Bob's Eyes

Monday June 16, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Forest work

I rode on up into the forest today to meet neighbor Jim and his dog. Jim was going to help me do some stuff today while his dog supervised.

Old tree cut

Jim is good with a chainsaw so I had him climb up the side of the hill and cut this old dead tree off that was overhanging the road.

Rocking a water ditch

Then we took the Skidder down the old dirt road I’ve been working on and I had Jim load up the bucket with rocks we picked up along the road.

I wanted the rocks to put into this drainage ditch to prevent any more erosion by building these little check dams.

After that we worked our way back to his road to remove some old culverts, but first we had to cut some trees out of the way, which we did.

Then we pulled two old culverts out of a ditch that goes along the road. When I get busy, I sometimes forget to get pictures, which I did.

Anyway, we were setting things up for me to take out the old ditch along the road on a hair pin turn to improve the turn for fire trucks to get around the turn.

We got that done then I took Jim back to his place and I headed towards my place.

Little pond

I stopped by the pond for a drink of water, noting that the little pond’s water level had dropped quite a bit,because the springs were starting to slow down for the year. I got my drink of water and headed for home.

Nice day.

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.