Tess' Kitchen Store in Grass Valley, CA, featuring 3 floors, and classes

On my next visit to Grass Valley, CA, I want to go to Tess' Kitchen Store.  This place features 3 floors and is 6,400 square feet!  Also, they offer cooking classes!

Resources:

Tess' Kitchen Store
115 Mill Street
Downtown Grass Valley
tesskitchenstore.

Garin Park Apple Festival- old fashioned apple fun!

We had a great time at the Garin Park Apple Festival on September 6th.  Highlights included a tour of the apple orchard, tasting antique apples, eating home-made ice cream and fudge, trying out stilts, and playing tug-of-war.

Garin Park is in the East Bay Hills above Hayward.  The apple orchard there includes apple trees of all sorts -- "ancient apples" that you typically do not find in any grocery store.  The tasting at the festival included roughly 24 different types of ancient apples.  Flavors ran from very tart to very sweet, and everything in between.

Blacksmith at work:

Dogs welcome:

 Pulley versus block-and-tackle system:

Band with Fiddle:

Block and tackle:

 Horse saddle:

Outside the barn:

 The barn:

Dogs allowed on leash:

The very dry but beautiful hills:

 Antique apple tasting:

Touring the orchard:

 Cow-milking simulation:

Looking down from the hills:

Using an old scrubbing board:

 Sack racing:

Woof:

Resources:

Garin Apple Festival
September 2014
Garin Park
Hayward, CA 

The Making Of Instruments, Works by Sung Kim, original instruments on display from Sept. to Nov.

Studio Grand has announced a 3 month residency for Sung Kim, who makes original instruments.  The studio is having his instruments on display.  The studio also has space for rent.

Resources:

The Making of Instruments
Works By Sung Kim
www.studiograndoakland.org
3234 Grand Avenue
Oakland, CA

Celebrate farming and pioneer past at the Garin Apple Festival today, Saturday, September 6, 2014

Today we are going to the Garin Apple Festival at the Garin Regional Park in Hayward, California.  There will be opportunities to celebrate farming and pioneer past at the park with hand cranked ice cream, pressed apple cider, music, dancing, and crafts.  This is also home to an antique apple orchard with varieties of fruit you won't find anywhere else.

Resources:

The Garin Apple Festival
Saturday, September 6, 2014
noon to 4PM
Garin Regional Park
1320 Garin Avenue
Hayward, CA
94544

Camping Lights-makes the tent or cabin look homey

We went to family camp this summer,and some of the people decked out their cabins in lights!

These are some of the lights they used:

Sienna 150 light icicles
indoor-outdoor use
www.Sears.com

String-A-Long
GE Contant ON miniature Lights

The Crawford Hotel, at Union Station in Denver, Colorado

When my son were traveling across country on Amtrak, we stopped to stretch our legs in Denver,Colorado and heard the buzz about the new Crawford Hotel, located within the Denver Amtrak train station.  This is a luxury hotel and I'm sure it is gorgeous!

Resources:

The Crawford Hotel
Union Station
Denver, Colorado
thecrawfordhotel.com/
(844) 432-9374
1701 Wynkoop Street
Denver, Colorado  80202

Upcoming Harvest Festival, October 11th and 12th, 2014- Ardenwood Historical Farm, Fremont, CA

There is a Harvest Festival on October 11th and 12th at Ardenwood Historical Farm in Fremont, CA.  Are you ready for harvest time on the farm?  Bring your family and join your friends to help bring in our corn crop.  Enjoy some down home country fun. Harvest Indian corn and popcorn and help fill our corn cribs.  Take home a share of our colorful corn for your holiday table.  Enjoy magic shows, cider pressing, old-time music and crafts. Ride the farm's train, visit our pumpkin patch and tour the beautifully restored Patterson House.  Bring your own bags to take home your harvest.

Resources:

Harvest Festival
Ardenwood Historical Farm
10AM- 5PM, Saturday & Sunday, October 11 & 12
Fee:  $10.00/adult, $8.00/senior (62+), $6/child (4-17 yrs.) and free/under 4 years. Free Parking.
34600 Ardenwood Blvd., Fremont, CA  94555