In the night I suddenly realized that neither of the two cats was sleeping at the foot of the bed as they usually do. I thought that they had been upset by the new surge of activity in the house to do with moving. So I got up twice to look for them. Ciel was around outside the house, but no sign of Smokey. D woke and said may be he had accidentally shut him in the trailer. So out I went again, but no Smokey.  Of course he came in at about 5am through the open window in the bedroom. They are asleep already !!

Yesterday D called about a rental with room for horses, and it looks as if that will be our home until we have a chance to look around for somewhere to buy. It is in Moorpark close to family and where we want to live.
Also there is the possibility that whoever is in escrow with the Hitch house may drop out when they find our about the fines. They have 10 days.
We will be packing now and loading up the cargo trailer. I am not sure yet of the sequence of when the horses go to Bald Hill ready to be transported and when I will leave etc.

This is an aerial view of where we are moving. It is 10 acres and is a horse  boarding place with a modular seen upper right.