The day was sunny and no wind again today. I needed to transplant some rooted table grape canes I put in the ground last year to start some roots on them. I acquired them from a friend who got them from a friend in Healdsburg. They are some real nice table grapes. Some are big black seedless grapes and I can’t remember what some of the others are, but they are all real good type eating grapes.
I had pushed a cane in the ground here, but noticed it was too close to the water faucet. As it grows it would crowd out the faucet if I didn’t ‘move it, so that is where I started today.
It’s a bit hard to see as it’s fairly small yet, but it is in the bottom center of this picture.
I dug it up and moved it a bit further away from the faucet and put a bigger stick by it so I’d remember it’s there and not mow over it before it got a chance to grow bigger. I think the gate will just clear it.
After I got that done I was thinking I should of planted it somewhere else and maybe I will eventually.
Digging canes in the potato patch
Next I went over to the potato patch as I had pushed some grape canes in the ground in this spot last year and they were doing real well.
There’s one of them between the shovel and the log.
Here’s another cane that is doing real well that also needs to be transplanted to a better spot. The weeds are doing real well too.
Dug all this up to get the rooted canes out
I dug up five of them and had to move some dirt to get them. After the hard work was done the cat came over to check things out.
I always have a chair close by as I need it to rest a lot these days as I don’t have the energy I used to have. I used to be able to do this kind of stuff all day without any problem.
Five rooted table grape canes and some taters
Here’s the five grape canes I dug up. I need to trim them up and then plant them in a new spot. Of course when one is digging in a potato patch one digs up potatoes, about a third of a bucket of them.
I planted four of the rooted canes along these steel posts.
I have good soil, but there is a layer of rock under the old driveway along this spot, but once I dug through that layer the digging gets easier.
Here I’m putting the dirt around the rooted grape cane.
I put sticks next to them to mark where they were.
I put the fifth one in another spot that was easier to dig, no rock layer which was good as I was worn out by now.
The cat watches as I work away.
Spring is on the way
Spring is coming soon as I was surprised to see this pink rose getting it’s bugs already that’s why I’m getting the rooted grape canes transplanted.
Since I dug up those potatoes, I needed to clean them up so I did that after a break and then went on in the house for a rest as by now the day was almost over and it was getting cool outside.
Good to get those rooted grape canes transplanted today.
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.
