It was raining again when I got it going today, but was supposed to stop soon. However the wind was supposed to be up, so I decided not to go kayaking today.
Instead I decided to go to Santa Rosa and do some shopping as I needed resupplied.
I went to a place called Cash and Carry which is a restaurant food supplier like Smart and Final that has gone retail. I think Smart and Final owns the Cash and Carry place.
I bought a few beans
Anyway, I needed some beans, so I bought sixty pounds of them. :O) I got white, black and pinto. I also bought a big bag of rice and a couple bottles of grape oil to try and a big jog of soy sauce. With the corn allergy, there are many things I cannot eat as most of our food these days has some kind of corn stuff in them or on them. All this makes my diet a bit on the limited side.
Here’s the stuff I bought today.
Checked on John
On the way home, I stopped to see if John was home and he was so we arranged for him to come to my house to work on his truck problem a bit later.
I went on home and unloaded my bounty and took a break.
Worked on the van a bit
Eventually I went out and opened up my van back doors to do some rearranging of some cabinets. I moved the water jogs up higher to give me more room for my legs and feet as that’s the end of my bed right below the jogs.
I have some more adjustments to do to shelving to make things right. I did some planning and then John showed up with his truck.
Supervising John
We needed to remove his steering wheel and column to replace the turn signal switch that is under the horn. It turned out to be a bigger job then we thought it would be and we were doing good when the pliers to remove the clip that held the bearing in place broke on us, so we couldn’t quite get the job done, but almost. So we put stuff away and I gave John a ride home as it was getting dark.
Here’s his truck with the steering wheel off. It’s ready to pull the column off as soon as we get a new pair of clip pliers.
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.
