Turkey Time in Cholla, Many tales to tell
Okay, I’m a little late..
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As you can tell Scott, Adrianna & Mom joined us for Thanksgiving. Awesome warm weather made for a perfect Thanksgiving in Cholla.
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The kitchen aromas started early and we watched Scott eat his traditional turkey leg around 3. Later everybody from the Hood joined us for desert at sunset.
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After a yummy dinner, Scott took this picture of me taking advantage of a tryptophan nap after dinner. Perfect weather to nap in the shade.
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Big Wave Dave’s Tackle Shop (which includes a stripper pole Adrianna spins on)
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Thanksgiving night we rallied to make an appearance at JJ’s after stopping by the Bedrock Palapa bar. Running into Brad and Kim jumped the night up at bit. What’s a Purple Hooters? a drink I guess. Brad’s stereo had the Casa Linda machine a rockin, especially with Adrianna on the front bumper.
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Exercising on our beach front
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It’s easy to forget how cool the granite rocks are on our beach. It warms my spirits spending time among them and they create a great photo op.
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Marilyn was trying to clean house when we talked her into joining us and playing photographer.
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Laguna Del Mar
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Treated with a limo cart for our day of golf
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Brian & Heather’s anniversary dinner
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We are so blessed to see Brian eating meals like this again. We’re so happy for him.
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Dolphin wrangling
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We had the unfortunate landing of huge dead dolphin right in front of our house. It looked to be very old and probably lived a good life but we didn’t want it’s final resting place to be on our beach. Gill made arrangements to have Julio come tow it to sea. The problem, big waves last night sent it closer to shore and we still had wave action forcing Julio to anchor off shore and swim to shore with a line. Not the best condition, but with Julio’s strong swimming and with his good boating skills he single handedly managed to tow it away. A real feat.
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Mad Max, 25 years of Cholla history
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It’s with a heavy heart we’ve decided to put Mad Max our official wheels of the Cholla house on the sales block. It was in the garage when we bought the house in 93 and had been in Cholla for years before our purchase. We’re hoping we can find a good home for it.. First $500 gets a Cholla classic. Needs a little work.
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Meet Ruby, Frankie’s Tracker that replaces Max.
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ASU Wins
Fun night, Pork tacos and then on the Wrecked at the Reef for the ASU UofA game. Everybody had something to cheer about AND ASU prevailed in the end. ASU ASU ASU 
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Adrianna turns 29 (Really)
Nice excuse for another great dinner at Mar Blu
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Big Wave Dave’s Chilly Cook-Off Fundraiser
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26 cookers, some with bribes (see the jellow shots)
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It was the biggest cook-off yet. There were 157 votes that were counted and many people didn’t even vote. Dave didn’t know how many people were here, but there was a lot. They managed to raise approx. 2,000 lbs of dog and cat food and through donations and the raffle we raised over $1,700. All of this went to Nancy Phelan at the Animal Adoption Center in Rocky Point.
Great job guys.
That’s it, Until the next Update