Bob's Eyes

Tuesday February 18, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Road work

I needed to put some rock on the old dirt road as there might be some rain coming in and I needed to repair some of the tire ruts.

So, I  headed up through the state park and got my rig going.

I repaired this crossing some to get the water to flow better.

And I hauled some rock to this area, the steepest part of the road, to fix some tire ruts.

Almost stuck

I almost got stuck in this part on the left. It was wet and soft and Skiddy sunk in it pretty bad so I had to haul quite a bit of rock into it to fix it up to get it in this shape. That also told me to quit while I was ahead as things are still pretty wet and I was making things a bit messy.

I pretty much got what needed to be done, done.

Park’s kiosk

I headed for home from there down through the state park. Here’s another photo of where the parks kiosk building used to be, before a truck smashed it. The park guys cleaned it up.

Back home a nap was in order.

Culvert clean out

Eventually I went over to our property to this creek.

The culvert there needed the sticks cleaned out of it to prevent a plug up.

I carefully got down there and carefully removed the sticks without getting wet.

Then it was back home to chair hop around the yard with my chickens.

Nice day.

Monday February 17, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Woodchips

I was talking to Tom out in my yard this morning when we saw a woodchip truck pull up at his gate. Tom went over and showed the guy how to get into my yard.

The guy dumped the load of woodchips in my yard and said he’d be back with another load later in the day.

I’ll take as many woodchips as I can get as I like to use them around my yard for ground cover and help control the weeds. And the chickens love to scratch in them. They make good fertilizer too.

They don’t cost me anything as the guys are glad to get rid of them as otherwise they  have to drive a long ways to dispose of them. Works well for both of us.

Roof repair

My job today was to repair my house roof, as during the last big rain storms a strong wind gust tore my roof up a bit over my car port.

I got out the tools I thought I’d need and got to work screwing down the metal panels. The wind blow one of the panels off and pulled up more of the panels. Most likely because I didn’t put enough screws in these pieces when I installed them, years ago.

More chips

A bit later in the day, the woodchip guy returned and dumped another load of wood chips.

Two piles of wood chips. I told the guy I’d take a lot more of them.

Up on the roof, I was almost done screwing all the metal panels back down.

The sun was setting to the west just as I finished up.

I put all the tools away and now I’m ready for the next rain storm that comes in.

Nice day.