LAGUNA SNOOPING: More than a thousand people...

LAGUNA SNOOPING: More than a thousand people will be touring Laguna Beach on Sunday, not for fire-damage gawking, but to look at some of the finer homes not destroyed. The long-planned tour of five interior designers’ private homes there, called “Sunday Snoop,” is still on, says spokeswoman Dede Ginter. The $18 from each tour bus rider goes toward the COPES shelter for abused children in Santa Ana. . . . “We’ve been sweating this all week,” Ginter says. One reason: Designer Lydia Wang’s home on the tour was just a house or two away from the fire.

GOAT LAND: Mary Murphy’s Rancho Carrillo ranch home was one of 12 destroyed by the Ortega Highway fire last week. One dilemma Murphy, 61, faced was what to do with her 16 goats that survived the fire. She was in luck. . . . Her daughter works at Disneyland’s corral, and the amusement park picked up the animals and will take care of the goats for now. Some of the goats will also be used at Disneyland’s Big Thunder Ranch petting zoo.

DONKEY LAND? Since last year’s local GOP defections to the Clinton camp, Democrats have been looking upon Orange County as new turf to be tilled. Example: Democratic National Chairman David Wilhelm on Monday makes his third visit here, to talk to the local Democratic Foundation--the party’s movers and shakers--in Newport Beach. Foundation spokeswoman Ann Marie Piring suggests about the party brass: “They see this county as ripe for the picking from the Republicans.”

PAY TO SELL? Home garage sales are as routine on Orange County weekends as swap meets or going to the beach. But in tiny La Palma, officials have tired of the “blight” of all the yard sale flyers left on utility poles. . . . The City Council next month will consider limiting residents to two yard sales per year. Some residents are apparently holding them every week. Says city staffer Paul Pitts: “We are just trying to keep La Palma beautiful.”