Bob's Eyes

Wednesday June 18, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Chicks

Well, not yet. I went over to  my neighbor’s that has chickens with a rooster. I have chickens but no rooster. I wanted some eggs to put under a hen to get some chicks. There are four of my hens in the nesting boxes trying to hatch the non-fertile eggs.

I put the seven eggs under Red in the upper left so she could hatch them.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,But.

Later in the day, the older black hen in the bottom right had kicked her out and was on the eggs. Ok, whatever.

Road work

Then I rode on up into the hills to finish working on my neighbor’s hair-pin turn improvement. It didn’t take long and I was done.

I went on home from there to get some tools and things to put a voltage meter on Skiddy to test out a failing blade control that is under warranty that the dealer won’t won’t repair as the problem is intermittent so they can’t verify the problem. I want to make sure the problem is in the blade and  not the machine as I don’t want to pay the shipping fees to transport the machine to the dealer so they can find the problem. I be using the blade all day soon and can watch the volt gauge when the problem shows up. If the voltage is stable, it’s the blade and not the machine that has the problem.

Volt meter

I mounted the gauge here so I can watch it when the problem occurs.

I should be able to see this while operating the machine to make sure the voltage is stable when the blade starts acting up.

Drink

I headed for home after getting that to work, stopping at this spring for a drink of water as I was thirsty.

Then I went over to this overlook and sat in a chair just enjoying the day.

Little pond

After that, I went over to the little pond and sat for a bit, then went on home for a nap as that is what was needed.

Nice day.

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.