It's still winter here!

We can clearly tell that it is still winter. We know because we can still see now on the mountain. It is quite fun that we can see the snow out there on the mountain while we walk along the beach on the sand. We can also tell where the heavy winter storms have worked on the sand. After the storm, rain and heavy wind, today was beautiful. It's still cool, but the wind was not bad and we were able to go out and walk along the beach. Yesterday, there were very few people on the beach, but today there were a lot of people on the beach and enjoying the sun. Some people had brought their chairs and were out there sitting on the sand. We stopped and watched some of the surfers. A group of four kids came down to the beach, stretched into their wet suits and started surfing. We were sitting on the sand on the other side of the pier than the area where they were surfing.

What a relaxing thing to walk out on the beach every day. Now we are waiting for a little bit warmer weather. Just a couple of days and it will be March. We are surely hoping that the spring will come soon!

Got our new table!

There it is! The new table for our dining room has come! We definitely wanted to maintain the beach house theme so we went for teak material. We can easily serve up to 10 at the table. Now I need to get to work making brand new place mats.

We finally have a bathroom that has also goes with the beach house theme. You can see we have bathroom mats with beach house theme.

Today we also went down for a walk on the beach. Yesterday it rained an the storms were outstanding. Today when I woke up it was beautiful and sunny. This afternoon we decided to go

out and see how windy it was. When we walked out the window things were fine, but by the time we got to the ocean it was really windy.

I took a couple of pictures to catch how much the wind had changed the sand. We could not stand the wind to walk the beach, but we did walk out to the end of the pier.

I took a picture of the sand from the pier and you can see how the strong wind was changing the surface of the beach. I also took a picture of the water.

This picture clearly shows how strong the winds were on the water.

You can see that it was a beautiful sunny winter day on the beach. As we spend more time here, I will slowly get to know more about the weather here on the beach area.

Garage Envy

This weekend we had the garage repaired. Now we are ready to start putting "stuff" into the new house. I took a couple of pictures when they finished working. On the left of the garage is storage and a swing up work space. On the right side of the garage are storage spaces where we can keep things. Both the appearance and strength of all this work are designed to keep things clean and out of way. This was clearly the first stage of our move. The other thing I did this weekend was the removal of all the closet setup from the initial build. The two lower level closets have now been cleaned out and the walls have been repainted. Those two empty closets will now be rebuilt by california closets soon.

Amazing what a difference a day makes!

These two shots were from the same basic area between Saturday and Sunday. A day of rain followed by a day of sun and shine. The beauty of both days is one great reason for living at the beach. The cold and rain reduced the time we spent walking. The beautiful sunny day had us out on the beach twice.We walked much further now that the sun and warmer area was easily worth spending the time in the sun. Good thing we brought sun block. I think the ability to daily walk along the beach is well worth it!

We knew that the Port Hueneme harbor was active, but yesterday we were able to watch a boat come it with material to be downloaded.

Walking by the ocean!

What a rainy cold day at the beach! It still has a unique beauty! We watched the storm headed at us from the off shore islands. We were one of only two pairs out there walking on the shore. We watched the waves crash at the shore.

The other thing that we notice is that the boats are leaving oil on our beach.

Usually our beach is clear and beautiful, but with the heavy rain and storm the black line of oil on the beach is a clear direction of all the big boats coming by and leaks from the nearby oil tankers and oil drilling near the islands.

It is a small ugly mark on the ocean. We hope it will disappear quickly when the storms are gone and the summer weather comes.

And now the day after the storm we have snow in the mountains! Living halfway between the mountains and the ocean gives us a choice of visits. Today, after the storms yesterday gives us a beautiful view of the snow on the mountains. Later on, we have to go and look at the ocean and see how it looks this morning!

What a great show!!!

What a great show at the SCIART gallery. This is work by Russell McMillin and David Elder.

Their work is really interesting. One of the actors has focused on clothing that looks like models of people.

These objects appear a lot like something from Japan or China. I really find them fun to wander through and look over them carefully. At first, I did not realize how close they are and how similar they are. The fine similarity between them is really fun.

In addition to the models of people are objects that are models of clothing. The clothing items are made out of wood and other interesting materials. These items appear to be painted with really fine pictures.

When you first walk into the room you think they are clothes, but they are made out of carved wood. The whole show is dramatic and definitely worth seeing. These clothing designs are really fun.

The show is definitely something to enjoy. If you are here in the Camarillo area, you should definitely drop by and enjoy.