This is what happens when I let the chickens out into a new pasture to graze. I only let them into this spot late in the day for a couple hours. They run and hop and fly on out like hey, this is great.
Lil Red
When I go into the pen with the chicks this little chick runs up to me and peaks my shoes real hard. It’s like hey, let me up there.
So I reach down and pick it up and it’s happy. I call it Lil Red.
Ripe raspberries
The raspberry patch is just coming on with ripe berries so I’ve been munching them as I go by during the day. These are ever-bearing so I should be eating them most of the summer. I’m still waiting for our big patch to kick in as those berries are a bit behind these ones. Lucky me there’s plenty of these.
Peeps
Here’s one of he little store bought peeps, a meat bird getting a drink of water.
Earlier I threw this bird peaked loquat onto the peeps floor but they didn’t touch it. I picked it up and broke open the surface just a bit and through it down on the ground again and kicked it around a bit to attract them. With the little taste from the broken skin they got right on it.
Gardening
Later in the day as the sun was low in the sky I dug up this dirt. I have some squash and pole bean plants to transplant from another spot into this spot.
Once dug up a bit I went to the other area and dug up the plants and put them in here.
Then I turned the automatic sprinkler timer to manual and watered the new plants in.
Roosting chickens
Here’s the chickens in their roost at the end of the day. They came in early today for some reason. Must have been full.
Darn deer
At the end of the day I was going around the yard checking gates and stuff and I spotted this deer in the garden. I had already chased it out that gate once today a bit earlier. It comes in this way when my brother goes through it with his golf cart and leaves it open. I had to chase it around the yard after I got the gate open to get it out.
Other than some chair hopping and a bit of watering the weeds that was pretty much my day.
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.
