I didn’t feel like I had much energy once I got it going today. After all the trail work a couple days ago I was pretty worn out. Older age means it takes longer to recoup after a good work out so I was dragging my butt today.
I was supposed to meet the two guys up at the trail today so I headed on up to the Hermit’s around noon.
I went up and had a good chat with the Hermit for a bit. The guys truck wasn’t in the yard so I suspected they might not of showed up today unless they went in up the road.
Lots of ash
Eventually I left the Hermit cleaning his house and started on up to the trail area we were working on, going through here. There’s about 6 inches of ash on the ground from the recent forest fire. It will be interesting to see what happens to it when it rains this winter.
I worked my way up through here to get up to the trail area higher on the hill.
I worked on laying out the trail through this spot as it was on the way up.
No guys
When I got up to where we were working on the pipe line trail the guys weren’t there so they must have had something better to do today.
Hard work
I worked on the trail busting rock and moving dirt for about an hour before I was too warn out to continue. I obviously need more rest days between work days doing this kind of work.
I think the guys are going to do most of it and I’ll mostly supervise.
Anyway they know what to do pretty much so I’ll leave them at it until I come back from my desert trip which I’ll be off on in about a week.
Better mood
I went back down to the Hermit’s and finished out our chat. He seemed to be in a better mood today and wasn’t grumbling about how I wanted to do things.
Napping
I headed on down the hill to my house and spent most of the afternoon napping as I was beat and just couldn’t get it going for the rest of the day.
Roosting chickens
Near dark I went out to shut the chickens in. These are my younger chickens on their roost.
And these are some of the older chickens on their roost. The rooster has his hens all around him.
The plan
It’s good to be retired and just do what needs to be done each day which means I can rest up when I need to instead of pushing when I don’t need to.
So I will rest and let the 2 young guys do most of the work. Sounds like a good plan to me. :O)
I agree with AG above about how you are making decisions.
Oh and I guess it is true. Birds of a feather do flock together!
The young ones are talking about how naggy the elders are. :)
You deserve to rest, I think!
If the Hermit isn’t physically able to go up and check to see how the work is being done and you are willing to supervise the guys, I’d say it’s your decision on how the work is facilitated. JMHO. Love the chickens on their roosts all settled in for the night. Rest up and take care.
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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.
I agree with AG above about how you are making decisions.
Oh and I guess it is true. Birds of a feather do flock together!
The young ones are talking about how naggy the elders are. :)
You deserve to rest, I think!
If the Hermit isn’t physically able to go up and check to see how the work is being done and you are willing to supervise the guys, I’d say it’s your decision on how the work is facilitated. JMHO. Love the chickens on their roosts all settled in for the night. Rest up and take care.