Well, things are slowly getting back to the 21st century here at Kilmurry House. First, we experienced the arrival of our wonderful, new, German Dishwasher mid-week. This miracle of engineering let me collapse three hours work into about 15 minutes. Which, since my foot still hates me, is a very good thing. Of course, most folks wouldn’t need three hours to do the
Its Here! It Works! It even holds quite a few dishes! This dishwasher is interesting in that it is very German. If you follow the directions and ORGANIZE your dishes, it will hold a lot of them. The American ones hold about the same amount of stuff by being a lot bigger in size and you can just throw stuff in. My new one doesn't do large pans or big plastic ware, but it seems to hold a lot of other stuff. Instead of there hours doing dishes (i
Thanks for the advice SSG, I got my first washer and dryer here from people who had brought them over. The washer was what we would think of as a 3/4 sized from Australia. I needed at top loader because at the time we had sheep, and you just can't wash fleeces easily in a front loader. Our friend Merlin, rigged up a hot water pipe so it would run, and I got an old GE dryer that was "too big" for the person who inherited it. It was from the US origi
Thanks for the encouragement: Update: It has been ordered and is supposed to arrive on Wednesday. The falling dollar helped speed this up, since its a Yule present from family in the US. I will let everyone know how its working, and look forward to my next installment. The search for a washing machine. The one we have now is borrowed and the gentlemen who owns it is getting married early next year. I suspect his wife will want
Well, Disaster Cat and her family just got back from Dublin having picked up husband and hopefully concluded part one of a long, involved journey. Otherwise known as: Buying a New Dishwasher. Easy you might think, what could be so very hard about searching for a dishwasher that an entire web blog could be written about it? Well, if you are a North Amer
Greetings everyone out their in Blog Land, I have been asked by several people, who only know me from this website, how in the world did a semi-hippie chick from California wind up in rural Ireland. Like most stories at Kilmurry House, this one is a bit strange, and has a short version, a long version and a even really longer version (for those winter nights
Glad you enjoyed the story SSG, no our cat's are not more fragile than the average Norseman's cats. We've just had an unlucky strike of illness in the last couple of months. Hagan (aged 12) had always been healthy as a horse, and his son Thor had never been sick a day in his five year life (well except as a newborn kitten his litter were treated for cat flue when a sibling died a few days after birth). Thor's ear was a complete shock because it was
Well, lets see, where to begin. I didn't post about this before, because I wanted to make sure this blog had a happy ending. And now that I am reasonably confident that it will, I can explain what Disaster Cat has been doing for the past week.... It seems that in one of those twists of fate that just seem to happen around here, about three hours after my hu
Two weeks ago, the weather was pretty clear. It comes and goes here. When we get high pressure in over the Atlantic, its clear. When the lows come over, it rains. In the Fall and Winter, we just seem to get more lows than highs. Also, even when its dry, it is often very clouded over during the Fall and Winter. That's what most of our no-electricity days have been like. We were supposed to have two more of them (this week and last week) but they
Well, Disaster Cat has been off-line for a couple of weeks, due to the visit of her DH's mother. Now, my mother-in-law loves to clean and organize things. And those of you following the Disaster Cat story know that just before Disaster Cat had her foot surgery, she was experimenting with a web site that was supposed to help organize and clean your house. Or rather,
HI Geezer (and others) I've been off-line because my mother-in-law was visiting and we were doing house cleaning on steriods. Then, just after my husband left on a buisness trip to Germany; his favorite cat got very sick and nearly died last night. Cat is a lot better now, but last night was a very long night. I plan on trying to get back to blogging tomorrow night (if our phone lines stay working). Cat is now living in my work room and is "hel
Those of you following the Disaster Cat Saga the last couple of weeks, know that I have been laid up with a rather nasty post-operative infection in my foot. This has lead to a rather eclectic diet lovingly provide by husband and friends. A diet which has consisted of everything from frozen pizza to fresh killed chickens. Also a large share of store bought rolls,
In Viking Times, the month of October had a different name. A name, which loosely translate "Slaughter Month." This was the time of year, before modern agriculture (around the 1700's) that a householder had to decide which of his very few animals he could afford to feed through the long Winter. The rest of the critters would be salted down, dried, smoked or otherwi
Here in Ireland, they do use the word Feak, its another pronunciation of well you know, the other F word. Its usually heard as Feaking...A....H.... Disaster Cat ...really enjoyed the rant, it sums up today's banking practices exactly..."thank you for letting us take you for a ride..."
