Barn Door, Horses

 It's always something. We had an "event" last week. We had trespassing fishermen, dealt with that, then found later in the day that we had been burglarized. Then we were burglarized again the same day. Were the fishermen the burglars? No proof, but those are mighty big coincidences. Entry was via a clunker pickup truck that came through the road ditch into our property, so now we are putting up fencing to make that harder to do again. Oh Well, or words to that effect.  The truck belongs to the girlfriend of one of those guys. Neither one has a driver's license. One said they came to fish at 2:00, the other said they came at 4:00. Looking at the entry, they had come in twice and left once, so they possibly hauled off loot before they fished. After law enforcement arrived and the fishermen were interviewed they were charged with fishing without permission, fishing without a license, and both received a warning for trespass. We discovered the burglary after law enforcement and the fishermen were gone. 

We needed to block off the ditch where entry was made, so we went out Saturday afternoon to buy fencing supplies, and on our return we interrupted the burglars while they were piling items from the barns to steal. We sorted through those things and took aluminum and copper to a scrap yard, netting 58 bucks. We continued to find more evidence of thieving as we tightened up through the week. It's all very frustrating.

St. Patrick's Day Festival! My Wild Irish Rose, The Irish Tenors

 From 500 Best Irish Jokes and Limericks: A classical Belfast joke tells of a new policeman who found a dead horse in Chichester Street, Belfast.

"How do you spell Chichester?" he asked some of the people around him, but no one knew.

"All right, then. Give me a wee hand to pull the animal into Mary Street."

Weekend Steam II: A Day On The ATT & NW RR

 This fantastic little railroad was over at Steelville, Missouri and was open only for special events and groups. The comments on YouTube relate that the land had to be sold, so I guess that this railroad is no more. Thank You, Merle for spotting this one!

St. Patrick's Day Festival! O'Sullivan's March, The Chieftains

 From 500 Best Irish Jokes and Limericks: They were completely drunk but when they saw the black crepe on the door they decided to go in and show respect for the dead. They tiptoed into a darkened room lit only by two candles on a grand piano.  Heads down, they went over and knelt beside it, said a prayer and tiptoed out again.

As they staggered away Aongus shook his head at Fergus. 

"I'll tell you one thing, Fergus..."

"Whash that?"

"That corpse had the finest set of teeth I ever saw!"

Weekend Steam: Ffestiniog Railway Victorian Weekend, 2018

 This is really a neat video with all these little locos chugging around. Thank You, Merle!

St. Patrick's Day Festival! Finnegan's Wake, The Irish Rovers

 From 500 Best Irish Jokes and Limericks: "How is your son the doctor doing in Dublin, Mrs. Lenihan?" asked the curious neighbor.

"Grand, to tell you the living truth. He's making so much money that he doesn't have to operate on every patient now."

St. Patrick's Day Festival! The Wearing Of The Green, The Wolfe Tones

 From 500 Best Irish Jokes and Limericks: The Irish policeman was doing his best to stop a suicide from jumping off a New York skyscraper.

"Think of your sweetheart," he shouted at the man.

"I haven't go one," came the reply.

"Think of your father and mother," pleaded the cop.

"I'm an orphan," wailed the suicide.

"Think of the saints of Ireland, " begged the cop.

"Why should I? I'm English!"

"Jump, you swine, jump!"

St. Patrick's Day Festival! Molly Malone, Patty Gurdy, With A Hurdy Gurdy!

 From 500 Best Irish Jokes and Limericks: Ferguson the blacksmith came in with a badly damaged foot. The doctor was surprised, for Ferguson was a careful man.

"What happened to you, Paudeen?" he asked.

"Well, thirty-three years ago I was a young apprentice with Twomey of Ballinanaspickbuidhe..."

"But about your foot....?"

"This is about me foot. Twomey had a daughter and your eyes could gaze on her like the way a bullock would eat good grass. The first night I was there she came in when I was in bed and asked if I was comfortable and if I wanted anything and I said I didn't. The next night she came in when I was in bed and she was wearing her nightdress and she asked me if there was any single thing she could get me or do for me and I told her I was as comfortable as a bug in a rug. The next night she came in and the girl hadn't a thing on her and she asked me if she could do anything for me and not wanting to keep her standing in the cold and she without a shift I said there was nothing."

"What has that got to do with your foot, Ferguson?" asked the doctor impatiently.

"Sure it was only this morning that I finally thought of what she meant and I was so annoyed with meself that I threw me hammer against the wall and it rebounded and broke me ankle!"

Brassman Bart: Old Kentucky Home March

St. Patrick's Day Festival! Song For Ireland, Luke Kelly

 From 500 Best Irish Jokes and Limericks: The Judge was stern. "O'Driscoll," he asked, "have you ever been up before me?"

"I don't know, Judge. What time do you usually get up at?"

Tuesday Torque: Beijer 35 HP Hot Tube Engine, Running This Week!

 We're revisiting the Beijer hot tube engine that was rocking for us last week, and watching it run like it was meant to run. Many thanks to Merle for spotting these videos for us!

St. Patrick's Day Festival! Harrigan, James Cagney and Joan Leslie

 Kennedy came along the road to find his friend Finnegan lying in the ditch where he had been thrown by a passing truck. He lay on his back groaning and moaning, the rain was pouring down and lightning was flashing about.

"Kennedy, Kennedy, get me a rabbi! Get me a rabbi"

"Are you mad, Finnegan? Sure you're a Roman Catholic and what would you want a rabbi for?"

The victim opened his eyes reproachfully. "Aw, Kennedy, you wouldn't think of asking a priest to come out on a night like this!"