I'm pottering round at a snail's pace trying to get the sprinkler system working properly.
Today I plugged a small hole, marvelling about how little water was getting out of it.
Checking the water filter showed why. It was clogged more than I have ever seen. I didn't
take any photos in time, but the sludge was about 4 mm thick and fell in lumps on the
pressure cell and in the kitchen sink:
Yvonne uses an Andoer leveling head for her PIXIO “Robot Cameraman” recordings, but it has a problem: the top is so wide that I
can't fit a normal Arca-Swiss shoe on it,
as I noted months ago. The components team up to make it impossible: the top of the leveling
base is too wide, and the adjusting screw of the shoe goes below its base line.
So I had mounted a macro rail between the two components. At the time I had thought that it
could even be convenient:
But Yvonne didn't like it, and recently I found a shoe that had a smaller screw,
coincidentally made by the same company, Andoer. It also had a quick release lever and a
horrendous (well, high) price tag, round $25. By comparison the bigger and more complicated
macro rails come in at about $14, and the leveling head cost round $54.
And how is it? It works, and the lever is convenient. But somehow I'm left wondering
whether Andoer doesn't have a left hand, right hand issue:
Looking out the lounge room window this evening, I saw an unexpected sight: a young fox,
quite a pretty thing, less than 10 m from the window.
Foxes! We don't need no steenking foxes in Australia! What have the dogs been thinking?
Took Nikolai outside. Fox looks at him.
Escapes to the neighbour's property, climbing over a 1.2 m fence in the process. Then Niko
noticed him. I don't suppose we'll see him again in the near future.
And only then did it occur to me that I could at least have taken a photo.
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