Bob's Eyes

Sunday April 20, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Repairing stuff

It seems like I always have a lot of stuff to repair, a lot more than most people. Part of it is  most of the stuff I have is on the older side, like me.

Chainsaw coil module

I started out the day by putting in the new chainsaw coil module. I got the part in and checked the saw for spark, but I didn’t see any spark at the spark plug. But the sun was out bright, so I thought, maybe it was just too bright out to see it. I put the saw aside to check it again after the sun went down. I did check it and it  had spark so I can finish putting the saw back together and hopefully get it working again.

Motor bike tire repair is next

I got the new bike tire tube so it was time to get the tire put back together. That proved to be not so easy as I’d ordered a thicker tube than the one that was in the tire and the added thickness made it very hard to get the new tube back in and lined up in the rim. It was especially hard to get the tube air filler lined up and back in the rim hole. After much trying and not getting far with it, I finally got it all back together.

I put the tire back on the bike and was going to go for a ride to test the tire out, but never did get to that.

I also had a new turn-on switch to install in my electric stove, but never did get to that, mostly because it was an inside job.

I spent the rest of the day with the chickens chair hopping around the yard.

Nice day.

Saturday April 19, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Checking old road

I rode on up to check on the road. All looked good and nothing to do on it today, so I went for a ride and stopped here at this overlook on our place.

It was one of those nice days.

I rode down to this water pool to have a look.

It’s only a small pool of water, but still a nice spot. I looked for mosquito fish in the water but I didn’t see any, so I should restock them soon as they eat mosquito larva.

Trail work

Eventually, I made it down to this spot. A trail goes on up along the  little creek here and I wanted to trim some brush on it.

The trail goes by our family memorial.

And on up along this little creek.

Here’s a better shot of the little creek that goes on up along the trail.

I didn’t have much to do on the trail and most of it was clear of debris.

But I did find these trees that had fallen across the trail. They’ll need a chainsaw to clear them off the trail.

This is some of the little brush bushes I wanted to trim off the trail, so I took care of that. They are sprouting up from a cut down tree.

I went on home after that.

Windshield

With most of the rains done for the year, it’s time to remove the windshield from Hondo as it causes a vacuum when riding around which pulls in lot of dust into the cab area. It’s easy to remove as it had a bunch of big plastic clips that hold it on.

Kinky hose

A number of years ago, I bought this hose from Costco. It’s a piece of crap as it kinks real easily and is a pain in the butt to use. That’s the new one I just installed.

And that’s the old kinky one I took off. I also put a sprinkler on in the yard to get the grass to grow for the chickens.

Woodchips

I needed to pull back some of the woodchips that where leaning on my avocado tree, so I took care of that with the pitchfork.

Old van

And it was time to get the old van started up and put out in the sun to air it out from sitting in the shed all winter. I had to put the dozer battery in it as it didn’t have a battery.

It started right up, but I found the gas pedal was stuck when I drove it out of the shed.

I tried lubing the pedal first, but that’s not where it was stuck so I investigated and found a throttle cable had frozen up, so I applied oil until it freed up.

That pretty much finished off the day.

Nice day.