I went out to tend the chickens when I got it going today. They are waiting for me to give them that scoop of feed on the ground there which I do everyday.
I feed them and check their water.
And I also give the little peeps some feed too.
Measuring the well depth
I wanted to measure how much sediment I’ve removed from the old well so I got a long tape and some string with some weights and measured the well depth.
I had to pull the pipe out of the well to get the weight to go to the bottom. It was deeper than I thought at 51 ft. 5 inches, so I’m almost on the bottom of the well.
Suction head modification
As long as I pulled up the pipe I made this digging head more aggressive by making some more cuts in it. This is my suction device I use to pump out the sediment at the bottom of the old well.
I worked on removing some more sediment for a bit before giving that up for now.
Gathering eggs
Of course I gather the eggs each day once these girls get off the nests.
It was a real nice day out as I sat and enjoyed the yard some.
I noticed this western tanager eating some of my plums.
Finding the low tree
My brother Barry asked me to cut out a tree on the old trail that he thought might bang him on the head as he rode his dirt bike under it so I rode the quad runner up into the hills to look for the low tree as I didn’t know where it was.
I stopped here to do some work on the trail.
I wasn’t sure of the tree he wanted me to cut. This one maybe so I cut it out of the way.
Or maybe this one so I removed it also.
I rode back down the old trail once that was done.
Water tanks
And checked out the tank’s water level which was just a little more than three quarters full which was good.
Strawberry patch raid
And I made a stop at my brother’s strawberry patch to make a raid on the berries. It’s in between crops right now but I did find enough to eat some.
Thanks Don, I have a hard time remembering bird names in my older age. :O)
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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.
western tanager not goldfinch dont see often
Thanks Don, I have a hard time remembering bird names in my older age. :O)