I had some downed trees up in the hills across roads that needed to be cut and cleared off the roads.
I gassed and oiled the chainsaw and loaded it on the quad runner and headed on out around noon.
I went to the two that were furthest away and stopped here to cut this one up enough to get by it.
Not far down that road was this one so I cut it up in pieces and moved enough of it to get by. There were a couple of smaller ones down the road that I did the same to.
The big tree
Then I drove on back to this big one that fell down during the last rain storm. It was big and I knew I wouldn’t get it all done before the saw and I would run out of gas, but I, at least wanted to get a start on it.
I had to be careful to make sure it didn’t fall on me as I started cutting on the sections.
I got this much cut up before the saw ran out of gas and I was too. I don’t usually bring any more gas so I can quit before I get too tired out. At least I got a good start on this big one.
Drink at a spring
Not far below that one, was this spring where I stopped to get a cup of water or two.
On the way home I stopped on this road to ditch this water off the road so it wouldn’t make a big ditch down the road.
Trail
I took this trail and stopped in a couple spots to do some ditching on it too.
Chair hopping
Once back home, I just sat in my chairs and took it easy with the chickens.
I enjoyed the evening sitting around until the night’s chill set in. The sun went down behind the hills to my west.
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.
