Today was the day to get the new tires put on the van. I drove down town to Kar Kare Auto Repairs where Steve works who I’m staying with.
We did the front tires first.
I mostly watched and did little stuff like clean the dirt off the rims and Steve did most of the work.
We got the fronts on and then did the rear tires. Steve said he found a three inch slit in one of the rear tires on the inside so I guess I needed new tires.
Need new brake shoes too
We then did the rears and I’m good to go. Steve removed the rear brake drums to check the brake shoes and they were getting close to hitting the rivets so I’ll have to get new shoes for the rears when I get home.
We spent the rest of the day puttering around Steve’s garden and that was pretty much it for the day.
Nice that you are travelling safely now, Bob. I can stop worrying. :D
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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 that you are travelling safely now, Bob. I can stop worrying. :D