Riding Up Into the Forest For Exercise, Lady bugs

Saturday December 30, 2023 Guerneville CA.

Forest ride

My intentions for the day were to ride up into the forest and get a little exercise on some trail work.

I rode up to check out the waterfall  and parked here and walked the short distance to the fall.bike

 

The waterfall was flowing pretty good, but most of the pictures of the moving water came out blurry.pool1

 

From there I rode up to an overlook. The sky was cloudy so I might get some rain. I didn’t wear any rain gear so I was hoping if it did rain, it would be lite and it was.sky3

 

This trail leads away from the overlook and that was were the exercise was so I walked out it a ways were the work was.trail4

 

This was the spot were the trail had a narrow spot in it so I worked on making it a bit wider for a couple of hours.trail5

 

Just as I was finishing up, it started to sprinkle real lightly. Since I was under the trees, it didn’t get me very wet.

I headed back out the trail to the overlook where there were some chairs to sit on.trail6

 

Almost to the overlook.trail7

 

It wasn’t raining much at the overlook, but looking down the valley to my place I could see it was showering, so I stayed in my chair and enjoyed the view for awhile to let the rain pass by.rain8

 

Eventually I took off towards home and stopped on this trail to divert some water off the trail which you can see under the bike. Water is not supposed to flow down the trail or it might wash it out or at least make big ruts in it.bike9

 

Lady bugs

I stopped to check out the lady bugs to see how they were doing.  I’d thought there might be less of them, but after I checked them out, I think they have about the same amount of them there as I’d seen earlier.ladybugs

 

Once back home, I shut the chickens in for the day as they were already on the roost.

Nice day.

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Rained All Day

Friday December 29, 2023 Guerneville CA.

Rainy day

I could hear the rain coming down as I woke up this morning, so no rush getting out of bed.

And it rained all day and is still raining, so I stayed in all day long and did little stuff, like trying to find the pink slips of two of my old cars that I needed to get rid of. I found one of the pink slips and have no idea of where the other one is for my old 1978 Subaru. I’d sorta like to keep  my old 1988 one for bolts and stuff, but I really should get rid of it as it’s taking up space in my yard.

I also called the John Deere dealer to find out what I needed to do to get the anti theft codes set up in Skiddy. It’s more complicated than I thought it would be so I passed on that for a day that wasn’t raining.

I also did some research on figuring out a way to fuel up Skiddy using some easier way then trying to use these modern five gallon fuel cans with all the stupid stuff they have on them that just makes the process much more complicated and holding a five gallon container up in the air while it slowly empties is hard too. I’m looking into some kind of pump to do the job out of one of those cans, but haven’t decided on one yet.

Blog transfer

I did ask the guy who is supposed to be getting my blog transferred for an update. I’m losing confidence in the guy that is supposed to be getting that job done as he keeps coming up with excuses, but I hope he comes through in the long run.

A nice lazy day puttering around in the house, no housework was done. :O)

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