Last night I filled both saws up with gas and oil and I noticed the small saw seemed to be leaking oil out of the fill cap. I messed around with it but couldn’t seem to get the cap to seal. I checked it this morning and it was still leaking a bit.
Barry showed up so I put that aside.
A ride and hunting for mushrooms
Barry was going for a ride in the forest but said he only had one spot to check for mushrooms and didn’t think he’d do very good looking for them today, so off we went.
This is the first spot we stopped to check and he found more than he thought he would.
Then he located some more of them.
And the hunt was on. He kept finding them along the road edges.
He found some here on this road.
And saw some more on the bank here and had to cut some brush to get up there to get them.
I hunted a bit too and would say, here’s some. I wasn’t picking any, but instead would throw rocks and sticks off the road while he looked. Eventually, I’ll know all his picking spots and might start picking some for myself.
Spring water
We stopped here at a spring for a drink of water. Barry says the spring water is excellent and we should be selling it.
He kept looking and kept finding more mushrooms. So much for our bike ride.
There seems to be a lot of these black chanterelles this year.
Eventually we did make it up to our break spot on the ridge top for a break.
It was a real nice day.
While we were resting there, my other brother Tom showed up. He’d been out picking mushrooms too and told Barry where he’d been finding them.
So, we were off looking for more of them and finding some too.
We did a lot of hunting and found a lot of mushrooms but didn’t get much riding in, but we did get a lot of exercise looking for the mushrooms.
It was getting late in the day so we headed for my place and Barry took off for his place.
I checked on the chickens who were out grazing in the yard.
Mirrors
A box arrived in the mail which turned out to be some mirrors for my new rig. I realized right away that the rig needed some mirrors for backing up so I’d ordered some up. I didn’t get them installed yet as a nap was in order from all the exercise we got 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.
