The sun was out and it was a beautiful fall day. That’s how it was when I went out the door this morning.
Booting up
Frist off the chickens got checked for watered and feed. Once that was done the morning needed to be appreciated by sitting around and waking up all the way. I call it booting up.
Grow panels need to get done so I can plant some more stuff for the chickens. Does it seem like chickens are my life now? :O)
Measuring and cutting rebar
I had the frames made for the panels yesterday but they needed some support to keep the wire from sagging too much when the chickens are on them, so I measured and cut some rebar for that.
Here’s the panels with the cut rebar ready for welding up.
Welded up and the wire cut
Once the panel support were welding in it was time to cut the wire to length which is all done in this picture.
Building a better rodent trap
My first rodent trap seems to be working as it caught a couple mice, but most of the rodents have left the attic from all the moving around up there setting up the trap and the PTZ cam so there’s limited rodents to catch for now, but they’ll be back as winter sets in.
An advantage
In the mean time some ideas were forming for a new rodent trap which I think might work better on the rats which are the hardest to catch as the big older ones are the smartest. Having a motion video camera on them is the best way to learn just how smart they are and try to out fox them, something man has been doing for just about forever, trying to outfox rats, not the video stuff. So I have an advantage.
Once the jig saw was found and the top of a bucket rounded up the hole got cut for the four inch ABS pipe coupling that needed to be attached to hold this all up. Silicone was used, which reminds me I need to go out and silicone the other side now that the first side has set up a bit.
Special grow panel
Late in the day just before dark the chicken wire to this panel got fastened to the rebar. It’s a special grow panel that will go inside the chicks pen so it has to be good enough to keep the small chicks from going under it and eating all the plants up. They can walk on the top and eat all they want of what grows above the wire preventing them from pulling the roots out and killing the plants.
First rains coming maybe
There might be some rain coming in this week for the first time this season, so I spent some time during the day putting things away that shouldn’t get wet and that process got finished up just about the time it got dark and that was my day.
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.
