Wednesday October 23, 2024 Guerneville CA.
Dirt bike ride in the forest
Barry showed up this morning for a dirt bike ride up in the forest, so we took off. On the way he stopped here to talk to the tree trimmer guy about the his chainsaw that Barry thought sounded hotter than the one he had and wondered if it had been bored out a bit. It turned out he was right and it was bored out.
Overlook
We continued on and rode around the hills for awhile stopping here at the Guerneville overlook. That mist is like water vapor as we are near the ocean.
Little log
We rode around some more and then it happened. My dirt bike went over this log and down the side of the hill a bit with me on it.
I went down there too and landed on all those sticks on the ground.
I wasn’t hurt much. Only a small cut on my nose that was bleeding a bit and some sore muscles. Barry was in front of me and didn’t see me go over and it was awhile before he realized I wasn’t in back of him, but he finally showed up. We made a plan to get the bike out, but needed a chainsaw to cut some more logs out of the way.
Poison oak bush caused it all
I clipped this bush on the left side of the road. It used to be up higher, but when I hit it, I brought it all down some. Anyway, I clipped the bush and it caused the bike to move over to the right side of the road and into the small log along the road.
I found my self riding along right up against that log and thought I was ok, but the bike hit a small branch stub on the log and kicked the bike a bit and I went over the side on the bike. Things like that happen real fast.
Trail home
I headed down the hill on foot and had about a two mile walk to my house.
About half way down the trail I realized I should of sent Barry home on his bike to get my side by side and the saw and it would of been a lot quicker. But it was a nice, downhill trail.
Near the bottom, I stopped here at this spring for a much needed drink of water.
At home, I checked my blood spot on my nose and cleaned it up a bit. It wasn’t too bad.
I gassed and oiled the saw and rode Hondo back up the hill where Barry had turned the bike around on the hill while he was waiting. The plan was to cut some logs out of the way so he could ride it out. He just has to cut those logs out of the way.
As it turned out the bike was on a sorta old trail and he rode it out.
It wasn’t the logs fault I went over, but Barry cut them out anyway and he had also removed the poison oak bush before I came back up the hill.
Barry decided to cut this old dead leaning tree down by the side of the road that was going to fall across the road soon. It turned out to be a leaner on the other trees so was difficult to get off the road.
Making a video
After that, Barry said he rode enough today and was ready to head home, so he took off and I rode Hondo over to a road I’m working on that I wanted to make some video clips of to document what I was doing to it to improve it as I might make a video of it eventually.
After making some video clips, I rode on home for a much needed nap.
Dead car
Yesterday, I shopped at the shopping centers and the car was fine and I made it home with no difficulties. But when I wanted to go somewhere late in the afternoon, the car was completely dead. I opened the hood and found the battery disconnect switch I had installed a while ago had opened up, as the part wasn’t crimped properly.
I had another switch, so I got my tools out and installed the new switch and all was well.
Nice day as I survived. :O)
