People: Just Wanna Have Fun?

Ladies Laughing

 

 

Local improv actors and visiting players from the Central Coast and the Bay Area will get together for some family friendly fun on Saturday night, Nov. 5, for a “Mix’n’Match iMPRoV Show” at the Christian Church of Pacific Grove.

Located at 442 Central Ave., the sanctuary of this historic church is both a beautiful and intimate setting for theater and musical performances.

The show starts at 7:30pm, and general admission is $10. For more info call 831-372-0363.

 

Here’s a Place to Have Even More Fun (for $999/week)

This two bedroom/one bath Pacific Grove apartment is a hop and a skip to the coastal recreational trail, where you can enjoy the improv antics of local sea otters.

And it’s just around the corner from the Monarch Grove Butterfly Sanctuary, where thousands of fluttering beauties are spending their winter in a lovely, protected eucalyptus grove.

Contact debra@montereyrentals.com

The “Lost Art” of Home-Canning Produce

The town of Pacific Grove is straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting, and so are these upcoming baking and home-canning workshops at the Happy Girl Kitchen Company.

Happy Girl—purveyor of organic “food that feeds your soul”—is our source for all things wonderful in the world of jams and preserves: from pickled vegetables to luscious fruit preserves (and summertime strawberry lemonade). It’s a great place to pick up a gift, or a light breakfast/lunch.

These hands-on sessions will teach you home-canning techniques so you can preserve and eat local foods year round.

They each include an organic lunch made from local produce—and of course you’ll get to take home an assortment of each recipe.

Each workshop runs from 10 am to 3 pm at at Happy Girl’s store/cafe/kitchen (173 Central Avenue, Pacific Grove), and the fees run from $110-$135 per person.

Share the Aloha

Luxury Princeville Kauai Vacation Home RentalSix nights in a luxury 4 bedroom home on Kauai?

And that’s just the second prize!

We’re holding a fundraiser for Jay Killen, a long time friend and client of Monterey Bay Property Management. Jay was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease ten years ago and has recently undergone deep brain surgery – his resources are exhausted and he needs our help with medical bills, treatment and medications.

We’re having a drawing on Labor Day, September 5th: first prize winner will receive 50% of total ticket sales (with the other half going to the Jay Killen Fund), second prize is a 7-day/6-night stay at Lei Aloha in Princeville, Kauai (valued at over $3,000), and third prize is a set of Hawaiian earrings, necklace, and bracelet handmade by Jay’s wife Vance.

Tickets are $5 each, or five tickets for $20. Look for the Monterey Bay Property Management booth at the Good Old Days Festival in Pacific Grove this weekend, April 9-10, or buy tickets at our Pacific Grove office, 650 Lighthouse Ave., Suite 105.

California Bloomin’

wildflowers_pacificgrove_pink50th ANNUAL WILDFLOWER SHOW

The hills are alive… April is peak wildflower season in Monterey County-and the 50th Annual Wildflower Show April 15-17 in Pacific Grove is a rare opportunity to view over 600 varieties at one of largest such shows in the world.

This Golden Anniversary event, held at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, will feature the wildflowers of the California central coast as well as basket weaving demonstrations, sketching classes, lectures, and arts-and-crafts for kids.

WILDFLOWER WALKS AT POINT LOBOS

Meanwhile, everything’s coming up Eschscholzia californica (California poppies) at Point Lobos, where the Monterey Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will lead an easy four-mile “Peak of Wildflower Season” walk on April 20. For more info, or to make a reservation call (831) 375-7777.

547afamily_jpgNEED A PLACE TO STAY IN PACIFIC GROVE (WHILE PERUSING POSIES)?

Sea otters, seals, tidepools, pocket beaches and a mile-long coastal trail…

If you love the beach, look no further than this 4 bedroom/3 bath beauty just one block from the white sand dunes of Asilomar State Beach.