The sun was still behind the redwood trees when I went outside this morning. I was going to work on my Toyota’s brakes but it was too cold and damp in the carport where the Toyota was parked so I needed to do something else for awhile until the sun came out and warmed things up a bit.
More roof on the pens
During the rain the other day I realized I needed to put some more roof on the chicken pen as it’s just getting too muddy in the pen when it rains and I’m tracking all the mud in the house as I’m in and out all day.
So I cut some boards to extend the roof and put them up and the rest can wait as I need to work on the brakes.
Suns cleared the redwoods
I got all the tools and materials together to work on the brakes and started working on them putting the new front shoes on and then started bleeding the brakes.
Messed up
I was doing ok on the brake bleeding but soon messed up by letting the brake fluid get too low in the master cylinder and getting air in the lines which meant I would have to start over on the bleeding which also meant I’d likely not have enough brake fluid to complete the job now.
Out of fluid
I did what I could bleeding the brakes until I ran out of fluid before I got them all bled so I had to stop on that but I was at least happy to get that far on the brakes.
Cutting the pile down
After a break or two I got the chainsaw out and cut into this pile of wood some more to collapse it so I can plant some stuff in it this year. I think it’s about as down as I can get it now so it’ll have to work as it is.
Replanting Daffodil bulbs
I was noticing some daffodils coming up in one of my grow panels so I thought I should dig them out as I don’t believe chickens would like to eat them and I wanted to plant them somewhere else.
I dug up the bulbs and planted some milo seeds in there which I hope will grow eventually when spring gets here.
Here’s the bulbs I dug up ready to plant.
Should look good here
I planted the bulbs along this fence along the driveway which should look nice when they bloom.
Spring is on the way
I noticed these other daffs coming up along the driveway so spring isn’t too far off as daffodils are one of the first things to bloom every year.
Roosters do what roosters do
I let the chickens out to graze and noticed these two roosters facing off. The one on the right challenged the one on the left which is Carmelo the rooster I’m planning to keep. Carmelo stood his ground but eventually turned and walked off.
Posturing roosters.
More replanting
While the chickens where out grazing I decided to dig up these red hot pokers as they are in the way of my vegetable garden and need to be dug up and replanted.
I dug them up and now they are ready to replant along the driveway when I get time. Things were a bit muddy.
Done for the day
As it started to get dark the chickens all came back in to their roost so I shut them up for the night and it was time for me to go in for the day.
Nice day with the sun out and all, almost like summer.
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.
