Bob's Eyes

Sunday November 13, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Putter day

That’s the kind of day it turned out to be.

I broke my mirror off my car the other day when my kayak fell off while I was loading it up. I didn’t know I’d broken it off until I heard this thing rattling around on the way home, which turned out to be the broken mirror hitting the side of the car from the wind.

So, today I was going to take it apart and see what I needed to do to fix it as finding a new one wasn’t working out very well.

 

I got it all apart and cleaned it all up. Epoxy it or get it welded up? It’s aluminum and I don’t have a welder for that, but my friend Joe does, so maybe I’ll see if he’ll weld it up for me as I don’t think the epoxy will hold it as well.

I put the mirror aside for now and will think about it, but right now I needed a break so I did some chair hopping as the sun warmed up the yard as it came over the hills to my East.

Avocados

Something has been eating my avocados. I thought it might be the rats and it was a bushy tailed one. A small red squirrel seems to be the one as I caught it coming down the tree with a game cam.

 

I might have to put something around the trunk of the tree to stop that if it keeps it up.

Van’s windshield wipers

I’ve tried twice to buy new wipers for the van and both times the mounting part wasn’t right. Seems the van is getting old and they don’t seem to be making some of the older stuff or at least it’s not so easy to find the right thing.

I spent a good deal of time looking for some adapters for it and  maybe I’ve found some and need to get them ordered up.

Other than that, I just puttered around the yard with the chickens, going from chair to chair, just like I always do.

Fresh rock fish

I had crab for dinner and shortly after that, my brother Tom brought  me by some cleaned and bagged fresh rock fish. Seems he likes to fish in the ocean a lot which is also good for me. :O) He’d been out all day and just got back.

Nice day.

Saturday November 12, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Plans change

I was in the process of moving these cement blocks to another spot I needed them. I got one load done and during the loading of the next load, my back gave me a warning with a sharp pain.

 

Ride in the forest

I was a bit hunched over and was headed to get a cold pack on my back when my brother Barry pulled in with his truck and dirt bike. I said, give me a half hour on the cold pack and I’ll be ready to go.

 

I got the cold pack and we shot the bull for awhile before taking off. My back felt fine for now.

Apples

Barry wanted to stop at my brother Tom’s garden to see if there were any tasty apple’s left on the trees. There were some so I filled my pockets.

Garden

His garden area.

 

And some apple trees with apples.

 

Lots of chickens

We went by his chickens. He has a lot more of them than I do as  he sells eggs at the farmer’s markets.

 

Up this trail

Now that we had a snack for later we headed on up this trail and rode around for some time.

 

We occasionally had to stop and get stuff off the road so we could pass by.

 

I was throwing rocks off the road when Barry caught up with  me.

 

Barry had some clippers so trimmed some branches that would hit us in the head at several locations.

 

Break time

We made it up to the top of the mountain where we take a break for a good spell just enjoying the day.

 

Sky

The sky view from that spot.

 

Crashed

Eventually we took off and rode around some more. I hit a big old dead tree knot laying in the road and my back tire spun out causing the bike to go sideways on this road so I fell down. I’m usually going pretty slow when the bike falls over.This one was soft dirt so getting the bike back up was the worse part of this one.

 

We headed for home and Barry took off for his house and I did some chair hopping around the yard.

Crab for dinner

Later my brother Tom gave me five crab to eat. They should last me several days. Here’s three of them, cooked and ready to go.

 

Nice day.