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September 30, 2026

Quote of the Day

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

~ Franklin Pierce Adams

This Day in History

September 30, 1928: Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and bestselling author, is born. On this day in 1928, Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel, the human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of more than 50 books, including Night, an internationally acclaimed memoir based on his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, is born in Sighet, Transylvania (present-day Romania).

In May 1944, the Nazis deported 15-year-old Wiesel and his family to Auschwitz, a concentration camp in Poland. Wiesel’s mother and the youngest of his three sisters died at Auschwitz, while he and his father later were moved to another camp, Buchenwald, located in Germany. Wiesel’s father died at Buchenwald just months before it was liberated by Allied troops in April 1945.

Following the war, Wiesel spent time in a French orphanage, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and went on to work as a journalist in France. In the early 1950s, he broke a self-imposed vow not to speak about the atrocities he witnessed at the concentration camps and penned the first version of Night in Yiddish, under the title Un di Velt Hot Geshvign (“And the World Remained Silent”). At the encouragement of Nobel laureate and prominent French writer Francois Mauriac, Wiesel reworked the manuscript in French.

After the publication of Night, Wiesel wrote dozens of works of fiction and nonfiction, lectured widely and crusaded against injustice and intolerance around the world. A professor at Boston University since the 1970s, he was instrumental in the founding of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and received numerous awards, including the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. Wiesel died on July 2, 2016. He was 87 years old.

Ojai Weather

Sunny – High 87 / Low 57

Total precipitation for the season – .04 inches

Lake Casitas water capacity – 95.2%

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

9:25 a.m.

There are no new listings for today.

Pic of the Day

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

10:25 a.m.

Four new or “coming soon” listings have come to the market since Friday:

940 Devereux Avenue – $949,500

1188 Woodland Avenue – $1,350,000

708 Cuyama Road – $3,800,000 (coming soon, 9/30)

301 Riverside Road – $950,000 (coming soon, 10/12)

Recently cancelled, withdrawn, or expired listings – back on the market as “new:”

10674 Creek Road – $699,000 (this had been recently withdrawn on 9/16).

Pic of the Day

Friday, September 25, 2026

2:20 p.m.

There is one new listing on the market:

10812 Encino Drive – $2,898,000

Have a great weekend!

Pic of the Day

Frenchie rarely slept well, for she lived in constant fear of her Master’s amorousness

Thursday, September 24, 2026

10:00 a.m.

There are four new listings on the market:

1275 Mariano Drive – $1,200,000

505 S. Ventura Street – $1,450,000

909 Grandview Avenue – $1,349,000

2175 Maricopa Highway – $1,295,000

Pic of the Day

I doubt this sign is necessary

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

9:45 a.m.

No new listings have come to market since Friday, but a previously expired listing is back on the market:

501 W. Eucalyptus Street – $1,500,000 (this had expired on 8/31).

Pic of the Day

The Employee of the Year moves into their new office

Friday, September 18, 2026

9:30 a.m.

There are three new listings on the market:

800 Oak Grove Court – $2,495,000

711 Drown Avenue – $1,400,000

1885 Maricopa Highway #17 – $399,000

Pic of the Day

So you say the motorcycle comes *with* the house? Is that set in stone?

Thursday, September 17, 2026

9:45 a.m.

There are no new listings on the market, but a previously expired listing came back on the market:

757 McNell Road – $1,685,000 (this had recently expired on 8/31).

Pic of the Day

“My Momma always said life was like a box of….is it just me, or is it hot out here?”

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

9:45 a.m.

One new listing has come to the market since Friday:

2045 S. Rice Road – $1,639,000

Recently cancelled, withdrawn, or expired listings – back on the market as “new:”

12400 Ojai Santa Paula Road – $3,995,000. (This isn’t new, rather additional acreage was added to the listing that was previously separate.)

Pic of the Day

To sustain its high metabolism, the humminghorse must consume twice its body weight in calories each day.

(I realize this might be a donkey, but “hummingdonkey” didn’t have quite the same ring to it.)

Friday, September 11, 2026

11:15 a.m.

There are four new listings on the market:

479 W. Lomita Avenue – $979,000

601 Foothill Road – $6,200,000

1230 Foothill Road – $2,095,000

(This property was already in escrow when it was listed in the MLS)

Calle Moreno land parcel – $1,200,000

Recently cancelled, withdrawn, or expired listings – back on the market as “new:”

1225 Shippee Lane – $10,900,000 (this had recently been cancelled on 9/8). As of this writing, there are no photos for the current listing. Here’s a link to the old listing that has photos.