My family's ties to Juneteenth (and I do know what historical event it celebrates) is not great. Half of my ancestors were in modern Ukraine. On the other side of my family, at least one served on the Union side of the war, and others lived in the North. To me, Juneteenth simply celebrates the completion of what Lincoln started 2 1/2 years earlier.
My company did observe the holiday, but the rest of my household did not have the day off. I "celebrated" by doing a 4 mile out-and-back from central Los Gatos up to Lexington Reservoir and back. Going up to the reservoir is about a mile and a half of steady, mostly gentle, uphill. The last .2 miles is 10% or 11% grade uphill. So it was a test of how out of shape I am and whether I could even do it. I'll just leave of with saying I did complete it, and was not as bad as I thought, but still not great.
It was interesting to see how full the reservoir was. A year ago the water level was depressingly low. Yesterday it was up to the tree line. The lake is used as a water source for Silicon Valley, directly, through a 3'-4' diameter pipeline, and indirectly, through the many percolation ponds that are used to recharge the aquifer, from which water is drawn. Some water in Los Gatos Creek does eventually reach the bay, but contrary to some claims I've seen (e.g. in the Epoch Times) the water from this past rainy winter is very far from all running off into the Pacific Ocean. Most of the many reservoirs in northern and central California went from depressingly low to full or nearly full.
