Bob's Eyes

Saturday November 23, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Rock Slide

I thought I better go up and check on the rock slide, first thing.

So I drove on up to the slide through the state park and parked by the slide to have a look. Looks good for now, so I don’t need to do anything about it today. A neighbor drove up behind me.

Cruising for downed trees

Since everything was good with the slide, I decided to just go for a cruise around the properties.

I headed for my cousin’s place and ran into this little tree to get off the road. That one was easy to remove.

Big slugs

With all the rain, it’s nice and wet and the banana slugs are coming out.

I stopped here to remove these little guys.

I cut them into small enough pieces to make them easy to remove.

Then I ran into this big mess of fallen trees. These are going to take awhile to deal with.

I cut it all up to make everything smaller and lighter and took a good break.

I got most of it off the road, but I needed another break before dealing with this last log, the largest one.

I got it all cleared and was now too warn out to do anymore like that. I’d just turn around and go another way if I ran into any more trees across the road.

I was headed to the top of the hill to our break area. I almost got there when I ran into another small tree across the road, so I removed it. Good thing it was small or I would have turned around.

Break time at the top. The rain had stopped for awhile.

There were lots of big clouds in the sky.

I made it back to our place to the pond. The water is starting to clear up.

Blocked again

From there I only got about a 100 feet and ran into these downed trees. I immediately turned around as I was too worn out to deal with them and there were lots of other ways home.

Home

I made it home without dealing with anymore downed trees.

We’ve had a lot rain with more coming real soon.

Russian River Flooding

We always make the news with this river flooding. It’s what rivers do when it rains real hard.

I always thank  my great grand Pappy for not buying land in the flood zone. We live up high enough so it doesn’t flood.

Nice day.

Friday November 22, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Back to the rock slide

I thought I better get back up to the rock slide this morning to check it out. It rained hard all night long and this morning.

But it stopped for awhile around noon when I rode on up to the rock slide. I parked here just below the rock slide to have a look. Yes, it was closed.

With all the rain we’ve been having, the slide slid again. I studied the situation and decided the best way to deal with this was just remove the bottom of the slide on the left side, so cars can pass by. I can just push the rocks into that little area on the right which shouldn’t take very long.

And from what I see up at the top of the slide, things don’t look very stable so I expect more stuff to come tumbling down.

My dozer was parked nearby, so I walked up to it, because I couldn’t get by the slide with Hondo.

I got the dozer started and warmed up a bit, then drove it the short distance down to the rock slide.

Got it done

It didn’t take very long and looked pretty good and now the other guy that works on this with his smaller machine can clear it by pushing the rock down the road as long as the slide doesn’t get too large.

I drove the dozer back to it’s parking place and then rode on over to the state park shop to talk with the guys about the slide. I caught the right guy there eating his lunch. He’s one of the guys that will eventually help me rock the road.

Next to the shop was this visitor center where a lady worked that sells grass fed cattle right off the ranch and I wanted to talk with her. She wasn’t in as she’s busy taking care of water problems on her ranch up along the coast. But I had a good chat with the other people that were in there.

When I left, I found the guy I was talking with in the shop working to get this big tree that fell down out of the road in the redwoods picnic area.

I rode on back to the slide area to make sure the road was still open and it was.

I continued on up the hill to our property and spent some time throwing sticks like this one off the road.

That’s a limb from a redwood tree, one of the smaller ones.

I drove on up to the ridge top to the Guerneville overlook and saw what I expected, rain clouds.

On the way home I noticed this area by the mobile home had sunk a bit. I guess we need some dirt for that.

I made it home and it was nap time.

Nice day.