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Bay seniors, despite the closing of too many State parks, have to be encouraged by the impressive list of activities cooked up this summer by the ever imaginative East Bay Parks District. Does any other organization offer Bat Monitoring in an abandoned mine? What about Rope Making and Hay Hoisting, Farm Laundering and Victorian Tabletop games? […]

Crab prices are still giving Bay Area consumers shell shock. So why not net your own at the nearest Bay wharf? Rangers from Golden Gate National Parks will be holding free crab catching classes on Saturday mornings 10 a.m. to noon March through October. They will be scheduled at the pier next to Fort Point at […]

Bay Area seniors suffering from shopping fatigue at stores offering the same old same old, should check out Paxton Gate in the Mission. It’s on the eccentric Edwardian side with curious plants, jewelry, fossils and anything else that strikes the owner’s peculiar fancy. In addition they offer classes (many for your grandkids). Coming up on […]

What Bay Area seniors could use right now is a blanket. Or better yet a quilt. Or even better, a nice, warm quilt you’ve sewn yourself. Classes in quilting abound around the Bay.Two of the most highly regarded are at New Pieces in Berkeley and the Modern Quilt Guild in the South Bay. For information […]

Deadheading, at least for gardeners, has nothing to do with that seminal rock band. It’s all about pruning your roses for the coming season. On January 8 and 15 the Redwood Empire Rose Society will host FREE pruning demonstrations at the Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center in Santa Rosa. Not a lot more information […]

Bay Area seniors who always wanted to direct can now do it without setting foot in Hollywood. Let your fingers do the walking to extranormal.com a new site which provides Pixarish cartoon graphics. You provide the script. And don’t worry about budgets. Extranormal is free. Then like the techo wizard you are you can send […]

Silicon is not only the stuff of microchips. For much longer it’s been the main ingredient in recipes for glass. Appropriate then that one of the Bay Area’s premier glass workshops, the Bay Area Glass Institute, is located in San Jose, silicon central. They offer four day glasses for beginners, even seniors with hardy lungs, […]

Bay Area seniors with creative grandkids getting restless over the holidays might well consider taking them to the Renegade Craft Fair, part of the pop-up exhibits of the currently homeless Museum of Craft and Design. On Saturday Dec. 18 they are offering a class on making pop-up cards. It’s from  12-6 and it’s free.