Little or no surf today, Brooks Street had perhaps three foot swell. The last week of summer and as my son
bemoans, "the forecast is for having fog and the flu before school starts."

Unique Designs and Free Beer? at the Lab Today

THE LAB COSTA MESA Unique Designers and Fashion

My daughter and I swung by the Unique LA designers at the Lab yesterday. The event is also going today as well 11- 6  August 14^th and 15^th today!!!

This is outdoor fun. Stroll around and shop the booths like a craft fair. Do not forget to wear comfy shoes. The music is lively music. Free Sobe drinks and free something or other Tea free chips and Free Singha beer. I don’t drink beer but the locals seemed to be enjoying the “free” part … after paying a five dollar admission.

Great back to school shopping for my teenage son’s t-shirts. We found unique individual designs in super soft cotton for ten dollars. Son didn’t attend (as he hates to shop) but was happy with our finds. There are many booths of hand made and recycled created local jewelry art that sells in boutiques in town for hundreds of dollars. Big discounts on jewelry for gifts. I bought some to hide some for Christmas presents. Clothing made by individual designers who only wholesale. Highlights: Lolli bathing suits. Daughter found the cutest bikini with a bow back and very unique bubble pattern on the top.

Saturday and Sunday,11:00 am - 6:00 pm

Parking is a mess.

2930 Bristol St

Costa Mesa, CA 92626

METEORS Tonight Enjoy the Fun

Perseids TONIGHT  The Moon is just a couple of days past new at the shower's peak, so there will be no moonlight to interfere with the faint meteors. The shower should reach its peak in the hours after midnight O.K. I can't stay up but (before dawn on August 13), get your tripods out or just a sleeping bag with your loved one  a few dozen meteors we should see tonight an hour.


Orange County South - Laguna Beach sky is clear and cloudless. If I stay up past ten I'll send pictures.

Before You Buy Check Out Your Neighbors

I owned a home in Kite Hill and loved my neighbors. I bought the house that was a wreck and over a year of remodeling and landscaping it became the house everyone visited to barbeque or have dinner.
The house I live in now is beautiful but buyer beware.

The seller is not going to tell you the neighbor is nuts.

A few signs that might not mesh with normal family

1. The neighbor takes their big dog on walks and leaves odorous little blue bags all over the sidewalks.

2. The neighbor places their black Weber barbecue upwind from your kitchen windows then regularly ignites twelve ounces of lighter fluid to start their coals. Imagine the fireworks.

3. The neighbor uses piles of squirrel bait and rat poison to kill rabbits on their hillside then throws the dead creatures into your yard for your dogs to consume.

4. The neighbor complains about everything- your wind chimes (you take them down) your children swimming in the pool in the afternoon (you keep them quiet) your rose petals fly into their yard and they have no flowers ( you trim them all low on their adjacent wall).

5. When a freind comes over and parks a Mercedes in a legal parking space in front of your own home. The neighbor has the car towed claiming it is their own and the battery is dead.

6. The neighbor takes pictures of your teenage daughter and her girlfriends when they sunbathe (with bathing suits on).

7. One Saturday afternoon the neighbor calls the police, when you have pro Angels players in your backyard with the little league team. Fortunately, the Sherriff joins for two minutes. They have a turkey burger to go. They disclose that the neighbor made hundreds of nuisance calls a year about the previous owner with imaginary problems.

8. You avoid using chemicals. You try to be green. You go out of your way to save water. The neighbor has their yard and house sprayed with poisons twice a month and runs their sprinklers every day causing the hillside to be saturated. (You live in an area where other hillsides have slid )

9. The neighbor removes your Halloween decorations and discards them. The neighbor moves your Christmas lights.

10. The neighbor has their gardener use your green trash bins because they do not want to pay for them. When you lock your gate, the gardener climbs over and does it anyway.

11. The neighbor uses their cars as weapons. They swerve toward to frighten your children when they walk to school. Next she actually bumps your youngest child with her car and proceeds to yell at him.

12. The neighbor calls the Homeowner Association to complain about:

Your orchid greenhouse fan makes a ticking noise. Your carpenter repairing some siding leaves his saw in your own yard for a day. You must take down your basketball hoop – although there are forty others in the track.



All I can say is location location location. I love my view. I have a great home but I wish the neighbor would sell.