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 familys homeland around Indreabhán, County Galway, that makes their specific recipe so special.
(Excerpt) Read more at irishcentral.com ...
Vlad needs a tetanus shot to go to summer camp. It’s been ten years since his previous one.
I agree that Bill needs to move out. However, his father ...
1700 is a big number!
Ohno...not the Dad thing...BFFs?
Ah, yes. Summer camp. The last tetanus shot I had, I was 12, and it was after the fact, not preventative. And the test came back Positive, so I had to have the shot, full bore! Yikes!
But 1702 is even bigger! ;o]
I think it’s rooted in adolescent rivalry with his brother. Oh, well ... if the Global Economic Collapse hits, Bill will be good for something. He’s fast, at least.
The BSA requires the tetanus shot for campers. For other vaccinations, they just want to know whether or not you had them. That way, if you have a rash, they can rule out measles and chicken pox (or not).
Ah. I understand that. I think. Folks do strange things when it comes to family, and my family is probably close to the head of the pack.
All the diseases that were eradicated here are on the rise, due to the influx of illegals. That’s really sad. If small pox makes a comeback, I’ll be in isolation until its over with, or I will end up dying from it.
I had one small pox vaccine and it made me deathly ill.
I don’t think smallpox will be back in the next decade or so.
I plan on living to 100...just to get back at certain folks who want me dead! ;o]
The laundry is washed, and I got the list of signatures from Zeke, though there aren’t as many as I had hoped to get. With Zeke being on jury duty, it’s very hard for him to do other things.
I polished up the letter, removing some commas and correcting the spelling of “therefore,” and it’s as good as it will be in this lifetime. I will copy the signatures and collate the other stuff and put it in the mail this morning. If I had the stamps, I would just mail them from here, but I only have three stamps left.
I’m really hoping this awful fatigue lets up, though the pattern is not encouraging. :o[
There are templates on the Avrey Labels web site.
Polish terrorists?
I used to get them roughly every year. The dispensary had a habit of losing my records so I couldn’t ever prove I’d just had one.
Never got tetanus though...
It's only extinct in the wild, vials still live in various labs throughout the world.
Yes, Nully. That’s exactly where I searched. But they make the filling out of those labels so complex that my overtaxed little dyslexic brain had a hard time trying to figure out how to do it, as the instructions are not there.
The designers assume that everyone who utilizes their online labels just naturally knows how. They don’t think that one might have a learning disability, or an illness that precludes instant comprehension. I think I had to start over at least five times before I was able to actually print out the labels.
One just has to “wing it” and at this point, that’s very difficult. I’ve gotten so stressed over this thing at Espinoza that it has sent me into a relapse. Well, that and Chuck’s death and cleaning his apartment.
If I were a drinking man, I’d have a drink long about now. But I’m not, so I won’t!
I have been to Walmart.
It's a weird, wired world we live in.
In our household the reverse was true. I was giving the boot and Mrs. ArGee was pulling them back.
You can print stamps from your ‘ puter.
Course, then you have to have ink.
If it ain’t one thing it’s another.
Sally is inhaling helium from a balloon and singing an emo ballad.
I’m not being paid enough for this.
It's just incremental..
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