I drove on into town today and got all my tax stuff mailed in. Good to have all that done.
Shopping
Then I continued on over to the shopping areas. I went on in to Home Depot.
Freezer
I needed another big freezer to store some beef I want to purchase soon. With all the tariff stuff going on, I thought I better hurry up and purchase a freezer as there might be price increases and/or, there might be shortages, so I wanted to get that done. I found what I wanted at Home Depot. I got a 20 cu foot model that should do the job. I already have a freezer of this size so I just got another one like the one I already have. It will get delivered in about a week. Those two freezers should store a lot of beef.
Next it was off to Costco to buy some stuff to eat. Costco was the busiest I’ve ever seen it. Fortunately, they still move people through their checkout fairly fast.
That’s all I needed to shop for, so I headed for home and unloaded my car.
Road check
It’s still raining off and on, so I rode Hondo up to the old dirt road to check it out. It’s doing well and I didn’t even stop to fix anything.
Visiting
I had some extra time, so I drove on up to my cousin’s place and visited with her and her husband and we shot the bull for a while.
I went on home from there and shut the chickens in for the night.
Nice day.
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It started raining this morning and continued on through the day.
I went out and fed the chickens and returned to the house.
The chickens didn’t seem to mind the rain too much. Although when it really pours, they all head for cover.
Old road inspection
Around one, I donned full rain gear and hopped in Hondo for a ride up into the forest to see how the old road I’ve been working on was fairing. It wasn’t a lot of rain today, only about an inch. It was enough to show me where the water was draining on the old road.
I rode up through the state park. Not many people in there today. Lots of water forms on the redwood forest floor when it rains.
You can see the water running down the road as I go through the big trees.
Needs rock
This road needs more rock on it to keep the water from flowing down it. It’s actually the start of the old road I’m working on. I’m going to try and get the park guys to rock this part as they have the equipment to do it.
I made it up to the gate and let myself through it. The old road I’ve been working on starts to climb the hill steeply just past this gate. All was looking good so far on the road.
Steep part, out sloping
I was especially concerned about this part, the steepest part of the road, and it’s mostly straight up and down so it was hard to keep the water from running down it. I tried to add a lot of rock before this rain, putting most of the rock on the high side of the road as to make the road slope off to the low side which is on the right here. Doing this seems to be making a big difference as there’s very little water running down the road. Eventually, I’ll add more rock on the high side to make the out slope even more.
This is looking down part of the steep part of the road. It was six inches of mud ruts from tires, before I added the rock and the out slope.
I expected to have some problems with water going across ditches on the road and running down the road instead. There’s a ditch crossing the road in this spot which I shoveled out a bit. Even though some water is running down the road, it’s miner. Another course of rock should make a big difference and improve the out slope even more.
Checking things out
Most of the road was looking good. I drove up and down the road several times to note where water was flowing, so I can improve things even more.
Ride in the rain
It was still raining but starting to let up a bit. Seemed like a good idea to go for a little ride around the forest in the rain, just to enjoy the day.
I rode on over to the Guerneville overlook. I expected the view down to the town of Guerneville would of been fogged in.
It was, but not completely. That’s rain, not really fog.
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.
