When I went outside this morning to get some work done I found it very smoky and cold as the sun just wasn’t getting through. The smoke from the Northern California forest fire is blowing into our area. It’s not too bad on the ground, luckily.
Here’s a picture of the smoke and the sun late in the afternoon just before the sun is going down below the mountain on my west.
Back in the house
I looked around and went back in the house to warm up a bit.
A bit later I tried it again. I noticed my brother left his tractor in the yard so I thought it a good time to move some more dirt to level out some spots so I got my key and moved some of this dirt.
Beats the wheelbarrow
That sure moves it much faster than me and the wheelbarrow. I’d use the tractor more but there are a lot of places in the yard where it won’t fit.
About the time I was finished with that Charlie came by with a computer that wasn’t working. We shot the bull for a bit then he left the computer with me and left.
Shovel does the fine work
I took my shovel and leveled up some of the new dirt I moved with the tractor and then went in for a break and to warm up some more. While I was in the house I worked on that computer and got it going. Once and awhile I get an easy one to fix.
Brushing around some trees
I went out one more time to clean up the brush around these two trees. I was thinking of starting the chainsaw and cutting the two trees down and up for firewood, but the day was almost over so I left it for another day.
I need to cut the tree on the left and the one on the right for the new chicken fence I’m putting in so they can feed in this area.
Because of the smoke it stayed below 40 degrees F. today which is not usual for around here.
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.
