I got the weed eater out as I had a few spots where I needed to cut the weeds down. Mostly in the places the chickens don’t get eaten up and for some fire protection.
I got the weed eater going with only a little difficulty so I was ready to go.
Here’s the first place I started to mow near the house.
And this spot near the creek was getting over grown.
Driveway too
I got those two spots done and then did some of the driveway edges just to make it look nice.
Of course I needed to take a few breaks as pushing the machine around takes a bit of effort, although it works rather well for this kind of stuff.
Things were going well until
Late in the day I was mowing this ivy that’s getting out of control and the chickens don’t eat it. I wasn’t being careful enough and hit the white water pipe in the bushes there and water started squirting out of the pipe so I found the shut off for that part.
Actually I had to hunt for the shut off valve box as the chickens had buried it.
First try failed
I tried to fix it with a clamp and a piece of rubber but that didn’t work as I found out I’d put a crack in the pipe which was going to take some more fixing.
The clamp didn’t work.
I cut the bad piece of pipe out but will need to go shopping to get stuff to repair it, but not now as the stores are closed.
That pipe just goes to the chicken pen area so I can get by without it for a bit.
That pretty much did the day in and was happy to get done what I did.
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.
