Me with Don Peake left and James Burton

Albert Lee left and James Burton in cap jamming

our little tree

This morning Christmas Eve started out with Kole being sprayed in face the by a skunk.  I made a skunk mix, which is mostly hydrogen peroxide and that took the edge off the smell. It rained a lot in the night, and I went to put on my rubber boots and they had about 3 inches of water in them. I did not know and tipped one up because I thought it was heavy from dirt inside. The water went all over the carpet.
We were invited to Albert Lee's 69th birthday party. He played with James Burton lead guitarist for Elvis Presley. I had my photo taken with him and Don Peake who was lead guitarist for Ray Charles, and wrote the music for Knight Rider and Ghostbusters. The party was in Bell Canyon about a half hours drive from here.
We were on facetime with  Jody and Amara and a sleeping baby Milo. Tommorow I will be on Skype with England and Mum will be on.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all who read this.

Jody and Amara had their baby at a hospital in Walnut Creek at 4:27 12/12/12.  He is a Saggitarius, with moon in the same sign, Scorpio rising with Venus in the same sign, Mars in Capricorn. Amara ended up having a Ceasarian because the baby was sideways. He weighed 6lbs 12oz and is 21inches long. This morning we have a name Milo,  James, Merle, Lisy, Brenner.  the Merle is after his great grandfather Doug's dad. This is grandchild # 5 for Doug and the second boy. Mother and baby doing well !! and should be going home today.

Karrot got his halter ring stuck on a protruding bolt, and pulled the round pen from the mounting block seen at right. He is fine, it happened when he was turned out in there with Sierra, and I did not know until we went to bring them in. No more halters on turned out horses!!  This morning our landlord Steve got his tractor, and I saw him taking a section up to his shop. he came down wehn he saw me and said that he would help. The welds by the gate are almost sheared off. So when Doug gets done with the stock market at 1pm he will go and see what needs to be done.
We are waiting now for word from the bank involved with the short sale on the house. It hopefully will not take too long.
We have had a lot of rain and green shoots are sprouting everywhere all around the house and out on the property. I  will not need to water my plants for a while.