We’ve spent the last few days at the park, strolling down to the Santa Ynez river, and watching and feeding the local wildlife; the ground squirrels are everywhere and they all seem to have babies. There are also deer here and lots of hawks and other birds; they have rattlesnakes too but we haven’t seen any of those yet.

Then this morning we took a short drive to Lake Cachuma. We had intended to go for a bit of a walk for a while but decided not to when we had to pay to get into the recreation area. We probably would have if we’d been going for a few hours but since we hadn’t intended to do that we just turned around and left. Now Mike is napping and I’m off to do some reading. It’s 91 degrees outside so we are in here with the air running and it’s lovely and cool – I have such a tough life!


Mike: Me too!