Ever since we moved into our house, the 1″ main supply valve for our irrigation system pictured above has leaked. An annoying drip every hour, enough to fill a small bucket in 6 months. I decided to replace it today which required shutting off the water supply to the entire house and completely draining the pipes. Installing the new valve took all of 15 minutes, a small fraction of the time needed to drain the water and then bleed the air once service was restored. Next I painted all the window sills on the first floor, a total of ten windows. Finally, I improved the wiring to the charger for my BMW. I ran all the wires through metal conduit bringing the installation up to code, added a 50 amp outlet to the supply line and wired the charger with a matching plug. Now when it comes time to power the tiny house on wheels that Maya plans to build over the summer we will have a convenient place to connect.
I started shooting digital in 1999 with the Sony DSC-F505 pictured above. It was a revolutionary camera in its day offering a whopping 2.1 Mpixel sensor! I eventually moved from Sony to Canon’s line of DSLRs maxing out with the 50 Mpixel 5Ds and now am down to just the 30 Mpixel 5D Mark IV. Recently, I started moving back towards Sony and currently have a pair of a6300s and an RX10 Mark III. My only Nikon is the inexpensive AW120 which I use for underwater photography.
In order to keep up with the state of the art, I have bought and sold nearly 50 cameras over the last 18 years (see a partial list of the ones I remember below, in some cases I owned multiple copies). Needless to say, I have become something of an expert at buying and selling cameras and have generally recovered more than 80% of my purchase price on new cameras and closer to 100% on the ones I purchased used. This list of lenses I have owned is even longer and may be the subject of a future post.
Canon: 10D, 20D, 30D, 40D, 50D, 70D, SL1, 5D, 5D M2, 5D M3, 5D M4, 5Ds, 6D, 7D, 7D M2, 1D M3, M5, G7X, S5 IS, S90, S100, SX10 IS, SX100 IS, SX110 IS
I enjoyed this trip down memory lane while waiting for the rain to subside this morning so I could tackle the replacement of another pair of window sills.
Water and wood are best separated by a well-applied layer of quality paint if a window sill (or any other wood component exposed to the elements) is expected to last. The previous owner of our house did not kept up with painting, allowing several to deteriorate beyond the point of patching. Today I spent the better part of the day replacing two of four. Weather permitting I will tackle the remaining pair tomorrow. Not particularly the kind of woodworking I enjoy but a long overdue repair that simply needed to be done.
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