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Reply to A Cold Solstice Morning in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Update, since I can not get the edit feature to work - the surprise was the my husband mentioned the sibling stuff, since it is more often his business partner (also our house-mate aka The Lizard) who suffered this problem in childhood. His old fashioned Irish father always made the two boys decide on what ONE present they would get that year (must go back to when large families of 12 children and parent's could only afford one nice gift, like a pony

A Cold Solstice Morning in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

[This article was also posted in a similar form at my Live Journal disaster_cat where I am posting more often these days) but I thought folks here might enough it too].. So, I woke up this morning and realized as one does that it was a bit chilly and I needed a bath before getting dressed. Went to turn on hot water, now lately because our pump is going out (

Summer has Just left the Building.. in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Well, after the weirdest Spring and Summer I think I can every remember from anywhere I have ever lived (and that includes snow on the tulips in Denver) we now have fall. Of course we went from a very warm dry April to three solid months of rain (I'm not kidding 12 weeks, more than Noah got) then about two weeks of warmish and nice Summer weather. Then about a week

Kilmurry Still Creaking Along in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Well, we've had another fun filled month of coughs, weezes, fevers, and chance to try out new and interesting (proscribed) drugs this month! Seriously, I am going to be very glad to see the end of this Winter season, which just seems to have been full of nasty little bugs, most of which seem to have found it necessarily to visit our house. However, the days are gett

Reply to Kilmurry Under the Weather in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Well, feeling better, I'm afraid that Feb was only slightly better than January in that regard. However, things are improving rapidly, I think the warming weather is helping everyone fight off the nasties. Now we are just having fun getting the business set up! Should be lots of fuel for blogs... Disaster Cat

Reply to How to have a really Traditional New Years Eve Party in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

HI SS Geezer, I didn't see your comment before, must have come in while I had the bug. Anyway, yes the guests chipping in really made it, the guys getting ready to bar-ba-que on the stove was really touching; they didn't really want to, but they were going to do it anyway. When the lights went back one, they didn't ask the ladies to take the task back over either, they told us to go take a break and cooked everything in the oven. One of them ha

Kilmurry Under the Weather in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

OK friends, Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry about nearly a month of no writing, but there was a good reason this time. After New Years we all went to an large SCA (re-enactment club sort-of) event in Dublin where the gang from Belfast were so sick by Sunday morning that they almost could not drive home. By the following Thursday, nearly EVERYONE else had i

Reply to How to have a really Traditional New Years Eve Party in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Thanks it was fun...now for the weekend SCA event... Disaster Cat

Reply to So they sent me a reminder... in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Thanks Jennifer - already posted another one - I think that life has slowed down just enough to let me do this again-besides it is an excuse to read everyone else's too! Disaster Cat

How to have a really Traditional New Years Eve Party in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Well, so we decided to hold our New Year's Eve party again this year. Those of you lucky enough to be in the SCA or fandom in the West Kingdom will be familiar with Greyhaven's huge New Years Eve bash (which gets several hundred people in shifts over the course of an evening) well ours is never that big, but is loosely based on the same concept. However, thi

So they sent me a reminder... in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Hi everyone, Well, this morning, after enough time I'd managed to almost forget I had a blog, I got a notice that someone had commented on a past article. It turned out this may have been a rather sneaky way for Joe USER to remind me I still had an account since the comment seems to have been made in April - but hey it worked! Here I am, and in reality I'd b

Kilmurry House Gets a Makeover in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Hi everyone, Well, just when you thought you'd never here from Kilmurry House again, here we are back home and more or less functional. The Wolf and the Cat survied the two weeks in the UK, including the World Con Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow Scotland. Meanwhile, The Lizard and the Bear had a surprise for them when they got home. An amazing, newly pai

Fun in the Rain in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Hi everyone, This is a quickie report as I need to go to bed. While Disaster Cat is officialy back on line, I am staying with friends in Scotland for most of June. I'm having a great time, minus the weather. Its been grim and wet since I arrived, which was rather a surprise since Ireland has been warm and mild. Most often, both places are either pretty grim,

