My plan today was to get the chicken feed bags in my chicken feed shed under control as they were getting out of hand.
I”d been stuffing the bags in between the shelves for quite some time now and it was getting harder to get another sack in there so I needed to do something about all the loose empty feed bags.
Lots of empty bags
I started by throwing all the empty feed bags out the door so I could deal with them.
Stuffed
Then I sorted them out to each type of sack and started stuffing them into empty feed sacks and got it all down to this size.
I thought I could do a bit better so stuffed some more and got it all down to this many bags.
Done for now
I put all the stuffed empty feed bags back in the shed for now but need to find another place for them eventually to keep them from filling the place up. At least I got that done today.
Mushrooms and hiking around
In the late afternoon I got on the dirt bike and rode it up into the forest to look for some wild edible mushrooms and do a bit of hiking for some exercise.
Blocked road
Right away, going up one of the roads I had to stop and move some stuff to get by this downed tree log. I was able to move some little stuff to get by as the tree log was too heavy for me to deal with.
Mushroom area
I stopped in this spot and got off the bike to walk around and look for mushrooms but didn’t see any.
End of the trail
Then I rode up to the ridge top where I was clearing out an old trail the other day and rode the bike down to the end of that trail and parked and had a good walk around this area.
None popping up
It looked like a good mushroom area but I didn’t see any fresh ones popping up.
Pack rat nest
I did spot this pack rat nest which is about three feet high and it looked fresh like someone was using it.
Madrone tree berries
I noticed this big Madrone tree had ripe red berries on it and some wild pigeons where feeding on them but they flew off when I approached.
Lots of red berries on the Madrone trees this year.
Forest road
Well, I had a nice walk around the forest but didn’t spot any new mushrooms popping up yet so I hopped back on the dirt bike and rode around a bit going under this tree on the way.
Armstrong Valley Farm’s garden
I stopped at my brother’s garden to get an apple on the way back.
My brother has been busy getting the ground ready to do some planting.
Moving dirt
There wasn’t much left in the day when I got home but I did have enough time to move this dirt to a place in the yard where there was a low spot I often trip over.
And after that a bit more chair hopping and the night coolness started creping in and I headed for the house.
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.
