it used to take.
That was it for another day, nice one, not much work.
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.