Greetings everyone in Blog land. I have not been able to post for a couple of days, mostly due to our very bad weather and lack of internet service. After three hours the other night I gave up trying to download e-mail and last night was not much better. But a high pressure ridge is allowing our land line to work a little bit (no broad band out here in the cou
Greetings everyone, I am trying to write this in-between gale force winds hitting the window of my work room. Its a bit distracting, but so far not too scary. At least I don't have to worry about the bad weather affecting our planned trip to Scotland where The Wolf was scheduled to fight for my honor. That's because, I won't be going anywhere any time real soon. A
Greetings everyone in Blog Land...let see, this morning started out to a be a real pain. And I mean it was both real and a pain. At what I thought was around dawn (because the sky was so dark) I woke up to a throbbing foot, which would simply not let me roll back over and get to sleep. Not that cats would let me anyway. At which point I disover that it is 9am and
Hi - t hanks for the feedback again. Glad to know I don't have the only cats that hunt books together. Hope you foot is better, mine is not, I got a post-operative infection. So the cats will have to move to another room for awhile. Difficult, but doable for short periods of time. Last time, they had to be locked up in a outbuilding. I hope my husband can find a space inside this time. Thanks for the spam update, I checked, and actually
Well, despite an exciting early week of power failures and dirty laundry, Disaster Cat managed to find time to go to Dublin and have the deep wart on her foot taken care of. It was not fun, and the traffic going home had husband going nuts before it was all over. Still, it was not as bad as I expected (they have made great strides in numbing sensitive body parts bef
Greetings everyone to everyone reading this. As you can tell by the fact that I am on the computer, we do have our electricity back on. The day was a bit easier to deal with this time, mostly due to the Thermos full of hot tea I had ready this morning. But the rain and hail storms did not go down well...though I did manage to read most of the Sunday newspaper. The
Well, everyone will be happy to know that Disaster Cat, her husband The Wolf and our House-mate The Lizard; have all returned safe and sound from an SCA Crown Tourney in Southern England. Now for those of you who don't know, Crown Tourney is a "fighting event" where people dress up in armor and hit each other with rattan sticks. The one who bashes the best gets the
Well, we don't really live in a castle (we did rent one for a year though...the roof leaked so bad we had water buckets in the drawing room). Now we live in a 200 year old rectory. The "mini" "big" houses the Church of Ireland built for their 18th century parsons. The ones who were supposed to have the English land-lords in their congregations. Tomorrow will also be another "planned outage" (I suspect these have something to do with all t
Greetings everyone in Disaster Cat Land, I'm taking time from packing for our weekend SCA event (re-enactment) to let everyone know that things are improving here. From feedback I've gotten from concerned friends and family, I felt I had to let folks know that not every day here at Kilmurry is Crazy. Just most of the ones I decide to write about. The ones in b
Thanks, I needed the cheering up after yesterday! You'll be happy to know that today was nice, peaceful, quiet and I got to sleep in. Even worked in a trip to the library and have more books to read. Yeah! My life isn't always total crazyness, just the days I write about. The others are pretty dull, though I think maybe I'd better add a few into the blog here and there. Hope you enjoyed your nap as much I enjoyed a full night's sleep! D
Well, this morning here at Kilmurry House, Disaster Cat was not Flying. In fact, she did not even really get a chance to get airborne before things started to get really weird. First, there was waking up early. First time 6am, then 7am finally gave up at 8am. Now I know that for most of the world, these are normal times. But when your husband tends to write (or i
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