Breakfast hay delivery, Sunday:
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| This cart was the hurried replacement when my lovely little green one got crushed last April. |
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| This is my 4th hay sled, bought on sale at the end of hunting season. Finally a sled long enough and deep enough to hold a hay bale without tipping over between the roundtop and the paddocks. Huzzah! |
I was up at 2 this morning - nothing was wrong; this is typical - and happened to check the thermometer outside the back door. -2F.
Again at 4AM: minus 4.
The forecast is for a continuous drop til 8 AM, then a gradual creeping up above 0. The 8 inches of powder we got on Sunday night has settled a bit but hasn't lost much by way of melting. The sled will be getting a workout twice daily for a while, I think.
In case you're wondering what happened to Monday's hay, fear not; it was delivered to the goats but I didn't go back in the house for the camera. Which reminds me: does anyone have a recommendation for a good pocket digital camera? Please? I've been hemming and hawing about this since 2023, when I had budgeted for a replacement camera but then had to suddenly spend thousands on my water system. Goodbye, replacement camera. Hello, running water!
Before my current camera - which has been partially held together with tape since 2022, is having focus and metering issues, and can't be used during chores because it won't fit in a pocket - I had two little Canons with fine image quality, excellent macro, and surprisingly powerful zoom capabilities. I'd like those features again, but perhaps because the market has shifted dramatically due to increasingly good cellphone cameras, the good pocket digitals have become more expensive than I expected. (Of course this may just be my advanced years talking. These days the voice in my Shopping head often sounds very like my Dad, who always compared the price for a replacement item with the price paid for a predecessor, sometimes decades earlier.) Anyway, please share any suggestions for a pocket camera, because I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and invest in a new one. Thanks!
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Loved those little Canon cameras. I use my phone, now. I'd try on freecycle or craigslist (although I've heard lately that those little cameras have become a hot commodity with the younger crowd).
ReplyDeleteHope you all are keeping warm!
Aha - sudden trendiness may explain why, when I finally decided I'd have to spend the big bucks, the three most recent compact Canons were sold out everywhere.
DeleteThat's quite a difference in weather conditions and hay transport. :) Way, way too cold for me. Still can't believe how much snow friends and family got in the south the other day. I have a whole collection of digital cameras and am not even sure which ones still work properly. I do recall that one or two of them were having the focusing issue. I only use my mobile camera right now. And for zoom shots, will get out my very old Canon. But if the cloud services keep telling me I'm running out of storage space, I wll be in the market for digital again because I refuse to pay even if it is only 99 cents a month. :) Warm wishes, Tammy
ReplyDeleteYour blog snaps are always a pleasure to peruse! If there was adequate cell coverage at my place, I might be tempted to buy a phone with a really good camera. But unless I'm going somewhere (a rare occurrence these days) with a signal, I use my cell mostly for audiobooks.
DeleteI'm afraid I'm not a whole lot of help with cameras but my old pocket-sized was a Canon and I loved it. Currently I'm using DH's Nikon Coolpix and it's okay but I did like the Canon better. Sadly I can't remember which version it was that I had.
ReplyDeleteI wish the older Canon models were still available - I'd buy one again in a minute instead of one of the new models!
DeleteYou work so hard, Quinn! Moving all that hay can't be easy, especially in the snow. But maybe that's better than mud!
ReplyDeleteI can't recommend a camera, as these days I use only my phone. I am a picture-taker, not a photographer, so my phone is good enough for me.
Snow is definitely better than mud! When it's muddy I can't use the sled OR the cart, and since I can't carry a whole bale at the moment, it would mean taking a stack of laundry baskets out to the roundtop, opening a bale, filling all the baskets and then going back and forth carrying them one at a time out to various spots in the paddocks and barns. On the other hand, as long as I can keep things going one way or another, I'm happy!
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