Bob's Eyes

Wednesday December 6, 2023 Guerneville CA.

Raining

It rained pretty hard this morning, but slowed down a bit around noon.

The lab

I needed to go to the VA lab to have them take a bit of blood for blood work for a yearly appointment next week.

I headed out and the rain picked up real heavy several times while I was in route.

I got in and out quick.

Fuel cans

Then I drove on over to Wally’s to buy four fuel containers to haul fuel for my new toy which I hope to get soon. There went another 100 bucks so I got a big candy bar to celebrate and consumed most of it on the way home.

I did stop on the way to fill up the fuel containers with diesel. Money just seems to fly away.

Once home it was still raining good. All I had to do was unload the fuel containers and it was nap time.

Finance guys

With it raining too much to do anything outside, it was a good time to get some phone work done about what to do with my IRA account. After several phone calls to the guys that were supposed to know what to do, it turned out they didn’t know what to do, so I called my brother Barry to figure it out and then I told them what to do. It’s good to have that problem off the list.

Nice day.

Tuesday December 5, 2023 Guerneville CA.

Barry showed up for a ride this morning so we took off from my house around noon.

We stopped here at the pond to collect the game cam pictures. I picked up all the game cards but nothing of interest, only the standard stuff, foxes and deer and one coon.

 

We stopped here so Barry could trim back some brush that was getting in the way of our ride.

 

Time for a drink of water at one of the springs.

 

Eventually we made it up to our break area at the top of the hill.

 

The sky from that spot as we sat to enjoy the view and rest up.

 

Another spot Barry wanted to trim back some brush so it was easier to get by.

 

Barry was trimming this back so we could pass by when I noticed a lady bug climbing up my shirt.

 

It’s a little late for lady bugs to be out, but it made me think of a long time ago when we had a spot where thousands of lady bugs were gathered in some small Christmas trees as kids. They disappeared likely because all us kids messed with them.

Then I saw about a dozen of them on my pants leg. Ah ha. Now where did I hit a bush and get them on me. We back tracked to look for them and finally found them.

Lady Bugs

They were in a different spot then they were a long time ago and this is the first time we’ve seen them since.

See them on this little fir tree.

 

Maybe this will help. They don’t eat the trees, just seem to be hibernating on them or something.

 

Some more of them.

 

We looked around to just see how many there were, Lots of them on these weeds.

 

They are hard to see but there are lots of them on these dead stickers.

 

That was a rare find.

More noise

Back home I took off my muffler or opened it up.  These bikes are very quiet, but we were wondering what they would sound like with the guts out of the mufflers. It turned out to be much noisier, like a dirt bike otta sound. I’ll try it out this way for one ride and likely put it  back the way it was as being older, lots of noise isn’t so important as it was in the old days when we were kids rising hell.

 

Nice day.