I didn’t have any plans for the day, but as I sat around for a bit I decided to ride up in the hills and move a couple small redwood logs to a trail I wanted to work on so I’d have some chairs to rest on.
Seats
I knew where there were a couple small logs that I’d made for seats. They were on the trail up to where I wanted to work so I got my tools and hopped on the quad runner and headed on up that way.
Hard to believe
I had to go through this gate and to my surprise there were two free chairs on the road, that I think a neighbor put out. Just right for what I needed and they were a nice color for the woods, grey.
Up a trail
I fastened the chairs to the quad runner and rode on up this trail. The little redwood logs I was going to use are here. I rode on by and on up the hill with my chairs.
Work area
I parked on a ridge back here where the old game trail starts and unloaded my chairs and tools to do some trail work.
View
I wanted to make some flat spots for the chairs so I could sit and enjoy the view from this spot. It overlooks some of our family property.
Old trail
The old trail goes through here. I removed the dead limbs and cleared the way.
Resting spot
I mostly wanted to level the first part of the trail so I’d have a flat base for the chairs to sit on so I worked on that part first as I’d soon need a resting spot.
I sat and watched these clouds sneak across the sky.
And enjoyed the view between short bursts of work on the trail.
A good start
Between all the breaks I got about 50 feet of trail cleared, a good start. I didn’t want to work too hard on it as I’m still nursing a sore back but it’s been improving. I worked until the back said it’d had enough.
Actually I over did it on the back and had a hard time just getting onto the quad runner when I was done working.
I rode on down to where the other redwood log seats were and used them for a bit on the way home.
There’s lots of green sorrel in the area which makes this place look special.
I continued on towards home and spent the rest of the day resting up and taking it easy.
Well that was a surprise finding a gift just like what you wanted/needed.
It was almost like Christmas in July!
Have you tried laying on the floor for your back? Don’t if you can’t get up, but works wonders for me. Relax, do some range-of-motion with your arms, all gentle and deliberate moves, pull your legs up to your chest, etc. Even 5 minutes will get me some adjustment and relief. Feel better, Bob & have a nice day.
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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.
Ask, and ye shall receive.
Well that was a surprise finding a gift just like what you wanted/needed.
It was almost like Christmas in July!
Have you tried laying on the floor for your back? Don’t if you can’t get up, but works wonders for me. Relax, do some range-of-motion with your arms, all gentle and deliberate moves, pull your legs up to your chest, etc. Even 5 minutes will get me some adjustment and relief. Feel better, Bob & have a nice day.