I wanted my neighbor to test out my new Wi-Fi extender to see how it might improve her signal so I went over and helped her set it up. It worked great giving her excellent signals where she needed them. After she gives it a good test I plan to install it at my house to get my brother’s much faster than mine ,internet so I can upload my videos faster.
Enjoying the day
Then I went back to my yard and did some chair hopping and just enjoying the day.
Drone practice
Eventually I got the drone out and set it up for flying.
I flew it around just practicing flying and taking pictures for about an hour.
This is a picture of my place. I have lots of fruit trees on the property. The little place is my chicken pen.
Armstrong Valley Farm
I flew it a little further to one of my brother’s gardens. He grows for the farmer’s markets. He’s been busy planting stuff.
Phone guy
I had to stay around the house today as I was expecting the phone repair guy to come by, but he never did. Instead I got a call from my internet provider saying the phone guy couldn’t find anything wrong with my line. If the phone guy would have come by I could of explained that it was a temperature related problem that would be hard to find depending on how hot it was outside. They’ll send another guy out. So this time I’ll be able to talk to him about it. Some times my internet comes and goes and it’s been doing that for about two years on and off so I hope to get them on the right track finally.
Sitting around
I’d planned to fly my drone some more in the evening but instead I just sat around enjoying the day.
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.
