St. Patrick's Day

Well, I know it isn't quite St. Patrick's Day, but we started celebrating a week ago. Mama Hall came up for a visit and helped us start celebrating early by joining Teresa watch me run in the annual Old First Ward Shamrock Run 8K. This is a race I have been doing the last few years. Many of the hard core runners consider this the first race of the season. In the past runners are used to having freezing temperatures and snow. This year, the field was greeted with spring like temperatures, with a cold rain the entire race and a new course. I was pretty pleased with my performance. I finished in a time of 41:02 (8:15/mile pace) placing 744 out of 2897 runners. After the race, we met some friends at one of the local watering holes in South Buffalo for corned beef sandwiches and a cold beverage.Today we attend the annual Buffalo St. Patrick's Day parade. This is a great time, especially when the weather cooperates like it did today.

You must come prepared to this parade...dressed in green head to toe (yes, I have a pair of green sneakers on) and some Guinness.
Tator Tot and Mama-to-be had a great time as well. They had a front row seat, complete with a bottle of sparkling water. After we got home, Teresa found she got a little sun on her nose. Is spring finally here in Buffalo....? Probably not!
If you look closely at the top of each building, you can see that the rooftops are filled with people enjoying the parade.

The nursery is just about done. I still need to do some odds and end things. The furniture should be coming any day. Stayed tuned for pics...I will leave you with this pic:As you can see, there are two different shades of green. The shade on the left was the first color we had picked out, but once the whole room was painted, it made our eyes and heads hurt. So, Teresa went back to the drawing board and picked out a shade that is better on the eyes, which is the shade on the right.