I was sitting out in the front yard, warming up when Bill Henderson showed up. I hadn’t seen him in quite a few years so we visited and shot the bull for awhile.
Bill is checking out Skiddy.
Selling stuff
It wasn’t long before Barry came by with his nephew Gerald.. Gerald came down from Oregon to check out my old Toyota as he wanted to look at it to maybe purchase it. Bill took off.
It’s not something I really want to sell, but it’s been just sitting in the yard getting older.
Gerald wants to restore it. It does need some TLC which I would be happy to see it get as it’s been as old friend for many years.
Test drive
Right away, I put Gerald in the drivers seat and let him take it for a short ride up into the hills to try it out.
Forest ride
The ride went well and returned to my place and we all went for a dirt bike ride up into the forest.
Tom’s old truck
We didn’t get far when we went by Tom’s old truck which we had to check out as Gerald was interest in it for his kid.
Waterfall
We got back to our ride and rode on up to our little waterfall to have a look.
The water is a lot less now, but the area is still impressive.
Drink of water
From there we rode around and eventually ended up at the dozer, parked by the main spring.
I noticed the foxgloves are blooming here as Gerald gets a drink of water.
Break spot
Then we rode around some more and ended up at the top where we usually take a good break.
From there we rode around a lot more until we were pretty tired out.
By the time we returned to my house, we were all beat. They took off for Barry’s place and I went in for a nap.
After a good nap, I went back outside to do a few things.
Van work
I needed to tidy up this electrical connection under the van.
To protect the bolt and the connection from corroding, I put a thick coat of dialectic grease on all this and then wrapped it all up good with electrical tape.
And tucked it up nicely with some tie wraps.
Then I sat down by the van and made a list of all the other things I need to do to the van to make it ready to travel soon.
Fuel
And the last thing I did was to fuel up Skiddy so it has a full tank, using my electric transfer pump setup which makes the job quick and easy.
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.
