I hopped on the dirt bike to ride up into the hills to visit with my cousin that lives up there. I had some more information about the area in northeastern Nevada she’s interested in. We chatted about that for about an hour then I hopped back on the bike and rode up into the hills even further to another neighbor’s place for a visit. I shot the bull with them for about an hour then rode on home and had something to eat.
After a short nap I went outside to let the chicken’s out into the front yard.
I even let the little chicks out in there for the first time. I usually don’t let them out of their pen as hawks like young chicks. It was late in the day so I figured they would be safe, at least I was hoping so as I haven’t seen any hawks around for awhile now.
One of the momma hens kept an eye on them.
Raspberries are coming on
My second crop of raspberries are starting to ripen up so I ate some of those. They are just starting to ripen up and it looks like there will be lots of them.
See what I mean? Lots of nice red berries to eat. Yummy.
There’s lots of tomatoes ripe too.
Chicken feed
One of the chores I need to do before this upcoming trip is to mix up some seed for the chickens, so I opened some more sacks and started mixing it up in the blue barrel.
That should last my helper for the time I’m gone.
Van prep
It’s time to start getting things in the van in shape for this trip too. I put all this stuff away and took inventory on what I need to restock for the trip.
Eggs for the trip
I always take a lot of eggs with me. I gathered these up and hauled them off to the refrigerator which I will put in smaller cartons for the trip. I’ll take about six dozen or so with me.
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.
