11/19/07 (Monday): I'm trying something new (again!) in this blog. If I do it right, you should be viewing a slideshow of Piru, Fillmore and Santa Paula scenes in the sidebar. Let me know if you like it!

Not a lot to talk about tonight. Yesterday was Wiley's 51st birthday and we went out to dinner with the other two Workamper couples. We had a very pleasant evening.

On Saturday, I got a call from my sister. She and her husband, Jim, were in Ojai at Jim's mother's house. Ojai is about 45 minutes from here. Since Jim had some work to do for his mother and Wiley wanted to go fishing, we arranged to meet at the Ventura pier. Wiley stayed on the pier to fish, Jim bought some stuff at the hardware store and went back to Ojai to work on his Mom's house, and Jan and I came back to Lake Piru. We had a wonderful afternoon--took a tour of the campground in the golf cart, crocheted, and talked and talked and talked! We picked Wiley up and drove Jan back to Ojai where we had pizza with Jim's mother (95 years young). It's so great to be able to have my sister drop in. She's lived overseas or across the country from me for so long.

Wiley and I worked today, then drove into Thousand Oaks, a big town across the mountains from us. It's where the Reagan Presidential Library is. We just needed to get some repairs made to our cell phone, get an oil change and explore a little. It was fun, but the traffic was horrendous (it's very close to Los Angeles). We might go back sometime and take a look at the Presidential Library.

Tomorrow we meet Jan and Jim and go to Santa Barbara and Solvang to explore. On Wednesday, Wiley and I catch a train to Emeryville to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with Mark and his family. I hope everyone has a great holiday.