First, I would like to than everyone who wrote me about Hagen's passing. I'll show some of them to The Wolf, when he is feeling better. As you can imagine, he is not at his best today. The house is very quiet and everyone is moving about in a sort of hushed manor. Life keeps moving, even when it seems like it is moving through molasses. This evening, a little gir
Greetings to everyone who has been following the Saga of Kilmurry House. I had intended this blog to be a catch up piece, one that entertained with snippets of life here over the last two weeks. The two crazy weeks while we prepared for and lived through our local SCA event. Our last house guests left this morning, and it seemed for a few minutes that life would g
Well, just when life seemed to be settling down into one pattern here at Kilmurry house, a surprise e-mail has The Wolf scrambling about in a different direction. The jewelery business going more or less on schedule for a late Spring start up. The guys are busy designing, casting, cataloging and office finishing. Me doing paperwork and trying to keep some semblance
Its been a crazy month here at Kilmurry House, one reason there haven't been nearly as many blogs as usual. Hopefully that will change soon as most of the insanity is due to the new jewelery business the guys are starting. They have just asked me to play secretary for a few months. Something I am more than willing to do, provided a bathroom is placed in the outbui
Yes, we are still here, at Kilmurry House. Just frantically busy, or at least the guys are. Trying to get everything ready to their the castings for their first jewelery catalog has been a rather frantic experience. Especially when most of the equipment has been high jacked by customs and no one is quite sure what the bond is going to be to get them out of jail. E
After taking a weeks vacation from blogging I'm back on-line with the news that last night Kilmurry House (and the rest of Ireland and most of the UK) had a very bad storm. Storms are normal this time of year, but 80 to 100 MPH winds are rarer. I gather parts of Wales had their worst weather in 40 years. As mentioned in previous web blogs, we've had similar weather
I think he picked it up and rung its neck. Possibly by hurling it around in a circle. He's done this before and seems to enjoy it. He fried it up for guests and served it along side some venison ragu. I didn't try the bird, but the venison was nice. Disaster Cat...with a houseful of people, including two small children visiting downstairs...
Well, a good part of this week Disaster Cat spent trying to be as invisible as possible. This is partly true and partly a family joke. When our house-mate joined our family, he had already been running a role playing game with his high-school buddies for a number of years. This tradition has continued with the addition and subtraction of a few people. As the guys
Well, today was bit different than we expected for Boxing Day. Usually my husband and I don't pay attention to much and its the one day of the year he will eat "Banger and Mash" (Sausages and Mashed potatoes." This year, I had already decided to skip that particular tradition; we still had left over steak, and I'm not all that excited about Irish sausage flavorings
Libertarian Hubby was reading over my shoulder when your post came in. He said to tell you that you have all his sympathies! Also, while he doesn't have any interest in web blogging (I think after writing dozen's of pages a day for work, he's not really jazzed at the idea of more computer time) he will try and pass on various pictures (when house-mate gets digital camera working) and comments. Once in a while (like tonight) I can get his attention f
Last night (early this morning actually) I told my husband that is was snowing in Houston. He went over the the window and said, "Why not here, SNOW MAKE IT SNOW!" I guess someone heard him? I woke up this morning to a land covered in white and green. It had snowed early in the morning hours and left a dusting everywhere. Husband had already put the dogs
Well, my poor husband, was forced by circumstances beyond his control to brave the local shops this morning. Not the ones in our quiet little village, there he would just have had to wait in line a bit and endure about a dozen folks making cheerful conversation. No, he needed to go to the bank, and that meant a trip into a nearby town. Which I gather was a complete
Thanks guys, let me know when your comging to visit, we'll pull out some of the wine...by the way SSG, I did get the wrtier's tax break on some books I collaborated on with The Wolf, but they were only published in German (not that we haven't tried to find an English publisher for them). On my own, I have a proto-book called "Barn Cats: Farmers Friend and Natural Pest Control" but the main country living publisher didn't see a need for it (even though
Well, today has been another fairly quiet day, although the howling winds are providing a nice haunted feeling. Which, I guess, is appropriate to a 200 year old house. At least with the boiler fixed, we have a nice warm house, though the temperature is starting to fall outside and a chill is starting to creep in under the old doors and windows. But its nothing like
Well, after last nights excitement of library visits, tree trimming and Yule fires; we now have a decorated drawing room and a very quiet house. Everyone seems to have slept pretty well, I in fact, had another "missing" day by getting up at 2:30 in the afternoon. After going downstairs to clean up from the egg nog making and other fun, I filled the dishwasher and pr
Thanks for the update, Shades of Grey. Sometimes we go ahead and order one important book, if we really need it. But they used to combine shipping, so you could get a number of books, for a few extra dollars. Now (or at least last time we ordered) they added the 10 dollars shipping (or more) to every book. They also started shipping stuff seperately, even if you ordered it together. Which drove costs up further. Like I said, they may back down fr
Shadesofgrey, how long ago was this? This used to be true, until about a year and a half ago. Then Amazon changed their posting system on books from the US. People were in shock abut the word spread like wildfire. I had one shipment like this, and my friend in Belfast called to tell me about hers as well. She bought a PDA and just gets e-books these days. I'm still mostly in the real book world, but I'm looking for an e-reader. I will check and
Well, I was supposed to spend tonight guesting at a "drumming circle" in Dublin. I have never attended this event, but it is supposed to be a Winter Solstice celebration of some sort. One with
Gee Geezer, I thought we were doing good to have "Bambi in a Bucket" (aka Bucket O' Bambi) in the freezer. I wish I could eat mushrooms, your dish sounds wonderful. Here I experimented the other night with soaking Bambi meat for 24 hours in water with a bit of salt, drained it and then soaked another 24 hours in buttermilk. Husband made "Bambi Ragoo" and for the first time, I really, really liked the meat. Well, I liked it the time we marinaded it
Thanks Ulf, for checking in, you know your always welcome to have another Kilmurry Yule experience. We thought of you last night while watching Tolkien movies. None of us can ever see Lagolas without hearing, with your delightful French Accent: "It is a wigg...." and I wasn't even there when your lady was looking at his hair with adoration...*grin* ..and SSG, I gather the piglet was very peaceful. We always ignore the usual advice and gi
Well, its that time of year again. The one where everyone knows just exactly what everyone else in the household is going to say, before they say it. At least on some subjects. I entertained one of our house guests by predicted the usual responses to such questions as: Question: "has anyone seen the tree stand?" Answers: "I think someone saw it in
Well, I did manage to get to sleep last night, eventually. Though its 2:30 am this morning, so I'm not sure how great I'm doing on the regular bedtime thing. But tonight I have an excuse, tonight (or this morning, which ever you prefer) I got distracted in a good cause. I was attempting to help out my husband's new jewelery business and explore my inner artist at t
Really Cute kitty picture of your "Big Guy," my "Big Guy" (aka The Great Pumpkin) is also orange. I don't have any web pictures of him yet, but I'll post one as soon as I do. Glad to see you are posting again. I'll try to check the site more often, Disaster Cat
Well, its that time of year here in Northern Europe. That wonderful season when you can almost miss the daylight if you forget to look out the window. Its not that it isn't there, its just so cloudy and dark, that you may not notice it. And, it doesn't last all that long. Sunrise (if you can see it) is about 9am and sundown is about 4 pm. Our friend from Germany
That's a good idea! I think I'm going to divide this starter in half and let half of it go sour. Most Winters I do a sour-dough starter, some years they are better than others. Just depends on the yeast that's laying about the house. Yeah, we need to do the Yule shopping too; meanwhile, I'm enjoying being WARM! Disaster CAt
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