Today I wanted to rebuild the main chicken pen roost as if I rebuild it I can make better use of the chicken pen as the old roost was going the wrong way and taking up most of the main pen. I can also give the chickens a bit of more head room as the way it is they tend to hit the chicken wire roof a lot so a bit of more head room should be appreciated.
Tearing into it
I had to tear the old one down and dig up some cement blocks and relocate them.
Wind protection
I got a couple of the posts up. I also put up this old plastic roofing for some wind protection in the winter.
Roost is done
After working most of the day on it I got it done. The new roost is more out of the way and is actually a bit larger than the old roost. I also put some wind breaker boards on top of the roost to see what the chickens think of them.
Here’s another angle of the new roost all built out of small redwood logs.
On the rodents trail
I’m still trying to find out all the places the rodents are getting into my attic. I’ve plugged up some of the holes but I think there are more. I moved the camera into the attic to this spot to see if I can catch them going out a hole.
I think I’m making some progress on the rodent holes but it only takes one for them to get in so I’ll keep at it.
It was pretty nice out in the evening so I did some chair hopping and went in the house about 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.
