Tuesday, March 31, 2020

The back up plan

Usually for St. Patty's Day Mird and I (and a bunch of our awesome runner friends) head to Clare to run their 10k and eat green pancakes.  It's just what we do to celebrate this particular holiday. This is our tradition!! This year the race hit our nephew's birthday, March 14, so I decided to forego the race and head to eat birthday cake with the Smiths while Mird manhandled some green pancakes. Divide and conquer so to speak.  Mird signed up everyone she knows who is willing to run 3 miles to run Clare's 5k with her. We'd go our separate ways for the morning and we planned an after party at mom's that night. Well the universe wasn't quite in order for any of those mass gatherings to occur as Friday the 13th of March we found ourselves entering the twilight zone, I mean Covid-19 Era...and