FReeper Canteen ~ Happy St Patrick's Day 2025! ~ 17 March 2025

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[Kathy in Alaska]

The FReeper Canteen Presents...
~ Happy St Patrick's Day! ~

Canteen Mission Statement

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies military
and the family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years.

On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink, and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.

Irish Rovers ~ Whisky In A Jar

Dominic Behan ~ Erin Go Bragh

Lisa Kelly ~ Carrickfergus

Clancy Brother & Tommy Makem ~ Johnnie I Hardly Knew Ya

The Dubliners ~ The Rocky Road To Dublin

Today, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated by people of all backgrounds in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Although North America is home to the largest productions, St. Patrick's Day has been celebrated in other locations far from Ireland, including Japan, Singapore, and Russia.

Loreena McKennitt ~ She Moved Through The Fair

El McMeen ~ Danny Boy

Three Irish Tenors ~ That’s An Irish Lullaby

The Wolfe Tones ~ The Wearing Of The Green

The Chieftians ~ An Gaoth Aneas

In modern-day Ireland, St. Patrick's Day has traditionally been a religious occasion. In fact, up until the 1970s, Irish laws mandated that pubs be closed on March 17. Beginning in 1995, however, the Irish government began a national campaign to use St. Patrick's Day as an opportunity to drive tourism and showcase Ireland to the rest of the world.

Last year, close to one million people took part in Ireland 's St. Patrick's Festival in Dublin, a multi-day celebration featuring parades, concerts, outdoor theater productions, and fireworks shows.

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and their families,
and is family friendly.

[Songcraft]

Drinking Song - André Rieu

(Well, everybody's Irish on St. Paddy's Day!)

[Songcraft]

Seven Drunken Nights - The Dubliners

[Allegra]

Wow - beautiful voices!

[radu]

Glad it finally calmed down. Everyone must be worn out by the wind and dust the past several days. A nice break for your kitties too.

Your front will come through here Wed. night but they haven’t said anything about wind. No storms expected at least. This one finally got all the way through and it’s nippy right now. Supposed to dip below freezing by morning. We’ll be ridin’ the roller coaster big time all week. Up, down, up, down.

I was watching a lot of those monstrous tornados in real-time Friday night. One was coming straight here early yesterday morning but the storm calmed down enough in northern AL that it was just a thunderstorm when it reached me. Put on a decent strobe light show, had some hefty wind gusts, and heavy rain but that was it. I was grateful for our very dry air!

[Songcraft]

I think they keep their voices well-lubricated.    :-)

[Songcraft]

Well, Kathy, gotta go, but Happy St. Pat's Day to everyone.

Goodnight, and God bless.

     God Will Take Care of You - The Oak Ridge Boys/Gaithers

[radu]

Howdy, Allegra!
Everything going well down your way? Were you eating tons of dust or did that all stay north of you?

[luvie]

Hi there, Kathy! Indeed, I did have a good nap. It just ended too soon. LOL!

You seem to be having some crazy weather of your own. Tell the truth, the snow is waaaay better than dirt falling out of the sky.

[luvie]

Thanks, Allegra! And Happy St. Patrick's Day to you, too!

[Allegra]

Hi radu! We did get the dust cloud over us a couple of weeks ago. Blecchh!

A bunch of us went to a St. Patrick’s festival yesterday and spent the afternoon outside on a big patio, chatting, laughing and listening to Irish music. It was a nice, sunny day in the 70s, but every now and then, a gust of wind would cause us all to grab plates, baskets, plastic beer glasses,etc. to prevent them from being blown over.

At one point, I said it reminded me of everybody taking their positions when the big cannon went off at 6:00 every day in the Mary Poppins movie.

How are things with you and the fur-family?

[luvie]

Yes, it was good to have a calm day. And a blue sky. I would have preferred rain, but blue is a good second best.

I know you were mighty anxious when those storms were headed straight for ya! Glad they fell apart before getting there. But the 4 inches of rain you got was awesome!

[Songcraft]

Ooops -- I missed your first post there to me!

I like them too.   That is great that you got to see them.

Here's one more.

     Will Ye Go Lassie Go

[radu]

Yuck on the dust. Nasty stuff!

Sounds like a really nice day over there yesterday, except for the occasional wind gusts. Y’all had a good time, regardless, from the sound of things.

No outdoor activity for anyone here yesterday. Windy and extremely wet all day, and wondering if a tornado would come through. One came through about 6 miles north of the farm last evening and I was glad to miss out on that!

The fur babies are all doing well. Obnoxious, as usual. LOL

[Allegra]

Ah, yes…I heard that song many times as a little kid, as well as when I got to see the Clancy Brothers perform.

I pretty much knew all the words to most of their songs since I’d heard them so much growing up. I remember I particularly liked “The Rising of the Moon” when I was a little kid and Mom would play it for me. I didn’t know the meaning behind it then, but I did by the time I saw them when I was a teenager.

I also loved “No Nay Never” as a kid and loved it even more years later as a young adult who had discovered how nicely beer and Irish folk music went together.

Clancy Brothers music always reminds me of my mom and being reminded of her is always a nice thing indeed.

[Allegra]

No outdoor activity for anyone here yesterday. Windy and extremely wet all day, and wondering if a tornado would come through. One came through about 6 miles north of the farm last evening and I was glad to miss out on that!

Oh, you were closer to that than I realized! I’m glad the worst missed you. The footage from Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma was heartbreaking.

Stay safe!

[radu]

After the ugly brown you’ve had lately, that blue sky must have been most welcome.

The sun peeked out once in a while here but it was cloudy for the most part. The clouds have moved out now so it’ll be pretty tomorrow. I hope the wind is gone too.

That tornado in AL that was heading here had my attention, that’s for sure. It was a big ‘un. Ryan Hall was covering it right before he signed off for some sleep and his 24-hour stream kept up with it too. I was able to keep track of it that way.
I wasn’t as concerned about the one last evening. I was tracking that, too, and could see it would go between here and Tullahoma.

The rain was most welcome. Most has soaked in already so it was needed. I didn’t see much standing water when I was out this afternoon.

[E.G.C.]

Happy St. Patrick's Day and ((HUGS)) to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your service to our country.

I got us some KFC supper yesterday.

How's everyone doing this morning?

[luvie]

Ryan and his bunch have been doing wonderful work bringing the stuff the folks need since the tornadoes tore up their towns and their homes. The chasers are good folks.f

I’m glad you got all that rain. Just wish we could. I guess sooner or later it’ll happen.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, E...((HUGS))...KFC looks good!

Gizmo looks like he enjoyed his outing yesterday.

Have a fun outing for Monday.

And Happy St Patrick's Day.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and rest well, Songcraft.

God bless and a perfect hymn to end the day.