Sutter Creek Duck Race
Posted by John Lockwood on April 27th, 2007
It’s 
April 27th, and you know what that means…
It’s The Great Sutter Creek Duck Race Eve.
The big event happens tomorrow, April 28th.
Bridget didn’t want me to write about the duck race. She gave me the idea that if I wrote about the duck race, I wouldn’t be respectful enough or something.
Respectful? Heck, I’m jealous. I wish Elite Properties were on the list of local business sponsors where you could get your duck. This is probably a pretty Elite Group of Businesses, so Elite Properties ought to have no trouble getting in-duck-ted into it.
In the meantime, I understand that we do have a little modest company swag — or at least, literature — that Bridget and Jamie will be passing out at the duck race.
I’ll have to talk to our Amador County District Manager about getting maybe some duck shaped key-rings for next year or something. Or ducks with elite crowns on them.
Here’s the other thing: I think if you’re going to have a town named after a creek, you owe it to your residents and visitors to have a duck race. Otherwise you may feel like you’re up Sutter Creek without a paddle. Or rather, without a duck.
Finally, I’m not sure how much respect one is supposed to accord to a duck race. I mean, isn’t a duck race supposed to be pretty fun and tongue in cheek to begin with? I guess the idea was that I would make fun of the rural lifestyle in Amador County or something. Not really. I’m jealous there, too. I wish my dogs had some dirt to run around and chase squirrels on. The dogs wish for that even more than I do.
Heck: I live in El Dorado County. That would be like the pot calling the kettle black, even if we do have such thriving metropolises* as Cameron Park, not to mention Swansboro. *(That’s probably really “metropoles”, but no one would recognize it).
You would think that in Swansboro they would run a Swan race, but as far as I know, they don’t. That’s false advertising, if you ask me.
One last thing: A duck goes into a pharmacy and asks for a tube of lipstick. The clerk says, “That’ll be $3.99″, to which the duck replied, “Just put it on my bill.”