A Day At The Races

Posted by John Lockwood on April 28th, 2007

Today I had the pleasure of living La Vida Amador again, when the prophecy of my visit to the Great Sutter Creek Duck Race was fulfilled.

This is my second Amador Adventure, the first one having been the subject of earlier blog chronicles.

I got lots of good photos. Well, I think they’re good photos, anyway. Hopefully Athol Kay doesn’t have a “Bad Sutter Creek Duck Race Photos” series in mind.

	This band, Bobby D. and the Blues Organization, was really good. They played nice jazz, by which I mean jazz that an un-jazz-sophisticated boor like me could enjoy.
	The other great thing that happened at the great duck race was that I finally got to sign up to become a Bone Marrow Donor, which I asked my readers to do a couple of weeks ago in support of Trevor Kott. There’s the booth over at the right, and a poster-board featuring the Kott family. We had fun, those of us in the line, amusing ourselves as we waited to get swabbed.
	I got to make friends with the D.A.R. ladies. They were really nice. It turns out those historical dresses are made of cotton, so they are comfortable. I’m not sure what prompted me to ask.
	Here’s me with my Duck-Quacker bill, mugging it up for the Camera with Janelle, this lovely lady who sells cotton candy to support the Pine Grove Civic Improvement Club. I had a picture of Margie, too, but it came out somewhat unflattering, so she’d probably prefer it if I didn’t put it up here, or maybe if I went back and took a flattering picture. Margie and Janelle were charming as could be, but eventually I was crowded out by throngs of sugar-crazed cotton candy buyers.
Where are Bridget and Jamie?	Bridget and Jamie from our Amador County office were there, but I didn’t take their pictures. I got the sense they didn’t want me to impose.