Bob's Eyes

Sunday November 3, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Forest ride

Barry showed up this morning for a ride in the forest. We took off and rode on up into the hills stopping here for a moment at the overlook.

We rode around some more and stopped here at this spring for a drink of water.

We were riding around here and decided to go for an exploratory hike down this ridge to see if we could make a trail down it. The trail looked possible from the top,.,.but.

When we moved down to the lower part of it and went for another walk, the area proved too steep for a trail, but it was a good walk for some exercise.

It was time for a break, so we headed for the top ridge for a break.

Always a nice view from the top.

Neighbor on his electric bike

As we left the top, we ran into a neighbor coming up the hill on his electric bike, so stopped and shot the bull with him for almost an hour. He can ride that electric bike faster around the forest than we can go on our dirt bikes. He’s pretty good on it, maybe because he rides it about three times a week in the hills around our area.

He finally had to take off for home so Barry and I rode down to a place we need to know where the property line is, so Barry got out his phone and was trying to establish exactly where it was.

We had to move a bit but Barry finally decided it was about here.

With the recent time change, it was late in the day when we finished our ride.

Nice day.

Saturday November 2, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Rain

We got about a half inch of rain last night, so today I rode up into the hills to see what effect it had on the road work I’ve been doing for the neighbors. I’d redone this intersection to drain it a short time ago.

It wasn’t a lot of rain, but what we had drained well so that looks good.

Visiting

Then I rode over to another neighbor’s place to talk about road work for them. I caught them home so we discussed removing some big stumps off a big slide that happened a couple of years ago. I’d need some chainsaw support to help cut them up and with moving another big fir tree that was cut up and was on the road in the way. We’ll take care of that soon.

I rode around some more enjoying the day and just checking things out and stopped at this overlook for a look and a break.

After that I headed home for a nap and some chair hopping around the yard.

Moving rock

Later in the day, I needed to move this rock that spilled over the fence and put it to use in a good spot.

I got the rock all loaded up.

And moved it the short distance to here where I needed it behind this bulkhead. I unloaded it and got this one more load of rock from the creek and unloaded it too, after a short break.

Now I was done with the wheelbarrow and needed to get it out of the creek. I don’t remember how I got it out the last time. I decided to try and push it out up this bank. It turned out to be easier than I thought, as the wheel went up the hill fairly easily, easier than I did.

Of course, I needed another break after getting the wheelbarrow out of the creek and sat in the yard here for a spell.

Eventually, I rounded up my pitch fork to get ready for the next job with the wheelbarrow.

I’ll be moving this redwood mulch out of here, but not today.

Quad battery

Next I put the battery charger on my smaller quad runner to charge it up as I want to use it soon. I’ve got too many rigs and too many batteries to keep going.