Bob's Eyes

Monday May 24, 2021 Guerneville CA.

Working on the old well

I worked on the old well sediment removal on and off today.

Slow process

Mostly I sit in the chair and turn the discharge valve on and off to help pick up the sediment in the well and then I go over and left the hose up and down a few times in the well to help pick up the sand. It’s a slow process as the sand is coming out slowly.

Peep care

I checked on the new peeps and gave them water and some feed.

I still haven’t been able to get a count of the new peeps as they don’t sit still long.

I cleaned up these ripe strawberries. Yummy.

And I checked on the blueberries but they have a ways to go until they get ripe enough.

Blooming bamboo

I’ve noticed my black bamboo patch is not looking good. It’s more or less brown and doesn’t have many leaves. Apparently bamboo blooms every so many years which is ok, but it then dies.

Bamboo rice

Here’s the blooms which makes bamboo rice which I doubt I’ll be eating.

So when it all dies I’ll have a big dry mess to take care of. I don’t know if I’ll lose the patch or if some new stuff will pop up but time will tell.

Nice day.

Sunday May 23, 2021 Guerneville CA.

Dirt bike ride day

I took care of the chickens and was up on a ladder eating cherries when my brother Barry pulled into the yard with his truck.

We ate some more cherries then hopped on our dirt bikes to ride up into the mountains to ride through the redwood forest.

We stopped at Indian Spring for a drink of water.

And then rode around the roads for about a half hour before heading to the Top of the World for a break.

There’s always some work to do

We were just about there when Barry ran into this downed tree. Since he was leading he got to move it for us to get by.

Top of the World

We pulled into the Top of the world for a good break and to enjoy the view.

The view from the Top of the World lookout.

Crashed

From there we rode down the hill and I attempted to cross this creek.

There’s a little six foot straight up just in front of Barry that I let get the best of me. As I was going up it I was in second gear instead of first gear unbeknownst to me and the bike stalled and I slid back down with the bike on top of me. I did drew a little blood where a blackberry thorn got in my finger but other wise I was unhurt but beat up a little.

Barry says you want me to ride it up as I was recuperating so I say sure we’ll get up there faster.

So he showed me how and rode it right up out of there.

We couldn’t get through some gates so we rode back through the creek and back up the hill until we ran into another downed tree blocking the road.

New trail area

Barry was talking about a trail through this area so I says lets take a short walk and check it out. He had on his dirt bike boots which aren’t very good for hiking so that’s why a short walk.