Bob's Eyes

Monday June 30, 2025 Guerneville CA.

State Parks Meet Up

We were to meet with some state park guys and some people from the  League of the Redwoods today so they could review our property which we’d like to get into the state parks system.

Our plan is for them to buy it and then let us use the place like we always have for the rest of our lives.

They met us here at ten this morning for a hike and a tour in my side by side.

Talking Trees Trail

After a good chat, we headed on up the Talking Trees trail to show them some of our property.

Waterfall area

We took them up to the waterfall, even though there wasn’t much water coming down the falls. But even without the water, it’s a real  nice area.

Barry  makes it to the falls first.

Eventually, they all made it to the falls where we had some more discussions about the property.

And then we headed back down the trail, the way we’d come up it.

It’s a rather nice trail and easy to walk on.

We made it back to where we started from.

And showed them around the place down here a bit.

Side by sides

Then we all piled in the side by sides and rode around the roads up in the hills so they could see what was up there.

We stopped here at the Guerneville overlook which is an impressive spot to view the little town of Guerneville from.

We rode around most of the roads up there and stopped at this overlook, before heading back down the hill to where we started from.

Review

We ended up here for a review of what they thought of the place which was mostly positive.

Now we’ll wait and see what develops.

Nice day.

Sunday June 29, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Forest ride

I rode up into the forest to visit with a couple of neighbors, but didn’t find them home so I rode down to the water hole I was working on to check it out to see how it was  holding water or was it leaking. This one seemed to be not leaking and was holding water, which was good.

Checking an old road

With nothing better to do, I rode on over to another neighbor’s place to check out this old road that needs to be opened up.

I parked here, at the end of the good part of the old road and went for a walk down the part that needs some work on it.

Big trees

There’s a couple of big trees that have fallen across the old road that will need to be cut so I can get them off the road.

Here’s another big tree that needs to be removed.

And this log will need to be removed after cutting it to make it easier to remove.

I walked all the way down it until I got to a part of the old road that was in pretty good shape and then headed on back up it to where the rig was parked.

It’s always nice to get back to a rig after climbing back up the old road.

Old cars

Back home, I took some pictures of these two old cars I need to get towed to the scrap yard.

This 1978 one that I used until it wouldn’t go anymore.

And this 1988 one that still ran when I stopped using it and replaced it with a newer modern car. I used it for a long time but it was starting to get lots of little things wrong with it.

Nice day.

Saturday June 28, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Side by side ride

I took off and headed for the hills after putting a shovel in the rig.

My first stop was at this spring to clean it out a bit so the water flows better.

Pond

Then I rode on over to the pond and looked for a yellow jacket nest in a hole by the inlet water.  I looked and looked but could not locate it in the ground.

Fish

Even though the ponds water level has been dropping fast the little fish are doing just fine.

Water hole

Then I rode on down to this little water hole to divert the drain water to where it will drain down to where the waterfall is down below this level. I want to drain the water more to the left side with a little ditch I need to make.

Here is another view of this little water hole.

The drain ditch wasn’t too hard to shovel out despite a few rocks. You can see the ditch towards the back.

Now the water is flowing the right way towards the waterfall down below this area.

That little dich should dry up this big muddy area.

Nice day.

Friday June 27, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Bike ride

Barry was coming by today for another bike ride up into the forest.

Chain

I needed to get my dirt bike chain oiled up, so it was a good time to try out the jack I made yesterday to lift up the bike to make it easier to oil up the chain. The jack worked real good with no hassles and I got lots of oil on the chain.

Bike ride

Barry showed up and I suggested we ride on up through the state park and go up and visit Rob who lives in the hill tops.

On the way to Rob’s place we headed up to one of the highest peaks for the view. I got a slow start on this steep hill and it was real rocky and slippery and I didn’t make it. I had a hard time getting the bike back up and getting it down the hill as I couldn’t get on it and my feet were slipping on the loose rocks and  I almost fell over a few times, but I made it by moving real slow.

I gave that hill one more try and barely made it to the top for the view.

There are a number of monuments for people that have passed up there by the bench.

We made it to Rob’s place and found him working on a bit of cement foundation that he’d just poured. He got a phone call to go down to pick up a couple of new windows a guy was delivering at his front gate so we sat down and waited for him to return. His dog Bella is a stick lover and was always trying to get one to throw a stick for her, so she pestered  Barry until he threw the stick for her.

Rob returned with his new windows and after shooting some more bull we took off for our ride in the forest and eventually ended up at our break area here at this hill top.

Little pond

After a good break, we took off and headed over to our little pond that seems to have a leak in it somewhere as the water level has been dropping rather fast.

I checked the spring that provides water to the little pond which seemed to be doing it’s job providing water for the pond, so a leak must have developed recently.

We headed for home stopping at this spring for a drink of water.

Nice day.

Thursday June 26, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Never again

I give up on fixing dirt bike tires starting today as they are just too hard to fix without messing things up, such as cutting holes in the tube.

To the bike shop

I headed over to the bike shop with my disassembled tire and gave it to them to fix.

Shopping

They said it would be awhile, so I headed out to do some shopping and returned in a couple of hours.

Ready

The tire was fixed and ready to go when I returned. I gladly paid the 35 dollars and drove on home.

After a break and putting stuff away when I got home, I installed the fixed tire back on my dirt bike without too much fuss.

From now on, that’s the way I going to do it.

New jack stand

My old jack stand to lift the bike up was a piece of crap and jammed while trying to lift the bike up.

So I cut it up to use some of it to make a new jack stand using my floor jack.

I cut a couple pieces of angle iron to use to mount this piece to the floor jack.

This will slide onto the floor  jack.

I welded up a little angle piece to use as a stop.

This should work much better without any pains.

Nice day.