Our morning dawned all pink and rosy with highlights of yellow which quickly disappeared into a thick veil of clouds. The weather guys are saying that a huge wind to come in by noon today and stay well past nine o’clock tonight. This huge wind is supposed to have gusts around 45-55 m.p.h. Bringing with it a cold front for tomorrow.
Now that the weather people have warned us…I’ll just bet the fire departments will be busy with those individuals that think a little wind can’t hurt if you burn your ditch….burn off your field…or burn your garden patch. Heck, a little wind will just help things move along nicely!
We have entered the ‘fire season’ here. (that says it all—so I shall stop here and not continue, enough said, so speak.)
(The above photos are from the fire which was started several miles from us and ran through our place two years ago)
My foot is healing…still swollen and hard to walk on, but the redness is gone. Healing is progressing nicely. I thank all of you for your comments and concern for my health, it does mean a lot.
Today is traditionally my day (and maybe others) to plant English garden peas and Sweet flowering Peas. These plants love cooler weather, so putting the seeds in the ground now always make for nice eating later in the late spring/early summer. And lovely blooms for the early summer table. But I shall not be doing so this year.
Today is also the day for celebrating the Irish in us. And today everyone has a little Irish in them! 🙂 🙂
Sadly the Irish were the poorest of all immigrant groups that arrived in the United States in the nineteenth century (1800’s) , and many women especially suffered as a result of being abandoned or widowed. It’s nice we have moved a long way from those times!
My maiden name is Doyle…all my life I have heard that we were Irish. I have not found when my Doyle lineage arrived in America. I do have my Doyle family line to 1775 Ohio. So I guess I can take a little bit of Irish upon myself as the surname Doyle IS a true Irish name, sometime after the Danish Vikings landed. (Say with tongue in cheek 🙂 )
Therefore, I wish upon all of you a very Irish Day!
Your Friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Happy St. Patty’s day to you and I’ve got Irish in my blood from my paternal grandmother and maybe more!! She was a Rose!!
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Top of the Mornin’ to ya, Linda! Hope you have a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day! Beautiful morning sky you captured! Glad the foot is healing nicely 🙂
(I, also, am trying not to mention that dreaded “4 letter word” that we shall hopefully not need utter this season. I sooo don’t want to hear the “E” word this year.)
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glad your foot is doing better. we’re under a burn ban here yet i’ve seen 3 of our neighbors burning and having bonfires this past week. makes me crazy!
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I hope the fires stay far away from you this year. I think people who start a brush fire in a ‘breeze’ need a brain transplant, but I guess the technology isn’t here yet. Enjoy your St. Patrick’s day. I have Irish on both sides of my family.
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Happy Saint Pat’s Day to you Linda and your readers.
I also hope that the fire season won’t be as bad this year.
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Beautiful pictures..did the big wind come….so pleased that your foot is healing..I thought of you this morning when we were taking the winter shutters down from the summer house windows. We were putting the boards away when I found two nails still in the wood. Told Neville that they should be removed otherwise someone might get a bad foot like my friend Linda
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I’m glad the foot is coming along. Sometimes you just need to rest and baby yourself a little.
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We ARE all la little Irish on this day. Glad you are continuing to heal (one thing about being behind on reading…I get to find out you’re getting better at the same time I first read about your accident). Hope there are no ‘accidents’ with fire season this year.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
No burning here, yet. It will be interesting to see what sort of fire season we have this year. A lot of it depends on thunder storms. Still too early to do ag burning. Mostly it’s ditch burning here.. I wish I could plant sweet peas now but it will be some time in later April or early May.
If it gets too windy to work outside, you can put your foot up and enjoy a good book. Glad it’s getting better!
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Hi Girlie, Hope that foot/leg continue to heal… Prayers for you.
In your spare time (HA HA HA), you should do some research on your Irish roots… I have some Irish in me too–Scotch Irish to be exact…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Let’s pray that there are no fires near you this year.
Hugs,
Betsy
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we have also been having high winds for the past several days. Spring is always so elusive.
Happy St. Pats to you and Terry.
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And a happy St.Paddy’s to you too, young “Colleen” of the Doyle clan.
I have very proud 1/4 Irish blood and I can assure you, as my sister,Cheryl,
married a Doyle, Doyle is well and truly an Irish name.
And may the little green leprechauns help you around with that very sore
foot.
Lets hope sense prevails with your fire season now on. Not sure if
St.Paddy is the patron saint of the fire-departments, as well as
Ireland, but let’s make him an honorary one this year???
The day was celebrated here yesterday – actually the parades were on Saturday,
so Green Beer and green clothes had a three day “outing” !!!
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Good to know your foot’s getting better. Not so good to discover that you have a fire season too, and thoughtless idiots of the same kind, who think a cigarette tossed out of a car window in the middle of bone dry bush in extreme fire-hazard weather is OK…
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Happy Saint Patties day. I don’t have a drop of Irish in me. 100% German!
We have the winds here. But it’s relatively mild. Blue skies with big puffy white clouds.
Ugh. I do not like fire season. The rail road has started 2 so far. It seems so early to be talking fires.
You rest and take care.
Cheri
🙂
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I can’t trace my McCarthys out of the States, either. We were told they came by way of England (which is likely since our name is aglicized), but I suspect that they also spent some time in Canada before coming to the U.S. The earliest McCarthys I can find gave the census takers different answers about their heritage every time. And McCarthy might as well be Smith, it’s so common. Very frustrating.
I have decided that having a Mc name means I am exempt from today’s green rule, but we are still eating corned beef and cabbage for dinner.
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We’ve had the wind the past day. At least we didn’t get the snow this time. Our daughter got it again, but she doesn’t mind. I heard a no-burn alert, unusual for us, but they said conditions were right for it to get out of control.
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Glad your foot is healing. Those fires sound scary.
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Glad your foot is getting better. Feet are such a pain when they hurt! I wish we were dry enough to get a bonfire – but the idiocy of some is just beyond belief.
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Good to hear that you asre on the mend, though I imagine that it’s frustrating to be hobbling around. I have no Irish blood in me, but we did make a nice Irish fruit cake to celebrate the day. I always liked St patrick after I heard he drove the snakes out of Ireland. I used to pray that he’d do the same in Australia 🙂
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Interesting: I’m catching up on blogs and just saw this and read your blog!
The Vikings were often referred to as the “dark invaders” or “black foreigners.” The Gaelic word for foreigner is “gall” and for black (or dark) is “dubh.”
Many of the invaders’ families took Gaelic names that utilized these two descriptive words. The name Doyle is in Irish “O’Dubhghaill” which literally means “dark foreigner” which reveals their heritage as an invading force with dark intentions.
Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/who-were-the-black-irish-92376439-237784721.html#ixzz30J0bTIld
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