The other day I ordered 200 feet of networking cable and it arrived in the mail today.
I wanted the long cable so I can move one of my cams around the yard a greater distance.
Detecting rodent trails
I’ve been trying to determine how the rats and mice have been getting into my attic so I wanted to be able to move the cam all the way around the house to find where their trails are so I can block them out of my attic.
Never ending bulk head work
I did some work on the bulk head project for a couple hours just to get some more stuff done on that project. A couple hours is about all I can do on that project as every thing seems to be moving heavy things around. But a little at a time will get the job done which I just need to finish before winter hits.
Moving the camera
After a break and some chair hopping I moved the cam to this spot using the new cable.
Setting up
Since I spotted the rats and mice using the wire to move around the other day I was thinking they may be using this white wire to get onto my roof and into my attic somewhere so I set the camera up. It’s hooked to my computer so I can watch it and it records stuff automatically and does pretty good at night with infrared.
Lots of seed potatoes
My brother Tom said he had some extra seed potatoes if I wanted to plant them so he brought them over and dropped them off. Lots of them. I need to find places for them and get them into the ground soon.
Blackberry vines
Just before dark I was checking out this spot for some of those potatoes. There’s some blackberry vines growing here which need cutting so I got the cutters out.
I was able to get all the blackberry vines cut before it got too dark. Some mulch in here would be good before planning some potatoes, more work eh. :O)
Need to green up
I turned this rain bird on and will let it go for a few hours in the dark. I’d like to get the weeds going so things will green up and it makes good chicken feed.
The camera worked already
It didn’t take long for a rodent to cross the wire. It was just after dark and this speedy little guy came running off the roof and ran across the wire and jumped to a tree and came down to the ground. So now I know at least one rodent has a hole somewhere up on the roof. I’ll move the camera up there soon to follow it’s path to that hole.
Here’s the shot of the speedy rodent racing across the wire headed to the left.
It’s moving fast. Here’s a little closer and better but really not too good a photo but good enough to see what’s going on and that’s all I need. These are infrared night photos.
After taking those photos I realized I hadn’t hooked the new cable into the router so it was working wireless to that spot which I’d thought it wouldn’t. I hooked up the wire just the same as it’s a faster connection.
You got the little devil! Your assumption was correct. he doesn’t realize he is on Candid Bob’s Camera!
That’s a lot of potatoes. Not familiar with the term ‘seed’ potatoes though.
Good luck blocking the rodent’s entry.
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Header Pictures
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.
You got the little devil! Your assumption was correct. he doesn’t realize he is on Candid Bob’s Camera!
That’s a lot of potatoes. Not familiar with the term ‘seed’ potatoes though.
Good luck blocking the rodent’s entry.