I was up late last night so I got a late start today and was dragging my butt a bit. :O)
Rodent trap modifications
I made some modifications on my mouse, rat trap. I replaced the wooden ramps up to the bucket with some plastic pipe as I feel the wood had places for them to cling to as it entered the bucket but the plastic pipe doesn’t. I also replaced the wooden part that turned when they got on it to plastic for the same reason to make it slipperier. I will still use one of the wooden ramps to get up to that short pipe and the longer pipe can be set on something. If this works I might get longer pipes later but that’s all I have on hand for now.
Working on getting some cams up in the attic
I set the trap back up in the attic. I plan to put a web cam up in the attic hooked to my computer so I can watch things and it will record on motion so I can watch how and if this works out.
Working on another design
I also made some plans to make another one similar, but works different which I will construct once I round up enough stuff to make it.
Garage roof repair
My old garage’s roof has a piece of metal that’s been flapping when the wind blows hard so today I got up there and put some new screws in that piece of metal. That makes it ready for winter.
Gathering vegetables for soup
I finished off my big pot of vegetable soup for lunch so I gathered some more vegetables to make another pot tonight.
Here;s some big beef steak tomatoes that I’m going to pick for the soup.
I also picked a couple of zucchinis and cucumbers for that soup.
Need go get broccoli
Which reminds me I need to go over to my brother’s garden and get some broccoli before it gets too dark, so off I go now.
Cut up vegetables and made soup
I got some and returned and cut up the vegetables and loaded the big pot up with them for soup and it’s on now. In two hours I’ll have a nice pot of soup.
Forgot barley again
Forgot to get some barley for it again, can’t seem to remember that when I’m at the store, but the soup doesn’t really need any as it’s good the way it is.
Rodent trap
Here’s my rodent trap up in the attic before I modified it.
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.
