Then I rode on over to where my brother’s chickens were and fed them and collected the eggs.
Rats
Once back home, I checked the game cam to see how the rats were doing with the new rat bait. There were three rats that came by to feed on the new bait last night so at least they like it.
Dirt
Then I got the wheelbarrow and shovel out and loaded it up with dirt a few times and dumped it in a place that needed some dirt.
Dozer
I’d forgotten to remove the battery charger from the dozer, earlier, when I was over to feed my brother’s chickens, so I jumped on his machine and rode on over to disconnect the charger and bring it home.
Big stick in the creek
On the way back to my house I stopped to see if I could remove this big redwood piece from the creek as it might make a big dam that would cause things to wash out during a big storm.
I was able to remove it and put it here as maybe I could use it somewhere later.
Another one
I looked up the creek from there and could see this other big redwood limb that also needed to be removed before it causes trouble. But the water was a bit deep so I decided to wait for the water to go down a bit and will try to get it out before it rains again.
Van’s batteries
Once back home I put the charger on the van’s extra battery to charge it up, after disconnecting the solar panels. The van is in my carport so doesn’t get any sun to charge the battery.
Loose metal under the old bridge
I saw this piece of metal sheet earlier and thought I should check it out as it had come unfastened during the recent rain storm and needed to be screwed back down as it was flapping in the water.
I went under the bridge to have a look and see what could be done about it. Too much water right now, so I’ll have to wait and hope the water goes down a bit before the next rain storm, to get it fixed.
More dirt
After that, I moved some more dirt to this spot.
Sun’s out
And then, I sat down for a break. The sky looked like this. The sun was out and warmed up the day.
New Generator delivery
While I was sitting there taking a break I heard the big truck next door at my brother’s place which meant the new generator we ordered was being delivered, so I got up to go take delivery of it. This one is larger than our older ones and also has electric start, which will hopefully save our backs as starting the older ones has been real hard on our backs.
Once the guy got it off the truck, I signed for it and took it over to my place with a hand cart.
Unboxing the generator
I got the box open and had a look at the parts for it. I was surprised to find it had extra tools in it that came with a more expensive generator than we had ordered. It appears they shipped us the model that came with more stuff and also could be run on propane as well as gas. The model we ordered cost around 800 bucks and this one was the same size but cost 1,000 bucks. Since my brother ordered it and wasn’t around, I assume they just upgraded us for some reason at the same price. I’ll have to check with my brother on that later.
Assembling wheels and ordering needed plugs
I put the wheels on and realized this one had different connection sockets than our old ones, so I went online to see what adapters I might need to get this one hooked up to our house and still be able to use an old generator for backup. That took most of the rest of the afternoon to figure that out as I had to do some learning about the different types and amp sizes of electrical plugs to get the right stuff. I will check out what I need again tonight, to be sure I get the right stuff and get the stuff ordered up.
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.
