Good morning dear friends. We had so much rain in December, we were about to get our boat out of the garage and park it out front of our house, JUST IN CASE IT RAINED FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS. We have a slight hill in our back yard, maybe 20/25 feet, it was saturated. Worried me at night, when I would wake up and hear it raining again. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but it's got a lot of clay in the soil. The first year we lived here, [we moved in in November 1961] it was a brand new home, no landscaping, no grass, to late in the season to plant a lawn. It rained a lot that year, I remember this so clearly, my husband walked across the back yard, and every step he took, he got more mud on his boots. When he finely got back to the front sidewalk, he had about six or seven inches of thick mud on the bottom of his boots. I remember him saying to me, "I need something to get this mud off my boots" I walked into the garage, thought maybe there was something in there that would work, I THINK BACK NOW, and there was a push mower, and I think a shovel, "THAT'S ALL" YOU SHOULD SEE IT NOW !!! Filled to the max, with all kinds of stuff, saving it for WHAT OR WHO, i don't know. I remember going back in the house and getting something, I think a old knife, and he cut the mud off his boots. The last several weeks have been sunny, but on the cool side for Southern California. They say it's going to get windy, and colder, but will warm up by the weekend, maybe high sixties or low seventies. My sister in law [Barbara] is back in the hospital, got a call about 5:30 yesterday evening from the younger sister in law [Marlene] told us the paramedics were there and going to transport Barbara to St' Jude Hospital. My husband left about a half hour later for the hospital, his sisters heart rate was to high, they kept her over night. Some specialist are coming in today to have a look at her , to see what can be done [she has a pace maker] I don't understand why it's not doing it's job. I have my good days, and I have my bad days, just hanging in there. I had a ear ach last evening, from WHAT I don't know? Sunny but cool is So. California, Sully