Bob's Eyes

Sunday November 20, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Neighbor visit

I needed to talk to a neighbor I’ve been helping show him how to tap his spring for water.

He’s also been helping another neighbor tap his spring by what I’ve been showing him.

I never know if he’s home. I just ride the dirt bike up to his plane on this road and see if he’s home. If not, I leave.

I rode on up this road. The trees here went through the forest fire a few years ago and most of them faired pretty well and are still alive.

Eventually, I popped out of the trees and rode up this road where the views are on the hill tops.

View

It was a nice day out with just a few clouds and plenty of sunshine.

Neighbors

I rode on down to their gate and parked the bike here as to not let the dogs out.

Well, everyone was home except the guy I needed to talk to, so I talked with his son instead about it. Before I left the guy called home so I was able to talk with him about what we need to do to the other neighbors spring work.

Burying water pipe

After shooting the bull with his son for about an hour I left and rode back over to our place where I was working on burying our spring water pipe at this spot.

I walked down the trail until I got to where I left off the other day and was looking at that tree growing across the trail where the pipe is, up ahead and decided to work on that for a bit. I only had about an hour before it got dark.

I dug around the tree roots and got it ready to cut out which I will do eventually.

Time to go

It was getting late and starting to get dark as I walked back up the trail the pipe was buried under.

It wasn’t far to where the bike was parked and I hopped on it and headed down the hill.

It was starting to get dark fast as I rode on down this road in the fallen fall leaves.

The bike doesn’t have a head light so I had to hurry along going through here.

I made it home ok and was working on setting up my cam that goes to the computer by the avocado tree when my brother across the creek asked if I wanted two crab for dinner.

Sure. They were yummy.

Setting up the night cam

I put the crab in the fridge and went back outside and finished hooking up the cam to my computer so I was set to watch the area tonight from my computer.

Rat eating spilled oats

Here’s a rat from last night eating the oats I spilled. It ate a lot of those oats and it never went inside the enclosure in the back. This was from my trail cam.

Birdie

And here’s a little birdie that came by in the morning.

Computer cam setup

This one is from tonight and is what I can see on the cam on my computer. It’s dark and is using the night light thingy on the cam. No rats have come by yet.

Nice day.

Saturday November 19, 2022 Guerneville CA.

New feeder station

I decided I needed another rat bait feeding station at my avocado tree if I wanted any of them as they were packing them away at night.

I needed something protected from the rain and something my chickens wouldn’t get into.

This plant pot base seemed the ticket to do the job. I got some oats and was going to put them under this thing but dropped them at the last moment and spilled them on the ground. Oh well, I scooped up what I could and put them back in the container and put them under the cover.

I decided to left the cover up for now as I wanted to see what they were doing. The reason I used this is the rats don’t seem to like to go into things to get the bait. At least things that might look like a trap does. Eventually the cover will be down on the blocks so there will be open air space all around it.

I didn’t put any rodent bait out yet as I want them to get use to this thing first which I hope they do quickly.

Fence up

To help keep the chickens out of this garden area as that’s where the bait station is located, I needed to put this part of the fence back up which meant I had to find my post driver and install those two steel posts. I had to look for that darn post driver and found it in the last place I used it.

I unrolled the piece of fence for this spot and wired it up and closed the gate.

I put the game cam back on it but will eventually put one of my other cams on it that is hooked to my computer as it’s easier to watch things that way.

Pipe burial work

It was getting late in the day and I only had a couple hours left before dark when I decided to work on burying some more spring water pipe up in the hills so I rode the dirt bike up to this spot to work on it.

The water pipe goes down that trail in front of the dirt bike, just below the road on the right so I headed down it to do some dirt moving.

The pipe is laid on this trail and has a layer of fall leaves covering it up for now.

I worked on this part covering the pipe up with dirt and making the trail a bit wider which will make it easier to walk on.

When it started to get dark I headed back to the dirt bike. I think I like my new basket, although it makes it hard to use the choke which is under it, but it’s doable.