Another rainy day with showers on and off all day long.It was too cold and wet when I got it going so I stayed in most of the day.
Beef
Since I was in most of the day, I decided it would be a good time to try and get in touch with a local rancher that rises beef to see about purchasing an animal for meat.
I was able to call him on his cell phone, but we did have a problem getting disconnected often.
Eventually after about the third disconnect, I heard what I was looking for. Yes, he’ll sell me a cow and we were disconnected again. The guy was driving along the coast line so lost contact often. I was able to tell him I’d call him at home tonight and I did and got his email address. His animals won’t be ready until June as the spring grasses are just starting to grow faster. It’s a good thing I got that new freezer ordered up yesterday.
Cell phone booster
I also worked on finding out more about cell phone boosters for my house as the cell phone signal here is really lousy. I barely have a signal here, so I need to find out more, but by the time I got around to finding out more, the workers in the East had gone home for the day.
With the daylight savings time just kicked in, I still had time to go for a ride to check out the old dirt road I’d been working on and the rains had slowed down a lot by then.
I knew the road was in good shape, so was mostly going out, just to get out for the day.
I did find this ditch crossing that I’d filled in was turning to mush and I’d have to fix it up soon bfore it got too bad.
Other than that, I found these sticks had falling on the road, so I stopped to throw them off the road.
I stopped by the pond to get a drink of spring water on the way home. The water there was a bit muddy as the ravens bathe and drink there in large numbers.
I made it home and tried to put the chickens away for the night but some of them didn’t want to go in for the night yet, which just reminded me that I hadn’t closed them in tonight so have to go out and take car of that.
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.
