Shopping For Supplies For My Up Coming Trip In a Few Days

Wednesday September 29, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Shopping day

That’s what I was going to do today. I drove on over towards the shopping centers and stopped to get some fresh cheese at the cheese factory which was on the way.

Cheese factory

I turned off the main road and headed to the farm.road1

 

Just a little further and I’ll be at the cheese place.road2

 

These are some of the girls that make the stuff to make the cheese, resting and chewing their cud.cows3

 

Cheese lady

And this is one of the ladies that makes the cheese in the back, wrapping me up some cheese. I always ask her to cut off a wedge and wrap it separately so I have something to nibble on driving around while doing my shopping.cheese4

 

Stroke out on this one

I went to Home Depot to buy a new handle for one of my Pulaski’s but they didn’t have any that would fit. I didn’t want to drive around looking for one at another store, so I’ll try and get that some other time.

Corn-less stuff

Next, I went to Costco to buy supplies for my up coming trip, which consists mostly of a sack of big potatoes and a sack of onions and a case of string beans, all corn-less and a couple of other things to snack on, like peanuts. I’ll get a head of cabbage to add to that. There’s not much to eat or drink when you are allergic to corn type products as it’s in most of our foods and drinks, many times under other names.

Despite that, I found enough to eat for the trip.

I made it home and got the stuff unloaded.

For some reason I was real tired out so I napped for quite some time.

Van washing

Later in the day, after the sun went down, I put the hose to the old van to remove some of the dirt off it.van

 

After that I took inventory on the food that was in there and added to it with the stuff I just purchased and added some more stuff I already had on hand.

I have a few more days before we leave so I have plenty of time to get the things I need into the van.

Nice day.

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My Chicken Booboo and a Nice Dirt Bike Ride In the Hills

Tuesday September 27, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Dirt bike ride day

I was puttering around the yard figuring out what to do today when my brother Barry pulled in with his dirt bike. That settled that, dirt bike ride it was.bikes1

 

Tom’s bike

My brother Tom decided he’d like to go for a ride too, but his bike’s battery was dead from lack of use. Him and Barry tried to get it started by pulling it but it was too hard to pull and start, or to push and start it, so Tom stayed home.tow2

 

He and Barry shot the bull for some time about stocks and finances before we were ready to take off for our ride.

Off for our ride

But eventually we took off and headed for the hills and rode around and around and up and down.

The view of Guerneville seemed a bit smoky from our overlook. view3

 

Resting spot

After a good ride we needed a rest so we rode on up to our resting spot on the high point with this view.view4

 

After resting up, we rode around some more until we covered  most of the roads at least once, then headed on home.

Barry took off for home and I got something to eat and a nap.

Chickens are off a bit

My chickens are off a bit today, a bit on the skittish side.

I let them out and they sorta just  hung around.chickens5

 

A booboo

I forgot and left the gate open to their pen last night and they got attacked.

As near as I can tell a bobcat came in around 7:30 and killed two of them. It took one bird and left the other one.

I went back and looked at my cam in the chicken pen to see if I could see anything, mostly to see what got them.

The pic isn’t too good as the cam was focused on the rats, so it wasn’t aimed right for the critter as it went by so is a bit blurry. The rat is easier to see but the cat is on the other side of the fence on the right and hard to make out.cat6

 

So tonight I made sure things were all closed up properly as the cat will likely come back.

Rat report

Well, I’m not sure about the rats and the plaster of Paris thing. Some of them don’t seem to be coming back for more which were the ones up in my attic, but I can still hear them in the attic. Other rats are eating the bait pretty much on and off all night long.

It’s hard to be sure

Right now, the thought is that stuff doesn’t kill rats, but to be surer, I plan to leave this bait out for a few weeks while I’m off on a trip and I’ll see what’s going on when I come back. If they are still at it, I plan to use some store bought poison on them and see what happens as they are feeding pretty freely on the bait right now, which means I shouldn’t have much problem slipping them the new bait.

This evening I took  my van down to Guerneville to fill it up with gas for the upcoming trip, so that’s done.

Nice day.

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