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Good afternoon, and Happy St Pats Day....

Last nite we had our corned beef, cabbage, carrots and herbed potatoes, with Shamrock cookies, and lots of Irish beer, all done to the tunes of Irish bagpipes, on the CD player...a fine evening indeed...

Soon BigDom needs to call work, and pretend that he is sick...he will then start getting ready for his big evening at OBlarneys, where he will eat and drink and march along, with the bagipers, that come every year to OBlarneys....

I however, dont attend the festivities...OBlarneys is packed to the rafters on St Pats Day, and my arthritic knees will never sustain me through an entire evening of probably standing(as find an unoccupied chair will be a miracle)....

But I will take BigDom to his festivities, and he will take a cab home, when he is ready to come home...

Now BigDom is 1/2 Sicilian, and 1/2 Irish....tho most of the time, he feels more closely with his Sicilian half, as he was raised only by his dads Sicilian side...but on this one day of the year, BigDom becomes totally Irish...he is from the Sheehy clan, and his moms name was Eileen, and her dad was a big tall red hair Chicago policeman....

Now when Andy was in Fiji or Thailand on his world trip, he met a fair, blue eye, red haired lass, and her traveling gal pals...Andy and his buds and these gals all formed a large, boisterous group...when this redheaded gal, mentioned that she was from Ireland, Andy inquired of her last name, and she said 'Sheehy'...Well, Andy was quite amazed at the coincidence, that his paternal grandmother was also Sheehy....this redhaired lass, said that the Sheehy clan is a very small clan, in Ireland, and that all members of the Sheehys are related by blood....so she and Andy believe that they are long lost cousins...quite an Irish coincidence...