Wednesday November 20, 2024 Guerneville CA.
Rainy day
It started raining last night about 2 and hasn’t stopped much. Right now at, 5 PM, I see about 7 inches of rain in my gauge. It’s still raining nicely.
Road work
I got an email from the state park guys this morning asking if I could remove a small rock slide on the road I’ve been working on as they didn’t have any machinery close by to work on it.
I went up there and had a look. My dozer was parked nearby, so I got it fired up and took the slide out and did some repairs too.
It all worked out real good as the spot with the slide is a narrow spot in the road that I was going to do some repairs on real soon, but the rain started first.
The rock from that little slide was just what I needed to repair that narrow spot so I worked on that and it came out pretty good and is much easier to get by that part of the road now.
However, when I was removing the rock slide, I noticed the rocky hill above was real unstable and likely to slide a lot more soon. That would be good as I’d have even more rock to do the repair even better.
Dozer work
I pulled up to the dozer as it was parked near the rock slide. It just sits out there in the rain. Turned the key and it started right up and I was off to fix the rock slide.
It was mostly too wet for pictures and I also get involved with what I’m doing on the dozer and just forget to take any.
Shovel work
I parked the dozer and rode on up the road to check it out. This road is real bad and has a lot of water running down it. I stopped here to direct the water off the road. I also did that in several other places on the road.
Cousin’s place
I made it up to my cousin’s place on the ridge top and found her outside with her hoe, just starting to do some road work.
I helped her ditch the water off her driveway road. Eventually, I’ll be up here with Skiddy to do a better job of draining the road.
Our place
From there I went over to our place to have a look. All the roads on our place don’t have much problems as they are all out-sloped so the water runs off of them, instead of down them, which causes erosion problems otherwise.
Pond
I went by the pond and found it all filled up and overflowing like it should in the drainage ditch I made for it.
It’s almost large enough to really be called a pond now.
I worked my way down the hill and stopped here to remove enough of this downed redwood tree so I could pass. Did I mention that it’s been raining pretty hard all day long.
I made it home and changed out of my wet rain gear and stoked up the wood stove to warm up a bit.
At five I went out to check the rain gauge which registered 7 inches and it’s still raining fairly hard at 6.
Nice day, it’s always nice to go out and play in the rain, especially in bigger storms like this one.
