29°f/-2°C this morning, snow until around noon. Total for thr past 24 hours about 5 inches. Now cold and clear,19°f/-7.w°C.
Buddy and Pip had to go look early this morning, while Daisy wisely stayed inside!
Another full day. Granddaughter Sarah came down from her cabin for breakfast so I made Denise's oat and eggs pancakes with strawberry syrup. So delicious. Then Larry and I tackled the back room where we store projects to be worked on, lumber, Christmas and Fall totes, etc. It was a huge sort out, with stuff that's been waiting a long time getting pitched out or put in the donate pile. Hard work, heavy lifting, but almost done. It feels ao good to have that room organized, and space created where we can actually work on stuff!
I made a quick lunch from the root cellar: turkey salad sandwiches, tomato soup, and diced peaches. The grocery store provided lettuce, bread, and mayonnaise, but everything else was home-canned.
Then we took a break before getting cleaned up and heading out to the open mic. What fun! A young man named Brandon Scott did several Irish songs.
His mother,who is blind, did stand-up comedy,
my friend Suzy told a well-known Irish folktale, a young guy did a few songs with his guitar, and I read a couple of my poems, told a tall tale, and sang an old Scottish ballad, The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry. It was truly a memorable evening.
After the open mic we stopped at a local restaurant where Larry had his first green beer.
Every year we say we will go out to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, but every year something intervenes, so it had become a sort of bucket list item. Now at last we can check it off. But I have a feeling that we will be looking to celebrate again next year!
My shirt for tonight:
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