About this:
It's about 85 degrees as we speak and we might be forced to turn the AC on if the wind gets any higher. Life is just peachy right now, with a nice breeze blowin' through the open windows of El Casa Móvil De Pennington. And we're just about to remove ourselves from indoors and decamp to our usual, customary, and quite reasonable place under the awning... for t'is a lovely day.
Happy St. Paddy's Day to those of you of the Irish persuasion, and to those of you who are temporarily Irish. Our Happy Hour libation today will be a couple o' Sammy Adams finest Irish Reds. Fitting.
I made my usual blog-rounds this morning and found that nearly EVERY single comment I left on Blogger-blogs yesterday vanished. Kinda makes you feel like "Something I said?", huh?
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ReplyDeleteLiam is staggerin down the beach when he spies a bottle almost buried in the sand. Pickin it up, he polishes off a bit of the dirt in hopes of findin a wee corner of the water of life, whereupon SHAZAM a genie appears before him, with the usual blather about gratitude for bein released from his longtime prison.
"Liam," sez he, "Just to show my appreciation for my liberation, it's 2 wishes I'll be grantin ye."
"Wishes?" sez he.
"Anythin," sez the big blue feller.
"I'd like a pint," sez he, and the genie, after a long-sufferin sigh, causes to appear the most beautiful pint of Guinness ye've ever seen, sweet, dark and firm-collared.
"Why thank ye, Squire," he sez, and drinks it down - whereupon it fills itself back up, don't ye know, and the genie sez "Ye'll never be without, for it'll never go dry."
"And don't forget, ye've got another wish comin. Anythin in the world, Liam."
"Anythin?", sez he.
"Anythin at all."
"I believe I'll have another one of these."
Buck, your weather sounds great out there in old N.M. It was nice here in Nashtown today, too. Joyce felt well enough to go out for awhile, so we took the Jag and a sandwich down to the park for an hour or so. Sunshine, 75, breeze, great day. Then I got home and watched Vanderbilt fold in the final minutes of their game against Richmond in the NCAA. Guess you can't win 'em all.
ReplyDeleteOh, and we are thrilled that the temperature in Iowa got about 60 degrees today; it's all relative, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI'm not Irish and I don't drink beer, but if I was and I did, I'd try the Sam Adams Cherry Wheat myself...cause I like some flavors outside the mainstream sometimes. Have a Happy St. Patrick's Hour today!
I tried a peach beer out of a micro-brewery in BC once that was pretty dang fine. But that was when I lived in the lower mainland. Sadly not available in Alberta. :(
ReplyDeleteBuck, just curious, why does Google keep throwing you out? My computer knowledge is limited to turning it on so I can't help, but it just seems strange.
ReplyDeleteGreat day here as well, got a little yard work done which will keep me close to the Tylenol bottle in the morning!
The wife and I went out to eat tonight, the person seating us asked "Where is your green?" In my best accent I told her I was Russian.
She looked like she had been slapped with a wet fish!!
My people come from Scotland, but I'll
wish 'em all a happy St. Paddy's Day.
I'm way behind on my blogging. Happy St. Pat's Day. We had a similar day here with temps in the 80's, but the wind was howling.
ReplyDeleteHappy weather and wearin' o ' the green! Rob's joke is a real groaned!
ReplyDeleteI picked up a singleton of Hobgoblin Dark to go in the lame stew. Pepper finished off the dregs. Enjoy your veranda this evening!
Over here in Santa Fe, it is warm ... and windy .. and very dry. Perfect recipe for forest fires and brush fires. I am praying for some rain or snow soon, and none is in the forecast for the next ten days. We're getting to the desperate stage.
ReplyDeleteKinda makes you feel like "Something I said?", huh?
ReplyDeleteYup. I was really scratching my head over this until it hit me; now I understand the vanishing comments thang. And...
Wait. You're telling me a Canadian beer... brewed in Canada... ain't available in all of Alberta? How weird is THAT?
Rob: Badda-da-BOOMP... Sissss!
Dan: Your day yesterday sounds much better than mine, especially the part about Joyce.
Red: We DID have an enjoyable St. Paddy's Hour, thank ya. I'm glad it's getting warmer up your way.
Buck, just curious, why does Google keep throwing you out?
That was the first time it's ever happened, Ed. I got an e-mail saying they noticed "suspicious activity" on my account, whatever that means. So... I dunno. Funny story about the wait-person!
Lou: The wind has picked up here today, but yesterday was nearly perfect.
Moogie: Lame stew? Didja mean "lamb," or are your stews REALLY lame?
Sharon: We're VERY dry down this way, too. I can't remember the last time it rained... seriously.