After tending to the chickens needs I went over to the old well and pulled the suction pipe out of the well to have a look at the unit.
Everything looked ok after inspecting it so I dropped it back in to suck a little more sediment out which I worked on for about an hour.
Of course my helpers helped.
Chicks
I checked on the chicks to see how they were doing. They seem to be getting around just fine right now and are all large enough so they can’t get out the wire fence holes.
Fertilizing
I really want to get my citrus trees growing so I got out the fertilizer and gave them each a shot of it.
And I set up this fertilizer injector to water my mulberry tree tonight and give it a boost.
Weeding the vegetable patch
I pulled up a load of weeds to feed to the chickens.
They moved right in on those weeds.
Grape vine gate
This grape vine is slowly taking over this gate. It all seems to be working ok as the vine bends when the gate is opened.
There’s lots of grapes on that vine but they are a bit green yet.
Mini cabbages
There were these mini cabbages in the patch were I was pulling weeds and my brother said they are ready so I harvested one of them for dinner. Very sweet and tender.
I wrapped up the day with some chair hopping in the evening.
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.
