Not a Christmas gift per se, but a couple of weekends back the girlfriend and I were drinking at a friends house. The friend LOVES autographed stuff and we got on the site he uses to purchase a lot of it. As a joke I told him to search "Mike Tyson + Evander Holyfield + Ear". Sure enough, Iron Mike has autographed that photo. It was delivered on 12/26...

The piece of Holyfield's ear is in a frame at the Montgomery Inn Boathouse . Supposedly . Looks like a stale pork rind .

Usually, I'm busy taking photos of the bald eagles on the river in QC when I visit at Christmas, but didn't get to do that this year. All my normal areas were flooded out this year.

 

But they've got what I've been told is a really neat blues museum in downtown Davenport. Sadly, I've never been there. It would probably break the hearts of the hipsters at that record store. I've made up for it by hitting this really cool blues club in downtown Bettendorf with my relatives on several occasions, but didn't get to go this year. Was called "The Muddy Waters," but I've been told it is sadly defunct. It sure was funky.

The hot tub that Mr. Cat and I bought for ourselves is being delivered today! Woot Woot!

Got some small stuff from my family: Reds shirt (from my younger brother), UC shot glasses (from my younger brother), Visa gift card (from my parents), dog toys (from my parents), Petsmart gift card (from my parents) and a bag of Axe body wash & shampoo (from one of my older brothers because he's apparently allergic to it)

 

Bought myself a Fitbit, a Bengals pullover, an Underarmour long sleeve workout shirt, and an Underarmour skull cap

Propane smoker. Can't wait to get it set up and try it out.

I got a lot of good ones, including a framed art piece made by my grandmother - she's been gone for almost a decade now, and that one meant a whole lot coming from my parents.

 

One of my other favorites was this, though. It's gonna be on my office wall as soon as I can get it in a frame.

 

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Here's the list of signatures:

 

Row I

Ethan Allen, John Winthrop, Jane Addams, George Washington, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Henry Harrison, James Monroe, James Madison, John Tyler, John Quincy Adams, James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren

 

Row II

John Brown, Edward Rutledge, Henry Kissinger, Francis Marion, Col. Harland Sanders, John Paul Jones, John Jacob Astor, George Gershwin, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Byrd, George Clinton

 

Row III

Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, John F. Kennedy, Clara Barton, James Oglethorpe, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Henry Ford, Paul Revere, Kit Carson, Theodore Roosevelt, James Buchanan, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, William H. Taft

 

Row IV

George Marshall, J.P. Morgan, Lew Wallace, George McClellan, Wild Bill Hickok, John Trumbull, Harry Houdini, Langston Hughes, Joseph Smith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George H. Thomas, William Pitt, Henry Knox, William Lloyd Garrison

 

Row V

George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Herbert Hoover, Alexander Hamilton, Eli Whitney, Robert E. Lee, Norman Rockwell, John Steinbeck, Annie Oakley, J.E.B. Stuart, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Pierce, Benjamin Harrison

 

Row VI

George A. Custer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Buffalo Bill Cody, Geronimo, Matthew Brady, Salmon P. Chase, Nathan Hale, Robert Fulton, George Eastman, Neil Armstrong, Charles Lingbergh, Helen Keller, Charlie Chaplin

 

Row VII

George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, John Adams, Herman Melville, Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Walt Whitman, Phil Sheridan, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Thomas Jefferson, Warren Harding

 

Row VIII

John Dickinson, Alexander Cartwright, Increase Mather, David Farragut, Samuel Gompers, Nathaniel Bacon, Frederick Law Olmstead, Marquis de Lafayette, W.E.B. DuBois, James Bowie, Ray Kroc, Laura Ingalls Wilder, George Washington Carver, Charles Goodyear, William Penn, P.T. Barnum, Horace Mann, James Fenimore Cooper, Amelia Earhardt, Thomas Nast, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andy Warhol, Chester Nimitz

 

Row IX

Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Sam Houston, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Marshall, Thomas Edison, Oliver H. Perry, Mark Twain, Davy Crockett, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan

 

Row X

George Rogers Clark, Rosa Parks, Patrick Henry, William Randolph Hearst, George S. Patton, Les Paul, John J. Pershing, Sitting Bull, Bill Gates, Nathaniel Greene, Louis Armstrong, John Glenn, Marilyn Monroe, Abner Doubleday, Aaron Burr, Omar Bradley, Douglas MacArthur, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,John C. Calhoun, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Row XI

Andrew Jackson, Samuel F.B. Morse, Wilbur Wright, Eleanor Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Robert Treat Paine, John Jay, Horatio Gates, Winfield Scott, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Hancock, Brigham Young, Wyatt Earp, Gerald Ford, Calvin Coolidge, Jimmy Carter, Andrew Carnegie

 

Row XII

Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, William Faulkner, Walt Disney, Jackson Pollock, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, William Bradford, Samuel Slater, Cotton Mather, John Pemberton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jonathon Edwards, John C. Fremont, Robert Peary, James Dean, William Brewster, Myles Standish, Israel Putman, Robert Kennedy, Muhammed Ali, Babe Ruth, Alan Shepard

 

Row XIII

Orville Wright, Elvis Presley, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allen Poe, Cyrus McCormick, Jonas Salk, William Jennings Bryan, Meriwether Lewis, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Noah Webster, Grover Cleveland, Susan B. Anthony, George Meade, Daniel Boone, Richard Nixon, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman

 

Wow, that's very impressive...especially considering how hard it must have been to get all those people to sign the same flag, considering most all of them are dead and all.:woot:

A trip to family.

Got some small stuff from my family: Reds shirt (from my younger brother), UC shot glasses (from my younger brother), Visa gift card (from my parents), dog toys (from my parents), Petsmart gift card (from my parents) and a bag of Axe body wash & shampoo (from one of my older brothers because he's apparently allergic to it)

 

Bought myself a Fitbit, a Bengals pullover, an Underarmour long sleeve workout shirt, and an Underarmour skull cap

Do they play fetch with you?

My husband bought me a new Samsung Note 5 Phone. Now to learn how to operate it. Heck I am having trouble just answering it....:lol2:. Son got me a new Shark Sweeper and someone to come clean my house for a year.....love these gifts. Son's girlfriend got me a new pressure cooker. Can't wait to try it out.

Forgot to list the gift I bought myself. A electric fireplace that also holds your TV. It is a modern design with glass embers. I love it.

My two front teeth. A premium membership to BGP.

I got a set of balls and a flashlight to find them with.

I got the final pieces to put together my Dillon 650 press to reload ammo. Today I made a test batch of 50 of 180 grain of 10mm for my Glock 20. Will take those to the Jefferson Co Sportsmen Club this weekend and test their recipe. If that recipe works good, will probably rip off a batch of 500 Sunday evening.

I got a set of balls and a flashlight to find them with.

 

:eek:

I got a payment booklet for the car I bought my son. The gift that keeps on giving.