Picnic and fun at UCD this Saturday
Oh yeah, it’s time for picnic day once again. It’s in downtown Davis and on the University of California, Davis campus, a mere 15-20 miles from Sacramento’s city center. A parade, ice cream…maybe a dachshund race (do they still have the little dog races?), battle of the bands…it’s all about picnicking and having fun as the University opens its doors for the annual event.
I still recall the fun we had as kids going to picnic day. There was always an informal shaving cream fight before the parade. Loved that. There was always music, and shows, and then there was that weird cow who had a plug in the side so they could watch its stomach. Oh yes, and usually a freshly hatched batch of chicks to ooh and ahh over. I don’t know if they still do that anymore. But the best part of the day was that aside from feeding yourself…everything was free. (Looks like it still is.)
The parade begins about 10 am on Saturday April 14…you’ll want to get there early to beat the crowd.
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I took two women up to Yuba City today, in my taxi-It was a very wet trip. Did it rain on your parade and picnic?
It did, indeed, rain for Picnic Day in Davis. Hard. Lots - more than a half-inch. It was NOT what all the groups and organizations hoped for.
I blame this all on ex-Chancellor Huller who refused to milk the cow in the pre-Picnic Day contest. Up to that point “back in the day” or maybe more to the point is “back before the day”, you could plan on having great weather for Picnic Day. Just write it on the calendar, the weather forecasters would make note of the date and radio in their forecast from, say, Hawaii or the Least Coast because the weather was going to be warm and sunny.
Then we had a Chancellor who wouldn’t milk the cow. Maybe it was an issue with what you had to touch. A bad childhood experience. An “ick” factor . . . you want me to pull on a girl cow’s WHAT?
Since that date it’s been bad weather, storms, wind, somehow we’ve missed frost and snow on the valley floor.
I think we need an Intervention to stop this vengeful meteorology.
That’s my story . . . and I’m sticking with it.