Posted on 12/30/2016 5:08:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
After generations of his family spent their lives as outlaws for making the infamous Irish poitín, Pádraic Ó Griallais has finally been able to carry out the family business in the open just under a decade after the spirit was outlawed.
Taking a career break from his job as a high school teacher to establish a new business based on his old family recipe, Ó Griallais is free to produce and sell the highly alcoholic spirit as he pleases without the interference of the Gardaí [Irish police], who hounded the previous poitín distillers in his family with raids to put a stop to the production of the beverage that was outlawed from 1661 to 1997 due to excise regulations.
The production of the spirit was regulated by the Irish Department of Agriculture in 1997 but only under their specific regulations. Luckily the regulations still allow Ó Griallais to use the botanical bogbean that grows around his family’s homeland around Indreabhán, County Galway, that makes their specific recipe so special. …
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
So, nobody knows what to do about the rampant violence in Chicago?
David Wilkerson, RIP, but we could sure use somebody like you about now.
I don’t think we have any super markets nearby. Maybe in Southern Highlands, which is a good 15 miles west, as the crow flies, but there are several smaller markets, which I like to shop at. When I feel I can afford it.
I’ve never heard of M&S, unless it goes by another name.
I hope you feel better, soon, Moosie!
The weather fornicators predict precipitation 9 of the next 9 days, half snow, half rain.
*shudder*
Wind chill here is 29 and dropping. I’m SO done with winter!
Thanks, I will!
It took me a full hour to drive 11 miles yesterday morning.
That was after 14-20 minutes to excavate the windows on the car...
We have 30 Fs out there. Somehow they say it feels like 23 Fs.
Some precip foregnosticasted for tomorrow, then cold and cloudy until Wednesday.
*Thunderous wave of paper topped with a cover reading “Encyclopedia Titanica” appears*
Your fault.
I thought it was always San Andreas’ fault.
My head is exploding.
The Wikipedia page on the 2017 NYC mayoral election lists Hillary as a potential candidate.
Can you say GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!?
Sure, I knew you could.
We’re having a blizzard in Ft. Worth. It is falling at a rate of about 1 snowflake per square meter per second.
CLOSE THE ROADS!!!!
Yes, I saw that on FB a day or two ago. And Conservatives thought the mayor they have is a whack job...
Used, Rare and Collectible. We have a lot more of the used and collectible then we do of the rare.
And getting the job is very simple. First you make friends with the owner of a used book store, then you do her books for 10 years. After that you start working behind the counter occasionally.
Then you find a collectible book that you already have and offer to sell it to her. She says that she would have no use for it but introduces you to the owner of a store across the state who does deal with that kind of stuff. You sell the book to him and get a job doing his books. Then he asks you, because he knows that you haunt used book sales and such if you would keep an eye out for anything he would sell in his store. You do this for another ten years.
Then you move across the state and he hires you to work in the store along with doing the books and book hunting.
Perfectly simple.
Ah. Wellden. That’s probably more time than I have left, but it sound good, anyway! LOL!
And tomorrow is Saturday, which means I’ll have another day off. Let’s see... how many is that for me in a row, now...? 8,030... ;o]
Dragonbaby says the Great Flood is coming, but I think she’s a little confused. Jack is aware of nothing but his heat lamp. Jake wants me to go to bed with him.
This is one of those days when nothing got done except my shower. It was too cold to sit out (N @ 12 mph, 38 degrees, wind chill 27) and that makes for an uneventful day.
I’m sure there’s something I could be doing, but I’ve made it to noon and no ideas have struck me, yet. Maybe I could watch a movie...or something. Or not.
If it weren’t so cold (she says of her desert bones) I might go to the thrift store to browse for another CD/DVD case. Maybe tomorrow will be a better day for that.
Loose ends. I hate when I feel like this.
;-)
(Speaking of which, we had snow overnight, but the sunbeams are functioning today so the evidence is mostly non-existent. The temp is hanging at 272K - or 490° R.)
And on that subject, Obama's pastorperson is most definitely NOT a David Wilkerson type..
Cabot AR got snow yesterday, as evidenced by the snow on the VW shell in my son’s back yard, and St George UT also got snow. Which means that Brian Head will be busy for a few more weeks.
Winter must not like me because it seems so much colder, now.
Unfortunately, “The Cross and the Glock” doesn’t make for nearly as poignant cover art.
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