It started raining around three this morning until about noon today when it let up and the sun tried to poke out a bit.
Still no power so we did the generator chores, gas and oil. The last report said we’d have poser back by 10PM on Wednesday, tomorrow.
Once the rain let up, I didn’t want to spend the day in the house so I gassed up the dirt bike.
Patsy wants to know
A commenter wants to know what I mean by ditching the roads. Ditching is where you take a shovel and run shallow ditches across the roads, to the side of the roads, to drain any water that was running down the roads. You do this often along the roads to keep the water from building up on the road and causing big ruts that can wash things out. As water runs down a dirt road, the volume increases and can do a lot of damage when it runs down a road. The idea is to not collect water, but to dissipate it off the road so there is no road damage.
Eggs for apple cider
A neighbor, Fred came by and wanted to trade a dozen eggs for a quart of pure apple cider he made last summer. I, luckily had a few eggs ahead so I said sure as his apple cider is real good.
Checking out the forest
After we shot the bull for a bit I hopped on the dirt bike and rode on up to the hill top to have a look around and stopped here at the Guerneville Overlook, to have a look.
Guerneville
You can see some flood water sitting in Korbel’s vineyard, but the town escaped flooding, so far, as the storms have been coming in with some time between each one. So far, things haven’t been as bad as the experts predicted, fortunately, for those people living down there.
This is looking west towards the ocean where the storms usually come in. I did get a couple light showers while riding and hiking around.
Checking out trails
I rode around for about an hour just checking things out, then stopped here to go for a walk down a trail I’d been working on, to see if it had any damage.
The forest view from that spot, looking south. That black cloud did drop some sprinkles.
I walked on out this trail for about a quarter mile or so.
And through this forest a bit.
The trail has a lot of smaller tree debris on it, but it was fine, otherwise.
Good rest spot
I made it to these chairs on the way back and was overheating so I took advantage and stopped and rested and enjoyed the day, until I cooled down.
From there I rode on down this trail and through this creek.
I was headed to another trail I’d been working on to check it out and walked on up here.
And continued on up the trial.
That trail looked good, but I noticed it was starting to get dark and it wasn’t from the clouds. I checked my watch and it was ten to five so I better get on home.
Thunder
As I made it back to the dirt bike light from lightning over the ocean started to flash and then the thunder was heard.
Hurrying home
From there I hurried on home and went over to help my brother Tom do some ditch digging until just after dark.
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.
