Catching Up with Ed and Karen

Catching Up with Ed and Karen
We now live in California's Sonoma Valley, north of San Francisco Bay ...All around us are picturesque vineyards.
We've retired after serving United Methodist churches in Washington State, AND as Resident Minister for the inter-denominational Christian ministries in both the Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks. [These vital ministries continue ...see http://www.acmnp.com/]

After living and traveling full-time in our 35-ft Motorhome RV for
seven years, we "hung up the keys" and settled into a cozy cottage in Sonoma , California. Here we are easy distance from our kids and grand-kids.

Check out our Blog Archive (below, right) about our various "where's" and "what's."

Thanks for visiting!

Thursday, February 28, 2013

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK MAKES!
 
Compare this photo with the post ("Snow") from a week ago...

...And our temps today are approaching 70 degF...

And here are Karen's crocus blooming in the pot outside our Motorhome door...

...Spring coming soon?  Hope so.


--Ed & Karen

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

SNOW (again)

We woke up this morning to this:

Taken from the deck outside our front door...

The worst part of it was the 8+hr power blackout the night before (!), BUT...
Happy to report that the propane furnace blower
operated just fine from our backup RV batteries (yea!").

Monday, February 18, 2013

Just HAD to share this...

 
This is our 21-mo old Grandaughter, Olive Rose, enjoying life!
She was at China Beach (northwestern San Francisco), Sunday Feb17...

...and yes, that's the Golden Gate Bridge in background.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO VISIT
 
Highlighting our week's visit to San Francisco was our time with our Grandchildren, which gives us the excuse to ask:
 
"...By the way, have we shown you pictures of our grandkids...?"

Here are Calvin (left, age 6) and Jason (age 4)
wearing shirts of their favorite baseball team.


Here, Calvin shows off his very own Baseball Mitt he got for Christmas...
did we tell you that he starts Little League this summer?


While he may be half-Chinese, Jason loves to eat Mexican quesadillas!

 
During our visit, Karen took grandaughter Olive Rose (age, not-quite two years) to a playground in Golden Gate Park.
Her parents live within walking distance of the Park. Now, isn't that cool?
(note San Francisco Victorian townhouses in the background)

At the Park, Olive loves to drink from the water fountain...


Here, Olive clutches two votive candles that she loved to smell...
(Karen brought them for her mama, but Olive claimed them immediately...)

As you can tell, we loved our week in San Francisco!