Bob's Eyes

Tuesday June 17, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Keys

I realized I’d lost all my gate keys just before I left today and couldn’t locate them. I went over to Tom’s and borrowed his key.

Road Work

I rode up through the park and got through the gate and got started on widening out the hair pin turn. The material was needed a couple hundred feet down the road which was exceptionally bumpy and things were real dusty today. With all the dust and riding over the real bumpy road, I was warn out by 3, so headed to a neighbor’s place that I hoped had an air compressor to blow some of the dust off. He had one, but it was real slow, better than nothing. After a good blow, I used the water hose to wash off a bit and felt much better.

It’s going to take another day to finish up that turn.

Park guys

From there, I headed to the state park to chat with a couple guys but there weren’t there, so I shot the bull with the people that were there for a bit, then went on home for a nap.

Keys

I looked all over for those darn lost gate keys and didn’t find them. A bit later while sitting in my chair thinking about those keys, I had a thought. Maybe I took them out of my pocket when I returned some other keys to their place on my bench. I looked and sure enough, they were there. That was fortunate.

Nice day.

Monday June 16, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Forest work

I rode on up into the forest today to meet neighbor Jim and his dog. Jim was going to help me do some stuff today while his dog supervised.

Old tree cut

Jim is good with a chainsaw so I had him climb up the side of the hill and cut this old dead tree off that was overhanging the road.

Rocking a water ditch

Then we took the Skidder down the old dirt road I’ve been working on and I had Jim load up the bucket with rocks we picked up along the road.

I wanted the rocks to put into this drainage ditch to prevent any more erosion by building these little check dams.

After that we worked our way back to his road to remove some old culverts, but first we had to cut some trees out of the way, which we did.

Then we pulled two old culverts out of a ditch that goes along the road. When I get busy, I sometimes forget to get pictures, which I did.

Anyway, we were setting things up for me to take out the old ditch along the road on a hair pin turn to improve the turn for fire trucks to get around the turn.

We got that done then I took Jim back to his place and I headed towards my place.

Little pond

I stopped by the pond for a drink of water, noting that the little pond’s water level had dropped quite a bit,because the springs were starting to slow down for the year. I got my drink of water and headed for home.

Nice day.