It’s never too late to try green beer. That’s what two bus loads of seniors from Touchmark Retirement Community did Friday at O’Doherty’s Irish Grille. The brave few ordered their festive beverages and took in the Irish atmosphere at the downtown pub.

Careful research goes into their monthly outings. With the help of staff, and the suggestion of one resident, today’s adventure happened because they had yet to visit a bar during their trips. Today would be the day, just hours before St. Patrick’s Day. With four-leaf clover leis and at least one shade of green on their clothes, they were sure to avoid any pinching.

It was especially festive for Marilyn Hillier, who just turned 90 on Thursday. One of her daughters, Mary-Margaret, 66, visited all the way from Arizona to be there this week and join her mother.

“This is really great for Touchmark to do,” Hillier said. “For those of us that can’t get out much, we do enjoy an outing.”

Sometimes they’ll visit a park, or just enjoy a nice lunch. Anywhere to have fun no matter what the age.

(Updated 2:29 p.m.) - In some parts of the country, serving alligator meat in a thing. From personal experience, I can recall a BBQ off the side of some random highway in Florida that serves it up fried.

The chicken-like meat is available in Spokane at Huckleberry's according to the SpoCool blog. Why does that not surprise us? They even have elk, buffalo, quail and duck, in their freezers there.

If you've ever wanted to know how to cook it up for the family, there are a couple recipes online that could be decent for the dinner table. Food Network's website has 16 recipes for alligator including a "General Tso's Gator Alligator" and apparently there's a woman named Patty who has famous 'gator' recipes in Florida.

We also learned of some local uses of alligator. Chef David Blaine, Latah Bistro, says Downriver Grill will be cooking up alligator "nuggets" for Mardi Gras. He also informed us of an Idaho alligator farm where he's served up some of the meat before. 

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Boeing has been making its mark over the United States by flying a peculiar flight path. During a 787 test flight on Thursday evening, they were able to form the plane's number and Boeing's logo all the way from Washington to Iowa.

The upper right tip of the numeral seven is Spokane.

Flight Blogger, Jon Ostrower, noticed the flight pattern while in Houston.

I'm sitting at gate C34 at Houston Intercontinental Airport waiting for my flight to DCA and was tipped to 787 ZA236's flight plan (BOE236) for its systems functionality and reliability tests today. The aircraft is in the last stages of flying certification flights for the 787 airframe pairing with the General Electric GEnx-1B engine. Today's flight path, like the creative skywriting we've seen before from the 747-8, traces 787 and The Boeing Company logo from Washington State to Iowa.