We're BACK...... in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Greetings to everyone out there in blog land. By now, I'm sure most of you believe that Kilmurry House and it inhabitants have slowly faded away into the Irish mists somewhere or at least drifted off into cyberspace. Not true, only that Disaster Cat's old computer decided it was tired and wanted a break and her new one came with some jinxed software that wouldn't le

Kilmurry Kat Hospital in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Well, lets see, when we last left our soap opera things were going about as could be expected. They still are, except that now that both Bears are in the house, they are getting on remarkably well. Biggest problem is the two year old "Cub" aka Cubby, has decided she is afraid of the big doggies. Never mind that at Yule she was happily on the floor, petting their tu

As Kilmurry Turns in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

And its another day here at the Kilmurry Hospital Ward. Disaster Cat is doing quite well, but husband now has terrible sore throat and house mate a very painful back. Which didn't stop a quick trip into town and a pass at the library to drop off the three-month over-due library books. There wasn't really time to pick out any more books today though, so I wasn't abl

Yeah its a new Month! in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Thank goodness April is here and we can start over and maybe even enjoy are sort of cleaned up house. A visit from my mother-in-law insured that Kilmurry House got the most intense Spring cleaning it has ever had, at least since we moved in. Sadly, we didn't quite get finished, so you can't tell by walking in the front hallway, that is still full of stuff. But many

There's a Light Eating Monster in my Kitchen in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

When we last left Disaster Cat, she was toddling off on her way to a nice, sulking cat nap, being too irritated and annoyed at the world to do much else. Well, remember all those helpful government commercials they use to have? The ones that would say things like, "if you are feeling depressed see you doctor, it may be a symptom of something else." Does anyone ever

Cloudy Wet Day in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Well, lets see, today I finally got to go the chiropractor to find out what I had pretty much already guessed. My upper back and shoulders had been whacked out of line by the evil forces that led me to trip over the big, bad, rock on Saturday. The cure for this condition was to be whacked about a good deal more, then go home and lay flat for a bit. I now feel somew

A Funny Thing Happend on the Way to the Chicken Run in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Well, this has not been exactly a wonderful couple of weeks. Oh, some of its been OK but most of it as been kind of under the weather. Among the good news, like attending a nice re-enactment event in the UK (at Lincoln castle) was stuff like finding out the bug everyone had there had come home with us. All of us.... Which is one reason why there haven't

Reply to Snow Under a Full Moon in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Thanks! I just saw this, I've been really busy weaving all week and we are going to the UK tomorrow (where it really is supposed to be a winter wonderland..) I'll write more when I get back - Disaster Cat

Snow Under a Full Moon in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

There is nothing quite a breath taking as looking out a darkened window to see snow crystals illuminated by moonlight. Yet that is the view that has been greeting us for the last several nights here at Kilmurry House. There is not a lot of snow here, not like Belfast, or even Dublin. But its enough to make the entire area look like an enchanted landscape, the sort

The Cats are Psychic in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

I've decided that all our cat's have a sixth sense. OK, so I already felt that way, but now I KNOW they do. You see, tomorrow we are supposed to have a visit from a family friend who is very allergic to cats. This guy is really allergic, not the type of mild allergy a lot of people have that can still cope with a cat hair or two. With the aid of an inhaler and ver

Adult Proof Caps in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Well, all the MURP players have gone home and the house is quiet again. As expected, the locked up Elk Hounds were not always attended to in time to prevent accidents. This is because, for the moment, Mommy is not letting them outside. At least not until we practice it again a few more times with The Pack Leader, otherwise known as My husband: The Wolf. A

Its Spring and A Dog's Thoughts Turn To... in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

And today - Even more Fun with Animals! I got up this morning and let the dogs out to do their business when the promptly took off like a couple of medium sized cannons and headed for the hills. Or at least, the next field...It was a beautiful sunny day. If you ignored the cold, the sunshine almost looked like Spring had arrived. I guess the dogs thought s