Fun in San Francisco!

Had a nice time going to the PPC Northern CA Expo yesterday. I also brought my daughter and her two friends, and had a chance to visit my old UCDMC RN buddy, Michele, in Pacifica. We ended the evening by going to Fisherman's wharf and walking around, and checking out the street scene!



Heading over to the coast to foggy Pacifica!

In the 50's and foggy...typical SF weather in summer

Michele and her daugther, Katie

Annelise and her friends having fun on the trampoline!

Watching a street artist create wall art using spray paint, a paint scraper, and other tools.

Totally amazing!

Watching him paint!

The sunglasses divas!

Lights of San Francisco from my truck

The Franciscan Restaurant at Fisherman's Wharf

Check out this cool little film

This film was made by Chi Chi Zhang for her Master's thesis while attending the University of Miami. The rights were bought out by Warner Bros. I just met her today and had a great time talking to her about it and how she filmed this. She wrote this, produced and directed it, as well as doing the voice over. She said the story is true, it about a little girl, (her grandmother) and how she sees the world through her big sister's eyes. After the opening scene, it shows her sister waiting on a potential groom to come call on her. She is already 16 years old, and at that time in China, a young lady usually had someone proposing to her by age 10 or 11. Very creative, nicely done and beautiful lighting. Check it out!

This is priceless!!

My Solar Cooker!

So I bought this solar cooker about 20 years ago at the state fair from Solar Cookers International, based here in Sacramento. I think it is a great concept: they provide these "cookers" to people in Africa and other hot dry areas where they don't have stoves or fuel to cook on, and no trees left to cut down for cooking either. All you need is the solar cooker, a dark or black cooking pan, a big plastic bag that came with, like the one you put your turkey in at Thanksgiving. I had it out in the direct sun for about 6 hours when it was about 105 degrees outside. You can see the results below. Everything was very moist and tasty. Hey - we have all of this sunshine in Sacramento, might as well give it a try. The trick is, like crock pots, to get it ready early and let it cook all day.





I tried using my rice cooker to see if it would work. The results were so - so, plus the pot was not dark enough.

Bayside of South Sacramento Church

Click here to see a news clip from "Saved in the Shade", our church's annual picnic and community outreach this past Sunday.