St. Patrick’s Day+ 2017

Grand Traverse Senior Center Network was foolish enough to book ClanDonnell to speak to the seniors on St. Patrick’s Day. This may be regretted.

The newest member of Clan Donnell was expected in early March in County Oakland, Michigan. He was actually born in February, but we didn’t know that was going to happen then, so we decided not to schedule a multi-state St. Patrick’s Day tour this year. Instead, we spent the St. Paddy’s holiday season locally.

And what better way to spend St. Patrick’s Day itself than lunch with the seniors!

No sooner did I agree to this when I received two more invitations from the Senior Center Network. They wanted me to do lunch with the seniors in Kingsley on Wednesday, March 15, and lunch with more seniors in Interlochen on Thursday, March 16.

That made three senior lunches in a row, each followed by Irish stories – all in a single St. Paddy’s Day week!

We did as asked. We told some Irish stories to the senior citizens at all three facilities. We even told a few that were a wee-bit off color – and the seniors enjoyed it! Each event ended promptly at the scheduled time. The seniors were eager to get to their planned bingo game.  

The best thing about this event is that it will keep us out of the pubs until after lunch.

Photos by Linda McDonnell