It rained until around noon and let up. It was too wet to work on projects, so I gassed and sharpened up my chainsaw to ride up into the forest for a ride.
I knew there were three trees down across the roads that needed cut off the roads, but I figured it would mostly be a nice ride through the wet forest. I put my rain jacket on just in case.
First log
This was the first tree I stopped to cut off the road. I thought I’d parked far enough out of the way of the logs I’d cut off the tree, but I was wrong.
The first piece I cut rolled down the hill and right into my quad runner. No damage though.
More careful
I was more careful with the second piece I cut and made sure it was headed away from where the quad runner was before starting it to roll down the hill and out of the way.
Second log
And I knew about this one which was just a bit up the hill from the other one. It looked foggy up the hill as I was near the top.
I got that one cut and off the road.
Foggy view
At the top of the hill, there was no view, just fog.
Third log
This next log I knew about too, so stopped and got out the saw.
I got that one cut up and thought I was done cutting logs off the roads and could just ride around the rest of the day, but I was wrong about that.
Forth tree
Not far from that one, I saw this one, so,the day was turning into a bunch of exercise, instead of play time. I had to be careful with this one as it was still up in the air.
Fifth tree
By now I was pretty beat, but there was one more, right here and it was a big mess.
Showering
Being tired out now, I cleared enough to get by. It started to rain which I was hoping was just a shower and it was, but I was getting a bit wet.
Black cloud
That big black cloud was dropping some rain drops and they were getting bigger, so I thought I better head towards home.
I rode on down this trail and had to stop to throw some fallen branches off the trail.
By now it was raining lightly as I headed down the trail.
I made it home and the rain picked up for a short time and then stopped for most of the rest of 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.
