Thursday February 15, 2024 Guerneville CA.
Chainsaw
I’ve been thinking of a new chainsaw lately. But Barry had this older Husky that he replaced with a Stihl a while back and it was as good as new and he didn’t need it so he gave it to me with a bunch of extra chains.
I’ll try it out and see what I think.
State parks meet up
We had an appointment with the state parks guys and the Save the Redwoods League group around noon. We’d made arrangements with the state park guys to show our family property to the Save the Redwoods group to see about them buying our property and giving it to the State parks which is something they do. They have more money to do this than the state parks have and since there are plenty of redwood trees on our place, the state guys thought we might be able to get a deal going.
We met them here at the appointed time.
We parked and walked up along one of my trails to show them some of the property.
Little flower
One of them or Barry spotted this little flower here so we stopped to check it out.
Redwood Orchid
They had spotted what we call a Redwood Orchid. They come up under the redwood trees in this area in the spring.
We stopped often to fill them in on the info of our place.
We stopped at our memorial site where the largest redwoods on the property are.
Trail
And then moved on up one of my trails that go up along the creek.
Besides the property, the flower and these lady bugs were the main attraction.
Lady bugs
Most of the hibernating lady bugs had moved off already with the warmer spring weather but there were still enough of them left to see.
Went well
I think our meetup with the Save the Redwoods group went well and now they know what we want to make a deal. It’s an ideal property for the State Parks system and would be added to the Armstrong Parks Reserve which adjoins our property.
Ride in the forest
With that taken care of Barry and I went for a bike ride up in the forest, but those darn mushrooms got in the way again as they are popping up all over the place this year and we have to stop when we see some so Barry can fill up his bag.
We didn’t get a lot of riding in, but looking for the shrooms does get us a lot of walking around exercise.
On the way home we stopped here so I could pick up a trail cam card. The cam is on the big tree there.
Nice day.