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MARCH 2017

HAPPY MARCH

So I flip open my desk calendar to March lump all Celts under “Ireland.” I’m not Irish.
to see what exciting events I can include in Now, I’m all for green beer (once a year!),
the March Sentinel, only to discover... but I don’t have a single ancestor from Ire-
The only events on the March calendar are land. Welsh, Scottish, both Celtic, but no
Ash Wednesday, Saint Patrick’s Day and Irish. But Ancestry thinks I’m 27 percent
the first day of spring! Oh—and the no- Irish! Huh. Well, so Happy St. Pat’s Day to
tation that daylight savings time begins me—and to you. And don’t overdo the green
March 12 (clock forward). beer. ~KDale

That’s it. Great if you’re Irish, but if you’re
not, it’s Ash Wednesday or a spring bac-
chanalia. And I’d be willing to bet that on
that first day of spring, March 20, it’ll be
cold and snowy and not exactly au naturel
party time.

I even checked local events calendars—
Larkspur, Castle Rock, Monument. Not
a lot going on. But since March is tradi-
tionally the snowiest month in Colorado,
I guess people figure why schedule some-
thing that’ll only be buried under two feet
of snow? Wait ‘til April—or May.

The best I can do for March is send wishes
for a Happy St. Pat’s Day. Whether you’re
Irish or not. Oh, hey, you know the DNA
test that Ancestry keeps running com-
mercials about---people discovering their
ethnic heritage, etc? I did it several years
ago, and I can tell you that when Ances-
try sends you the pie chart, they lie. They