Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday celebration at Moseley Family Cellars

Erin Murphy at Moseley Family Cellars in Redding CA Yesterday evening, Erin and her friends attended the Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday celebration at Moseley Family Cellars, at their location at 1300 Market Streeet in Redding.

Celebrants partook of Jambalaya, King’s Cake, and other traditional Mardi Gras foods, paired with Moseley’s Chardonnay and Zinfindel. And served with New Orleans style jazz and zydeco in the downtown Redding tasting room.

“Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler” (Let the good times roll!)
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Erin Murphy at Moseley Family Cellars in Redding CA

Erin Murphy at Moseley Family Cellars in Redding CA
Aaron Rader, Erin Murphy, Mimi Moseley, and Marty Moseley celebrate in Redding
Erin Murphy at Moseley Family Cellars in Redding CA
Joe Baker gets the baby in the cake.

If you can’t actually be in New Orleans, wine tasting in Downtown Redding offers an alternative. Moseley Family Cellars is located across from Old City Hall Downtown, and can be reached at (530) 605 4222.

Celebrity Soup Kitchen event helps seniors

Alerted yesterday by a Facebook update from Bruce Ross (seen below), we attended the Celebrity Soup Kitchen event to help disadvantaged seniors pay utility bills this winter.
Charity events in Redding CaLots of local celebrities serving locally made delicious soups. Held in Redding’s historic Veterans Hall, the turnout looked strong.
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Skip Murphy attends celebrity soup event in Redding CaWith the Straight Ahead Big Band playing behind me, these candid shots were taken from a cell phone camera. Great food, terrific people, coming together for a good cause. That’s Really Redding.

First Annual Vanity Faire for the Shasta Women’s Refuge

Erin attended this recent gathering of people to benefit the Shasta Women’s Refuge. The event was held at Redding’s Riverview Golf Club.

 
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Seen here, Erin and some attendees, including Realtor Ashley Wagar at the right.
Shasta Women's Refuge event
Below, Redding’s Mayor Missy McArthur chats with Broker Erin Murphy.
Missy Mcarthur and Erin Murphy
It’s a shame that we live in a world where it’s even necessary to have a women’s refuge. But we do. And the good people of Redding have always proven willing to support the organization, and their goal of providing safe haven when needed. That’s Really Redding.
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The sunset view from Riverview.

Redding student races her blown alcohol dragster in Fall Classic event @ Redding Dragstrip this weekend

MakinnaClevengerMakinna Clevenger will be racing a 1700 hp, 200+ mph car at the Redding Dragstrip this weekend for the Fall Classic race, which starts today and runs through Sunday.
This is from her website: “At ten years old, Makinna started racing junior dragsters and has enjoyed many successes over the years. Recently she completed the required passes for her NHRA competition license in her family’s blown alcohol dragster. Attending races has been a family affair for the 18-year-old Shasta College student. For her 16th birthday she acquired a Competition license for her 1,700 horse power blown alcohol dragster. Then a year later she made the next move towards her Advanced E.T. license, making her fastest career pass at over 200 mph.”
She’ll be racing in the same class as her dad. Should be an interesting weekend of racing!

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Thanks, and a shout out to Redding Dragstrip sponsor Jerry Ross and the 8 locally owned NAPA Auto Parts stores!!!
NApa Auto PartsPhoto by Skip Murphy

Home Show at the Redding Convention Center

There’s a Home Show at Redding’s Convention Center. This weekend. Admission is free. Erin and I used to have a booth at a local Home Show twice a year, so we saw a lot of old friends and vendors we knew.
Redding homes showRedding home showIt’s running again today, so you can head on over. Maybe buy this flaming Wine Barrel for only $995? I hope they sell dozens. Home Shows can be grueling as a vendor, but at least this show has a full bar.
Flaming tables

2011 Airshow images

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I’m sure there are a great many better photos than these from this weekend in Redding. I was working, but did find a little time to enjoy what I saw. And there are excellent images at the Redding Airshow website already. A classic Northstate experience. Thank you Redding Exchange Club and all who participated!
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Redding’s 15th Annual Beer and Wine Festival

We attended this year’s 15th Annual Redding Beer and Wine Festival at the Promenade, and I took a few shots, er, photographs.
redding ca eventshomes for sale in redding cafood in redding cafood in redding caserving food in redding caIt would be hard to pick a favorite food or drink vendor. Some standouts include Gaia’s Woodside Grill, Market Street Steakhouse, Bricks Smokehouse, Grilla Bites, CR Gibbs, and seen pouring here, Shameless O’Leery’s.

We tried some terrific home brew from the Shasta SOB (Society of Brewers) club. And of course there was so much fine wine. It was a great opportunity to try out vintners like Matson and wineries from the Manton wine country. We had some great tastings at the Mosely Family Cellar booth.
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Music and Racing set for Redding this weekend

SCO at BombaysRedding art music fans will be pleased to learn SCO is playing Bombays. I got this note:
“Name change and a show on September 15th at Bombay’s. I just got a flyer for an upcoming show by these “warlocks.” They’ve changed their name to Symbiotic Cacophony Orchestra (like the status listed below).”
So, you can log in over at Facebook to Like the Symbiotic Cacophony Orchestra at the link.

Redding DragstripIf original Redding style music isn’t enough to keep you entertained this weekend, you can head over to the Redding Dragstip for the combined Pacific National Open Series and National Dragster Challenge. 3 days of racing. One of the biggest races of the season. Just 10 bucks gets you in. More at the Redding Dragstrip website, or just click on the flaming shifter knob, of course.

Kuebler’s Furniture hosts Greeters

We attended a Chamber of Commerce event at Kuebler’s Furniture in Redding.
Greeters at Kueblers
Kuebler’s had everyone do kind of an Easter Egg hunt through the store for prizes.
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Erin Murphy in Redding CAKueblers has a lot of funiture to admire, obviously. But it’s also a great place to scope out some design ideas. It was our first appearance among the Chamber members as The Address Realty, so Erin spoke briefly about her new enterprise. Everyone was very encouraging. Thanks Kuebler’s, and thanks Chamber.

Whiskeytown Sailing Regatta 2011

Here’s a 3 minute video I took of Sunday at the Whiskeytown Sailing Club’s Memorial Regatta. That’s their big annual race. This year it drew about 70 boats. Always a beautiful setting for an amazing race.

Whiskeytown Sailing Regatta 2011 from Skip Murphy on Vimeo.

Whiskeytown Lake is located just west of Redding California.The Regatta always brings back fond memories. Karry and I used to sail our little yellow sailboat in the 1970’s on Whiskeytown. I rummaged around and found a couple images from slide film. Back when my beard wasn’t white, and when getting some sun was good for you. Good times!
Skip Murphy on Whiskeytown Lake in the late '70s
Sailin on Whiskeytown in the 1970s