Bob's Eyes

Friday March 7, 2025 Guerneville CA.

I rode on up to the state park today.

Kiosk

I thought they’d be further along on building the new kiosk, but, maybe the volunteers only work on some days or they need some more materials as it didn’t look like anymore was done then what they had done a couple days ago.

I wanted to chat with some of the park guys so I rode on up to the shop and shot the bull with the guys there for a bit. We talked about them rocking the road eventually for me. Things have to dry out a bit before that can happen, which is ok, as I’m not ready for them to rock it yet

Cousin’s place

From there I rode up the hill on the old road to my cousin’s place at the top. We were chatting outside, sitting at table with a view when this wild Tom turkey walked by about twenty feet from us, like it owned the place.

Take the day off

I left their place around 3:30 and was thinking of hauling a few loads of rock. But as I approached Skiddy, I decided to just take the day off and rode on by and back to our place.

Rocks

I did stop here to throw these rocks off the road.

I stopped at this overlook for a break. Those are Indian soup plants. The Indians were supposed to use this plant for soap and the bulbs were also edible.

Not much in the sky today. The sun was just going down behind the mountains to the west of me.

After a good break there, I rode on over to our small pond and was going to pick up the card in the game cam there, but I forgot and left without it. The pond is looking real nice.

From the pond, I worked my way home, where I let the chickens into the front yard. My daffodils have peaked, but are still looking pretty good.

Chair hopping

As I was sitting there chair hopping around the yard, I remembered it was my birthday, a good reason to take the day off. I’m only 78 now.

Nice day.

Thursday March 6, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Forest bike ride

Barry showed up in my yard this morning which meant we’d go for a dirt bike ride up in the hills.

We took off up through the Talking Trees Trail and on up. We stopped here so Barry could throw this log off the road.

And we stopped at the pond to have a look and to collect the card from the trail cam there mounted on the big tree.

And then we rode on down to the water pool and collected the card from the trail cam there on the big tree.

We rode around and stopped at two more spots to get the trail cam cards, then rode around some more and made it up to our break area at the top.

From there it looked like someone was over at the house down the hill aways. The state park has taken over that house and the guys are fixing some stuff up. We found them doing some fire prevention work around the house so we shot the bull with them for a bit.

We were checking out all the little wild flowers in the yard at the house.

We stopped at the Guerneville overlook on the way back to my house. Everything is nice and green down there.

Chainsaw

Back home we tried to get the chainsaw started as the other day I tried to use it and it wouldn’t start. We determined it wasn’t getting any spark. I told Barry I’d look at it a little later and he took off for his home.

Late in the day I took the chainsaw apart enough to get to the magnets and the coil module and found there was no power coming from the coil module, so it’ likely bad. I got a new one ordered up online.