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Sue & Barb: The purple butts on the sheep. All sheep have swatches of color which serve as a brand. Different owners will have sheep grazing in the same pastures, so the swatch of color serves, as Barb guessed, as a brand.
Sue: No, I didn’t tip over the vase. It’s just a damaged one set out for display. It’s been tipped over for twenty years.
Cindy: Snow? Yuch! And you never commented on the car name, Winnie the Peugeot.
Mianne: Safe trip to rainy Boston and Scituate. And we remember our Blasket visit with you very well.
Patrick: More foodie pics? Request noted. Stay tuned. Great to see your comments.
Friday was a beautiful sunny day. But it’s Ireland so there was the brief passing shower(s). We did a day trip to Killarney, the largest city in County Kerry, to visit Muckross House and Gardens. You park a mile or so from the site proper and take a jaunting car ride to the House. Our driver was Patrick O”Sullivan and he was worth the price of the ride – a real Irishman full of stories. We also met his son who drives another jaunting car. Our horse was Rosalita, a real darling. She is seven years old and will work until she is twenty when she’ll be turned out to pasture. The horses work one day on and one day off. They do a maximum of three trips a day. Not a bad life.
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Rosalita 
Passing Another 
The gardens were beautiful. We had a good walk around and looked at Muckross House up close. We opted out of the guided tour (TMI – too much information). When we were done, Patrick and Rosalita were waiting for the return trip to our car.
There was a brief stop at Muckross Abbey, another ruined religious site, before we got back to the car We saw an 800 year old tree here (or at the Gardens). I got pictures of trees but I’m not sure if I got the 800 year old one. Pretend one of them is.
Then, believe it or not, we had lunch in a Subway in a gas station in Killarney. It sounds awful, but it was good. We wanted a light and quick lunch and pub lunches are neither light nor quick. It hit the spot. After lunch it was a brief stop at Ross Castle where again we skipped the internal guided tour. Then it was back home.
Dinner consisted of delicious home barbecued Kerry strip stakes with Lyonnaise potatoes and salad. Then it was game night before heading off to bed.
Silly old Bear, it’s for Winnie the Pooh! Love the jaunting car but Rosalita, not an Irish name, too funny. Joe, tell Elaine she is getting closer to BD each day. Love you guys…..Cindy