Post Blog O'hop news - & Photo Caption Winner :)

Aloha,

I'm writing this and it’s 1 a.m. on Post-Paddy’s Day Party and I am just in awe!

I snatched and scribed just a little on Paddy’s Day itself, but as you can imagine it was a crazy day!

Got Green? Check.

I started at 7:30 a.m. with our men’s group meeting outside of Starbucks. (I was wearing a green shirt and an Irish Viking hat…. SIGGY would have been proud :)





Then it was time to prep for a party of five… or fifteen, or maybe just two…?
(We invited the neighborhood over for “a few pints and a dodgy dog” about two weeks ago, but never followed up with O’fficial invites – yeah, we’re *sooo* organized :)

Indeed, my wife and I were in a minor pickle (buy a jar or not?) about the number of attendees to our first annual Hawaiian Paddy’s Day Part-ee.

Not having the time to check and respond to emails and tweets, I was able to steal glances and watched as my inbox lost it like a contestant on The Price is Right.

I rarely, *if ever* go to bed with more than a couple of unread emails (OCD anyone?) so you imagine my mind-boggledness as I just looked at my inbox with a current list of SIXTY-TWO unread emails (and *none* are anonymous ;)

Currently, (Sunday evening) I am working my way through the thirty-eight official entrants of the Got Green? Blog O'hop - and will announce the winners in about a week. Watch this space :)

I am in awe of this community, and am so grateful I fell into this patch of what I used to call “the BlogO’fear.”

Morgan, Cassie, Rek, Leigh, Melissa, Mel, David, and everyone else – thanks so very much just for believing in my weird-ass idea to do a Blog O’hop.
I am eternally grateful…and should we ever arrange for a meeting in an Irish Pub, please know that the first round of Water (with ice and lemon) is ON ME!
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Sarah's Caption: "This is gonna be a shoo(e)-in :-)

The winner of the Photo Caption is Sarah Pearson, and Sarah now wins the amazing prize of making me write a 500- word flash fiction story in *any* genre based on this one  picture…

The deadline is Friday, while the “story” will post sometime the week of March 25.

Sarah, please post your “requirements” (sigh) in the comments and I’ll go from there.






Oh, and speaking of next week, Cassie Mae will be interviewed by me in the return leg of our battle of “he said, she said more.” :)

PS… Happy belated Mother’s Day (March 18) to all the Moms in Europe, especially me Ma in Dublin…
How’s it going Ma!!! I hope you like the flowers we sent you… (Just be careful, ‘cos the invoice is in the bottom of the vase, and they’ll need to be paid by the end of the week:)

PPS… Is it OK if I don’t mention the words “Green” and “Got” until Cinco de Mayo and please don’t worry if you see me weeping the next time the UN-Lucky Charms fall to the ground :)