It was raining when I got it going this morning. I went out to feed the chickens and came back in the house and the power was out.
Barrel cut not
After I got something to eat I went back outside and was going to cut this plastic barrel up to use it to mix chicken feed. But when I tried the saw it didn’t work. Hummm, I forgot the power was off so I left that for later.
Garden mulch
So I did some chair hopping until the rain settled down to a light drizzle then I went out and moved a couple loads of woodchip mulch to this garden starting a new row of it which my goal was to finish out that row today if I could.
Shopping and visiting
I needed potatoes so I drove on down to Guerneville and got some and some coffee makings too and then drove over to John and Cheryl’s place to visit for a bit before going on home. I wanted to talk with John about helping me with some trail work up in the woods.
Trimming bamboo
There was still no power when I got home but the rain had settled down to a very light drizzle so I got the loppers out and trimmed back some bamboo that is leaning over my driveway from the rain weighting it down. It takes more time to clean it up after cutting it which is the hard part as I cut quit a bit of it some of it out on the highway.
Power guy
I finally heard the power guy over by the switching pole so I went over to see what was up.
He said there were a couple spans of line down up the road and they were short handed so it was going to take awhile, likely some time after dark.
Sky
I continued hauling mulch until I got that row done and that pretty much wore me out for the day so I chair hopped around the yard while the sun tried to come out but couldn’t make it.
Warming up
Just before dark I shut the chickens up for the night and went on in the house and got a fire going in the wood stove. It’s not that cold here when it rains. I think it’s abut 60 F. now.
The Old Van works
I didn’t want to start the generator as I feel they’ll likely get the power on shortly so the best place to write a blog is out in my van where I have battery power with a small inverter.
I should be able to go over to my neighbors place and use the Wi-Fi there as there is still power there. Wow, three there’s in a row. :O)
KittyKat has been coming by to eat when she gets hungry and if it’s not raining too hard. But she doesn’t stay long and scoots back out the door.
Hey the power came back on while I was out in the van so all is good.
Isn’t it funny how we go to do something electrical knowing the power’s out.
Noticed you started on the new wood “sheeps” pile ;o) I need to stop the tree trimmer guys next time I see them and see if they would like to empty their chipper in my yard.
Have a nice day, Bob!
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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.
Isn’t it funny how we go to do something electrical knowing the power’s out.
Noticed you started on the new wood “sheeps” pile ;o) I need to stop the tree trimmer guys next time I see them and see if they would like to empty their chipper in my yard.
Have a nice day, Bob!