In July Karen invested in a new rain jacket at Duluth Trading Company. Then in August when visiting with Eddie Doherty, the last Donegal Tweed handweaver in Ardara, County Donegal, she took the jacket off to try on a pocket cape and inadvertently left the jacket behind. Eddie graciously agreed to send it to our mailbox service in North Carolina where Tracy boxed it up and FedExed it to General Delivery Rathdrum, Idaho and Michael answered our frequent queries as to the status of the shipment. Today it was delivered to Rathdrum and when we presented to to counter at the post office Susan handed us the package containing the jacket and other items of first class mail that we’d received in recent weeks. It’s quite a journey for a humble rain jacket!
So glad to hear you got your jacket back! That was really nice of them to mail it to you. The visit to see Eddie Dougherty in action with his ancient loom was fascinating. I ended up buying 2 beautiful hand woven scarves which I treasure for their beauty but also as mementos of our magical sisters trip to Ireland.
Aboard the Norwegian Jewel we’ve made stops in Cozumel, Mexico and Georgetown, Grand Cayman to explore beyond our previous experiences here. Soon we’ll be making our way to ports we’ve not yet explored in the Southern Caribbean.
What a treat to pause for a BBQ lunch with the locals at Pearl Country Store and Barbecue on US-441 in Micanopy, Florida. It’s a taste of the Florida we remeber from our youth.
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
So glad to hear you got your jacket back! That was really nice of them to mail it to you. The visit to see Eddie Dougherty in action with his ancient loom was fascinating. I ended up buying 2 beautiful hand woven scarves which I treasure for their beauty but also as mementos of our magical sisters trip to Ireland.