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a lot to do, there still is. You know were having the migratory birds go through now, a lot
of them have already gone through, but they know about this pond, so the whole flock
will come charging out of the sky and we have bird feeders and so forth, but they bathe
under the little waterfall under here, so they'll spend an hour or so here and then go on,
and then a different kind of bird will come by. It's really fascinating, we still have lots of
coyotes, we have deer, we had wonderful bears, occasionally bears, but I haven't seen
any since they put in this five lane highway, and they were eventually picked off on that
highway, there's all kinds of critters. We all, each one of us had our own horses, we spent
a lot of time on those horses, we used to play hide and seek in the orchards, at a gallop,
dad didn't like that idea very much it didn't help the irrigation channels. So anyway I
have great hopes that my children will be, well they own a part of it, they will carry with
maintaining it, cause dad always said there will probably be a time in the future when
what generation, its not this one, and I hope its not the next one, but after that what can
you say, things change so much, with this whole agreement to keep all of this in
agriculture for all those years we still have at least 15 years, I don't know exactly how
many years left, but you can't develop this, we don't want to develop this! I'm sure at
some point, but I want to be sure that preserving these 12 acres, now that we're a national
landmark and were non profit, ect, ect, but no matter what happens around us this will be
preserved.

MD: It really is too beautiful to let it get taken away.

TAPE 1 SDIE BENDS AT TAPE COUNTER 365

BEGIN SHORT INTERVIEW ON TAPE 2

SRL: You know up in what we called the rose room, do you know about the rose room?

MD: A little not too much.

SRL: One of the del Valle daughters, collected, went out and collected rose petals every day,
and she would stack them in that room on the floor and once a year a man with a donkey
train would come through and he would buy them, those rose things and send them to one
of the countries in Europe for making perfumes. So over the years the adobe absorbed the
scent of the roses and even to this day on a rainy day you go in there and you can sniff
the rose scent if you got a good sniffer, I'm loosing my sniffer. Anyway, and then as we
got older my older sister had the room that's next to the garage up there, and Boo and I
had the room that's just off of the big living room here, between the living room and the
master bedroom, and the big bathroom is in between, and we were there for years, very
happily. But as we got older and my sister moved away, and I was moved into her room
and Boo was moved into this comer room here, that Von used to have when she was our
teacher, and so we had our own rooms that really through our older teen years, but you
know we were in each other rooms a lot. But as we went through different ages we were
in different places, so that's what families do who have enough room to move around.
But the master bedroom has always been there, and of course when dad and mother

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