Yard Work, a New Shelf Board, a Broody Hen and Some Hurts

Wednesday June 15, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Leaving Usal

This was the final view looking back down at the ocean at Usal Creek on the way out.usal

 

We stopped  here to take out the four-wheel hubs after we got back on the main road, highway one heading south.vans

 

Mowing weeds

Today I needed to do some weeding as they grew a lot while I was away. I needed to cut some cords for the weed mower so I started with that.cutting

 

I installed a set of cords on the machine and gassed it up and I was ready to go, after a short break.ready

 

This was the area that needed weeding the worst so I started with it.weeds

 

It looks a bit better now. I continued with other parts of the yard  until my hurts said to quit so I did.driveway

 

Woodchips

I heard a commotion out on my driveway. It was Tom moving some woodchips to his garden across the highway. We are getting a lot of woodchips now. Tom said he had to cut one guy out as we were getting too many.chips

 

Nursing a sore hip

I spent most of the afternoon sitting around and resting as my sore hip was hurting and made it hard to bend down to work on things. That sore hip got worse when I jumped down from my van when I returned home.

Making a new shelf board

This evening I cut some boards to size to make a new shelf board for my new fold down shelf in my van. I didn’t like the plastic cutting board one I made before the trip as everything slid off it too easily, so I decided to make one out of wood and replace the plastic one. Otherwise I like the new fold down shelf real well.boards

 

Epoxy work

After getting the two boards cut to size I got the epoxy out and glued the boards together and clamped them up for drying.glued

 

Broody hen

Tonight I need to go out and put this broody hen and her eggs into a plastic tote box nest so she can do her thing to make some baby chicks.hen

 

Nice day.

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Usal Creek Day 7 Rain and Some Hiking

Sunday June 12, 2022 Usal Creek CA. Lost Coast

All four Usal Creek Blogs were published today and this is the last one.

Rain

Yesterday evening we were sitting out in our chairs when the fog came in off the ocean and surrounded us in a dense mist. We retired to our vans and shortly after dark it started to rain lightly and continued all night and into the morning until about 11 when it started to let up.van

 

Walk

After we got it going and the rain stopped we set out on a short walk up the road as we wanted to check out the coastal trail, North.

Big ferns

We had to hunt around for the trail and found it and started up it through the big ferns.marty

 

Rest spot

We didn’t go up the trail far, just enough to get into these big redwood trees where we stopped to rest for a bit.trees

 

Wet and Muddy

We headed back to camp on this road.muddy

 

Ocean view

During the evening we took a walk down to the ocean which looked like this.ocean

 

Video Clips

My plan was to take some video clips to put together an edited video. But the problem was I wasn’t sure just how to present what is at Usal Creek and I wasn’t sure what to do.

I started out  just taking some video clips to edit which I did. But when I went to edit them I could see they were better presented without editing. I thought things showed more on the real side. So I decided to not edit much out, unless it was a duplicate and leave in most of the bloopers as that’s how things really happened.

The Usal Creek Video of Clips

This is the video I made of the video clips and is of the whole trip so this will be repeated on the Usal blogs but the video is the same for them all.

https:/be/nqOV9YBGXuo/youtu.

Headed home

Tomorrow we’ll be leaving for home, likely around noon as it’s not too far from here, just a couple of hours drive south.

Nice day.

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