I decided to head on over to Sebastopol to do some shopping this morning.
I stopped at the hardware store to get a small extension cord for the new fridge in the van to hook up 110 volts when I have it. It also runs on the battery and propane which is what I will mostly use.
Then, I went to Taylor’s to get some ground beans for making coffee and then I went over to Whole foods to get a couple whole chickens.
I then returned to Guerneville and went to the bank to get some cash so I’ll have some money for a trip I’m planning up the coast this next week I hope.
The big truck
I went on home and put the stuff away and was taking a wee nap when I heard this big truck out in my front yard. My neighbor was doing some work and brought this truck in with a tank on it. Only trouble was the whole thing was too high to get through the old gate.
Taking the old gate apart
The guy driving the truck offered to use his crane to remove the old log from the top of the gate so they could pass. I wonder if they’ll ever put the log back up? It’s my neighbors so I don’t have much say in it, but the old gate had a lot of character.
Working on the old van
I left them at it and went over and set up to work on my van projects. I wanted to finish wiring up the new fridge to 110 volts and to the van spare 12 volt battery.
Charlie comes by for a visit
Charlie from Monte Rio came by and we shot the bull for an hour or so.
I wired up the fridge and tidied up a couple other things putting the van back together from the fridge installation.
Restocking the van
I checked out the van to see what I needed for a short trip up the coast and started restocking things I would need.
I spent the rest of the day puttering around with that and that was about it for 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.
