It rained this morning until about noon when it let up with just some showers after that.
I got my tools together and loaded them on the quad runner. I put on a rain coat just in case and headed across the road and up into the hills where our water springs are located.
Work area
I parked here where I’m going to do some work on the pipe line just down below this point.
No yellow jackets
There’s a place in the water line where there were a bunch of yellow jackets last summer so that part of the pipe trail was left undone. With the rain and it being cool out I figured the yellow jackets might not be out today and they weren’t.
This is the spot that needed some trail work were the bees were.
Pipe trail
After some work the pipe trail looked like this.
It showered on me a few times but with all the trees not much water got through to me to get me wet.
I also worked on this part that also needed a trail to level the water pipe out.
Spring clean out
Once that was done I went up to the spring that feeds this pipe and cleaned it out. It wasn’t bad but there was a little dirt in there that washed out when I flushed the spring pipe.
After that I wanted to make sure the water was still running so I went down to this tee and pulled it apart to check for water flow.
Spring water
The water was flowing. I let it run for a bit to clean it out before hooking it back up.
Just before 5 I headed back up to the quad as I was done for the day.
Back home I had something to eat and a short nap too.
Chickens
After that I went outside to sit with the chickens. They all bunched up over here by where I was sitting to let me know they wanted out to graze.
I made them wait a little longer to the proper time and let them out. They grazed around as I chair hopped around the yard.
This is what the sky looked like just before the sun went down for the day. The showers finally cleared off.
That was a productive day working on the water system up in the redwood forest. In isolation of course.
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.
