Bob's Eyes

Tuesday November 19, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Forest riding

Barry showed up in the yard this morning for a ride on the dirt bikes up into the forest. When I went outside, you could feel the cold. It must of been about 40 degrees F. or so.

We took off for the hills and it was cold as we rode around our usual places. We rode slower today as it was less cold that way.

We made it up to our break area at the top, but it was still cold with not much out for the sun.

Not much for sun. It was just barely peeking through the clouds. A storm is on it’s way in tonight.

Had enough

Barry said he’d had enough of the cold so we headed on home. I went in the house and stooked up the wood stove and tried to warm up. It took a couple hours to get the warm back in me, even under the covers napping.

Metal pile

I finally did get warmed up enough and eventually went back outside. It was still cold out, but not as bad as riding the dirt bikes around.

I had a look at this scrap metal pile to make plans to move some of it to the spot in the front there as I want to put up a carport eventually and the metal pile is in the way. I’ll need something to put on the ground to put the metal on, like pellets or maybe some redwood logs.

I don’t need to move all the metal, just the stuff on the left side and I can leave the stuff on the right side, right where it is. Not today though as I need to find something to put the metal on.

I was sitting in a chair taking it easy. The day was cooling down and I wanted to go in, but these two chickens weren’t going in to roost for the night and I couldn’t go in until they went to their roost, so I shooed them in and closed the door for the night.

It was still a nice day, despite the cold.

Monday November 18, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Starting problems

I headed on up into the hills today with Hondo. I rode around some checking out some roads as there was a big storm coming in soon.

I stopped Hondo in a spot and when I went to start it again, it wouldn’t start. I usually start it by stepping on the foot brake and turning the key to start it, but no go.

Eventually, I put it in park and it started right up. Somethings wrong with the brake thing to start it.

Clouds

As long as it starts I continued my ride around the hills checking stuff out and stopped at the top for this picture of the big storm starting to come in.

Rocks

I stopped here to throw these rocks off the road. There always seems to be lots of sticks and rocks to throw off the roads.

Trees

And trees come down across the road as fast as I cut them out.

Brush

And, of course there is always lots of brush to cut off the roads too. I stopped here to cut some of it to keep it back off the road.

It’s a never ending task to keep the forest stuff off the roads.

Eventually, I headed home for a nap.

Fixing the starting problem

I got the repair book out for Hondo and did a bit of reading. I checked the fuses for the brake lights as that has something to do with the starting procedure, stepping on the brake pedal to start it.

I found the fuses in here.

I checked them all out, but that wasn’t the problem.

Since the fuses were all good, I checked the brake pedal’s switch and found the spring that goes to the brake light switch was off, so the brake switch wasn’t working which won’t let it start by stepping on the brake pedal.

I put the spring back on and bent it just enough so it shouldn’t come off again.

Nice day.