I heard Barry out in the front yard with his dirt bike around 11, so I got it going and joined him. My other brother Tom joined us for the first time. He’s usually too busy working in his gardens for the farmer’s markets.
Taking off
Tom takes off and then Barry takes off. Barry leads most of the time as he’s the fastest speed demon and I follow. Tom followed me as he doesn’t ride as much.
Barry says it’s supposed to start raining around 2, so we better get going.
Headed for the waterfall
They wanted to check out the waterfall, so we headed on up that trail to the parking and turn around spot, here.
Waterfall
It was larger when it was raining yesterday, but still very nice. Barry gets a picture. He must of thought it was nice as he almost never takes a picture of anything.
Barry and Tom are admiring the waterfall and it’s surroundings.
Cousin’s place
Barry had three bottles of his home made wine he wanted to take up to my Cousin’s and give it to them. They live on the hilltops.
We had a nice chat with them and are taking off to continue our ride.
Hilltop view
From there we rode on up to the Top of the World to check out the view.,,,,But.
View
The view is of a fogged in forest. The fog is from the damp forest as it rained last night.
Guerneville Overlook
We rode on down to a lower spot, the Guerneville overlook and it wasn’t so foggy. They might be in for some flooding soon. Thank you great grandfather for not building in the flood zone. I live in his old house. :O)
We rode around a lot as the ground was just right for riding. We got home a bit before two when the rain was supposed to start, but there were just some sprinkles.
Internet repairs
The internet repair guy was due around 2, so I waited for him. My brother’s cable guy showed up which was good. I can get his cable internet when I need it at my house. The phone company didn’t show up as I thought they were supposed to, today.
Pineapple guava bush
I was doing some chair hopping when I decided to do a severe prune job on this pineapple guava bush to hopefully get larger fruit next year as this year they were really small, even though there were lots of them.
Cable repair guy
I was pruning away at that bush when I heard a repair rig next door at my brother Tom’s place so I went over to fill the repair guy in on what happened to break the wire to my brother’s house. A big redwood tree fell on it and broke it in two.
The repair guy had to go way up on his ladder, further than I’d want to go.
The wire broke off at the box when the redwood limb hit it so it was a fairly easy repair.
He got that all fixed up so now we had internet again. I’m still waiting on the phone guy to come, maybe tomorrow.
Pruned
I went back in my yard and finished pruning the pineapple guava bush to thin it out. I think I thinned it out good. I was going to pickup the brush another day as it was almost dark.
Brush
I did a bit of chair hopping and darned if that brush didn’t call me to pick at least some of it up. I hauled it a short distance to the habitat pile to decay into mulch.
I got a little over half cleaned up and my back said to quit.
Rain
On rain, I hear we are in for some good storms. This year’s rains reminds me of the heavy rains we had in the 1950’s around here. You have to be older to know that. Bring them on.
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.
Hang on tight