#stpadraigsday2021

[lilpocketbears]

This week seems to be the week where things planned fall apart. As a lifelong celebrant of St Padraig's Day, I always look forward to March 17th. This year, I so badly wanted to do a themed photoshoot with the fur kids - seemed extra fitting given their very Irish names of Dáire, Beithín, Leamhán, and Caithne (all meaning respectively "Oak", "Little Birch", "Elm", and "Strawberrytree"). Extra excited too because the pandemic altered last year's plans to do this. So I picked up some lovely carnations in green, white, and orange at a nearby florist yesterday. I then rounded up my collection of other traditional St Padraig's Day things I grew up with (this, no joke, includes potatoes) and grabbed all things green for backgrounds and props, grabbed my digital Canon camera annnnd...discovered that the battery bloated and needs to be tossed. (Never, EVER charge or use a device with a bloated battery-- it can catch fire or worse, explode!) So now I'm waiting on a replacement ordered online. I didn't want to waste the beautiful flowers, so I took a junk shot with my shoddy smartphone camera. (Dear Moto- you disappoint me. Junk camera straight out of the box on the e6. Tsk tsk.) So. Until Plan C or D can be executed, here's a Moto e6 potato quality photo of my ginger potato pre-celebrating the potatoes she will taste tomorrow from my hamster version of boiled dinner (which includes potatoes, haha). Happy (early) St Padraig's Day, folx. . . . . . . . #syrianhamster #hamstersofig #hamstersofinstagram  #hamstersarelife #mesocricetusauratus #lilpocketbears #syrianhamstersofinstagram #syrianhamstersofig #chinesehamster #cricetulusgriseus #dwarfhamster #phodopuscampbellixsungorus #lpb2021 #lpbcaithne #stpadraigsday2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfVNvgANWR/?igshid=8cbp2sxfk5t7