I checked the game cam this morning to see how I was doing with the rat control project. I think I’m gaining on them, as there were only two of them that came around last night. And I haven’t heard any rats in my attic lately.
Squirrels
Now on the other hand the squirrels are still eating my avocados as you can see this little guy has one of them. The squirrels don’t seem to eat any of the rat bait. This is a little red squirrel that usually eats the acorns around here. I can see where the avocados might just be a big sweet acorn to them. Yummy.
Avocado tree
And I have no hope of keeping the squirrels out of the avocado tree. The big tree on the left is a pepperwood tree that over hangs the avocado tree on the right that is about 60 feet tall. The squirrels can easily jump from the higher tree on the left into the lower avocado tree on the right so anything I do to keep them out, won’t work.
Projects
Once I got it going today, around noon, I needed to have a look at a couple of things on my old car. Notice everything I have is older, like me. :O)
Heater blower fan fails
I’ve been having this intermittent problem with my heater fan blower not working and I have traced the problem to this connecter, at the blue wire. I pull the connector off and put it back on and it’s good for awhile and then it goes bad again. I did that and the blower worked. The next time it does that I need to look into the problem closer as there must be something else I’m not seeing causing the problem.
Rusty stuff
And the other thing I needed to do was put some more grease on the rusty parts of the car to keep the rain water out and stop it from rusting any more.
Hauling the kayak up on the car’s rooftop has caused the rust problem so the only solution was to put the grease on it. If I just got another car, it would start to rust that one, so since the car mostly is mechanically sound, I just put the grease on it. I’m more into go, than into show.
Here’s one of the rusty spots on the car that I applied new grease to the cracks in the old grease. Now it can rain all it wants on it.
Actually, I’ve been thinking of another car, but am not sure just exactly what I want, so this will do for now.
Moving cement blocks
Another task I had to do was move these cement blocks out of here to a place they would be more useful.
Some of them were buried in the sand so I needed to use the steel digging bar a bit. I only had to move them a short distance.
Blackberry vines
And the last thing I accomplished today was to trim these wild blackberry vines back so they don’t impede the water flow and cause the banks to wash out during high water.
I clipped away and got stabbed a couple of times by the berries thorns which hurt pretty good.
I cut all the vines which pretty much tired me out for the day.
Enjoying the day
I picked up my tools and found me a chair to sit in to enjoy the rest of the day. The sun is just going down behind the hills to the west. It rained last night but reframed from doing so during the day.
The chicken’ always come around when I’m sitting. They are eating the pepperwood acorns that my brother ran over with his golf cart this morning.
We are all getting older, I don’t I know anyone getting younger, acting younger, maybe but actually GETTING younger, no.
It’s interesting the squirrels won’t touch the bait. Netting on things makes birds and animals afraid of getting tangled and they tend to leave them alone. Years ago we laid it around the outside of our garden (about 18 inches wide) the racoons, squirrels and skunks, not to mention the neighbour’s dog all stayed away.
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Header Pictures
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.
I hope the squirrels are sharing.
Funny the squirrels eat the avocados. Can you just cover the tree with a big net? Something like they do with grapes to keep the birds out?
We are all getting older, I don’t I know anyone getting younger, acting younger, maybe but actually GETTING younger, no.
It’s interesting the squirrels won’t touch the bait. Netting on things makes birds and animals afraid of getting tangled and they tend to leave them alone. Years ago we laid it around the outside of our garden (about 18 inches wide) the racoons, squirrels and skunks, not to mention the neighbour’s dog all stayed away.