It didn’t’ rain much, but just as I was ready to go for a ride in Hondo, it showered for awhile. I don’t have my winter windshield in yet, so I waited for about a half hour for it to mostly stop before I took off.
I rode up this road to my cousin’s place as I wanted to see what they knew about two forty acres parcels I want to hunt up a spring on, but I just missed them as they’d just left.
Two forties
I rode over to where the two forties were and had a look. It’s a real steep area that will be hard to explore, so I need to find out just exactly where the two forties are before I look.
On the way back to my place, I ran into this little downed tree and cut it off the road so I could pass by.
I didn’t go far when I ran into this one. It seems to be getting lower and lower as time passes, so I stopped to cut it out before it falls and blocks the road.
It was nap time when I got home so I did that and took it easy for a bit doing some chair hopping around the yard with the chickens.
One more thing
I wanted to do one more thing today and that was to ride up into the hills with Skiddy and get a load of rocks for my bulkhead in the creek.
I rode on up this road with Skiddy.
And through here.
And up this way, where I made a right turn to head up the hill.
I got my scoop of rock and made it back down to my house and dumped the rock in this bulkhead.
Then I jumped down on the rock and moved some of it around by hand leveling it out a bit, putting rocks where they didn’t go when I dumped them in.
The rock is looking pretty good, another load or two should do it.
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.
