I needed to finish up the painting on my new fence so I attached my new can holder to the can and got it done. Here’s the can with the holder mounted. This device safes your thumb and index finger from being real sore if you do much painting.
Cutting and welding rebar
Next I got out my power hand saw and started cutting up rebar to make the pieces to make some garden enclosures and my chicken runs.
I just got stated welding one of the sides up for an enclosure when I heard a motorcycle come into the yard.
His chain came off
It turned out to be my brother Barry. He said his chain came off up in the hills and he didn’t have any tools, but he got it back on and came down to adjust it which he is doing here.
Might as well go for a ride
At this point I was sitting around supervising and when he was almost finished I realized I could go on a ride, so I said I’d go with him back up in the hills if he didn’t go in any real steep stuff, so off we went for a couple hours of riding.
I rode my brother Mikes bike to help him keep the battery charged up. We had a nice ride and we mostly stayed out of the steep stuff, but not completely. At the end he asks me if I want to go down this trail I know is real steep at the bottom and I say no, so he says if we take this road we can come out in the middle and go up along the property line and I wouldn’t have to deal with that steep part at the bottom, so I say ok, let’s go and off we went, me following him.
That was quite a ride
Well, that road was just about as steep as the piece on the bottom. I kept the throttle on as much as I could and still stay on the road and bounced from one side to the other a bunch of times, but I made it to the top without falling over. Barry was at the top with a big smile on his face.
The bike performed well, except it has too much air in the tires and they tend to ride out on you so you have to watch it. Next time I will lower the tire pressure before I go. They seem to perform best around 2 and a half PSI, but the other guys seem to think they need more air so they kept putting more in and wonder why the bike gets squirrelly.
Headed on home
We headed on home from there and I was pretty beat from the ride so I had a rest for a bit.
I wasn’t feeling like working on the enclosures much, so I did some chair hopping.
Got back to work
But finally I got into the work again and completed welding up this one and got another one almost done.
I worked until almost dark then sat around for a bit enjoying the evening.
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.
