Becca has just turned 21 as of Thanksgiving!

Stephanie is having fun with her high school social life.

Tony and I had a marvelous trip to New Zealand in August and of course had to get into some mischief with our buddies Brian and Judith.

Here are some pics of the recent fires in Orange county. Some great shots. I did not take them as you could not get any where near unless you were news crew or press. Below these are some shots of the aftermath. No much was left where the fire hit. the hills are just dirt now and will erode badly should the rains ever come back. We have only had 3 inches in the last 18 months. 12 - 15 a year is normal. One day man will learn not to interfere with mother nature. A lot of this is due to very poor forest management over the past 100 years.

Here are some pics I took today of the fires we had in Orange County. The fire dept did a hell of a job saving the houses. There were very few burned round this area which was amazing as in many places fire had completely burned all round a house or up to the property line then stopped. The big lesson here is if you want to go live in the bush move to Oregon where it rains all the time and you cant start a fire with anything. Click on the pic to enlarge it and click on the "back" arrow to reduce it.

Tony