It was supposed to start raining sometime today or at least shower.
Bagging plants
The first thing I did was bag up about a dozen raspberry plants for Joe as I wanted to get them bagged before the rain got the vines wet and muddy.
I needed some strawberry plants as my chickens ate all the ones I had so I’m trading Joe for some in exchange for the raspberry plants.
Strawberry plant containers
I’ve been looking all over the place for something to plant my strawberry plants in to keep the chickens out of them and make it easier for me to take care of them.
Under the house
I remembered I may have some big plastic pipe stored under the house so I pulled the under the house door off to have a look.
Well good there were two six inch by 20 foot plastic pipes under there. One was loaded up and would be a bear to unload under there but the other one only had one pipe in it so I took it out of here.
Planter box pipe
I drug the pipe into the front yard where I can cut it up and make some hanging planters out of it but not now as it was starting to rain just enough to get me wet.
In the house day
So with it raining now it was in the house for me today where I spent most of it just napping and puttering around. I should of done some house cleaning but didn’t.
Grape cutting starts
The rain had let up just before dark so I had one more thing I wanted to do and that was to take some cuttings from my grapes and make starts out of them to try and grow some roots on them to make new plants.
Here’s the grape cuttings. I’m going to put them in with the blueberry starts I started yesterday, under the frost cloth box.
Little sticks
So I cut the grape vines into these little sticks I’ll push into the ground so hopefully they’ll grow some roots and I’ll have some more grapes to eat.
I pushed the grape starts into the ground around the blueberry starts to let them do there thing and grow roots this year.
Before I was done with that it started to rain again so I had to hurry but still got a bit wet.
The day was almost over as I went back in the house until it was time to close the chickens up for the 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.
