Tom Works On Pruning Some of My Fruit Trees In the Yard

Wednesday February 26, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Yard work

Tom said he’d do some pruning in my yard today. He brought his equipment over and set up to get started.tom1

Here he is pruning some apple trees in my back yard.trimming2

He’s using his hand shears to cut the small stuff.pruning3

I helped him pick up some of the brush and took it over to our dump trailer.hens4

Of course the chickens tried to help out a bit.hens5

He finished with these trees and they look pretty good.trees6

We loaded up the dump trailer with the brush and he took it up into the hills to dump it.trailer7

He pruned these plum trees back a bit.trees8

And I worked on getting the brush in the trailer.brush9

I was beat after that and was sitting in the front yard after the sun went down

I knew this woodpecker sleeps in this nesting box every night so I watched as it tried to get into the nest without being seen. It knew I was watching it, so it flew away several times before coming back and trying again before it finally flew into the nest.woodpecker

Nice day.

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Taxes, Big Tree Root, and Check the Old Road

Tuesday February 25, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Big root

I drove on over to the shopping areas today to get my taxes and pick up some oil for the dozer. I got that done and returned home.

Dirt road check

After a short nap, I rode on up through the park to check the old road out to see how it was doing.

I found the big redwood tree root had been finished cutting it off by the park guys to make it easier for fire trucks to get by on the road.root1

They did a good job. It was hard to cut because of all the rocks they hit, but they got it done by keeping at it.root2

Old road

I’m having trouble getting the water off the road and stopping it from running down the road and causing soft spots. I stopped here to fix the ditch enough for the water to get across the road. The car’s tires keep messing it up.water3

The water runs down the road messing it up.road4

Looking up the road, you can see it’s pretty steep. I will re-do it and out slope it when it gets a bit drier.road5

This is looking down the road. There’s a long section here where the water keeps wanting to run down the road making it messy. It’s on my, to fix list.root6

After checking out the road, I rode on over to this overlook to sit and enjoy the forest for a bit, before heading towards home.view7

It was a nice blue sky day. Suns on it’s way down for the day.sky8

Spring

I stopped at this spring because the water pool where the pipe goes to, isn’t flowing at full capacity as something is plugged up.spring9

I walked down the pipeline trail a bit to check if any water was in the black pipe, by lifting it up to feel for the heavy water. Not much water going down the pipe.

Here’s the water pipe I checked for water.pipe11

I realized I needed to check the first joint in the pipe coming down the hill so walked back up to the spring and took this tee apart and that got the water flowing. It seemed to have a partial plug in it.pipeline10

i realized I had to check the first joint in the pipe coming down the hill, this tee.I took it apart and the water started to flow, so it had something in the pipe plugging it up in the tee, so that got the water flowing again.tee12

From there I  headed on home for the day and put the chickens away for the night.

Nice day.

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