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more about the Obama Irish song

Subject: Fwd: The Barack Obama Irish Song

The Barack Obama Irish Song

Moneygall is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland. It has a population of approximately 300 people and has a Roman Catholic Church, five shops, a post office, a national school, a police station, and two pubs.

President-elect of the United States Barack Obama's great-great-great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, immigrated from Moneygall to New York City at the age of 19 in 1850 and eventually resettled in Tipton County, Indiana. Kearney's father had been the village shoemaker, then a wealthy skilled tradesman.

And now for the SONG. Crank up your speakers. http://www.oneeyedparrot.org/obama.html

Irish O'Bama

Try this:
http://www.oneeyedparrot.org/obama.html

as promised

All quiet in Cambridge

Just a quick note to say hi to all from my office at the Worldwide center of mathematics!
Carla got back from New Haven yesterday after a successful interview at Yale. Thaddeus's birthday bash seems to have been the last Christmas hurrah and now myself and Carla are looking forward to a quiet couple of weekends before heading to Florida. The novelty of snow has well and truely worn off! (I have yet to try skiing tho!)
Charlie, the picture at the top is an old wood cut I did about 13 years ago, It is actualy a section of a stone wall! No particular significance to it!
Will put up some photos of the party when I get home later.
Hope you are all keeping well

Ruairi

OBAMA!

Birthday Party

Three people emailed me today to say that last night's party was the best they had ever been to! And Thaddeus just told me to stop rehashing all the things I felt had gone wrong - because I might take some of the glow away from one of the best nights of his life!

Pictures to follow once they are loaded onto this computer...

As someone pointed out, he is now one day closer to 80 than he is to the day of his birth!

After the latest huge snowstorm (which only seemed to enhance the party), we are really ready to go south!

Birthday celebration

Dear all-of-you,
I hope the party for Thaddeus was a great success.
Did anyone get snowed in?

HOLY SMOKES!

THAT MAKES ME 105' RELATIVELY SPEAKING.

Uncle Charlie

HAPPY 40TH THADDEUS!!!!

Oliver's joints

Poor O is now in a cast for the next four weeks - with the goal of having it taken off three days before we go to Florida. We are seeing the rheumatologist four days before we go, so we probably won't know anything on that end before we go. Our doctor says this could happen in any joint and so we are trying not to be paranoid. The good news about the cast is - no knee brace!
It is cold here and we want out. Four weeks and three days, four weeks and three days, four weeks and three days.....
Love to all, Lucia

Salisbury weather forecast

There seem to be something wrong with the blog weather forecast All it says is snow and more snow. Seaside can't come soon enough!! It is sunny down here but cold from our winds
from the Northeast.

Charlie

Ruairi's birthday extravaganza:)

Hi All,

Many thanks from Ruairi for the birthday wishes and gifts. We are very excited about the LL BEAN certificate. We are going to combine forces with the one from the Schultens and buy a tent for camping excursions. We had a great weekend, and are actually still sitting around with quite a few stragglers from yesterday watching movies and have a small dinner party.  on friday night, Darina and Maurice's present was a fancy dinner on them. We went to Daedalus in Harvard square (fitting as it is the first restaurant we ate in when Ruairi arrived in March), and had an absolutely amazing meal of duck and pork respectively with a delicious Chilean red. My plan was to organize a pub crawl on the day itself as Ruairi often laments the lack of pub culture here in the states. The crawl turned into about about a 7 hour session at a great little Irish pub nearby and about 10 friends came by to celebrate with us.  We were on to a good thing, and it made no sense whatsoever to leave. The main point was hours of sitting around enjoying the "Craic". A great time was had by all:) Many thanks again, I think ruairi's first ever birthday away from home was a memorable one.

love,

c and r

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUAIRI!!! 1/10/09 Thank you for the creation of the blog!
Malcolm and Louise

Those Browns are always singing!

At Thanksgiving this time.

I am enjoying a blissful evening at home alone while the three boys spend the night at the Museum of Science with the Cub Scouts. The snow has started. We are supposed to get 7 inches - on top of what is already on the ground!

Readers in the Northeast - stay warm!

And a Happy Birthday to Ruairi!!!!

HOW AWFUL!!

HORRORS MALCOLM THE ATTACK CAT DID THAT????

SWEATER

Homsy People:

Remember this sweater??? Or at least 3/4 of it??? This is the one I gave to Dad on Christmas in 1992 when you were all there. I had finished everything but the second sleeve. As you may recall and as you can see, it is a bit large - even for someone like Pavarroti! You all laughed so hard and so long I locked myself in the bathroom. In order to defend my honor Dad refused to take it off - which only made you laugh harder!!! My humiliation prevented me from knitting for 15 years. In the meantime, they stopped making that exact color and that exact year. So I had to find as close a match as possible. How do you think I did 16 years later to the day???

