I saw my brother Barry out in the front yard this morning with his dirt bike. He hasn’t been around for quite awhile for a dirt bike ride. He said he’s been having about the same medical problems I’ve been having, sore back and hip, and he has a stiff neck. After trying to work with the doctors he decided he needed a dirt bike ride that might loosen him up.
Heading for the hills
I got my dirt bike out and we took off for the hills and rode on up to this area, then back down the road where we ran into our neighbor the goat lady as she has about 150 goats. She said she’s been having problems with a mountain lion.
We got around her car and rode down to here where she and her partner caught up to us and we shoot the bull a bit.
Big dog
They took off for town and one of their big dogs that help protect the goats came by following them. A bit later when Barry could get a cell lock he called and left a message telling her about her dog. I suspect the dog has done this before and was ok.
Big tree
Then we rode back up the hill and ran into some trees on my cousin’s place so took another road to get around the tree and ran into this tree. We were able to just squeak by this tree on the left. Due to sore backs we were not moving any trees today.
There were a number of big trees that stopped us today that we had to detour around, but that’s ok as most of the roads up here are loops so there’s usually another way to go to get somewhere, if you know the way.
Drink and a rest at the spring
We stopped at our spring for a drink of fresh water.
Then we sat in the chairs that Marty and I took up and left there last week for this purpose. Good idea, those chairs.
The we saddled up and rode around some more roads going up and down and around and around.
Break area
Eventually we made it to the resting spot here where we usually take a good break which we did.
We rode around some more making our way back to my house. Barry took off for home and I took off for a nap. :O)
That was a good ride and loosened us up some which is good.
The rest of the day I chair hopped and just took it easy.
Baby quail
In the evening the pair of quail came out with about 20 little ones, the first time I’ve seen them out. They scooted to the bush before I could get a shot of them all.
Hope the ride helped the old stiff, complaining bodies. Sometimes a bit of overdoing it can help, sometimes not. Guess you’ll know when you get up in the morning. Though sometimes it is the day after the day after for me. Not that I overdo much.
Oh how i would love to see those baby quail, Bob!!
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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.
Knew those chairs would come in handy. Nice ride. Hope it helped loosen you both up.
Hope the ride helped the old stiff, complaining bodies. Sometimes a bit of overdoing it can help, sometimes not. Guess you’ll know when you get up in the morning. Though sometimes it is the day after the day after for me. Not that I overdo much.
Oh how i would love to see those baby quail, Bob!!