I noticed the pipe I installed yesterday was dripping just a bit. Seems some water got into my glue joint and so it didn’t seal. The only thing to do was cut the part that was leaking out and install some new parts and be more careful keeping the water out of the glue joint.
So I cut the part out.
I got the part cut out and a new piece made to replace the bad one.
Hike in the forest
Instead of gluing the new part in I decided to go for a hike in the forest to give the water left in the pipe time to drip out of the cut pipe so that’s what I did.
I hiked up through this area taking my time and enjoying the nice spring day.
I only covered about a mile but some of it was up hill so that slowed me down a bit.
I walked through this area on the way home.
That little walk was just about right to get a little exercise and let the pipe water drips stop.
Finishing up the pipe repair
When I got home I checked the pipes for water drops still coming out of the pipes but the drips had stopped so I glued the new part in like this and after giving the glue time to set I turned the water back into this water line and tested it. No leaks which was good.
Tired out
For some reason after fixing the water leak I was real tired so I went in the house for a much needed nap.
Watering
After a good rest I was back outside turning some water on to water some weeds for the chickens.
I also put the water on this raspberry patch where the chickens were grazing. They didn’t like that much and left the area.
For the rest of the day I moved water around watering and did a bit of chair hopping.
Sounds like a nice spring day for a walk and puttering.
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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.
Sounds like a nice spring day for a walk and puttering.