travel of buddy don: off to ohio

i will be makin a lil trip to ohio fer goodbank this week. i bin thar a few times on a counta we gut a service desk thar that ansers all the calls fer hep cummin frum our cumputer users.

i dun noted how thangs kin change on wall street. when thangs is boomin, thays limos to take folks to lunch n seems lack thay aint no limit to whut folks mite spend. then thangs turns tuther way, witch they always duz sooner or later. once that happens, folks gits let go n ever eggspents is looked at with yer microscope.

that means that this time, in sted of rentin a car to git me frum the airport in northern kentuck to whar i am a'goin (a lil over 50 miles away), i am a'gone have a car thar waitin to drive me. once i git whar i am a'goin, twill be a simple matter to walk frum the hotel to whar the service desk is.

i cumpletely understand the need to be keerful with dollars (even when thangs is in the feast part of the wall street cycle), but i will miss havin a car on a counta how twont be possibull fer me to make it up to visit my mother-in-law, who shes the bestn ever wuz.

on tuther hand, this gives me n miz bd a reason to make it over to see er when i wont be a'wurkin.

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: sum frum ireland i fergut about yesterdy

i wuz wunderin why i dint have as minny pitchers up on the smugmug gallery whar im a'keepin all them ireland pitchers, so i gut to lookin round on my portabull hard drive n found a slew of em i had dun missd. tiz amazin how hard tiz to git thru over 1,500 of em!

so heres sum frum a lil boat trip down the river shannon that wuz tuck the day after the weddin. fer one thang, twuz a bit of a sprize to me how lil thay wuz to see. fer the most part, twuz jes reeds n swans n mayhap a tree or two risin up frum the dead flat planes along the banks of that thar river. heres a cuple of tipicull pitchers:





corse, thay wuz sum other river traffick ...



... n lack everbidy in ireland, they wuz rite nayborly ...



the hi lite of the trip wuz whenever we cum to a place name of shannons bridge, whar we all gut out to stretch our laigs n git a bite to eat. i dint git no good pitchers to cum out of that bridge, but thays wuz a lil bevy of swans that wonted to git thar pitchers tuck, witch heres a cuple of em ...



corse, the boat had to have a captin, witch this feller lives on his boat n had truble once upon a time whenever he had to have his boat fixed, forcin im to live on land, whar he couldnt git no sleep on a counta twuz too still fer im ...



the bride n groom had dun plannd everthang out to whar whenever we enterd the pub whar we et, the food wuz thar a'waitin fer us ... n on top of that, thay wuz a yung lady that cum to sang us a cuple songs, witch i regret no gittin her name on a counta she could turn into a star sumday ...



whenever i found these here pitchers, i discuverd a bunch of otherns that i will half to uplode. dont know whuther i kin postem since i dont lack to putt pitchers up of fambly members ... but i woodnt be sprized ifn thay wuz sum goodns that i kin post, so mayhap thays more on the way.

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: lastuns frum ireland fer now

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: the ladys vue

one of the purtiest of all them vues on that thar ring of kerry is the ladys view. we gut out of the car n tuck sum pitchers, witch miz bd wont hardly take a pitcher ifn i kin ...



thay wuz feller op thar a'pickin on a banjo in a way i aint never seen nobidy do ere then, witch he wuz a'usin a sangle pick n no three-fanger roll ...





point is, thays magick most everwhar ye turn in ireland ...

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pitchers tuck by miz bd: whilst i wuz a'drivin on the rong side of the rode

i caint hardly tell ye how purty that thar ring of kerry is, but lucky a nuff fer yew, miz bd wuz takin sum pitchers out the car winnder.

















them rodes wuz verr narr ...



lack as not thay wood be a rang of tress over em, witch that made em seem even more narr ...



in whenever it gut to rainin, twood turn dark in em, witch ye kin see the sun wuz still a'shinin!



it tuck so much concentrayshun to keep on a'drivin on the rong side that i dint even notiss whenever miz bd wuz a takin this pitcher ...



twuz a grate day a'drivin that rang of kerry. next time we wonta hike a trail on it that bisects it ...



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pitchers tuck by buddy don: a lil killarney n that thar ring of kerry

furst heres a lil killarney, witch ye kin see how parts of it kindly reeminds ye of gatlinburg ... n they even have fudge fer sale!









one of the magickull moments of the trip happend whenever we seen a beach as we wuz a'drivin round that ring of kerry. we stopped n miz bd had her a lil irish whiskey, witch i couldnt have nun fer the hole trip on a counta i wuz takin that antibiotick that i jes finely finished on tuesdy evenin of this week!





corse whenever ye drive in ireland ye gut to watch out fer them critters that lacks to eat the brush n such longside of the rode. whut wuz most amazin is how in ireland they kin have em a bang up farm cultchur without havin to have suvs lack they need to have over here. corse, when yer gas costs ye $6.30 fer a gallon, ye kindly have to be a lil keerfull with yer money.







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quik note of buddy don: early mornin wurk

caint blog much today on a counta havin to give a presentayshun to sum folks thats in hong kong. twill be 5 pm thar time, but 5 am ourn, so i gut to git no latern about 3:45 sos i kin git to wurk in time.

thanks to buck n red molly fer thar kind wurds bout the pitchers. i will be postin a few more ere i have dun with the topick of ireland. heres one frum the amazin ring of kerry till then ... n this aint even to the best part of it yet!



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pitchers tuck by buddy don: palm trees in ireland?!?

whoda thunk thays palm trees in ireland? i wood never have thunk it ifn i hattent seen em with my own eyes. heres a few pitchers of the flora we seen in killarney ...











thang bout these pitchers is how ever one of em is a pitcher of sumbidys personull garden along the sidewalk frum our hotel to the center of killarney ...

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: the burren

on our secunt day in ireland we tuck a lil drive up to sumthin they call the burren. to look at it ye wood thank taint nuthin but a huge wasteland on a counta how everthang is cuverd with limestone. we red a lil deescripshun writ in 1650:

General Ludlow, Cromwell’s brother-in-law, wrote about the Burren in 1650. He said, “This is a country where there is not enough water to drown a man, wood enough to hang him, nor earth enough to bury him, which is so scarce that the inhabitants steal it from one another and yet their cattle are very fat, for the grass growing in tufts of earth of two or three feet square that lie between the rocks which are of limestone, is very sweet and nourishing.”

fack is, 70 percent of all irish species of flora grows rite thar in the burren. heres sum pitchers (then i gut to git!)







heres sum of the kinds of flora ye gut a'growin on the burren ...











ye mite could wunder why sumbidy wood putt a rock fence up in such a barren burren, but tiz to mark territory on a counta horses n cattle dont have no trubles findin plenty to eat thar.





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