Today, however is St. Patrick’s Day and no matter what day
of the week March 17th falls on, it is a day to put on a bit of
green and celebrate the impending arrival of spring. There is also the ACC
basketball tournament going on which by itself would be enough of an excuse to
sit in pub and enjoy a beer or two. Then again the wind sort of came out of that sail last night too.
Voices for Children hoped to get things going early today by
promoting a pub crawl that began at 11:00 AM. Last night, as Mama Wordbones and
I discussed this, we agreed that 11:00 AM on a Sunday morning is different than
11:00 AM on a Sunday. Sunday is a day to sleep late and get up slowly, even if
it also happens to be St. Patrick’s Day. Consequently t-shirt traffic was a little off from last year when it fell on a Saturday.
The volunteers were out there though, selling t-shirts while
quaffing hot chocolate. This also turned out to be one of those cold St. Patrick’s
years but it didn't seem to daunt their spirits (one wonders what else was in that
hot chocolate?)
Nathan, the River House Pizza Company guy, was out this
morning too, selling his popular breakfast pizza. I haven’t tried that yet but
the reviews I’m getting are all good. Truthfully, I need to be focusing more on
granola and fresh fruit right now than breakfast pizza anyway.
Talk of beers and breakfast pizza were almost drowned out by
the chatter about parking. Last Thursday public works crews from Baltimore County
