I needed to talk to a neighbor I’ve been helping show him how to tap his spring for water.
He’s also been helping another neighbor tap his spring by what I’ve been showing him.
I never know if he’s home. I just ride the dirt bike up to his plane on this road and see if he’s home. If not, I leave.
I rode on up this road. The trees here went through the forest fire a few years ago and most of them faired pretty well and are still alive.
Eventually, I popped out of the trees and rode up this road where the views are on the hill tops.
View
It was a nice day out with just a few clouds and plenty of sunshine.
Neighbors
I rode on down to their gate and parked the bike here as to not let the dogs out.
Well, everyone was home except the guy I needed to talk to, so I talked with his son instead about it. Before I left the guy called home so I was able to talk with him about what we need to do to the other neighbors spring work.
Burying water pipe
After shooting the bull with his son for about an hour I left and rode back over to our place where I was working on burying our spring water pipe at this spot.
I walked down the trail until I got to where I left off the other day and was looking at that tree growing across the trail where the pipe is, up ahead and decided to work on that for a bit. I only had about an hour before it got dark.
I dug around the tree roots and got it ready to cut out which I will do eventually.
Time to go
It was getting late and starting to get dark as I walked back up the trail the pipe was buried under.
It wasn’t far to where the bike was parked and I hopped on it and headed down the hill.
It was starting to get dark fast as I rode on down this road in the fallen fall leaves.
The bike doesn’t have a head light so I had to hurry along going through here.
I made it home ok and was working on setting up my cam that goes to the computer by the avocado tree when my brother across the creek asked if I wanted two crab for dinner.
Sure. They were yummy.
Setting up the night cam
I put the crab in the fridge and went back outside and finished hooking up the cam to my computer so I was set to watch the area tonight from my computer.
Rat eating spilled oats
Here’s a rat from last night eating the oats I spilled. It ate a lot of those oats and it never went inside the enclosure in the back. This was from my trail cam.
Birdie
And here’s a little birdie that came by in the morning.
Computer cam setup
This one is from tonight and is what I can see on the cam on my computer. It’s dark and is using the night light thingy on the cam. No rats have come by yet.
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.
