Bob's Eyes

Sunday June 15, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Ride

I thought I’d take a ride up to another hill  top where I played a lot with this guy that lived here when I was a kid. We rode our little scooters all over the hills in this area, a time when there weren’t  many gates.

I made it up here and had a nice visit with his son although I  had to wake him up from his nap and his four dogs barked by didn’t bike me.

Then I rode on over to this place which was vacant when I was a kid. It had an old orange tree that we stole oranges from when they were ripe.

Dave the guy there is building this new house as he lost his during the last forest fire in 2020 which was unfortunate.

After that visit, I rode on out the road there that went on up the ridge.

Along this road.

I continued on up the road exploring.

A view down from there. I live out there somewhere in a valley.

I went to the end of the road as I wanted to see it was it open to the state park. It had some trees across it and a lot of wild sweet peas.

On the way back I looked down into this valley where the city of Healdsburg is.

I wanted to see the old orchard of my old friend so I went down this paved road and was surprised to run into these guys working on Sunday. They were cutting back trees and brush on the road side for fire protection.

His old orchard wasn’t being taken care of but this one tree had lots of apricots on it which were almost ripe. I think my neighbor would like them to  make some jam. The birds will get them if she doesn’t. I’ll have to check on that.

I headed on home from there going by this old shut down quick silver mine.

I went on home then I went back up into the hills to talk with the goat lady that I’m going to do some work for rerouting this spring area.

And fixing up this turn in her driveway so a fire truck can get down to her house.

This little goat adopted me.

Nice day.

Saturday June 14, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Machine maintenance

My skidder needs to be greased, so I got the new battery powered grease gun I bought recently and took it up into the hills where Skiddy was parked and got to greasing it up.

That battery grease gun works real good and makes greasing stuff very easy.

Once that was done, I went over to a neighbors to look at a road I said I’d fix. That road has a hair-pin turn that is hard to get around so I  had a look at it to improve it so a fire truck could get around it. I’ll need to cut some trees down to make the turn better.

Pond

Then I rode over to our pond for a drink of water.

Water hole

From there I drove on down to this little water hole I’m expanding to make it a bit larger.

It was good to see the new part was full of water.

From there I rode on over to another neighbor’s to check on this narrow road to see where it went. I’ll need to get some trees cut before I can open it

I followed the road to see where it was going. It’s a bit over grown.

I went down to this neighbor’s house but no one was home.

Drink

I needed a drink of water so I headed over to our main spring.

I got a drink of water here that hit the spot.

Tom’s garden

From there I headed for home stopping here to see how Tom’s garden was doing and found Tom working on it.

Chickens out of control

My chickens have been jumping the fences an heading out on the highway and over to neighbor’s too, so I looked up clipping wing feathers and I and a neighbor just went out and clipped one wing’s feathers to see if that will slow them down. Clipping feather wings is suppose to make it so they can’t steer in flight. We’ll see if that helps any.

Nice day.