I was over at my neighbors watching Dominique and her son trying to remove some old casters off a cart and they aren’t mechanics so weren’t getting anywhere and the casters were stuck and wouldn’t unscrew so they couldn’t replace them so I volunteered some help and got one of them off and then the next one froze up. I broke it off so now the broken stud needed to be removed so I took the cart over to my house to work on it.
Removing the broken stud
I got the tools out I thought I would need.
Here’s the broken stud I need to drill out so I did that.
And then I tapped some new treads in the hole.
Fixed
Now I was able to get all the new casters on and rolled it back over to my neighbors.
I spent some time shooting the bull with them for a bit before going back over to my place.
Planting some grow panels
The chickens spread out the mulch nicely yesterday for this panel. So I raked it out and planted some seeds in it and raked it out again.
I replaced the panel and now it’s ready to go to keep the chickens from eating all the little plants that will come up.
Then I did the same thing to the other one. They will get watered tonight when the overhead sprinklers come on.
I opened the door so the little chicks could get back into the pen.
Trimming raspberry plants
These plants grow fast and take over as they did here so I’m having a hard time getting through this spot so I got out the loppers and trimmed them back a bit.
Later I checked on the chicks in the grow panel pen and all was well. The panel lets them feed but not on the new little plants that will come up.
The rest of the day I spent chair hopping and just relaxing and 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.
