Michael: Manson Above; Lion Below

 Remnants from the storm;

The wandering summer clouds

Bring a light shower.

 Thursday, August 13, 2020

We had one of those David Lynch moments yesterday.

Two older white-haired women wearing masks walked up to our porch yesterday and first asked if our dog was friendly; which I gave an unusual for me but probably typical sounding country answer; sometimes.

After I got Luna to stop barking, they asked if we lived here. We said we’ve been renting the lower floor for a year and a half. The thinner of the two women then told us that her friend had grown up here and just wanted to look around.

She told us that in the 60s this was a bit of a cult house and that Charles Manson helped put the aerial on the roof up during one of his stays at the trailer he sometimes hid out in on the property right above us.

Below us she said the neighbor had a lion that intimidated one of the other neighbors so she believes it was secretly poisoned.

She said the house was just as she remembered it and we told her that our place was still divided into the two small rooms she described. They wanted to ask our landlords if they could walk around the property, but they weren’t home at the time. So they said goodbye and that was that.

KImme googled Topanga and Manson and discovered that Rolling Stone had reported that he hid out in two places in Topanga, so her story checks out.

It was an interesting tid bit completely out of the blue and an otherwise lazy afternoon that we’ll now never forget.