Once I got it going this morning I needed to get out and pick some raspberries for a raspberry pie Dominique promised me and they need picking.
I mowed some of the weeds down in the patch yesterday.
I picked about two quarts or so and froze them for later use. They sure are nice big berries.
Trip planning
After lunch I drove on down to Ray’s house to talk with him about going on a trip a bit later. He’d follow me in his truck to the Jarbidge area and the Troy area in Oregon for a couple weeks trip. He seemed interested so I hope we pull it off.
BBQ
From there I went to a family get together bbq and did some visiting.
Here’s the head cook Dave doing his thing.
He cooked up some good stuff but I didn’t partake because of my corn thing.
Chowing down
Here’s the gang chowing down.
Dominique’s Sweets pies
However when it came to dessert I did partake as the pies were made by Dominique of Dominique’s Sweets and she knows how to make them without any corn stuff in them. Let’s see, I indulged in peach, then apricot. Hummm good. And I had seconds on both types. :O)
I had to pass on those nice looking brownies though, darn.
How’s the chickens doing
I made it home around dark and checked the chickens out which were all in bed and seemed to be doing ok. I have another chicken going broody on me but I stole her eggs for the second day in a row. I’m thinking if she keeps at it I’ll let her nest as what’s a few more peeps. :O)
Once in the house I put a cup of coffee on and relaxed and started this blog.
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.
