The western edge of Golden Gate Park is home to two windmills. The southernmost windmill is know as Murphy Windmill and the one pictured above is called Dutch Windmill and is surrounded by the Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden. It’s spring and the tulips were in bloom when my daughters and I went for a visit […]
Episode 22: Friday Five by Claudya on IGTV
Hola, hola, hola! Hope you are doing well. I’m a’ight and finally got around to making another episode of Friday Five by Claudya on IGTV. This one like all of them is filled with five musings of my choice. I’m such a muser, perhaps that’s why I amuse myself so much! 😂 This week I […]
Lead With Love
View this post on Instagram This year I am doing a combination word of the year/resolution. My word is “love” and it might seem like a loosey-goosey feel-good word to choose that doesn’t really have a specific direction, but it’s actually broad, all-encompassing and specific. It ties into my resolution because the idea is that […]
DIY Hand-Painted Day of the Dead Owls
Hola, this post is part of a sponsored collaboration with SFGoodwill. They challenged me to head to one of their stores and find something to create a DIY project out of. Challenge accepted! I went, I saw, I purchased and I made these hand-painted Day of the Dead owls from plain ceramic owls I found […]
Ramen Yamadaya
My husband is going to Japan next month. Lucky dog! The rest of us will not be joining him, but we did go to Japantown in San Francisco this weekend and enjoyed some Japanese food at Ramen Yamadaya. They specialize in Tonkotsu broth ramen, which gets its rich flavor from pork bones that have been […]
Pigeon Point Lighthouse
Pigeon Point Lighthouse The beautiful Pigeon Point Lighthouse has been standing 115 feet tall and saving lives along the rocky San Mateo shore since 1872. The area used to be called Punta de las Ballenas until the awful 1853 Carrier Pigeon shipwreck. We took a family trip there a few weeks ago and just took […]
Family Hike at Mile Rock Beach
A day at the beach in San Francisco rarely involves bathing suits for us. Even when it’s warm the water tends to be FRRRR-EEE-ZZZ-ING. That doesn’t stop people from flocking to the beaches anyway, we just bundle up like we did on our recent visit to Mile Rock Beach at Lands End in San Francisco. […]
Episode 21: Friday Five by Claudya on IGTV
Hola, hola, hola! Claudya here, sharing episode 21 of Friday Five by Claudya on IGTV. It has been cold and rainy in San Francisco. So much so that I’ve been feeling way to blue to do much of anything, but it’s time to rally and put myself out there again and by “putting myself out […]
Pulgas Water Temple
My husband took us to the Pulgas Water Temple recently. I never even knew it existed. Basically, it is a stone temple dedicated to water and it’s beautiful. One of the signs there reads: Here on October 28, 1934, an eager audience celebrated the roar of the Hetch Hetchy water as it rushed to the […]
Belated Family Valentine’s Date
Valentine’s Day this year was on a Thursday, then on Friday my eldest wasn’t feeling well and my hubby had plans with some friends, so we had to wait until the weekend to celebrate our family Valentine’s Date. We did so by going to Puerto Alegre. This is our favorite family restaurant and we go […]