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February Fun Cholla Bay

 

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Three significant events highlighted February in Cholla. I have to start with the most significant, Owen Kelly’s 70th birthday. To celebrate Owen and Shirley hosted the hood to a scrumptious steak fry.  Owen enjoys cooking and is thankfully in the cattle business since he cooked for 40 guests.

 

Photos.. Some of the steaks below and the hood working up an Appetite Friday night at Wrecked.

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Check out the evening

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Very fun and emotional night for Owen. We’re so happy to have shared it with him.

Happy Birthday Owen.

 

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4 other birthdays were also celebrated (Alysha, Heather, Carol & Scott). Happy Birthday.

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Whale Delight

 

Another huge event was Gill’s whale shots she captured on Gato Loco and shared. They soon went viro appearing on all the news networks and worldwide on the internet.

 

This is a mama with her young one always near by. She has been identified by  her spot under her tail fin resulting in her name of Dottie.

 

Amazing photos. Check out Mike’s video and Gill’s interview on a local Phoenix station.

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Whale watchers on Gato Loco (again, again). GPS tracks when chasing whales instead of sailing.

 

 

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Gill’s interview on local Phoenix tv station

 

 

 

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Hood shots

 

Storms and beautiful sunsets.

 

Dave and Kelley hosted a delicious  pork taco evening at the Bedrock Palapa Bar (their back yard)

 

 

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Lots of work on our Cholla Casa. 2000 sq/ft of tile installed to recover the floor damage from the September flood.

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It started in the living room installing 20” porcelain tile over the old concrete tile. Garage full of tile, thin set and grout.

 

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The whole job was done in 2 weeks. Frankie and I were busy moving furniture, staging, cleaning and of course Frankie doing lots of redecorating.

 

We (Frankie especially) are loving the results.

 

Oscar’s team did the work with Lalo the tile mistro laying the tile and Reese doing the cutting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The results. Smile

 

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Tile has stone textured surface and grain. Neely and Cholla love it…

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Meet the new neighbors.

 

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Mike and Gill have been showing them the Hoodlum activities. They are catching on fast.!!

 

They also adopted Mad Max.

 

Yum.. AguaChile

 

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That’s it for now…

Until the next update

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6 Responses to “February Fun Cholla Bay”

  1. gill Says:
    February 27th, 2013 at 7:18 pm

    Another great blog Lowell!! Every moment captured brilliantly!! Boy we do manage to fit a lot of stuff into one month! Your Casa is beyond stunning!! Can’t wait to start the process here!! Hurry home! xo

  2. Brenda Wilson Says:
    February 27th, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    Thanks for sharing. Love all the pictures. The Birthday looked very special. The house tile looks fabulous. The whale pictures and video was amazing.

  3. okie dokie Says:
    February 28th, 2013 at 12:55 am

    Great Job, Love Ya All. Lowell, as promised, I’ll do it for your 70th.

  4. okie dokie Says:
    February 28th, 2013 at 2:41 am

    Anita and Darrel forgot to mention-you can see the shots you brought by were really appreciated, notice the way Gill opened the bottle.

  5. gill Says:
    February 28th, 2013 at 3:20 am

    Lol!! Where there is a need… there is a way! xoxo

  6. Sally Dalton Says:
    February 28th, 2013 at 3:49 am

    awesome – life is good. 🙂

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