Bob's Eyes

Wednesday October 30, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Bulldozer wakeup

I hadn’t messed with the bulldozer for a long time, so today I got my stuff together and drove on up the hill to where it was parked.

Battery

I was pretty sure the battery wasn’t going to have enough juice in it to start it, and it didn’t.

I removed the battery to take it home and put it on the charger.

Then I gave it a good grease job and that was all I could do for now, until I get the battery charged up.

I stopped here to dig out a bit of dirt in this new ditch.

I left there, but didn’t get far before I ran into this limb across the road. I used the chainsaw on it.

And this was the next one I ran into. I used the chainsaw on it, but that caused the chain to fall off. I got it cut just before that happened.

Back home, I put the battery on the charger.

I think it was nap time after that.

Later in the day, I drove Skiddy up into the hills to the rock slide to get another load of rock for the creek bulkhead I’m fixing up.

I’m dumping the load just up ahead between those two little trees.

I dumped the load of rock in the bulkhead.

I think I have enough rock in the bulkhead now. I got down there and moved some of the rock around by hand to get it in the spots it missed.

It’s going to start raining soon, so I needed to tarp my metal work table. I oiled it up first, then put the tarp on it and tilted it so no water would settle on it.

And I needed to put the van away for the winter, so I cleared a spot, but at the last minute, I decided to leave the van out to get rained on as it would wash it off a bit and maybe clean off the solar panels. I’ll put it away after the first rain.

And I went out to the chicken pen and got a dozen eggs as I thought they would be nice for dinner.

Nice day.

Tuesday October 29, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Bike ride in the forest

I heard Barry outside on his motor bike this morning. By the time i got up  he had gone without me. That’s ok, as he likes to ride some of the steeper parts that I don’t like to ride at my age.

I went outside and sat and waited until he returned in a short time.

He needed a break so we sat around for a bit, before heading back to the hills for a ride.

Guerneville

We rode around and around and stopped here at the Guerneville overlook for a bit. Just a little river town down there.

We rode around some more and eventually landed up at the top at our rest area.

The view is always nice up  here and it was a nice day with no clouds in the sky. We had a nice long break up there, just enjoying the day.

Eventually, we got back on the trail and rode around some more.  We ran into a very large tree across the road and had to turn around, but soon ran into this old dead rotten tree that Barry thought he might be able to move and he did. I did help after I got a picture.

We finally had enough and rode on home where Barry took off for his place and I went in for a nap.

Load of rock

After that, I puttered around the yard with the chickens and later in the day, I took Skiddy up into the hills to get another load of rock for the creek bulkhead I’ve been working on.

I think I’m finally getting enough rock in the bulkhead, maybe, just one more load should do it.

After I dumped the rock, I locked the chickens in for the night, for their protection.

Nice day.