Bob's Eyes

Tuesday July 15, 2025 Guerneville CA.

My beef is to be done in, in a couple of days and I told the Rancher I’d pay him in cash. That meant I needed to get a bunch of cash as one animal isn’t cheap.

I’d tried to transfer some money to the local bank, but I ran into problems getting it done, which meant I’d have to go over to the shopping areas where my money was kept at another bank and get the cash.

I headed for there and got the cash, lots of it. :O)

Costco

As long as I was in the shopping areas, I went to Costco to restock. And since I had lots of time, I spent some time looking around areas of Costco that I normally don’t check out and found a few other things to purchase.

Home

It wasn’t long and I was back home to put stuff away, or at least in the house and it was nap time.

Free salmon

My neighbor, Fred, dropped off some wild caught salmon for me to practice my smoking which I will do soon.

Nice day.

Monday July 14, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Skiddy blade valve

I had the old defective blade valve of Skiddy’s I took off last week and replaced it with a new one, so today, I thought I’d take the old valve apart to see if I could see anything wrong with it.

I got the valve apart but there wasn’t anything I could see obviously wrong with it.

Smoker gas jet

Then I searched for the smokers gas jet I built to try on the smoker.

Here it is.

I hooked up the gas jet to the bottom of the smoker so I could give it a try to make sure it still worked after sitting around all these years.

The jet is all hooked up and ready to test it out.

I got it lite up and it worked just fine,………….But.

I found that it was going to be too hot to smoke fish as the fish needs to be smoked at about 150 degrees F. and this jet wouldn’t go that low, so I removed it and will hook the wood smoker box back up.

Chickens

These broody hens have been hanging out here for a long time now and fighting with each other a lot. I decided to try and do something about it as they were fighting too much to hatch out any eggs.

Late in the day, I closed up the regular nesting boxes and put this one box out with five eggs in it to try and get one of the hens to use it. So far, none will use the box, so that might not work for my purposes.

Smoker

Later in the day, I worked on putting the smoker back together with the wood fire box. I think it will work and with this setup, I can hold a real low temperature for smoking fish and generate lots of smoke too.

Nice day.