last night in Ireland
Apr. 24th, 2024 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanter1944As family get-togethers go, this evening was a good one. Eight adults, nearly all of us with a drink or two as well as a lot of truly excellent food under our belts, swapping conversational partners frequently and fluidly. Yesterday's evening didn't go nearly so well, but that's for another post.
Anyway! Region-locked candy achieved - sherbet lemons, aniseed pips, and chocolate limes, as well as chocolate formeimichan. Candles also achieved, and I'll be burning them as sparingly as I do my Canadian cinnamon candle from Sault Ste. Marie. There has been a significant amount of travel this week, with Ennis as our home base. I can now say I've visited both an actual castle complete with defensive architecture, and the Atlantic Ocean. I've added multiple European stations to my DX log list, and multiple European bird IDs to my Merlin life list. Eurasian jackdaws sound like exuberant balls of fluffy feathers, which they categorically are not, thank you, Redwall Abbey. Eurasian linnets are delightful, as are European blackbirds. No starlings yet, unfortunately. I haven't seen the hotel's resident kitty today, but I count it a significant warm fuzzy that this week I've gotten to pet her sweet tabby self three times and received kitty purrs twice for sure. <3 I'm going to try for a picture of her adorableness before we split.
Tomorrow, Dublin airport, to Chicago, then home on Friday. I am going to be so jetlagged... :P
Anyway! Region-locked candy achieved - sherbet lemons, aniseed pips, and chocolate limes, as well as chocolate for
meimichan. Candles also achieved, and I'll be burning them as sparingly as I do my Canadian cinnamon candle from Sault Ste. Marie. There has been a significant amount of travel this week, with Ennis as our home base. I can now say I've visited both an actual castle complete with defensive architecture, and the Atlantic Ocean. I've added multiple European stations to my DX log list, and multiple European bird IDs to my Merlin life list. Eurasian jackdaws sound like exuberant balls of fluffy feathers, which they categorically are not, thank you, Redwall Abbey. Eurasian linnets are delightful, as are European blackbirds. No starlings yet, unfortunately. I haven't seen the hotel's resident kitty today, but I count it a significant warm fuzzy that this week I've gotten to pet her sweet tabby self three times and received kitty purrs twice for sure. <3 I'm going to try for a picture of her adorableness before we split. Tomorrow, Dublin airport, to Chicago, then home on Friday. I am going to be so jetlagged... :P
