NEIGHBORS : Air Mail : Postal boxes on high catch the eye of motorists near Nick Medina’s Oak View home.

And you thought your mail delivery was up in the air?

Nick Medina of Oak View decided to have some fun with mailboxes and built a couple of extra-tall versions to go with his more normal-sized model.

As the accompanying photo illustrates, the tallest mailbox even dwarfs Medina’s house.

“People go by and slow down and point at it,” said Medina’s wife, Elvira. “A lot of people give directions by saying, ‘Just go past the mailbox.’ ” As far as she knows no one has actually tried to deposit any mail up top.

Ojai artist Suzanne Dix used to have a recurring dream:

“What it was, was me climbing stairs,” she said. “It was always different stairs. Sometimes it was ladders attached to ladders. Sometimes it was stone steps or brick stairs. It was always infinite space, it was black. It was always accompanied by a great deal of fear for me.”

So what did Dix do? She turned her dream into a lithograph.

Shortly after the lithograph was completed Dix had the dream again, but this time with a new twist. “It was just fantastic. I was on a ladder from a fire truck, but it was longer than any ladder that a fire truck could accommodate. And this time I could see--there were mountains, daylight. I was still scared, but it was exhilarating. I could see I had broken through.”

Dix interpreted the dream as a symbol of her fear of “going to the next level” in life. Seeing the dream on paper allowed her to deal with her fear. Now Dix is offering to do commissioned artwork of other people’s dreams, with the belief that she can help her clients in the same way.

So far, Dix has only had a few takers--some very close friends. In the meantime she continues to exhibit her surrealistic work. She and her paintings will be at the back arbor behind the Kindred Spirit at 327 E. Ojai Ave. this weekend as part of a three-woman show titled “Two Blondes & A Brunette.” Dix is one of the blondes.

Speaking of dreams--Lester Wilson has one and he’d like one more shot at making it come true.

The veteran South Coast Area Transit (SCAT) driver wasn’t all that pleased with his 18th-place finish at the international bus roadeo earlier this month in Canada. He was eligible for the obstacle course-skills competition after winning this year’s local version of the competition.

“I hope to be back next year. I know I can do better than what I did in Toronto,” he said. “I have to bear down and go at it.”

Sound a bit like a boxer after losing a big fight? That’s not all that surprising. Wilson prepared for the event the way an athlete would. “I usually like to go to the gym,” he said. “I did some swimming, some bike riding, stuff like that. When I’m here (in Ventura County) I like to go out and jog five or seven miles just to relax myself.”

As for actually preparing for the obstacle course, Wilson gets plenty of practice just trying to make it across California 118 in Saticoy on his daily route.

Well, Halloween is almost upon us. And it seems like only yesterday that Halloween Adventure stores opened in Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley. Actually they opened in late August.

Back then Lennie Goldman, the western sales coordinator for the costume chain, predicted that the The Terminator, Robin Hood, President Bush and Mikhail S. Gorbachev would be among the hottest properties this year.

And right he was. But the surprise success stories of the year are the odd team of Pee-wee Herman and Barbara Bush. (Sold separately.) And no, said Goldman, Supreme Court justices’ outfits are not in great demand.