I've begun to get photos up from Geni and Kevin's visit (as well as at kitsnaps, where the better stuff is posted). It was a good visit; we went to Cashel and Fota and Cobh and did a wander around Cork on the hop-on-hop-off bus, which wasn't nearly as entertaining as last year's bus to Blarney, so we'll have to do that again some other time. I ( Read more... )

More pictures will ensue Monday afternoon, but for the moment, a quick shot of Kevin and a curious llama at Fota Island Wildlife Park:

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genitiggie and spouse arrived safely. We have had a very pleasant evening chatting, eating stir fry, listening to the cats knock headboards over, and other sorts of things you expect from a first night of visiting ( Read more... )

Goodness, our schedule's been thrown into a futher!

I was *sure* genitiggie and husband were arriving the 5th, to stay through the 12th. Ted and I dashed around cleaning the house today in preparation for the blessed event. We got rid of two of the beds and moved a bookcase out of the spare bedroom (and moved a wardrobe in), and now that room is quite ( Read more... )

So, Superman gushing aside, I've had an absolutely terrific week. We had friends come to visit: my high school photography teacher and his wife. I hadn't seen them in 15, maybe 16 years, since high school, basically, but we've kept in touch on and off, mostly in the last few years through email, and they decided to come visit Ireland! They'd ( Read more... )