I started the day off pollinating the cherry blossoms again with the pole duster. That should do it for the year. I hope it works out and I get more cherries.
Blackberry vines out
I also dug out some more blackberry vines in this area. They are small and just starting to grow for the year so now’s the time to dig them out.
Bamboo for the fence repair
I hauled what bamboo I’d already trimmed up the other day to the creek fence I want to repair to keep the chickens in the yard.
Then I cut some more bamboo poles down and trimmed them up and piled them here ready to haul to the fence project.
Fence work area
I moved that pile of bamboo poles to the work area by the fence.
This is the work area where I want to improve the fence to keep the chickens in the yard.
I weaved the poles down through the wire fence about every six inches or so like this and this is as far as I got today.
Here’s a side view of what it looks like.
Grazing chickens
Late in the day a couple hours before dark I let these chickens out to graze. You can tell they are ready to get out there.
They shoot out into the yard to graze.
Watching for escapees
This time I watched the chickens as they approached the new fence I installed yesterday where they were getting out.
They can’t get out here.
And they didn’t get out here so it seems to be keeping them in.
Near dark the chickens all come in to their roost to roost for the night and I shut them in mostly for their own protection.
I chair hopped around the yard a bit as it got dark then I went in the house for the day.
Carrot pureed soup
Last night I pureed some carrots for soup. It was pretty good and didn’t really taste like eating carrots and made a nice soup base. I’ll have to try that again and experiment some more with it.
Another nice day in isolation puttering around the yard.
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.