Other weather news

70 degrees in Seaside right now!

Weather and the Cat

The weather here has finally gotten truly undesirable. We have nearly constant snow, sleet and ice. The Town of Sharon has gone through nearly $95,000 worth of road salt and sand. (The salt is worth about $89.90 per ton) and we are about to purchase another $20,000 of salt (which is treated with vodka or beer distillates---making it a good de-icing agent.
Florida does look good!
The cat is truly stir crazy. She won't venture beyond the door with this weather and the net result is that she is occasionally murderous. She can turn from a sweet to an attack cat in an instant! To make things worse, she is eating diet food, which does not contribute to good moods.
We are beginning to dismantle Christmas today. Love to all,
Mal and Louise

Tunneling

This is fun????

Good joke

When four of Santa's elves got sick, the trainee elves did not produce toys as fast as the regular ones, and Santa began to feel the Pre- pressure.

Then Mrs. Claus told Santa that her mother was coming to visit, which stressed Santa even more.

When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were about to give birth and two others had jumped the fence and were out, Heaven knows where.

Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the floorboards cracked, the toy bag fell to the ground and all the toys were scattered.

Frustrated, Santa went into the house for a cup of apple cider and a shot of rum. When he went to the cupboard, he discovered the elves had drunk all of the cider and had hidden the liquor.

In his frustration, he accidentally dropped the cider jug, and it broke into hundreds of little glass pieces all over the kitchen floor. He went to get the broom and found that the mice had eaten all the straw off the end of the broom.

Just then the doorbell rang. An irritated Santa marched to the door and yanked it open. There stood a little angel with a great big Christmas tree.

The angel said very cheerfully, "Merry Christmas, Santa. Isn't this a lovely day? I have a beautiful tree for you. Where would you like me to stick it?"
And so began the tradition of the little angel on top of the Christmas tree

Weather

It is 71 degrees in Seaside!
Oliver had a rough first day back at school. He was taunted for being an old man and a cripple. Kids are so mean.
It is looking like my car only needs a fuel pump - keep your fingers crossed.

YOU LOSE!

Happy New Year y'all!!

The Homsys and Horsts spent the eve at the parents of a friend of Nick's. We watched the ball drop at miodnight Denver time. Silliest thing! Anyhow the evening was great with fondue of various flavors and ingredients over the evening.

The Flickr sites show our activities up at Copper Mountain ski resort about an hour west of here.

Ckick on individual pics for a close-up and caption.

http://flickr.com/photos/13683411@N00/sets/72157612173206122/

http://flickr.com/photos/13683411@N00/sets/72157612119110061/

Love to all, Charlie

Hello!

I'm back! We have been having internet problems since the 1st, but we seem to be up and running now.

Our New Year's Eve was as fun as always and Oliver and Felix actually stayed up until midnight! I hope they will not consider that a precedent for future years. It was just that we had so much fun with the party that it was about 11:00 by the time everyone left and 11:30 before they were in bed. And at that point it seemed silly not to let them watch the ball drop! Here is this year's annual group photo. We have the same friends every year and have a ping pong tourament with a trophy that goes home with the winner each year. I have never won and never will.

We had our first glimpse of life as usual - three of us went to church. I had to go grocery shopping because of living with one car. Thaddeus is in theory going to arrange for my car to be towed this afternoon. What an ordeal.

Felix went to his Children's Choir rehearsal and loved it! Very cute.

Not too much else to report. Oliver will reach the two week mark with his leg brace and foot brace thing tomorrow. Only four weeks to go until..... probably until we find out how much longer he has to wear it.

We are looking forward to Florida more than ever because it is too wet and cold for Oliver to go outside here with his toe exposed. He and Felix are now lying under the dining room table pretending to be cats in the sun. There is a lot of hissing and scratching.

Lucia

Happy New Year!

Hi all,
We are so happy to see the blog becoming a regular part of your internetting repertoire. It makes the world feel just a bit smaller:) We had a fantastic New Year's in NYC. We spent midnight on a rooftop in Brooklyn watching the fireworks go off all over the boroughs. Today, in our first partaking in a New Year's tradition that might have to be a once in a lifetime thing, we sent swimming in the Atlantic off Coney island with hundreds of other arguably crazy revelers. It was chilly, not sure about the water temp, but the air was 25 with a windchill factor of 11 degrees! It took about 10 minutes to feel my feet. The world seems to dividable into those who think this is a cool thing to do, and those who think it is simply moronic. Having partaken in the fun, Ruairi and I are firmly in the former camp, though as I said, I'm not sure I could ever do it again. Certainly a good hangover cure:) Anyway, 2009 is off to a swimmingly good start. I don't know if any year will ever top 2008 in my life, but I'm certainly excited to see what's coming. Love to you all, and a Happy New Year.
love,
carla and ruairi