Happy Post-Mardi Gras and Upcoming Saint Patrick’s Day!

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I love both these events even when we don’t get to celebrate properly. We do try to throw a Saint Patrick’s Day party each year even though I refuse to do green beer. Guinness, Harp, and Killian’s yes – oh, and Sam Adams has a nice Irish Red. By the way, Sheppard’s Pie is one of those easy crowd dishes if you use prepared mashed potatoes and disposable foil baking pans. I also make gingerbread from a mix, and smoked Atlantic salmon is the final “Irish touch” I include from a food perspective.

I know that I’m leaving out Easter as a Spring Holiday, and we usually do a nice brunch for that. I was always good about Easter baskets and hiding eggs, although since I don’t like eggs, I confess that I used plastic ones and filled them with goodies. Yes, boiling and decorating eggs is one of those fun traditions, but there was often a project at school or grandparents would do that part, so it wasn’t as if my son was totally deprived of the experience.

On to writing news. If all goes as planned (and that doesn’t always happen), I will finish the manuscript for Deadly Doubloons by the end of April and send it off to the publisher for a release in early summer. I killed off a character the other day and had to re-write much of the chapter when I discovered that part of the set-up was flawed from a technical point of view. Ah well, so it goes. I will keep you posted.

I know that March and April weather is not necessarily the best in certain parts of the country, so I extend my sympathy to those who may yet have rainy/snowy days ahead. Of course snow sports enthusiasts have a completely different thought about those March snows, so here’s wishing you happy snowmobiling, skiing, etc.,

And as always, think books as a leisure past time for yourself or as gifts.

Charlie