I was headed up into the forest to do some trail work, but when I went out to go, Barry pulled in with his truck.
That meant we were going for a bike ride up into the forest instead which was actually good as it gives me a break from the trail work, which is a bit easier on my body.
Trail cam
I wanted to move one of the trail cams, so we went by and picked it up and put it on the big tree on the left to watch the pond.
Brush trimming
We rode around a bit then stopped here to trim some brush off the road, mostly the stuff that can hit you in the face.
Barry’s taking care of the brush up there.
Drink
We rode around some more, then headed to this spring for a drink of water. We never seem to sit in those chairs so I need to move them to another place where they’ll get used.
Goat lady
We decided to do something different today and rode on over to another neighbor’s where we don’t go too often. We ran into the goat lady and had a nice chat with her. She has over 200 goats she raises and they were making a lot of noise down below where we were talking with her as it’s mating time for them.
We continued down the road from her place and stopped at this gate to look around a bit.
Wild turkeys
Barry says there’s some turkeys over there. Here’s a few of them as they sneaked through the trees.
From three we rode back up the hill to my cousin’s place and Barry says, lets go see if we can make it down to the creek.
We made it a short distance before the downed trees turned us back in this spot.
Time for a break so we headed for the ridge top. On the way up a steep part one of my work gloves jumped out of my basket. I couldn’t hold the bike on the steep hill to pick it up, so had to leave it for a bit.
Break time
We make it to the ridge top for a break.
We always take a good break in this spot at the top.
When we left there, we rode back down the hill where I lost my glove and retrieved it and did some more riding around, then headed for home.
Shooting the bull
I was going to go back into the forest and do some trail work, but instead, Tom showed up and we sat around and shot the bull until after five. Too late to do any more work for the day.
This was our sky today. Not very exciting, but I like blue just fine.
I knew I was getting some packages today, so I checked the mail box and found these two boxes. One box to change internet providers and the other is a cam I hook to my computer to watch stuff around the yard, mostly at night.
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.
