Monday October 12, 2020 Guerneville CA.
Rehab work
I rode on over to the Goat Ladies Place to catch up with my brother Barry and the forest fire rehab guys that were doing clean up work after the fire.
Lunch
They were just finishing up with lunch as I pulled into this spot.
Waiting our turn
We were waiting for them to finish up on this property and come on over to our place to finish up the work there. They still had a lot of work to do here and didn’t know if they’d finish today to have time to come on over to our place so we had to hang around to see.
Back to work
The guys and the excavator started up that hill in the back to do some work on the fire break to make it ready for winter.
The excavator went up the steep hill and Barry followed them up on his dirt bike. I decided to wait as the hill was a bit steeper than this picture shows.
Took off on our dirt bikes
It wasn’t long before Barry came riding back down the hill and we decided to go visit some other neighbors who lived back this way, the Buchanan’s, so off we went to their place a few miles away.
Buchanan place
When we got there the place seemed like no one was home but after dismounting and approaching the house a guy came out and said the guys we came to visit had gone to town. We chatted with him a bit then took off back to where the guys were working going over this bridge on the creek.
Hang out spot
The guys were still working up on the hill so we hung out here for most of the rest of the day shooting the bull with the fire guys that weren’t running the machine.
Coming down
Late in the day the excavator worked his way down the road putting in water bars on the way down.
Blocking the road
The excavator made it down then preceded to move that downed tree there across the road he just came down to keep rigs off the road as the road was just a fire break.
It didn’t take long for that machine to block the road with the downed trees.
Too late so parked for the day
By the time the excavator got down the hill it was too late in the day to head on over to our place so they parked the machine here where they’d pick up tomorrow morning.
We said our goodbyes and I followed Barry on his bike racing down the road towards our place.
Strawberries and an apple
Of course I stopped at the strawberry patch to eat some strawberries and I found an apple on a tree too which was tasty.
Once home I let the chickens out to graze and went in for a nap and that was pretty much it for me today.
Nice day
Excavators have a very low center of gravity, but I don’t think I would have wanted to go up a trail that slanted that far to the right. Good operators are hard to find … he’s a keeper. Joy sticks make it much more fun!! Nice to see them putting in fire breaks.