My brother Tom tells me I need a screen door on my chicken coop for ventilation. So instead of buying one, I decided to install some screens in this door.
So I’m making one sorta
I measured and cut and screwed things together. I’m making two screens on the door with their own doors.
Here’s a close up of one of the screens.
Almost finished
Here is the two screen doors open.
A little paint might be nice and I still have a little green paint left thanks to Marty who gave me some.
Almost forgot
I started to put the tools away and remembered I have to put a screen on the little window on the side too. It has a removable piece of plastic in it which I didn’t want to lose. Since this one was up high I decided the chicken wire would work just fine.
Once that was done, I took a break before working on some more stuff.
Burying fence
The screens took most of the day, but I still had a bit of work left in me. I buried some more of the fence wire that keeps critters from digging under the pen so that’s all done for now until I make more panels.
After that I sat around in the yard and chair hopped until it got dark.
Ray said he was going kayaking at Monte Rio today so I joined him. We put our boats in the water at the boat ramp. Right away these ducks swam by us. Looks like the little ducky’s are out in force.
Started out getting our feet wet
We tried to paddle through the shallows just below the bridge, but couldn’t make it up through the current so we had to get out and walk our boats through the water about a 100 yards up the river before we could get back in and paddle up the river.
The river looks nice today, eh.
I spied something moving over on the shore which turned out to be this night heron fishing along the shoreline.
This great blue heron was watching it fish.
Interesting ducky
Up the river a ways we spotted these little ducks. That one whitish one is out of place. Ray thought maybe an albino, but about a quarter mile up the river we saw another one just like this, just one in the group. I think another duck laid an egg in the others nest or maybe it mated with a white male duck. Not sure, but it was something to talk about.
One of the nicest places on the river
Here we are entering the area of the Bohemian Club one of the nicer spots on the river.
This female wood duck was sneaking by with two little ones.
And here’s a male wood duck.
And we went by a number of turtles getting some sun.
Good current for drifting
Eventfully we turned back down the river and put our boats in drift mode as there was a good current.
Ray went to shore for a bit at Boho and these ducks came up to say hi, or maybe it was you got something to eat. No.
We drifted down river and went under the Monte Rio bridge to the boat ramp just below it and went on home.
Making plans and some work
At home I made plans for how much wood I’d need to make some chicken roosts and I set up the water on top of this enclosure and tried it out. Eventually I’ll have a sprinkler on top of each enclosure, just one more to go.
Strawberry plants
I have some strawberry plants in my blueberry enclosure, but the potatoes growing in there are shading them out so I moved most of the strawberry plants to this garden enclosure. I’ll be able to look after the plants better in this spot and see when they have berries and eat them.
I spent some time burying more of the fence wire that is used to keep critters from digging under the fence until it got dark and that was it for me today for a nice one.
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.
