It was raining lightly as I got it gong today, so I went back to bed for another hour or so, especially since I didn’t sleep well last night.
Eventually, I got up and went out to check on the chickens which were doing fine as my neighbor had fed them.
Chainsaws
Then I gassed up my two chainsaws and sharpened them up so they would be ready to go the next time I needed them.
There was some more mapping.
I went outside to find the rain had stopped and so I did some chair hopping with the chickens, until I needed a nap again.
Pickles
Later, I did some research on making fermented pickles on YouTube. Maybe I’ll make some in cucumber season. I can only eat the fermented ones, as most of the other ones are made with white vinegar which is made from corn.
I heard Barry outside this morning with his dirt bike, which meant we’d be going for a ride up in the forest.
I got the gas out and gassed up my bike.
Waterfall
Barry said he wanted to go up to the waterfall to check it out, since we’ve had a lot of rain.
We rode on up this trail through the redwood trees. Lots of nice big green ferns in this area.
This is the little ravine below the waterfall. It has a small creek in it that comes down from the waterfall.
We checked out the waterfall which was flowing pretty good.
Clearing roads
A lot of small trees fell across the roads during the recent rain storm. Barry takes care of removing this one, the first one and there were a lot more of them.
I wasn’t sure we’d get by this one, but Barry opened it up enough for us to pass on by.
Checking the rock slide
We rode around quite a bit and eventually we ended up at the recent rock slide to check it out. The rock slide is right in front of Barry and looks like it is in good condition and not over the road.
Of course we made it up to our break area at the top of the ridge. A bit overcast today with more rain coming.
Another log. I watched Barry move it off the road.
I think this was the last log to move of the day. Barry took care of that one too.
Eventually we made it back to my place where I went in for a nap.
VIN numbers
I have two old cars in the yard that I need to get rid of. I need the VIN’s from them.
The newest car was easy to get but this one was much more difficult.
I had to move it so I could get into the drivers door to get the VIN.
A little push from Hondo did the trick.
Unfortunately as I touched the VIN tag on the dash, it slid down under the dash and was stuck in the plastic wall somewhere. I had to break some plastic out to get to it. It’s an old car that is going to get scrapped. The rivets that held it on had corroded and were gone.
I found the tag. The numbers on it were good enough for me to read it. After recording the number, I set the tag in front of the speed odometer and it immediately slid back down under the dash and was now lodged down under near the steering wheel column. I hope I don’t need that, or I’ll have to dig it out again, ripping stuff up.
I got both cars VIN’s and called it a day as it was starting to rain a bit.
Nice day.
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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.
