I went out to the chicken pen to see how the new peeps were doing and to feed and water them.
I found they had three of them today.
I put some water and feed out for them to eat.
Here’s a little closer view of the new guys chowing down.
Barry’s going to help me out
I fed and watered the other chickens and then did some metal cutting on the bulkhead project until my brother Barry arrived in his truck.
He came by to help me put the right slope in the new spring water line where it leaves the spring box. I don’t have much room for a good down slope so it needs to be measured to get it right so the water flows down the pipe properly and doesn’t stop up. He used to be a surveyor before he retired so I had the right guy for the job.
Rode up to the job
We rode the quads on up the hill to where I was working and he sighted with a sight level while I held the tape measure until we got the water line just right. Now I just have to bury it a bit where it crosses the road.
We rode on home after that and Barry soon left for home.
Peeps need an elevator
I checked on my new peeps and found the three new peeps were out of the nest and on the ground with one of the mother hens. Now they can’t get back up to their nest except for the elevator that is. I caught them one at a time and put them back in the nest for the day as it was evening. They stayed and didn’t jump down again.
Back to work on the bulkhead job
After a good break I went back to work on the bulkhead removal.
Just before dark I got it down to this. I had to put a rope on it to keep it from falling over and also propped it up with one of the pieces of channel I cut off. I need to cut the pipes without it falling on my head. :O)
That was a pretty good day. I didn’t really work that hard so my body isn’t rebelling so much which is a good thing. I do try to pace myself on these projects but my minds pace does much better than my body’s pace these days. At my age my mind is more capable of doing hard work than my body is. :O) Just the way life is, I keep trying.
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.
