Back on the pipeline trail, I parked here at the spring.
Then I walked out the pipeline trail to dig some more of it.
I dug this part and made it to the end where it meets the old pipeline from the spring.
Walking back on the trail, I needed to check out that brush on the right side there as that’s where the old spring pipe is running. The pipe had a nasty sag there and I’d tied it to bamboo pools with wire a long time ago and then more trees fell on the pipe and messed it up, that’s why I’m digging this new pipeline trail, to repair this bad part of the pipeline that sags too much to let water flow through the pipe. It’s restricted, but still flows a little.
The old pipeline runs down under all this brush, so I had to get down into it to cut the wires off that held the pipe to the bamboo.
I worked on that and got all but one or two wires cut, so now the pipe is ready to pull it out and put it up on the new pipeline trail, but not today. I’ve been working too hard at this and my back needs some rest.
Joy ride
I hopped in the rig and rode around the property stopping along the way to check stuff out, like springs, and ponds and overlooks, taking my time.
Visiting
Eventually, I decided to go visit my neighbor that lives high on the hillside, up here through this gate. His gate sags a lot, so I looked at it to see if I could do something about it as I have to go through it a lot to visit. It’s not his main gate so he’s not likely to fix it.
I have some ideas on how to tighten it up, but not today.
I’m headed up to his place, not far ahead.
And on up this road.
A stick for Bella
I remembered to stop and pick up a little stick for Bella, his dog as she likes to chase them and then chew them up.
Here comes Bella, barking at me with her tail wagging, like a good guard dog.
I tossed the stick for her, only about twenty feet as she is older and can’t run like she used to, sorta like me. :O)
Anyway, I caught them home and we had a nice visit.
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.
