All happy Californians - please check in here!

[KitchenWitch]

:popcorn:

[caligirl]

1. here. Northern Cal and its warm

[kestrel91316]

2. I'm happy - to be far enough away from any fires that I'm not personally

at risk.

[begin_within]

3. Happy that the winds have died down, but that's all. Still very hot and smoky.

I'll be truly happy when the fires are out, the president is gone, light rain starts falling and everyone has a place to live again.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

43. I agree with BW here

I am happy my house is okay.

That my family is okay.

That we never lost the electricity.

And that we have good food to eat and are not out on a slab of asphalt at Qualcomm.

Bush will be here tomorrow.

That makes Gilligan cry.

[tandot]

4. Northern California (Placer County) here

Hope you are all doing as good as you can down there :hi:

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. Salute

Agoura/Calabasas. Actually mildly bumming today but I'm alive and nothing's on fire around here, so what's to complain about?

[lost-in-nj]

6. hey

what are you doing over here????
:shrug: :shrug:

your eating pop corn I see........

are you happy??
cause you know
if you are
I am!!!!


:bounce: :bounce:

lost

[Critters2]

7. Aren't you all happy?! That's what Arnie said this morning!!

I'm thinking of you, KW.

[KitchenWitch]

9. Thank you.

And I thank DU for giving me a forum for venting my angst.

[Critters2]

11. Vent away!! God knows, you've earned it!! nt

[Critters2]

10. Delete Wrong place

[EFerrari]

34. I totally missed the reference because I can't listen to the SOB.

:hug:

[silverweb]

8. My family's all safe.

I'm on the coast just south of the border. Now that the winds have died down, we're finally able to start cleaning up the layer of gritty gray ash on everything.

My daughter is above it all, safe up Santa Cruz; my son is in LA, but says he is at no risk. Our hearts go out to those who have been displaced and have lost property.

Let's at least hope that any reconstruction is mandated to be more environmentally friendly and less flammable... though that's probably pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking.

[Raine]

12. I'm happy

that the area I live in wasn't in danger from the fires. The air is horrible, it's hard to breath and the sun has the funny look but I'm not suffering like those in the danger areas so I feel very lucky.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Happy Kollyforniyans come from Happy Cows

[AZBlue]

35. I'm with Sadie!

Up with naps & rainbows - there should be more!!!

(I'm not from CA but my heart goes out to all who are affected by these fires, so I just had to peak at this thread)

[Tikki]

14. From partially charred.....

Ventura County.

Sooty... but still loving it....

:hi:


The Tikkis

[mulsh]

15. Father-in-law in San Diego just e-mailed me, they're safe

They live in Bonita. His wife, their autistic son, and dog, bugged out as soon as the fire got close to them. He and his older son stayed to try save what ever the could. He said the hillside opposite their house burned but the fire fighters contained it about two streets away. They got the go-ahead to stay in their house.

I'm in northern CA, recovering from congestive heart failure that happened a month and a half ago. This week I've been slowly building stamina walking 1/4 to 1/2 a mile. today I went into SF and walked up to North Beach then back through Chinatown to Union Square and on to the Transbay terminal. my pedometer read a little over five miles when I got home. I don't feel tire, my heart didn't send scary messages. And I got home to good news from my family in San Diego. oh the weather up here is very nice and my wife will be home in an hour. life is good.

[trashcanistanista]

16. I am happy up here in Placer county that

we don't have any smoke and we have a brilliant blue sky and warm indian summer day and I am off work today. I am also happy that Condi got blood stained hands pushed in her face and it was captured on film. Tomorrow I will be back to being grossly unhappy about those who lost their homes in the fires and the state of our morally bankrupt government, the idiot gubernator, and the ongoing demise of America as we once knew it. :hi:

[piesRsquare]

17. Safe and Sound SF Bay'er here...

...though unhappy. Thank you for this thread. I love California.

Hope you and yours are safe and well, KitchenWitch... :hug:

[maveric]

18. Safe in Ocean Beach, San Diego. My kids are in East County...

and were on alert for two days. The fire never got that close thank goddess. All is well with them.
We are pretty insulated from the fire zone. Right on the ocean with the whole city/county to the east of us. Just a bit of smoke in the air and some ash.
My heart goes out to all that lost in this tragedy. We were lucky out here.

