I heard Barry out in the fr0nt yard this morning warming up his motor bike for a ride up in the hills. I got it going and joined him for a ride around the forest.
After some riding around we stopped here at this spring for a drink of water.
And we stopped at the Guerneville overlook for a look. They are burning the pruning’s off the grape vines down there.
Break area
We rode around some more and eventually ended up at our break area at the top of the ridge where we had a nice long break.
A nice view with no rain in the sky.
After a good break we rode around some more, making our way back to my place. I gave Barry a flat of eggs and he took off for his place.
After a nap, I worked on putting the chainsaw back together, after I replaced the coil module as it had no spark.
Nice day.
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A neighbor by my house asked me to help him level out a carport, so I had to go up and bring Skiddy down the hill, first thing today, so I could help him out.
I drove Skiddy down the hill and we got the neighbor’s leveling done in about a half hour.
Bucket goes back up the hill
Then I had to drive Skiddy back up the hill to leave the bucket up there as i wanted to go back down and get the six way blade and take it up the hill to use soon.
I’m headed back up the hill with the bucket I want to leave up there.
I dropped the bucket off near the top of the hill where I’m working on the old dirt road. It has quick disconnects which makes the job of disconnecting things relatively easy.
I want the bucket and the blade up there so I can change it back and forth as needed to fix the water crossing ditches up.
Once the bucket was off, I headed back down the hill to my house and put the blade on it.
And then, I headed back up the hill with the blade.
Fueling up
I parked here with the blade and fueled up Skiddy so it would be ready for work.
The not so good type of water crossing
That task was done, so now I headed down the old dirt road to have a look at some of the water crossings I plan to repair soon. I dug this one out with the shovel to get the water to cross the road and not run down it.
The right kind of water crossing
And I stopped here at this one to have a look at it as it’s the one I want to copy as it drains the water well and cars can cross it without hitting their bottoms. It’s built just right and cars don’t even know they just crossed a drainage ditch. It’s hard to see it as it blends real well and that’s why it works so well.
I went on down through the state park and on home for the day.
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.
