My friend Marty came by around noon. We sat around discussing our recent trip for a bit, then we installed my Delorme mapping GPS software on his computer which took the rest of the afternoon with glitches and all. Once we finally got it installed we spent a good deal of time showing him how to use it.
Garmin bought out Delorme a few years ago and discontinued this software so you have to use theirs which isn’t nearly as good.
Still raining
The rain continued, fairly hard at times.
He left in the afternoon and since it was still raining I mostly stayed in the house where it was warm and dry. I had some stuff I wanted to do in the house, but never got to it as the nap took all my time. :O)
Nice day.
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I tried to put these new wipers on the van, but after fussing with them for some time, I discovered they didn’t have the right fittings on them for the van. Darn.
Chicken poop
I did something easier next. I got the wheelbarrow and shovel and loaded up with chicken manure. I only got one load from under their roost.
I put some of it on my citrus trees.
And noticed one of the little trees had two fruits on it. These are mandarin trees I planted a couple years ago.
And I put the rest of the manure around this big avocado tree.
Rat bait
I needed to smash two more cubes of the rodent bait so I did that and added it to the bait feeder.
They are eating the smashed cubes, but not the whole cubes.
And I picked up some of the tree trimmings I cut the other day from this plum tree. That tree has big thorns, like desert stuff has and it got me a little, just enough to draw a little blood.
And then I put the water on the citrus trees to water in the chicken manure to get it started. I’ll let the ran finish the job.
I let the chickens out and did some chair hopping around the yard with them. These are my two roosters.
Ride in the forest
I wanted to go for a little dirt bike ride, but with the time change today, it was getting late, but I did make it for a couple hours just before dark.
I stopped here to go for a little hike to look around. Lots of fall leaves are on the ground which makes a nice carpet.
Clouding up
It was getting ready to rain, but I was hoping it would hold off until I got home.
The black clouds were moving in on me.
I stopped here and walked out this trail and the rain held off.
I made it home with time to spare before the rains started.
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.
