Forest Ride and the Power Comes Back On

Friday February 9, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Ride in the forest

Still no power today. Barry  showed up for a ride in the hills. We took off and rode around for awhile, then went to my cousin’s place and shot the bull with them for a bit.

After that, Barry was eager to get up to the break spot, so we rode right up there as it wasn’t far from my cousin’s place as it’s on their property.break1

It was a fairly nice day with some clouds in the sky and sun too.clouds2

We took off from there and rode around some more. We had to stop so Barry could remove this small tree off the road, while I watched.tree3

Mushrooms

While we were riding, we ran into Dominique who was out for a walk. She said she’s been seeing some mushrooms out so her and Barry walked down the road looking for some.shrooming4

Barry has a bunch of mushrooms in his bag as we head back to where our bikes are parked.shrooms5

We worked our way back to my place from there and Barry took off for his place.

I had a bit of a nap.

Eventually, I was back outside chair hopping with the chickens.chickens6

More daffodils are blooming each day. I like these yellow ones.daffs7

With nothing better to do, I thought I’d weld this hook on this loader bucket.,,,But.

I’d forgotten there was no power to run the welder.hook8

So instead I did something that didn’t take electrical power and moved these cement blocks into place on the bridge bulkhead.blocks9

The blocks are large enough to keep the high water from washing them away and they help to keep the water from washing under the metal pieces.blocks10

Power back on

We were running on the generator but I got an email about 7 saying the power was back on. Great.

Nice day.

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Forest Trail Work and the New Battery Operated Sawzall Works Great

Thursday February 8, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Workhorse

One of the reasons i wanted this new rig was so I can haul rocks around. I use them a lot for erosion control in the hills. I picked up these pieces of cement and hauled them to the bridge bulkhead I was repairing.cement

The plan today was to go up into the hills and work on a trail. I loaded up my small chainsaw and took my Sawzall with me and headed up into the forest.

I had a couple small trees to remove on the way up so I took care of them on the way.

There were some black clouds about, but no rain as I sat in the chair at the break spot.sky2

Slug

While I was sitting there, I noticed this banana slug slowly moving by. It’s about six inches long.slug3

Trail work

I walked out the trail I was going to work on and got to it.

I’d packed my new battery operated Sawzall with me to the work spot.

Sawzall

I should have gotten one of these a long time ago as it worked to cut tree roots great. A good thing as the part of the trail I was now working on had a bunch of roots that needed to be cut. The Sawzall made quick work of that.saw5

I worked on widening out this part of the trail today.cut6

I got about thirty feet widened out before I was beat.trail7

I headed back out the trail to the rest site.trail8

While sitting there, the sun was going down behind the  hills to the west.clouds9

I headed on home and sat around with the chickens .hens10

The recent rains didn’t seem to bother the daffodils much.daffs11

Nice day.

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