Not mine , but I rather like it.
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. …
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Not mine , but I rather like it.
Whoa! That is beautiful!
And a bargain it is if they offer free delivery.. ;-)
Heh. Most people could get out to shop yesterday, but there was probably nothing in the stores.
Nice!
Haven't had to fire up the Olde Deere yet for cause.
Some of our NC Forum people had up to 8”, but with the sunshine, the roads cleared up quickly even in the mountains. It’s been very pretty, though, with the ice on the trees and bushes. The bamboo forest near our church was all bent over from the ice this morning.
Have you checked that the Olde Deere starts this year?
Not an expert on that smokey hole, but I think you would need to be stood right outside the Tower of London to get that shot.
Avoiding the Pigeons.
Pigeons are food.
Cables are readily available, especially at the $5 and below stores. My Nano fell out of my pocket on the subway and I am still upset. Got an iPhone 7 and now use that as my player.
These are London Pigeons.....Chuck Norris with feathers.
You only have to give one a ‘Power assisted take off” whilst walking along , and the World comes to a sudden halt. *Shock,Horror!*
Seriously, they have developed a sense of importance.
I suspect you’d need a License of some description to obtain that goal.
When they where desperate to reduce the numbers in Trafalgar Square they strictly controlled how it was done. Open season for any local Airgun owners.....Oh, no. Far too simple. A specialist company was brought in...*que the Benny Hill theme tune*.
Yes.
When I reordered the shed-in-a-box to put the walk-behind mowers in the back and give a preeminent frontal space to the Olde Deere for ease of access if needed, I checked vital fluids and fired it up to verify that it started and that the auger engaged and the transmission would transmit both in forward motion and reverse..
But I have done that in previous years only to be confounded when the temp is brrr-cold and solidified glowbull warmthing is smothering the landscape. Hopefully my adjustment of the auger engagement safety switch thing (as reported last year) will allow it to continue to start when the brrr-cld and solidified glowbull warmthing is in vogue. Since only one of those two conditions (the brrr-cold) is presently in effect, I have no desire to go give it a try right now.. ;-)
But my New RedRidingThing has a flat tire..
That’s good news. As soon as you said Snow, I thought “ Here we go...”
Flat Tyre...Just rotate the flat bit to the Top, problem fixed.
Must go, Tomorrow is only 90 mins away. :)
And coming at you at a thousand miles an hour.
"Who asked for Monday?"
Not I said the chicken, but my laundry is sorted and I’m about ready to head for the laundry room. This is not a good morning.
Accordian to the weather-beeber, it’s 46 and cloudy. I don’t want to go wash clothes, but I have to. Somehow, all my washcloths have gone walkabout, and I have three left out of six that came in the set. That’s not good. It’s hard to misplace something that is bright yellow.
Maybe the washer ate them. I have found that I need to search diligently to get all the clothes out of Sloshy and into the dryer.
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