Fires aren't that close to me this time, thank God! Heard on the news this morning, though, that the Griffith Park Observatory came close to burning! That would have been a great loss!!

We're in a Catch 22 here. We only had 2" of rain all winter so we don't have much new growth but what is there is about as dry as it can get. Next time there's a good rain, there will be some hellacious mud slides.