Barry came by so we took off for a ride. We rode around some and collected all the game cam cards.
Clutch cable snaps
We were about as far away from my place as we could be going up a hilly road when my clutch cable finally broke. We were headed up to my cousin’s house for a visit so I caught up with Barry at their place. I was able to keep gong as I can still shift if I’m careful.
We had a good visit with my cousin.
View
This is the view from their place where we sat out by a table for the visit.
No clutch start up
Without a clutch the bike is a bit hard to start. Most of the ride home is down hill. I put it in the highest gear so it’d roll and headed down the hill and started the bike on compression and made it home ok.
Barry pulled in right after I did.
New clutch cable
I’d ordered a new clutch cable about a week ago and was expecting it soon, so I went in the house and checked the tracking on it and it said it would be delivered today by the post office.
Bulkhead work
There was enough time to do an hour or so work on the bulkhead so I did some work prepping things for the repair.
Bike repairs
It was late in the day and I expected the mail delivery any time, so I got out the tools and took the old cable off so I’d be ready when the new one arrived.
You can see the clutch cable was broken all the way through.
No new cable today
I removed the cable and sat around waiting for the mail delivery, but it never came. I checked the tracking on my phone and it said they couldn’t deliver it and I had to go pick it up at the post office which I’ll have to do tomorrow as they were closed by the time I got the notice.
Game cam pictures
This buck has been hanging around for some time now. I noticed it’s back had some white spots. Maybe it got attacked by a mountain lion or something that would do this.
The same buck at our pond getting a drink of water.
perhaps cat jumped buck, likley fighting another buck
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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.
Nice buck! I will not mention the skunk in case it rubs off on me. So far I’ve been very lucky not to see one.
Nice wildlife sightings. Hope your part arrived.
perhaps cat jumped buck, likley fighting another buck