Yep, it was a 2 for 1 night. Wow! Very strange!

I’m a bit hesitant about posting my dreams on my blog, but if Wreggie has the courage to do it, then certainly I can, too. I await massive amounts of commentary from the dream interpreters of the blogosphere…..

Last night was a very bizarre and vivid dream night. The first dream I remember concerned an invisible evil. Actually, they both did, but in different ways…..

In the first dream, I was living in a house somewhere (maybe my birth city?) which seemed to be a combination of a house that I once owned, and my grandmother’s house. I had been away for a while and came back to find my daughter and a friend of hers staying there. They had redone certain things at my house to sort of Feng Shui it, or more to make the invisible evil force less likely to affect us. In particular, they had added certain colored curtains to the colorful ones I already had. It would ward off the evil. But they ran out of actual curtain panels and were forced to use a table cloth for one of them. We were supposed to close the curtains to keep the evil out, which we did.

We were discussing this and went into another room (one without special curtain colors) to find our cat, Milo fighting with some invisible force! It was the evil! I tried to save Milo from it by screaming at it, and I actually screamed out loud and woke myself up.

Phew!

I’ve had a LOT of trouble sleeping this week, but I had just had this terrible dream and didn’t want to fall right back asleep in case I fell into the same dream. That would suck, so I tried to keep myself awake a while. And eventually I slept and fell into another dream where my husband and I were at some sort of outdoor learning camp or workshop. We knew we were only going to be able to incorporate what we learned here for four days each week and would be too busy the rest of the time to carry through with it, so we decided not to buy the books. The “workshop” was run by one of our friends, and, while it was going on, my husband became dizzy and had to lie down in the grass.

While I was comforting him, my eyes started stinging and I could not see. Eventually, we realized that we had been sprayed with some sort of “atomized irritant” (invisible evil) that made him dizzy, and fortunately, I hadn’t inhaled (hahaha), so it only affected my eyes. The “workshop” we were attending was supposed to help us avoid these problems, so we decided that we needed to use these skills (or whatever) EVERY DAY, and needed to buy the books. Next thing we knew a HUGE box full of books was in front of us.

Then I woke up.

Well, it took a few days to put it all together, but here’s the video of our Balloon ride with Dominic and crew of D and D Ballooning.

More photos to follow, maybe…

Between Temecula and Falbrook (Avocado capital of the world….mmmm!) lies a little town called Rainbow. The valley has many nurseries where flowers and ornamental plants are grown. It’s a nice small community, but still pretty close to the freeway, so you can hear the roaring traffic from there.

The Rainbow Inn Bed and Breakfast is an adorable little cottage that was originally a horse stable on a hill overlooking Rainbow valley. Dona and Scott, the owners are a very sweet couple who have lovingly created a welcoming, cozy, and very private little hideaway.

When we arrived there on Monday afternoon, after driving from Brea, stopping at a couple of biodiesel places along the way, and having lunch at a Mexican restaurant called “The Bank” in Old Town Temecula, we were greeted with a sign in the driveway which read, “Welcome Terry and Michael!” How sweet!

There are little trails and cute signs all around the property. The first one I saw said, “Watch for Freddys”. I couldn’t wait to ask what it meant. Dona told me that when her granddaughter was little, she couldn’t say the word “lizard”, so she decided to call a lizard a “Freddy”, since she could say that word! Adorable!

Unfortunately, we never saw any lizards, or Freddys .

We had a fabulous view from a deck overlooking the valley and could see the fog blanket in the mornings between the hilltops. The private pool was nice and warm, and the first time we went in we heard a strange sounding “bird” in a nearby tree. Michael said it sounded like rusty clippers, so we called it a “rusty clipper” - a new species we discovered! It kept chirping and chirping but we couldn’t see it in the tree, so I moved as far over on the other end of the pool as possible, and there it was on a rock behind the tree…..but it was a ground squirrel. It just sat there yelling for something that we couldn’t figure out. Maybe sometimes Dona and Scott feed him? Who knows. He was cute though, and we saw a few more of them as we wandered around the property where signs said things like “this way to secret hiding place”, and “live your dreams”, and “never mind stopping to smell the roses, look at the birds flying around!” My favorite, though was, “Age improves with wine!”

At one point, we saw some large raptors on a utility pole very close to the main house. There were two of them sitting there and two more arrived later. Michael thought they were California condors, but I thought they were vultures. The info in the cottage confirmed my suspicions, I used to see turkey vultures frequently in New England, but wasn’t sure if they were found on the west coast, too. Now we know.

As we traveled in the woods on foot, with Biggie, we’d check the skies periodically to make sure no big birds of prey were eying him as a tasty morsel. He survived! And we didn’t see any rattlesnakes, either, that would have been scary.

We loved the Rainbow Inn and highly recommend it for anyone traveling through this area. There is no minimum stay and it is comfortable and clean. Oh, and it has a HUGE library of books. Most of the walls of the living area are bookshelves stuffed with novels, historical accounts, dictionaries, you name it. I couldn’t even begin to delve in, I know I would never have gotten out. Well, except for one, called, “The Joy of Lex”, which is an amusing compilation of sayings and language intricacies that make up modern English. A lot of fun!