And then, the cafeteria usually has corned beef and cabbage right next to the special halal dishes for the Muslim kids.
And of course I can always tune in to CR while I grade papers.
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| Posted by: togo 10-Mar-2010, 05:45 AM |
| One of the most fun times of the year! I am having my second annual St. Patrick's day party at my Celtic Pub, "Tomfoolery's" at my house this Friday. My family and I will be attending the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade on Sunday. My brother has a place right on the route of the parade. Always a great time. The 17th we always go to "O'Connor's", for dinner and fun. A great Irish pub and restaurant in Worcester. Whatcha got??? |
| Posted by: stoirmeil 10-Mar-2010, 06:59 AM |
| Well -- I can teach wearing green. And then, the cafeteria usually has corned beef and cabbage right next to the special halal dishes for the Muslim kids. And of course I can always tune in to CR while I grade papers. |
| Posted by: WallaceGal 10-Mar-2010, 08:51 AM |
I have my corned beef in the freezer, just waiting to cook, my Guinness in the fridge (though I'm the only one here who drinks real beer. The DH drinks Bud Light which is like yellow water to me) and we'll have a traditional dinner with CelticRadio playing in the background  Kind of quiet for us. |
| Posted by: Robert Phoenix 10-Mar-2010, 04:42 PM |
| Different Drums of Ireland concert at our local theatre then off to the bars. Unless of course the new grandson decides to come out into the world that day (17th is the due date). Then its handing the tickets off to soemone else and hightailing it down to Antigo. |
| Posted by: wdorholt 11-Mar-2010, 01:16 AM |
| I am afraid I live in a "Celtic-free" zone of Minnesota. Just Scandinavians around here mostly. I'd have to go a couple hundred miles to St. Paul for a decent celebration! One year we dressed my kid up as a leprechaun, and nobody knew what she was! I will be wearin' the green and drinking mountain dew as I have to take a pass on the usual beverages. At least it comes in a green bottle. Definitely will be listening to CR! Robert Phoenix- Congratulations on the grandson, whenever he comes! |
| Posted by: Madadh 11-Mar-2010, 06:16 AM |
| Saturday night is a BarleyJuice concert. Sunday is the Baltimore St. Pat's Parade which I will walk with the Irish Wolfhounds. Wednesday is work in the kilt (Irish National) Saturday is the Harrisburg St. Pat's Parade and I again will walk with the Irish Wolfhounds. Guinness, Tullamore Dew, and some home made mead sprinkled around for good luck. |
| Posted by: Camac 11-Mar-2010, 08:49 AM |
| I don't celebrate St. Pat. Day and not because I have anything against the Irish, My Maternal Grandfather was From Galway. I don't celebrate it because of my Irish Aunt Eileen. She was a devout Catholic (sickening so) who was raised and educated in a Convent, (should have stayed there and become a Nun) she never married and she drove everyone around her nuts. She had her own Holy Trinity, The Pope, Virgin Mary, and St. Paddy. She never talked to me from age 9 to age 11 because I told her I'd rather be a pirate than a priest.Thought I was the Devil incarnate. Everytime you saw her she was worrying her Rosary and mumbling Hail Mary's. Spent most of her non-working life on her knees praying. Methinks she wasn't all there. Anyway what put the icing on the cake happened when I was about 22 ( I'd left the Church at 17 so now I really was Satan) She was telling some of my younger cousins about St. Paddy chasing the snakes out of Ireland, well I couldn't stand this hogwash so I piped up and told the kids that there were never any snakes in Ireland so he couldn't have chased them away. Well up my Aunt Eileen jumps runs into her bedroom and comes out carrying her Rosary, A Crucifix, and a vial of Holy Water. I swear the woman was getting ready to preform an exorcism on me. Swift intervention by my Mother prevented a family war from breaking out right then and their. She guided me into the Kitchen to the sounds of curses and condemnation of burning in Hell for eternity. So you can see why I don't celebrate the day, brings the imp out in me. Camac; PS:, BTW I had deliberately pounced on the snake story.. JUst couldn't let it slide. |
| Posted by: Blackdog 11-Mar-2010, 11:10 PM |
| For St.Pat's my group and I will be performing at one of the premier concert venues in my area. The show is already sold out,it will be wall to wall people and celebration...great Craic! Unfortunetly because I'm working I have to leave the pints until the end of our show or the fingers get too slow for the jigs and reels. |
| Posted by: Patch 11-Mar-2010, 11:37 PM | ||
Camac I had always heard that St. Pat may well have been the only person in all of Ireland who "saw" the snakes! That idea could secure me a place in the nether regions I suppose. Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: wdorholt 12-Mar-2010, 12:59 AM | ||
Now that makes a lot of sense! Good one Patch! |
| Posted by: Camac 12-Mar-2010, 08:44 AM |
| Patch; Don't worry about ending up in the nether region, I've has a hot plate reserved for years and we'll finally get to meet. Ironic that the Irish picked a Brit for their Patron Saint. At least we Scots picked an Apostle, St. Andrew. Camac. |
| Posted by: Patch 12-Mar-2010, 02:32 PM |
| Camac: I always figured that is where I would find the most of my friends. I have been instructed to go there more times than I could ever count, and of late the cold seems to bother me. The thought of my wife is the only thing that would concern me but even she may have suspected my eventual destination. Slàinte, Patch |
| Posted by: Camac 13-Mar-2010, 09:01 AM |
