Snapshots: St. Patrick's Day Shenanigans

St. Patrick's Day started at 5 a.m. with a phone call from the school to let us know we would be doing "remote learning" this day, because of the snow.

"Remote learning" means Zoom. And this is how the pandemic has stolen that sacred schoolchild institution: The Snow Day.

Charlie made a sign to let everyone know how he feels about this:

Succint, yet expressive.

His class was supposed to make leprechaun traps in school, and the boys ended up making their own at home. They stationed them in the bathroom, "because leprechauns like toilets."

I was not aware of this preference, but, despite the toilet in close proximity to the traps, no leprechauns were captured.

Somehow after dinner, we ended up putting on music for Irish jigging.

For which Poppy insisted on changing into her dancing dress. 

And now, in non-St.-Patrick's-Day but exciting plant news! I re-discovered the lone survivor of the gopher-beleagured Very Fancy Tulips.

Cleverly hidden among the weeds.

We have some other tulips the kids brought home from school that are in old plastic feed tubs, to protect them from the nasty rodents, so we'll move this lonely tulip in with them. Eventually the tulips will find a permanent home in a planter in front of the house, but for now, we're just trying to make sure they don't get eaten.

And lastly, a random dog picture.

Because it's always a good time for a random dog picture.

And there you have it! My life, snapshotted.