Last night I emptied the black feeder as I wanted to see how much feed the chicks consume in a day. Turns out they only lowered the white pipe six or seven inches which means I have plenty of feed to tide things over while I’m on this trip.
I’m going to putter today
This was a puttering type day as all I really had to do was finish getting the van loaded up for this trip to the desert and I didn’t have too much of that to do either. So it was mostly a sit around day. All my other projects are mostly completed so there was no need to deal with any of that stuff either.
Motorcycle ride to check the water level
In the afternoon I decided to charge my brother’s motorcycle battery and also check the water tanks to see how full they were.
Here’s our water tanks and they are full of water, to the top.
I rode the bike up the hill to the ridge top and had a nice break here for a bit.
Of course there’s always the view of the town of Guerneville down there.
As the day cooled I got to work
Once I returned home I sat around some more waiting for the sun to start down. Once it was down a bit I loaded my kayak and paddles and stuff for the boat and since the van was cooled down I loaded some more food stuff and some shirts. I never know what I might need in shirts so I always end up with way more of them than I need, but at least they are light and store easily.
Here’s the loaded van almost ready to go.
It mostly just needs the cold stuff loaded which I will do in the morning.
That was pretty much my day for a lazy one.
Off to the desert
Marty and I will be leaving tomorrow morning for the north eastern part of Nevada and south Idaho. We’ll be near the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and the Jarbidge area and internet might be a bit shaky but I’ll post when I can.
Hi David,
A bit warm, but it’s high desert which is a lot cooler than low desert and there is usually a breeze. At least they got the big Martin fire out so maybe not too much smoke.
Bob
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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.
It is good to know that things will be fine, chicks fed and water topped up back at the home front when you take a trip. Safe ravels in the morning.
Rather hot over there…Eh???
Hi David,
A bit warm, but it’s high desert which is a lot cooler than low desert and there is usually a breeze. At least they got the big Martin fire out so maybe not too much smoke.
Bob