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The Holidays
Maybe it’s the “Scrooge” factor, but I’m already
a little irritated by the premature arrival of ubiquitous Christmas
music in every elevator, department store, and TV commercial. Not that
I dislike it, but “to everything, there is a season”, you
know. We do have a little cluster of ”holidays” around
this time of year, and last week we sort of opened that whole can by
doing a little post-mortem on Election Day. We have already passed
by Veteran’s Day, and I hope you took a moment to call or visit
one of your favorite veterans to remind them that we don’t forget,
ever, the service they rendered on our behalf. It’s still not
too late, you know. It’s never too late. But now, it seems that
we have all been forcibly fast-forwarded into the whole Thanksgiving/Christmas,
warm, fuzzy stuff, where the whole world wants us to buy something.
Well, hold on just a minute here, Madison Avenue
can’t seem to see far
enough past their crumbling sky-scrapers to realize that out here in the real
world, there’s another big holiday to be celebrated before we pluck that
turkey or deck those halls. Before you go fumbling through your calendar, wondering
what you’ve missed, let me save you a step; November 15th……..Duh!......
it’s Opening Day! That’s about as close as we get to having a “Michigan
Holiday”. Some places even close the schools when it falls during the week,
nobody’s going to show up anyway. It’s time to load your gun, air
out your blaze orange, and head for hunting camp. Hell, even the oil companies
noticed it and raised the gas price a bit, just in time for the big migration.
So how could we let the moment pass without some recognition?
Here’s the formula: you take all your buddies, load them into a confined
space with primitive facilities, feed them chili and beer, try to take their
money with a Euchre deck, and if an errant herd of Whitetail Deer starts making
a ruckus between the cabin and the outhouse, go take a couple of them down. That
will restore your peace and quiet, and besides, they make good sausage, you’ll
be looking through your freezer for some of that when you head north next
year.
After all, if you stayed home, your wife would just
want you to go shopping
or paint something, so make that decision now, vote in your own self interest
for
once. The more people in the camp, the bigger the pot in the card game.
It’s
simple economics. You know, distribute that wealth!
Let’s face it, there’s not much else to like about November, so let’s
take all these holidays in the order they arrive, and not miss any of the opportunities
they present. I’ll be content to remain where the heat, running water,
and digital signals are, and listen to the stories a couple of weeks down the
road. They tend to get better each time they’re recycled anyway.
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