An Irish Blessing for you!

This was one of Grandma Stranahan's favorite sayings, and it was on the last St. Patrick's Day card that she ever sent to me. I decided to make a wall plaque out of it. I scorched the edges of the card, glued two 1" X 6" pieces of pine together, cut out a circle 8" in diameter, shaped and sanded them and then glued the card to it. When that dried, I applied 3 separate coats of clear varnish to it. I gave it to my mother-in-law, Helen Alice Walsh Lee for Christmas in 1976. She had it with her, even in the nursing home, until she died on November 19, 1997. After Helen died, it came home with us where it now hangs on the bricked wall in my kitchen as a daily reminder of not one but two lovely ladies with whom I have shared parts of my own life. You can see their pictures in our family album. You may read more about my Grandma Stranahan at my hrcreditunion site and see one of her paintings there and another on my Christmas Page at CapitalNET .
 

Graphic of Irish Eyes courtesy of Sissi of Fantasyrealm,
click on graphic to go visit her wonderful website full of fantastic goodies.
 

The song playing "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" was one of Daddy's favorites of all time. I can never hear this song played without seeing him standing in front of the piano at The Wonder Bar, belting out the words, while patrons cried in their drinks. (I spent a good deal of my youth in that or some other bar listening to Daddy sing the old Irish songs and all the Irish-American songs.) I have some pictures around here somewhere of him at the piano singing; I will have to search for them one of these days, so I can scan them for addition to this page at a later date. You may also read some more about Daddy in my story "The Gift" at my hrcreditunion site.

Happy St. Patrick's Day 
from Betty, the Old 3/4 Irish Nightowl

Erin go bragh!

Plaque graphic on top of this page is my own, please do not "borrow" it without permission.
Background is also my own creation for this page, made to look like old Irish linen, "home" sign made for my valentine's day page; again, please leave them alone or I may have to send my friends of the night out to visit you with some very unpleasant form of communication. Horseshoes compliments of   click on the graphic to visit Nyanna!