It looked like it was going to be a misty day today.
I wanted to take some tools up to a trail I’m working on so they’d be there when I wanted to work on it. I loaded the shovel and the Pulaski on my quad runner and headed on up to where the trail was and rode on up it.
The shovel that was on the front rack caught a tree and broke the handle on the way up.
I made it all the way up the narrow trail and left the Pulaski up there but decided to bring the broken shovel back down. I’ll fix that later.
Wood stove
My wood stove was full of ash so I got the wheelbarrow out and a flat shovel and filled it up with ash. I’ll let it cool and put it somewhere for the chickens to get into as they like to dust with this stuff.
Back to the shovel, I decided a short one was the way to go, so I smoothed the broken part and it was good to go.
Misty
The day was real misty, not enough to be a drizzle but just enough that if you stayed out in it, you’d get damp.
After hanging around the yard for most of the day, it was time for a ride in the forest as it’s always nice when it gets damp up there.
I rode up this road.
And by this new little watering hole I’m working on. It’s mostly a seep coming out of the hill but it will be enough water for a little watering hole.
Pond
Then it was over to our little pond which has been filling up a little with the recent rains. More rains coming next week so it should fill all the way up.
Raven’s have been using the little pond to bathe and drink every day, lots of them. That’s why the water is muddy.
From there I worked my way over to this overlook where I spent about an hour enjoying the day.
You can see some of the mist out over the forest. It’s starting to get a little bit heavier.
After a good break there, I rode on down this trail.
And stopped to get these downed trees off the road.
Eventually, I made it over to a neighbor’s place to check out a road there. I parked here and got out to walk to check out the road.
Then I walked out this road to check it out. I built this road a number of years ago and now it could use a little work to get it all opened up again.
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.
