More from Greenland...

Here are just a few more pics from Greenland.


Check out the glacier!



















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Long Silence...

Sorry for the long silence here on the site! I have been on the road for what feels like a month, but probably really has been only a week! I have just now gotten back online and had a chance to look at some of the hundreds of photos I've taken in the last few days. Needless to say, Travel = photos! Here are just a couple of quick ones I took of Greenland. Yep! Greenland.














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Today's Random Pic...

We spotted the first of this year's lambs this weekend!







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A Follow Up Pic

Here is a picture of my amazing wife...








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The Hermit's Hut

Soon after I moved to Ireland a read a beautiful poem written by a tenth century Irish Saint. The words of the poem have stuck with me and often ring in my ears when I see an old ruined stone cottage. I often stop and reflect and dream of what it must have looked like years ago when it was full of life, peaceful, and was beautiful...

I wanted to share with you a bit of the poem...

The Hermit's Hut ...

"I have a hut in the wood, none knows it by my Lord; an ash tree this side, a hazel on the other, a great tree on a mound encloses it.

Two heathery door-posts for support, and a lintel of honey-sickle; around its close the wood sheds its nuts upon fat swine.

The size of my hut, small yet not small, a place of familiar paths; the she-bird in its dress of blackbird colour sings a melodious strain from its gable.
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A little hidden lowly hut, which owns the path-filled forest; will you go with me to see it?
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a tree of apples of great bounty,..., huge; a seemly crop from small-nutted branching green hazels, in cluster like a fist.

Excellent fresh springs - a cup of water, splendid to drink- they gush forth abundantly; yet berries, bird-cherries...

Tame swine lie down around it, goats, young pigs, wild swine, tall deer, does, a badger's brood.

Peaceful, in crowds, a grave host of the countryside, an assembly at my house; foxes come to the wood before it - it is delightful..."
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Without an hour of quarrel, without the noise of strife which disturbs you, grateful to the Prince who gives every good to my in my hut...









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Today's Random Pic...

A follow-up pic from the last one. This is another shot of the clouds on the mountain... Those little white dots are sheep grazing...







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Watching Clouds...

One of my first memories of moving to Ireland is sitting in our little green car watching the clouds (with their dark shadows and falling rain) move slowly over the mountains. That cold bright day came to my mind today as I stopped the car and watched the clouds for a few moments... Almost seven years later, and I still often sit in amazement at the skies here...








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Monday Nights...

I am stuck at home tonight.... my annual sinus infection has decided to come early this spring... maybe that means that we will have an early return to warm weather!?! I usually spend my Monday nights down in a local pottery studio. For the last 6ish years I have been making a mess and occasionally some pots. I love my two hours down there every week. I feel that it is just therapeutic to get messy... listen to fun music... and simply create. No agenda... no clue... just chating with friends and being surprised by what turns out (and by what does not turn out). I never take my camera... the clay would just love to get into my lenses... but I did think to take a photo of some of my latest work with my phone...







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Wallace has a light bulb moment...

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Epiphany: the sudden realization or comprehension of the essence or meaning of something.



As I was preparing to go to bed on Friday night I had a realization. It happened as I emptied my pockets (trousers and a hoodie). Here is what I was carrying:


- 4 pens all of different sizes (2 I don't remember picking up)
- 23.72EURO in change
- my phone
- my keys (which is made up of about a dozen rings that I don't need but that once served a purpose)
- 7 post-it notes (2 were written upon)
- a bottle of 'Sudafed' nasal spay
- my wallet - which is overflowing with receipts and no money
- a pocket screwdriver
- 3 screws
- a remote control
- a rock

As I stood there looking at my treasures, I had a realization....

I am my father's son... and I am just like him!

and I wouldn't want it any other way... I love you - dad!




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1,000th Post

I happen to notice as I prepared to update the website that this is our 1,000th post! wow! I never would have guessed that I would have SO much to say! ha!

Over the last few months Dee has been slowing reading over all our past posts. I too have been looking back at all that we have posted (well... I've been glancing over it). I have to say that my favorite posts came in March 2008.
Here is a link to the archive:
http://www.heyitsourwebsite.com/2008_04_01_heyitsourwebsite_archive.html

Thanks for stopping by and checking up on us!




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