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HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of the leprechauns of the blog from the Turley Clan. The leprechauns came to bring treats and tricks to the Turley house this morning. While our kids are older, they still enjoy our traditions (or humor their aging father).

 

The leprechauns indulged in a bottle of beer before leaving clues for our traditional treasure hunt that led to a horn of plenty of Irish cookies, soda bread, and fresh green donuts. (Now that the kids are older, there is also an array of Irish beers). They also left our traditional dollar coins hanging from a tree in green felt pouches for each of the kids in the backyard.

Tonight we will be feasting on corned beef and cabbage and toasting my late Irish father, Jack Turley.

And to everyone . . . Erin go Bragh!!!

32 thoughts on “HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY”

  1. They say all the world’s a little Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. Not we Italians. Love the Irish
    and even married one but we’re good…

  2. We just returned from our local St Patrick’s Day block party.
    Lots of people attended which was great to see. The Catholic Priests from the sponsoring St Patrick Church were in the streets greeting people in their beautiful long cassocks. Live bands played on multiple street intersections. I had a Guinness Draught, followed by a Guinness Red, as we walked the festival, bought a Viking cotton t-shirt and a beautiful forged steel rope 18″ cross made by a local farrier, and got a good dose of Vitamin D. Good to see people having fun in community events benefiting local charities.

    Hopefully others got out of their mancaves and interacted with locals face to face. We have more in common that unites us than separates us

  3. It is truly beautiful how you and your family preserve and celebrate each of the traditions throughout the year! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.☘️🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🍀 Cheers 🍻

  4. Of course ye do know, dont cha, there b only 2 types a people in the whole world wide.

    Them b the Irish and those who wish they were (poor slobs)

  5. In Other News: “Hiker in rural County Donegal finds end of rainbow. Disappointed at reward.”
    ~+~
    When a lone hiker ascended a valley in a remote part of County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland, a break in the clouds revealed to him a most vibrant rainbow at the top of a hillside. Remembering the legend and the promise of riches, he ran ahead, and to his great surprise there was in fact a Pot at the End of the Rainbow.

    But his elation quickly turned to heartbreak after he peered inside. All that was to be found were tattered and weathered copies of the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement.

  6. Thank you, Dr. Turley and Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you and the Turley clan. May the road rise up to meet you …

  7. Sam, but they be brewed in Ireland. I saw the Guinness brewery right there in Dublin. Nothing like drinking them in the Temple Bar bar. For those who are not familiar with Dublin, the Temple Bar is an area of Dublin. Bars abound in that area as well as other things.

  8. Anyone claiming to be Irish more than two generations after their family left Ireland is what is known in this country as a Plastic Paddy. Honestly!!!

    Porter and Stout are both old English beer types, just that Guinness makes what is now the most commercially successful brand…

  9. “I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am.”

  10. Jonathan,
    Such traditions never grow outdated. Our grown children and their children always look forward to traditional surprises. That is what makes it a true “tradition.”
    Keep it alive!
    Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from a fellow Irishman!
    John Rooney

  14. Boiling bacon not corned beef.Irish were poor under British rule,no cattle just pigs hence bacon.

    1. @Sean

      Yes, I know, as likely do many others as a lot of posters are great history buffs. I like corned beef better and do not currently live under British rule, but thanks very much for sharing it. They didn’t have Guinness way back when either, but it’s flowing like water today.

  18. Happy St. Patrick’s Day all!
    Thinking of doing a Irish Mexican fusion dinner: Corned beef and Colcannon tacos with a Guinness reduction sauce.

    2. Theakston Old Peculier, or bust.

      Don’t try to play the Irish card. Both of your (third-rate) choices are owned by a British company. (Smiley face intended)

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