Yeah, yeah – I’ll get to Ireland, honest! I just need to push the product today and pay some bills…
Sending Up A Flare
However I realized today (as my shoulders started aching and my throat became sore) that I’d skipped my vitamin D for at least 3 days, and BOY am I feeling those effects.
Super Nanny
Each large city has it’s own flavor. To me, NY feels brusque, LA feels self absorbed, London feels a bit patronizing and Dublin feels like an inefficient-but-controling nanny constantly telling visitors that they’re being naughty.
Fumin’ & a-fussin’
However, as I write this neither kid is able to fall asleep because the music from the Bewley’s disco below is SO loud that it actually drowns out the quiet science documentary we’re trying to watch (we put the TV on to offset the DJ and the party downstairs)
Quickly from Killarny
We wandered into a small farm homestead and visited with 3 goats, 2 chickens, a pig, 2 horses and a bunch of chicks – and a CAT – for a very enjoyable few hours. We brought our tea and sat and had it amongst the animals – no humans around at ALL.
New Methods
So we had a summit in the driveway, and the family agreed (for Mommy’s mental health, if for no other reason) that they would become more active in the planning of our final week in Ireland.
On The Water
You can tell when a vacation’s going well – before the trip is half done, you begin planning how long it will be before you can come back again. Today as I walked along the ocean at Five Finger Bay I found myself dreaming of future Ireland visits, times when I might come back with…
5:30 in Raphoe
For my part, I spent my time pondering that although my family is over 300 years removed from Ireland / Scotland / Wales, I’m only 2 generations removed from a time when spring houses were necessary to keep butter cool and if you couldn’t make do you went without. My mother was born in 1919, her mother in 1889. In grandma’s corner of West Virginia, in many ways it may as well have been 1789.
Waiting For ____________
If there was no ‘sender’s first name’ information, the money could not be released by the computer. Therefore it was impossible for us to pick up our money gram.
The fact that there was NO first name provided by the sender, that the field in the form could not even be filled out, was inconsequential.
A New Day
Short of having the kids tap dance in front of the statue of Michael O’Connell, we just didn’t see how we’d scrape together the last €5 euros.