While I was doing some chair hopping around the yard this morning I noticed we got some more mulch so that means I can use a bit more of it to mulch stuff.
Obtaining woodchips
Some tree trimming guys that work for the power company came by to do some tree trimming and my brother Tom got them to dump the woodchips here. They are glad to dump them otherwise they have to drive a long ways and pay to dispose of them so that’s why we are able to get lots of woodchips, especially since we live in a forest where lots of trees need trimming around the power lines, often.
Tom’s big problem
I was sitting in one of my chairs when Tom drove up in his side by side and said he had a big problem with his little truck. He said the right front and rear blinkers where blanking and wouldn’t shut off even with the key removed. He had to disconnect the battery to shut them off.
I said let’s go have a look.
We got his truck manual out and found where the blinker relays were and fuses but got no where with that. Knowing the emergency blinkers are connected to the turn signals I asked where his emergency switch was located.
Getting somewhere
The switch was located on top of the steering wheel column. Was it on or off? We fiddled with it and found out it had been accidentally turned on and was causing the problem. It did have a problem as it was only turning on the right emergency lights and not the left ones too.
We looked at why the emergency flashers weren’t all working but didn’t figure that out and Tom said he didn’t really need those emergency lights working anyway so the turn signal problem got fixed. He said he likely hit the switch when he reached in from outside to remove the keys.
Fresh potatoes
Tom said he’s harvesting potatoes and did I want some. Sure, but I only need the rejects. I put them in sacks like the one on the ground and store them in the bottom of my refrigerator and they keep for a long time. Tom’s helper Steve is washing the dirt off the freshly harvested potatoes.
Puttering sort of day
After that it was back to my house to chair hop some more as it seemed like it was going to be a puttering sort of day.
Waterer repair
This chicken water feeder has some holes in the top so I got out the silicone and repaired it as I will need it to water the chickens that I will need to butcher soon. I put it in the sun to cure the silicone.
The sky and the forest
While I was sitting there working on that I noted the real nice blue sky up above. The blue contrasts with the green of the forest trees nicely.
Temperature gauge bracket
One of the main things I wanted to get done today was get the temperature gauge bracket hooked up behind the dash. I’d forgotten to do this about a month ago and it would finish up the new gauge installation job.
Tight spot
It’s hard to get ones hand under the dash to put the small nuts on the bracket but I kept at the job of getting those little nuts started dropping them more than once and got it done.
Car stuff
After some more chair hopping I put the car’s funny spare tire back in the car and remembered I’d seen one of the car’s backup lights were out while down at the tire center.
Car’s backup light is out
When I got the old light out I found it had burned out so now had to look through all my stuff to find a replacement.
Looking for a new bulb
I found a new extra one in my van but it didn’t work as it’s filament was broken likely from hitting too many bumps with the van. I looked all over and finally gave up as I’ll need to get a new one at the store but that will keep until I get around to it as it’s only a backup light.
Mulching blueberry bushes
Before the day was out I hauled a few loads of mulch to the blueberry garden, since we’d gotten more mulch. I think a few more loads of mulch in there would be good.
I got quite a few little things done and mostly took it easy today.
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.
