OT - How are you Celebrating Presidents Day?

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sp4149
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For me I have a cousin visiting from the Bay Area (a Cal employee) and we are vising wineries, Indian Casinos for three days.
A good diversion since Valentine's Day (Sunday) has been a downer since my wife passed away.

The weather in San Diego County has been wonderful, a great time to be out and about.

I'm sure it will be a great weekend on the slopes for skiers.

For football junkies not as much.

But does anybody celebrate this Federal Holiday in memory of the Presidents or of the democracy they helped create?

Back when they were separate holidays I made a token celebration with cherry pie in memory of Washington.

But one small town in Oregon is proud to be American today as American flags lined the streets of Burns Oregon.

The standoff has ended; the last occupiers arrested; even Cliven Bundy arrested (at long last...); the town can return to just being.

If I were in Portland I would be going to Curious Comedy Theater for comedic relief and to hear "The Ballad of the Malheur Patriots"
commemorating the end of the long standoff with the stirring words ""Patrioootttts, Patrioootttts, Stormin' a building surrounded by ducks."

Truth be told, it's available on line, but that's the reason I would like to be there in person.
http://www.oregonlive.com/geek/2016/02/oregon_standoff_ballad_portlan.html#incart_story_package

Before I retired this was the last long holiday weekend before Memorial Day we always did something special. One year we went to Vegas,
Not realizing it was the Weekend of the NBA All Star game in Vegas; a logistics nightmare.

Still this was always a weekend to do something, What You'all doing?
okaydo
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Wow, President's Day is a holiday that people have off!?!
joe amos yaks
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Spending the day with our grandchildren, going for walk in the hills, reading Stegner's "Mormon Country", and basking in the warmth of last night's victory over the Ducks...and shooting hoops.
Phantomfan
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Imma wear my American shirt

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(the white one). Im also going to eat bacon.
RichmondBear
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Working. Waking people early AM and ruining their Holiday
SonOfCalVa
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Finishing TAXES ... the great American winter sport, to pay for what Presidents and Congresses did TO us ...
like unfunded mandates and unfunded "benefits" (like the payoff to Pharma for Part D) and unfunded WARS (W's "nation building).
:woohoo
joe amos yaks
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Bacon is good for you.

“I may not always walk the straight and narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can.” ― JGK
Strykur
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okaydo;842647650 said:

Wow, President's Day is a holiday that people have off!?!


Yes, my company amazingly.
SonOfCalVa
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joe yaks;842647704 said:

Bacon is good for you.

“I may not always walk the straight and narrow, but I sure in hell try to cross it as often as I can.” ― JGK


Pigs died for us !!!
With good vision, or maybe binoculars, we can SEE the straight and narrow ... sometimes.
bearister
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Counting my favorite Presidents.
Strykur
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bearister;842647723 said:

Counting my favorite Presidents.


Uh, about that last one...
510Bear
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With a huge bottle of Spavital on ice. :beer:
pingpong2
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Gonna go to the range and poke some holes in some paper.
Big C
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Strykur;842647765 said:

Uh, about that last one...


The last one, yes, and also the second one down. The rule I always learned to use to remember this is "if the denomination starts with one and zero, a non-President will be the hero".

Another popular one was "Not all Founding Fathers were Presidents and not all Presidents were Founding Fathers".

And then, there is the ever-popular "Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin weren't fvcking Presidents".
Out Of The Past
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SonOfCalVa;842647702 said:

Finishing TAXES ... the great American winter sport, to pay for what Presidents and Congresses did TO us ...
like unfunded mandates and unfunded "benefits" (like the payoff to Pharma for Part D) and unfunded WARS (W's "nation building).
:woohoo


After way too many years, this is soooo familiar!
ddc_Cal
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Aren't you supposed to be buying a mattress?
Big C
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I'm gonna slice me up some cherry pie: Jerod and Gabe Cherry pie! (pere et fils)
wifeisafurd
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Golf, post-valentine day sex and watching Billions. At my age, it doesn't get better. Cheers to our founding fathers in any event. In a couple months we go see the civil war sights and DC, so I can really appreciate the leadership past Presidents provided at that time.
okaydo
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I'm taking the day literally with this (so far, so good --it's from Stephen King and J.J. Abrams):

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okaydo
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And this (I posted the whole thing below -- I DVR'd it a few weeks ago.)

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BearsObserver
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upsetof86
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Drinking and spending money
72CalBear
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Putting my bumper sticker on the car..
tequila4kapp
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18 holes of golf in the morning. Dad / daughter "date" in the afternoon. Wife taking my son to a Scouts event. Working with both kids on homework. Other than that, just relaxing
bar20
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bearister;842647723 said:

Counting my favorite Presidents.


Wasn't Millard Fillmore on the three dollar bill?
GATC
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okaydo;842648944 said:

And this (I posted the whole thing below -- I DVR'd it a few weeks ago.)

[video=youtube;R4j0qePryBM][/video]


I watched the whole thing. It is amazing how the little the medical profession knew then. Actually it is amazing how little they know now.
Sebastabear
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SonOfCalVa;842647711 said:

Pigs died for us !!!
With good vision, or maybe binoculars, we can SEE the straight and narrow ... sometimes.


So SonOfCalVa has been demoted from "true blue golden bear" to "registered user." Must admit that's a new one. I know some folks have been decreed "no bear" for violations but would love to know which quote resulted in this particular sentence...
Strykur
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bar20;842649414 said:

Wasn't Millard Fillmore on the three dollar bill?


Thomas Jefferson is on the $2 bill.
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