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• on April 20th, 2008 at 8:44 am
  shari wrote,

  Tell Claire I said con­grat­u­la­tions and to be a defen­sive dri­ver. i.e. watch out for idiots on the road.

  Where was that pic­ture taken? Did Claire take it? The girl has a def­i­nite knack for pho­tog­ra­phy but i didn’t think they had moun­tains in NJ. Or is it some­thing you pulled off the web to make the defen­sive dri­ving argument?

• on April 20th, 2008 at 8:48 am
  tom wrote,

  Just a piece of stolen pho­tog­ra­phy from an travel site for Ireland.

  Idiots on the road are de rigeur here in Jer­sey, and she’s learn­ing all about it. Funny, the quote-unquote road test you take out here doesn’t hap­pen on a road. It’s on a closed course, not unlike one of those blan­kets you used to lay down on the floor with streets drawn on them so the kids could play with their toy cars. This after she drove down there on the Gar­den State Park­way dur­ing rush hour. Now that was a test!

  We do have moun­tains here, but they’re way older than the ones out by you (geo­log­i­cally) so they’re only a few hun­dred feet at most.

• on April 20th, 2008 at 9:11 am
  shari wrote,

  HA! Good for Claire. Has she started ask­ing you if you need her to go to the store for any­thing yet?

  Maybe geologically-speaking those 300 feet tall things were once moun­tains? But over here that is what we call a foothill. Or a speed bump.

  But seri­ously, the Sierra’s are nice. Altho, i still can’t wait til i can get back east. NO, I DO NOT MEAN OHIO!

• on April 20th, 2008 at 9:16 am
  shari wrote,

  Speak­ing of Ire­land, I once told Uncle Bill I was plan­ning to go to Ire­land some­day. He said he wanted to come too. We talked about the whole fam dam­ily going together. Have I ever men­tioned it to you? I’m think­ing maybe the sum­mer after next (2010). If we had our geneal­ogy up to speed it would be even better.

  I was there once, for about an hour on a lay­over in Shan­non. Look­ing out the win­dow rom the plane I couldn’t believe how green it was. Like a green i’d never seen before. Awesome.

• on April 20th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
  tom wrote,

  Sounds great to me. Have you ever found any Irish source relat­ing to us? It’s a big coun­try, it’d be cool to tar­get out visit to the right location.

• on April 21st, 2008 at 12:41 am
  shari wrote,

  No, I never got around to writ­ing Arm­strong County for John McGee’s nat­u­ral­iza­tion papers. As you would imag­ine these last sev­eral months geneal­ogy has been the last thing on my mind. But I will do that when things have set­tled down. I sup­pose when we get those nat­u­ral­iza­tion papers we’ll know where to tar­get our trip to Ire­land. I wouldn’t want to go until we knew the place he came from.

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