Getty Villa

 

We had a nice visit to the Getty Villa while our visitors were here.

 

We got lucky with very nice weather the day we were there and it wasn't too crowded.

 

 

The pools have been empty this year due to the ongoing drought.but the grounds were in beautiful condition. In addition to viewing the collection, we took guided tours of the on-site architecture and gardens.

 

Houseguests





We had a full house last week with Maggie, mom, dad, Kristen and Jim staying with us for a long weekend.

This guy pictured above was one of the creatures we saw on our Safari Wine Tasting Tour at Malibu Family Wine's Saddlerock Ranch. We piled onto an open truck with 8 other people while a couple of guides led us on a tour of the property and an introduction to some of the animals there. We stopped a couple of times to feed them some carrots and take some pictures.

We also made a couple of stops to taste some of the label's wines. The weather was very nice, after some heavy rains, and we all had a good time.

Aimee met up with us a few minutes after this picture was taken. She didn't think riding on the safari truck was going to work out for her. We all spent an hour or so at the outdoor tasting room enjoying some snacks and live music with some more wine.

Tree Removal

After the big tree fell in the backyard we had some guys come to clean it up and haul it away. While they were here we had them cut down and haul away a number of other trees in the yard also.

We were planning on getting that work done in a few months anyway but we went ahead and got it all done at once.

We are planning on putting a deck in the backyard and some of these trees were either going to be in the way or were not the type of tree we want to have. There were also a couple of trees, like the one above, that were deemed too close to the house and so they had to come down also. One of those was right in front of the house and its absence gives the front a very different look.