Anticipation

Today is another run-of-the-mill day but this weekend........that's a different story. By 0900, Saturday, I will be at the Celtic Festival of Southern Maryland which is held on the last Saturday of April, rain or shine. Once there I will set up camp in such a fashion as to be situated so that we are near the open field where the behemoths engage in the Highland Games, a purveyor of imported Scottish Ales has ice cold bottles of goodness waiting for my thirsty palate, and the Pub Stage is resonating with Celtic music of all types played on different instruments by various local and far-flung musicians and singers. The skirl of the bagpipes accompanied by the staccato of the snares is a constant the entire day as the various pipe bands compete.

Occasionally I will get up from my comfortable temporary dwelling to trundle my overweight carcass to the different food booths for the Scotch Eggs; Haggis; Shepherd's Pie; Steak, Ale and Kidney Pie; etc, etc, etc, and to attend the Sessions where various musicians gather to play all the familiar and unfamiliar Scottish, Irish, and English tunes. There will be fiddlers, guitarists, tin whistles, penny whistles, Irish Harps, button accordions tuned dry and concertinas tuned the same. The music will be phenomenal and I will sit there and soak it all in.

Tomorrow, Sunday, at 1030, I and my spouse of 10 years will go to church. At 1400 in the afternoon we will be attending the opening game of the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs at the Regency Furniture Stadium.  Lame you say - I think not!  These games are much more fun than attending the Major League games at a fraction of the cost.  The food is excellent, the beer is even better and we have Pinch, our fat Blue Crab mascot  who can do the worm better than any living creature - human or not.  It doesn't get any better than this! After the game (which is always entertaining) there will be fireworks as good as seen at any Fourth of July celebration complements of our host Brooks Robinson, team owner.  If you want some good family fun, at a great price, attend AAA ball at your local ball park.