My back got sore after working on the Hermit’s spring yesterday so this morning when I got up it was a bit sore so I got out the ice pack pad and laid on that for about a half hour, put it back in the freezer and did it again between naps and some chair hopping in the yard.
Back’s feeling better
Around 2 it felt a bit better and I wanted to put some tape on a water line leak up in the hills. I wasn’t sure how my back would be doing that so that’s all I had planned to do on the dirt bike today.
Fixing the leaky pipe
I rode up to this spot where the water leak is as you can see in front of the dirt bike it is wet from the black hose above. All I have to do is somehow get the hose down far enough to wrap some tape around the pipe. I was able to get up the hill and pull it down in the trees enough to get to the hole. Rats and squirrels some times eat holes in the plastic pipe to get to the water, especially in the fall. I think this was a squirrel.
Once I got that little chore done my back was feeling pretty decent so I decided to ride up the hill further and see what the fire guys were doing.
Cloverdale guys
I ran into these guys on standby resting up and watching for flare ups. I used to work in Cloverdale for a few years and since that’s where these guys are from we had quite a nice chat.
After chatting with those guys I decided to ride on to to Robert’s place to shoot the bull for a bit and give them this picture of where all the old trains ran around the lower river. Thinking of it maybe some of you are interested so I’ll get it and put it here now. Some of the larger black lines are train tracks too.
Railroads of old on the river
I’ll blow it up a bit for ya.
Water truck waters road
Well I couldn’t raise anyone at Robert’s place so I headed on back down the road where I almost ran over this water truck. He was putting some water on the road and turned the water off as he passed so I didn’t get wet.
Back at the Coverdale spot a Santa Rosa Commander had pulled up so I stopped again and caught up with the fire news and shot the bull a bit.
Strawberries
On the way home I stopped at Tom’s garden for some strawberries. The weeds have over grown the plants but there’s still plenty of berries in there and I ate my fill.
I rode on home and put the bike away and got the ice pack out again and used it just to be safe and right now my back is doing pretty good, much better than last night.
Chickens
It was hot out today so I mostly stayed in and rested until evening when I went out and joined the chickens in the yard. I usually let them out in the front yard a couple hours before dark which gives them plenty of time to get stuff to eat but not enough time to get up on the porch and poo so that seems to work well, letting them into the yard just before dark. They have plenty of other yard places they can get into earlier in the day so they are mostly happy chickens or at least they should be.
I did more than I thought I would today and my back is feeling better, so.
Sadly now the fires are raging around Shaver Lake in the South. Literally the entire State has been on fire.
I love that you let the chickens out. Ours had the run of the ranch during the day, but we always put them up at night. Too many coyotes.
The map of the trains … that’s very interesting (I’m all about the old trains). Was there a large lumber mill around there?
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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.
Sadly now the fires are raging around Shaver Lake in the South. Literally the entire State has been on fire.
I love that you let the chickens out. Ours had the run of the ranch during the day, but we always put them up at night. Too many coyotes.
The map of the trains … that’s very interesting (I’m all about the old trains). Was there a large lumber mill around there?