| Patch; From what I understand they allow visitors once a year and inorder to prolong the duration of your sojourn they are allowed to bring cold water. Any visitors I would have wouldn't bring water they'd bring coal to help stoke the fires and bribe the overseers to make sure I was rotated regularly so I'd be well done all around. My Mother always said I'd roast in Hell. Camac. |
| Posted by: Leelee 13-Mar-2010, 12:30 PM |
Well I have to work the next day....sooooo it'll be pretty low key around here. We'll probably have Corned Beef Hash with Cabbage and Boiled Potatoes  Have a few cold beers while preparing listening to the tunes of Celtic Radio of course I can't wait till St. Patrick's lands on a Friday or Weekend....then we'll whoop it up like no one has seen before   |
| Posted by: Madadh 14-Mar-2010, 07:08 AM |
| Went to see Barley Juice last night and they were grand. Looking forward to walking in today's Baltimore parade. If you see a fat old guy in a Stuart of Bute kilt walking a shaggy "horse" wave and say high. |
| Posted by: Camac 14-Mar-2010, 09:50 AM |
| Leelee; St. Patricks Day is on a Friday in the year 2012. I hope when it roles around you enjoy it for it could well be the last one. After all 2012 is the year of rhe Apocolyps. End of Days, Gotterdamerung, Armegeddon. or what ever else you want to call it. The sun will send out massive bursts of radiation, the mantle will melt , the crust shift, and the magnet poles reverse and relocate. Hellova party for St Paddy's Day.Oh yeah and when its all over the snakes will return to Ireland. Camac. |
| Posted by: Leelee 14-Mar-2010, 12:24 PM |
Thanks Camac  I'll be sure to enjoy myself, catch the parade, eat, drink and be merry.......Might as well whoop it up, if it's our last  |
| Posted by: MDF3530 14-Mar-2010, 07:53 PM |
| It was too cold and rainy for me to go to the Oak Forest Fleadh yesterday. I'm thinking of going to the Irish Mass at my old church Tuesday night. |
| Posted by: Luckykid 15-Mar-2010, 12:43 PM |
| Camac, Happy St. Paddy's Day to ya. Living in Celtic free Arizona,,,,,Wife is Italian,,So I am cookin my own Corned beef an cabbage, Guiness is all gone now, so Started on the Kiltlifter! Lucky. |
| Posted by: mcnberry 16-Mar-2010, 02:34 AM |
| First things first. Congratulations to Robert Phoenix! Guess the grandchild couldn't wait and wanted to be there for the celebrations...... I agree with Leelee and will "whoop it up" once again this year. As for Patch and Camac; I'll meet you in the "nether region" in 2012, since I told my Catholic great grandmother once that I would meet her there too. Guess that was my ticket to get that hot plate reserved.... |
| Posted by: Camac 16-Mar-2010, 07:16 AM |
| mcnberry; The more the merrier. One more and we will have a foursome for Bridge. Wait a minute, down there that more than likely entails building a brige over a lava flow. Oh well your welcome to join me. Camac. |
| Posted by: stoirmeil 16-Mar-2010, 03:29 PM | ||
And there the Irish will be, standing in the middle of it, four sheets to the wind, blaming it on the Sasenach.  |
| Posted by: Rindy 16-Mar-2010, 07:33 PM |
| I'm putting my corned beef in the crock pot tonight, and plan on being here tomorrow with all you wonderful people. I love St. Patricks Day here on Celtic Radio. Slainte |
| Posted by: MDF3530 16-Mar-2010, 10:40 PM | ||
I went to the Irish Mass at my old church tonight. Rindy, I hope no leprechauns get into the CR servers like they did several years ago  ! |
| Posted by: togo 17-Mar-2010, 04:48 AM |
| HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY one and all! Gonna be a great day. Have fun. Slainte! |
| Posted by: Leelee 17-Mar-2010, 06:36 AM |
| [QUOTE]Camac Posted on 16-Mar-2010, 07:16 AM The more the merrier. One more and we will have a foursome for Bridge. Wait a minute, down there that more than likely entails building a brige over a lava flow. Oh well your welcome to join me.[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] stoirmeil Posted on 16-Mar-2010, 03:29 PM And there the Irish will be, standing in the middle of it, four sheets to the wind, blaming it on the Sasenach. [QUOTE]Ahhh you two made me laugh, thanks for that I wish you all a fantastic and Happy St. Patrick's Day!!! I won't be able to enter the Site until I return from work - "they" don't allow us on this site  Hopefully there wil be room for me to sign on after work Enjoy yourselves and be safe |
| Posted by: Robert Phoenix 17-Mar-2010, 03:24 PM | ||
Sounds like a lovely day for a Guinness!! |
| Posted by: Camac 17-Mar-2010, 03:37 PM |
| From what I understand any day is a good day for a Guiness as far as the Irish are concerned. Cama |
| Posted by: stoirmeil 17-Mar-2010, 05:40 PM |
| Well, this was nice today -- the school served both corned beef and cabbage AND a beautiful Irish lamb stew, as well as real barmbrack and Irish breakfast tea. That's more than what we usually get. So at least I've eaten celtic. (The stew was excellent.) |
| Posted by: Leelee 17-Mar-2010, 05:56 PM |
| Stoirmeil, sounds like you had the most excellent St. Patrick's Day thus far!!!! Wonderful I wore my green with pride today and even the local radio station played Irish Artists and some older songs, which was fantastic I've noticed around the Office some were wearing green. I think what bothered me the most was only 2 people had greeted me with a "Happy St. Paddy's Day" and when I greeted the co-workers they would say " oh yeah right and giggle" .....Must say it is odd than what I'm used to.....much different atmosphere compared to my old jobs.... Now I'm listening to a variety of different traditional celtic songs on my ipod and having a few to toast St. Patrick's Day |
