I thought I’d add some mulch to my blueberry patch today as I’m trying to encourage the bushes to grow more so I get more berries.
Here’s the blueberry patch all screened in.
Pepperwood mulch
I rounded up the wheelbarrow and a shovel and shoveled up these decaying pepperwood leaves in this spot. Most berries like acidic soil and the pepperwood trees make some real nice black stuff.
Grass clipping show up
After loading and hauling a couple loads of mulch I was sitting in one of my chairs when my brother’s helper drove up in the golf cart pulling a trailer full of fresh grass clippings and asked if I wanted them.
Sure do. How about we put it on the blueberry patch so we did as I figured it would be good with the pepperwood mulch.
Grass clipping in the blueberry patch.
Mulched berries
I loaded and hauled a few more loads of mulch to the patch and it looked like this. I plan to let the chickens in soon so they can spread it all out and mix it up. They’ll like that.
Weed watering
Here’s Carmelo the rooster and Fluffy a hen grazing on some of the grass I’ve been watering. The watering of the weeds is paying off.
Gate repair
I’ve noticed the white pipe on the bottom of this gate has been coming apart where I tied it on so I needed to repair things replacing the shoe lace I used with some steel wire that will work better. This pipe is to keep real small chickens from getting out.
I put some wire on it and it looks and works much better now.
Expensive dozer solenoid
I phoned the local tractor company today to see if I could get the fuel shut off solenoid for the dozer. They could get me one by next week but the price was 220 dollars which was a bit much for a little solenoid so I put that on hold with them.
I think I found one on the internet for 27 dollars which I will chick out tomorrow as I was too late calling into central time today.
Another sunny day puttering around the yard. Nice.
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.
