Bob's Eyes

Wednesday July 19, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Forest ride

Barry showed up for a dirt bike ride in the forest this morning.

As long as we were up there, we went over to a neighbor’s that wants an old road opened up to check it out. There’s a couple big trees down across the road that we are concerned about removing them without getting ourselves killed by them.

We had to a take a short hike to check the road out so we got some exercise.

After that we rode around our property until we got tired out and headed for home.

New chicks

Today was the first day the old hen took her new chicks out of the nest for a look around.

So far there’s four of them out and about and I can see one more hatched out, just barely, in the nest that needs to gain some energy before going out and about. Maybe some more of the eggs will hatch out also. That black blob is a newly hatched out chick, still too weak to get up and about.

I ground up some chicken seeds and spread it around for the little chicks to eat. I don’t really need to do that as I’ve learned by watching the chickens that the hen will eat seeds and grind them up and regurgitate them for the chicks until they are large enough to eat the seeds by themselves.

I do need some new chicks to replace the ones that I’ve lost in the last months, so I hope more hens hatch out then roosters.

Nice day.

Tuesday 8,2025 Guerneville CA.

Skiddy’s blade repair

John Deere gave me a new valve for Skiddy’s six way blade as they didn’t fix it when I brought in to them when it was under warranty. After they looked at the blade, they said they couldn’t find anything wrong with it so it didn’t get fixed and when I used it again it was still messed up.

Anyway, after complaining, they gave me a new valve that I had to put in which turned out to be pretty easy.

Here’s the six way blade that needs repaired with the new valve.

And here’s the new valve that I have to install on the blade after removing the old defective one that’s inside the blade.

Here’s the old valve that I need to take off the blade. I took pictures and marked all the hoses before taking it off.

I got the old valve out. Good thing I marked the hoses.

Then I had to change all the hose fittings to the new valve.

I got it all back together, but didn’t test it out as Skiddy is up in the hills.

I  needed a nap after that.

Blackberry vines

A bit later in the day, I got out the loopers and cut blackberry vines in this area as they were taking over. I worked on that for about an hour.

I got lots of vines cut although it doesn’t look like it.

After that I rode my side by side up into the hills for a ride around and that was it for the day.

Nice day.