I forgot and left the water running all night. I’d turned on a faucet to put some water on a plant in the evening and forgot about it so it ran all night which is ok, except it tends to run the water level down in our tanks as there’s only a certain amount of water collected from the springs each day.
That meant I needed to go up and see how bad the tanks were down in water.
So I cranked up the dirt bike and rode on up there to see.
Down but not bad
The pink ribbon on the side of the tank shows the water level is just below half full. That’s ok but I’ll have to keep an eye on it to make sure it fills back up. There’s five houses and my brother’s big garden using it.
Dirt bike ride
As long as I was on the dirt bike I took off up into the hills on this road for a short ride.
On up through this road moving right along.
Coming back down the hill I rode on through this spot.
Armstrong Valley Farm
And stopped at one of my brother Tom’s gardens to see what I could find to eat.
I had one of these big plums and took two for the road.
Strawberry patch
And then headed to the strawberry patch which is overgrown with weeds but that’s ok.
One just has to dig in the weeds to find the berries. Yummy.
On the way out I checked on the Asian pears but it’s still too early for them.
And I went by here. My brother has planted a bunch of potatoes in there and they are just starting to come up.
Once home I napped for quite some time and then went out to do some fertilizing.
Chicken poo fertilizer
My plan was to get ta bucket of chicken poo from the chicken coup which I did. I took it into the raspberry patch to fertilize the plants.
My plan was to put about an inch of chicken poo into two buckets and then fill them with water. I went around and dumped some of the water on each of the raspberry plants and got most of them except for a few which I’ll get tomorrow.
Citrus trees
I also went over to where my new citrus trees are planted and put some fertilizer on each of the two trees.
The small trees have some growing to do before I’ll get any fruit so I need to get them going. There’s lots of new leaves coming out on them. They are two different types of mandarins.
It was a nice evening out so I chair hopped and puttered around the yard until it started to get dark.
It is a very fruitful area, like our Niagara area. The plums look wonderful!
Sounds like a great day puttering around.
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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.
It is a very fruitful area, like our Niagara area. The plums look wonderful!
Sounds like a great day puttering around.