I was going to do some work on the van. I wanted to grease it again and load some stuff………….But.
When I went outside this morning my brother Barry was there in his truck with his dirt bike ready to go for a dirt bike ride up into the hills.
Bike ride
So I got my dirt bike out and joined him for a ride and the van stuff would just have to wait a bit.
We rode around in the hills going up and down and around and around.
Trimming branches
Barry had some brush cutters with him and would stop and trim the low branches that could hit us in the face.
Break area
Eventually we always end up at the Top of the World where we take a good long break.
Time to mount up and do some more riding around.
This small tree was blocking the road so Barry trimmed enough of it to get by.
Drink of water at the spring
We stopped at the old Indian spring where we get most of our house water.
We always get a drink and measure the water output which was about the same as always, just under a gallon a minute.
Nice ride
We did some more riding around when we left there and eventually went on home. That was a nice ride.
Van got greased
Barry took off for home and I greased the van and loaded a few things.
Reunion time
Some of my elementary school people were having a reunion and I was supposed to meet them at the house they rented around five.
Nobody home, I thought
I drove on down to the house where I thought they’d be but no one was there so I thought they must of went out to dinner so I drove on home and decided to come back a bit later.
Eventually I got an email asking where the heck was I? hummmm.
Wrong house
It turned out I was at the wrong house. I’d transposed a couple of the numbers in the address more than once. 17324 when I should have been at 17423. An older age thing I think.
Wrong house.
I found them
Anyway I drove on back down there to the wrong house again and realized my mistake with the numbers and drove around the road until I spotted their cars with the kayaks on top.
We had a nice visit after I explained myself. :O)
We will be going down to Jenner to kayak tomorrow.
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.
