So much has been happing. Above is a picture of the famous Don Peake who wrote the beginning  for Let's Get It On . Played guitar usually electric for almost every big name band in the 70's. Wrote music for Knight Rider and is  phenominal

.  He is a personal freind and treated us to a bit of music and his company and Doug played banjo and guitar with him also. He came for a Memorial Day Barbecue at our friends house in Simi Valley.
Then the house that we are buying is rapidly getting all the paperwork done. We are waiting to see when the sellers will be moving.
I have ridden Karrot several times, we have been hiking( picture above of Sage Ranch Simi Valley where we went hiking) and having interesting times with grand son Aiden, who lives with us and his Dad part time.  I had a major  personal upset with my sister over how horses are trained. My daughter had a fairly large earthquake ad several after shocks where she and husband live in N E Califirnia. But all was well.

So the wildfire has been out ever since we had some rain.  It rained about an inch, but because it has been hot and sunny for many days everything has dried out again.
My step grand son was here and after half a day of throwing up was taken to the doctor and diagnosed with infection in both ears and strep throat. He was to fly to Florida the next day and had to endure an antibiotic shot in the thigh. I hope that he does not have have any more shots for a long time. Now a week later he is back with a horrible case of hives being managed with benadryl.
Our house purchase is progressing slowly but surely, there are about 6 weeks to go until close of escrow. In the mean time I have been cleaning and sorting to give myself something to do and of course planning what to do to the new house.  The very first thing will be to paint the master bedroom which is blue, and to buy a fridge, as the present owners want to take the fridge with them. Then after that we will be doing floors and counter tops. I want to paint over the new used brick around the fire place. I am really looking forward to planting the plants that I have in big pots and brought from Fort Bragg.

Everything has been dominated by the wildfire burning pretty much out of control. Thankfully it is at least 10 miles from here. It started at the side of freeway 101 cause unknown, and because of high winds quickly spread twards the oceon, highway one is closed at the moment.
The house that we are buying is now two weeks into escrow, we have a 60 day escrow. There is a lein against the house of over $700,000 but no one seems to be concerned. I am presuming that the sellers have funds to pay it off, because the money from the sale of the house will not. It is a probate sale, the legal owner died in 2012 and the house is being sold by her son and daughter.
I am looking after step grandson Aiden this morning. His dad has gone to a golfing tournament in Las Vegas. Aiden was dropped off by mom on her way to work, and he had been throwing up since 5am. He is sleeeping quietly at the moment. Doug has gone to babysit one of the other grand kids, who was to have come here.
Thankfully the extremely high winds have calmed and I am able to feed the horses hay with out it all blowing away in the wind.