[puerco-bellies]

19. Happy to be out from under the house..

I am working on copper piping for a bathroom remodel. If I don't get our master bedroom shower done soon Ali is going to give me some tough love.. I don't think it will be as fun as it might sound.. and most certainly it won't be happy.
:hide:

I live in the Southbay section of Los Angeles a few blocks from CaliforniaPeggy. I think we are in the safest section of Los Angeles from anything but a huge earthquake.

[KitchenWitch]

20. Glad you are safe!

I wondered where you lived.

[bridgit]

21. i don't know from 'happy' with all the driving we have to do, but i'm here...

yeah screw it after all i'm happy so sue me :)

[KitchenWitch]

22. Well I am happy that you are happy!

:hi:

[bridgit]

23. Yippie!!

:hi: :hug: feeling better? a little bit maybe i hope :pals:

[KitchenWitch]

24. I am actually quite numb

I highly recommend this feeling.

[bridgit]

28. 'numb' can be a sign of life, after what you've been through...

numb is a good thing and to be expected imo, after this you'll be able to drink tap water!! :loveya:

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Yo

here happy, and pass some popcorn

Need to get ready for my yoga class

;-)

[Hepburn]

26. South Bay ~~ Palos Verdes Penn ~~ checking in!

:hi: Howdy to all my fellow DUers...and thanks for all of the concern for us in Calif!

[alittlelark]

27. Happy and safe in Los Altos!

My son's school had a bake sale for San Diego fire relief today - the cookies were 50cents... they ran out of cookies (they had 500 or so).

They are ratcheting up their cookie stock up for tommorrow!

[TahitiNut]

31. Go for a walk in the San Antonio Open Space ...

... and think of me wishing I was back there. :cry:

[alittlelark]

32. It's 1/4 mi. up the street (Mora)

I'll think of you on my walk tomorrow.

[TahitiNut]

38. Once upon a time (83-92), I owned a condo at Foothill & Stevens Creek on ...

... Queens Oak Court. Rancho San Antonio was my favorite place to walk 5-8 miles ... about 2-3 times a week. I'd start at the "horse" parking lot and, after loopin around, finish at the farm and enjoy the animules. I miss it.

[alittlelark]

39. I was a docent at Rancho San Antonio for a few months

It is a beautiful stretch of open space and nature.


PS - Did you hear about the drug bust? http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/August/03/breaking/stories/05breaking.htm

[TahitiNut]

40. I hadn't heard ... but I'd guess it's Foothill College students.

Too bad all that prime bud went to waste. :cry:

[alittlelark]

42. There were heavy sighs heard up and down Silicon Valley

the day the story broke...... :smoke:

[GRLMGC]

29. Well I'm thankful to be safe

I'm in Chatsworth where there was a fire which seems to have been contained. I can't really be happy since so many people are in danger of losing everything.

[EFerrari]

30. San Francisco, breezy clear night.

:hug:

[Raksha]

33. I'm in San Bernardino and an hour from the nearest fires,

so I'm happy about that. Worried about a friend in the San Bernardino mountains that I haven't been able to contact, though.

[LeftyMom]

36. It's boring up here, as usual.

Midterms are done, I'm too tired to be emotional about anything.

[kineneb]

37. Lake Co., home of Clear Lake, and Mt. Konocti, checking in

we are fine, have been having warm fall days and coolish nights (elevation:1325), leaves on the aspens turning lovely shades of yellow-gold...

hoping Auntie in La Jolla is ok... was told she got an evacuation order yesterday, even though she is close to I-5...

[tyedyeto]

41. Former NoCal, now in AZ

My son was evac'd from Ramona while visiting his g/f. They are safe and the g/f's house is ok. My daughter lives in NoCal and is ok.

I feel for all those in the fire areas. I lived through the Stanislaus Complex Fire in 1987 and was evacuated for over a week. I would never wish that agnst on anyone. Yes, possessions are only things but they also create memories. When you lose many of those memories, it can have a tremendous impact on family life.

Cherish what you have and keep the memories in your hearts forever.