Tom said he’d do some pruning in my yard today. He brought his equipment over and set up to get started.
Here he is pruning some apple trees in my back yard.
He’s using his hand shears to cut the small stuff.
I helped him pick up some of the brush and took it over to our dump trailer.
Of course the chickens tried to help out a bit.
He finished with these trees and they look pretty good.
We loaded up the dump trailer with the brush and he took it up into the hills to dump it.
He pruned these plum trees back a bit.
And I worked on getting the brush in the trailer.
I was beat after that and was sitting in the front yard after the sun went down
I knew this woodpecker sleeps in this nesting box every night so I watched as it tried to get into the nest without being seen. It knew I was watching it, so it flew away several times before coming back and trying again before it finally flew into the nest.
Nice day.
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I drove on over to the shopping areas today to get my taxes and pick up some oil for the dozer. I got that done and returned home.
Dirt road check
After a short nap, I rode on up through the park to check the old road out to see how it was doing.
I found the big redwood tree root had been finished cutting it off by the park guys to make it easier for fire trucks to get by on the road.
They did a good job. It was hard to cut because of all the rocks they hit, but they got it done by keeping at it.
Old road
I’m having trouble getting the water off the road and stopping it from running down the road and causing soft spots. I stopped here to fix the ditch enough for the water to get across the road. The car’s tires keep messing it up.
The water runs down the road messing it up.
Looking up the road, you can see it’s pretty steep. I will re-do it and out slope it when it gets a bit drier.
This is looking down the road. There’s a long section here where the water keeps wanting to run down the road making it messy. It’s on my, to fix list.
After checking out the road, I rode on over to this overlook to sit and enjoy the forest for a bit, before heading towards home.
It was a nice blue sky day. Suns on it’s way down for the day.
Spring
I stopped at this spring because the water pool where the pipe goes to, isn’t flowing at full capacity as something is plugged up.
I walked down the pipeline trail a bit to check if any water was in the black pipe, by lifting it up to feel for the heavy water. Not much water going down the pipe.
Here’s the water pipe I checked for water.
I realized I needed to check the first joint in the pipe coming down the hill so walked back up to the spring and took this tee apart and that got the water flowing. It seemed to have a partial plug in it.
i realized I had to check the first joint in the pipe coming down the hill, this tee.I took it apart and the water started to flow, so it had something in the pipe plugging it up in the tee, so that got the water flowing again.
From there I headed on home for the day and put the chickens away for the night.
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.
