I thought I better go check the water tanks to see how our water level was doing so I hopped on the dirt bike and rode on up where they are.
The pink ribbon on the side of the tank says they are just below half full which means we need to conserve water a bit.
As long as I was on the dirt bike I went for a ride in the hills and stopped here to check on a spring. Then I headed for home.
Drying fruit
I wanted to pick some of these plums to put on the dryer and I had some prunes to pick too.
I picked about five of these full of plums and still have more to pick, maybe tomorrow.
And I only got two of these full of prunes to dry.
The dryer
I put them all in the old truck bed to start the drying process.
Powers out
Just about dark the power went off and my brother who lives next door wanted to watch a ball game so we worked on getting the generator going that we share. The power company said it’s a rolling black out and we’d be out for about an hour.
We got it going and it stopped shortly after that. Checked and it needed gas so we gassed it up with what little gas we had on hand.
It was warm out today so I did a lot of chair hopping and just puttering around the yard staying in the shade as much as possible.
There’s a weight on the ribbon and the line goes to a pulley on top of the tank and the line goes down a hole to a board that floats on the top of the water. If the ribbon is on the ground, the board is at the top and the tanks are full of water. When the water is at the bottom the board is at the bottom and the ribbon is at the top of the tank meaning the tanks are mostly empty.
Bob
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.
There’s a weight on the ribbon and the line goes to a pulley on top of the tank and the line goes down a hole to a board that floats on the top of the water. If the ribbon is on the ground, the board is at the top and the tanks are full of water. When the water is at the bottom the board is at the bottom and the ribbon is at the top of the tank meaning the tanks are mostly empty.
Bob
I am just curious how the pink ribbon works?