It was still raining lightly this morning, but when I got it going around noon it had stopped. I could see the wind blowing the trees outside so it wasn’t a good kayaking day.
Seemed like a good day to get some other type stuff done, so I headed off to the bank to cash some checks and get some money.
Getting the tire repaired
I’d loaded my Toyota’s flat tire in the car before I left so from the bank I headed to Country Tire just outside of town.
I explained to Mark the owner about the rim leaking and it needed a new valve stem too as it was leaking. He said he losses his shirt working on these kinds of things as it can take more than he can charge for, but he took it. I told him to take his time as I had plenty more work to do so I’ll check back in a few days.
Some visiting and the cat
I stopped to visit Ray on the way home and found him in his yard. We shot the bull for a bit then I went on home.
As I opened the front door the neighbors cat I’m taking care of shot in the door and headed for her feed dish.
After some feed it was off to the bed where she’s taken up residence.
Pruned a few more trees
I still had a couple hours of daylight, so I got out a ladder and pruned three more threes. Two apple trees and one peach tree.
My back was sore after doing all the pruning so I left the cut brush on the ground to pick up later.
Steve’s catching steelhead
Last night I received an email from Steve who lives up at Port Orford, Oregon. He’s been doing some fishing around the area and this was his fishing report.
boated 3 hens released all fresh// kept 15lb buck/ weighed and pictured at Michaels house// did the 6s river upper slide to Edson good day finally starting to rain need a bunch elk is dead
And here’s the pictures he sent of the 15 pound buck steelhead.
Here’s another picture of the fish.
Third day fasting
This is my third day of a food fast, only water. It’s been a little easier not eating today than it was yesterday, at least so far. Even though I’d originally planned to do three days I’m going to do four, only one more day although I’ll admit it would be nice to get something to eat right now, pig out even.
But I’ll make it, at least until tomorrow night and maybe even to morning. Last time I did three days and gave up during the night around three AM and got something to eat and boy was it good. I’m looking forward to that part.
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.
