Once I got it going today I went outside where it was a bit chilly out. I sat in the sun until I warmed up a bit.
Mucking out the main pen
After taking care of the chickens needs I got the wheelbarrow out and a shovel and got things into place to muck out the main chicken roost.
I set up here in the pen to shovel this stuff out under the roost. Poo mostly in woodchips.
I filled up the wheelbarrow and hauled it to the mulch pile area and dumped it.
Loaded and ready to haul out
Here I just got the wheelbarrow loaded with muck.
Pepper wood leaves
After dumping the wheelbarrow I loaded it up with pepper wood leaves from the front driveway which needs cleaning up anyway.
I put a good helping of the leaves under the roost and the rest I scattered around the pen.
Finished pen
The bright colored leaves sure change the way the pen looks.
After that I did a lot of chair hopping and puttering around in the yard.
Wind breakers for the younger birds roost
I also got both plastic panels up in the younger birds roost so they will be a bit warmer this winter and maybe stay a bit dryer in a rain storm.
New gate
I had to rob one of the plastic panels I was using as a gate in another spot so I cut some wire out for the gate and took the panel and installed it and the new wire gate got put in place too.
That was my day pretty much . Nice day puttering around in the yard.
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.
