Bob's Eyes

Friday April 25, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Moving rock

The state park guys were going to help me move rock today. Before I even got out of bed this  morning, they hauled three loads of store bought rock and dumped it in this spot.

At noon, I met the guys that were going to help me move some rock slide rock from the top of the hill down to the bottom of the hill so it’d be closer to where I needed it. The dump truck can haul a lot more rock than I can in my bucket so this would be very helpful to me.

We drove on up the hill and left these guys in this spot to spot traffic as the dump truck is only two wheel drive and if it meets someone, they have to get out of the way as it’s unsafe for the dump truck to do that, especially when it’s loaded. These guys will stop any traffic from going down the steep part when the dump truck is on that part of the road. To  keep them busy they had some trees on the side of the road that needed cut out of the way as they were leaning out over the road.

I loaded up the dump truck at the rock slide area and he drove the rock down to the bottom of the hill and stock piled it close to where it was needed.

We did a good job hauling rock for the rest of the day. I failed to get a picture of all the rock we moved.

Tomorrow, if nothing else comes up, I plan to move all that rock to the steepest part of the road to improve it’s out-slope which should really improve that steep spot for water drainage during big rain storms.

We got a lot of work done and then I went on home for a good nap.

Nice day.

Thursday April 24, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Road work

I had some rock to haul to a water crossing today. I needed to harden it up so the state park dump truck could cross it without sinking while it was loaded with rock. I rode on up to where Skiddy was parked. I needed to fuel it up so that’s what I did first as it was almost empty of fuel from working it yesterday.

Once it was fueled up, I also greased up the machine and then started it up to warm it up and headed up to get a load of rock for the crossing. I hauled about four loads of rock to the crossing and smoothed it out.

Checked out this road

That was all I wanted to do today with Skiddy, so I parked it and drove Hondo back down the road and parked where the side road took off that I cleared of fallen trees yesterday. I walked down the road to check it out.

This is the side road I cleared many downed trees off the road yesterday as I walked along it to check it out.

I only was getting the road open yesterday and will need to go back down it with Skiddy to finish it off and make it nice.

I walked back up the road to where Hondo was parked.

From there, I headed on home for a nap.

Firewood

After a good nap, I rode Hondo up into the hills for a ride. I made it up to this spot where Barry had been earlier cutting firewood. He’d fallen a big madrone tree and was cutting it up for firewood. He’d gone home for the day before I got there.

I noticed the wild iris were just starting to bloom.

And I stopped at the pond for a bit.

On the way back home, I stopped at my brother Tom’s chicken coup to pick  up a watering container for my chickens. He doesn’t do chickens any more so he no longer needs the watering system there. I picked it up and took it home.

Water for the chickens

After another nap, I went out to my chicken pen and got the water container installed and hooked up to water.

I also hooked up the automatic watering system for my blueberry patch and trimmed out a bunch of raspberry plants that were over taking my blueberry bushes.

Nice day.