I was thinking of going kayaking today until I saw my brother Barry out front with his truck and dirt bike so it was going to be a dirt bike riding day which is good as riding the dirt bike is good to loosen my older muscles up a bit.
Body armor
Barry brought by some body armor for me, so I said I’d give it a try out so I rode with it today and it seemed ok, but a bit hard to get on and off.
All in all it wasn’t too bad so I’ll use it and evaluate it some more.
Helmets
When I grew up riding dirt bikes they didn’t have much in safety equipment and the helmets mostly sucked so I only used one for highway riding. I still don’t like helmets for the type of dirt bike riding we do and although I have a good one, I still don’t like them.
It’s interesting but during the big forest fire I rode all around for a number of days helping all the fire guys and not once did anyone mention the fact I was helmet less and the fact the dirt bike didn’t have a license on it. I had a great time riding around and helping out.
GoPro Camera
He also gave me a GoPro camera so now I need to get the manual online for it and learn how to use it. It might provide some useful ideas that I can’t do with my other cameras.
Riding out
It was a nice sunny day for a ride as we mounted up and took off for the hills.
Break spot
We took off going through the gates to get there and rode up and down and around and around and then headed for this overlook area for a much needed break. You can see Barry laying under that tree taking it easy.
The view looking south over the mountains. It’s actually real blue sky but the sun washed things out a bit for the camera.
More riding
Eventually we took off again to finish up the other half of our ride before heading back to my house.
A bit of electrical work
Barry took off for home and after a break I went over to a neighbor’s to do a little work on an electrical box which took me an hour or so.
Then it was back home for some chair hopping which I did until it was starting to get dark.
Nice day.
Canada
Back in the house I turned on YouTube to follow what the Trucker Revolt up in Canada was doing. I’ve been watching it unfold on YouTube and am totally amazed how badly the big news guys have par traded this event with much falseism if that is a word.
From what I can see it’s really about free choice. Not being forced to do something to your body that the government makes one do weather you like it or not and not being told that if you don’t get jabbed you lose your job. That’s simply cohesion and not freedom.
I’ll leave it at that, but from what I can see, what they are doing is standing up for the whole world by doing their protest.
Nice day you had.
Thank you for supporting what our truckers are trying to do. I don’t talk about it in my blog and hardly outside of it, my in laws are dead against it all. Too bad they are willing to give up their rights so easily. .
The truckers have been so peaceful, 3 cheers for what they support.
Bob,in Canada peaceful protest is a given- illegal occupation & blockades are not- the trucks in Ottawa ( our Capital) are occupying & blocking residential & commercial areas.The police & politicians have been very tolerant but after 3 weeks enough is enough- they’ve all been given formal warning,twice & now they will be charged & pay big time.You should know : the Trucking Associations in US & Canada dissociate with these guys- both countries require the drivers be vaccinated so as not spread the pandemic further & over 95% of their members are.Also ,a number of far Right agitators have been involved & 13 were charged with a plot to assasinate officials & police & a large cache of weapons were seized. Not tolerated in Canada!
Totally with you on the protest. The center provinces have all cancelled their mandates, but some persist. Big thanks to the truckers on both sides of the border for their protests. I’m behind them 100%. It’s time to take our lives back and not be bullied into complying with regulations that never worked in the first place. Even other world countries are dropping their “rules”.
Hi Bob – I’ve been watching too. The whole world is watching Canada. If some of the nicest people on the planet are complaining, something’s wrong. Really wrong. You have to go to other sources to find the real news. They are not the only populations protesting. It is going on all around the world. Most bloggers are not talking about this as they don’t want to bring politics into their blog but since when did politicians dictate health mandates? Fjoebiden is wanting this for America. Get ready – trucks coming to DC.
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Header Pictures
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.
Nice day you had.
Thank you for supporting what our truckers are trying to do. I don’t talk about it in my blog and hardly outside of it, my in laws are dead against it all. Too bad they are willing to give up their rights so easily. .
The truckers have been so peaceful, 3 cheers for what they support.
Bob,in Canada peaceful protest is a given- illegal occupation & blockades are not- the trucks in Ottawa ( our Capital) are occupying & blocking residential & commercial areas.The police & politicians have been very tolerant but after 3 weeks enough is enough- they’ve all been given formal warning,twice & now they will be charged & pay big time.You should know : the Trucking Associations in US & Canada dissociate with these guys- both countries require the drivers be vaccinated so as not spread the pandemic further & over 95% of their members are.Also ,a number of far Right agitators have been involved & 13 were charged with a plot to assasinate officials & police & a large cache of weapons were seized. Not tolerated in Canada!
Totally with you on the protest. The center provinces have all cancelled their mandates, but some persist. Big thanks to the truckers on both sides of the border for their protests. I’m behind them 100%. It’s time to take our lives back and not be bullied into complying with regulations that never worked in the first place. Even other world countries are dropping their “rules”.
Hi Bob – I’ve been watching too. The whole world is watching Canada. If some of the nicest people on the planet are complaining, something’s wrong. Really wrong. You have to go to other sources to find the real news. They are not the only populations protesting. It is going on all around the world. Most bloggers are not talking about this as they don’t want to bring politics into their blog but since when did politicians dictate health mandates? Fjoebiden is wanting this for America. Get ready – trucks coming to DC.