I didn’t have anything planned for the day so I might as well go up into the redwood forest and do some more trail work and get a bit of exercise doing it.
Road clearing
I took a rope with me to drag a downed tree out of the way on a road that I was going to get on the way back but I was day dreaming while riding along and took the road with the tree on it on the way up so I hooked the rope on the tree and gave it a pull with the quad runner enough to clear the road.
I was headed up to the waterfall area so I rode up this trail through the redwoods and ferns.
And then I turned onto this trail, almost up to the falls.
Park and walk
The falls is as far as I can go on the quad runner so I parked and walked up to the falls.
Falls
The waterfall water is getting less as the recent rains have been slowing down so the waterfall slows down too.
I continued on past the falls as I was working on the old trail just above it.
Tired out and headed home
I worked most of the day on cleaning up the old trail and was more than beat about 4PM so loaded up the quad runner with my tools and took this trail back down the hill and on to my house.
Back home I was too worn out to do much and it was almost dark so I called it a day.
I got some work done and got my exercise for the day.
The power went out about midnight last night and it wasn’t storming and it didn’t come back on, not even this morning when I got it going.
Barry shows up
When I did get it going this morning and fed the chickens my brother Barry pulled into the yard with is truck with his dirt bike in the back.
He unloaded his bike and I got my bike out to go for a ride up in the forest.
Cousin visiting
We rode around for a bit then went over to my Cousin’s place and shot the bull with her and her husband for about an hour or so. They live up on a ridge top where we ride our dirt bikes.
Top of the World
After that we rode around some more and made it up to the Top of the world but didn’t stay long as we had a good break at my Cousin’s place.
Top of the World view today.
We rode around some more and eventually worked our way back down the hill to my house where Barry loaded up his dirt bike and headed for his home.
Moving chicken poo/fertilizer
After a break I got the wheelbarrow out and a shovel and loaded up some chicken manure from under the young one’s roost.
The plan
The plan was to spread some of this fresh manure around some trees and let the rains wash it into the ground.
I started out spreading some lightly around my citrus trees and avocado tree here. I spread it fairly thin hoping it won’t burn stuff as chicken manure is fairly hot stuff and if one uses too much of it, it can be hard on the trees.
I also spread some of it around this mulberry tree.
And I put some around my cherry trees and apricot trees too.
Woodchips
Now that I had all the manure out from under the young chicken’s roost, I got a load of woodchips to put under the roost where I removed the manure to help absorb any new chicken manure.
Loading up woodchips.
Mulched
The woodchips got dumped under the roost to help absorb more fresh manure. This also helps keep smells down.
What Tom said
I asked my brother Tom what he knew about the power outage and I think he said there was a big slide that came down and the whole town was out of power but I’m not sure of what he said, older age short term memory loss. :O)
What I figured
He said they at first said it would be back on about noon then changed the time, not knowing when for sure. I figured around dark as they’d been working since last night and would want to go home. :O)
Mail lady goes by and doesn’t stop
I heard the mail lady go by in her mail truck just before dark so I thought maybe she’d knew something.
She had to go up to the park and turn around and come back to deliver our mall so I went out and waited for her to come back.
Here comes the mail lady,……but.
I had no mail so she didn’t stop. Oh well. :O)
Warm fire
I figured they’d get the power back on around dark, but just in case I got my woodstove fired up with a fire using this wood I keep just for this purpose as usually I use a fuel oil stove but that takes power to run it.
We do have a generator but it’s starting to get too hard for us older guys to start it with the rope we have to pull so I wasn’t looking forward to that and really hoped the power would come back on soon.
Emergency light
It got dark so I got my emergency light out which is now just a light that one straps on the head that I set on the counter as that’s all I need.
Power’s back on
About a half hour after it got dark the lights flickered on so all is good and I can now do my blog and see what the rest of the world is up to which maybe I’ll go look to see what they say about the power outage.
I was wrong about the power
Now that I can check the local paper I see I was wrong about what caused the power outage. A car plowed into a main power distribution pole in a neighboring town and sheared it off and then crashed into someone’s house.
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.
