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IRELAND | Wednesday, 20 October 2010 | Views [1240] | Comments [5]

Dear Monday,

I am glad you are here! After you are over today, I get to travel elsewhere! To France that is!

Today is my last day at Triskel Flower Farm. It’s not all that sad of a day for me, for tomorrow I get to play games with Public Transportation again, along with getting lost on my way to Dublin. I will hopefully be in Dublin by lunch time tomorrow and can go exploring. I will be staying the night at Abigail’s hostel, I really hope they can wake me up. I won’t be able to sleep anyways because I will be so scared that I will miss my flight. I hope my day is splendid tomorrow, I want to leave happily from Ireland. I did have a good time here, but thank GOD I only had two weeks here at Triskel Flower Farm. I did learn some new tasks…I’ll go ahead and number out the new skills I’ve acquired..

Standing on a latter to paint the barn

Cleaning out gutters

How to plant carrots, leeks, potatoes, beets, etc etc

Cleaning horse shit out of a field.(yes I know that doesn’t sound lady like but I hated it so that’s they word that fits my emotion best)

Ride English, or Dressage

Clean horse stables anndd

how to successfully Break my converter! I definitely learned to keep my mouth closed at times when my temper was raised, but also this is the FIRST helpx home that I stayed at, so now I know what kind of questions to ask in detail. Things you just wouldn’t think of to ask…I now have expections for where I am & what I will do.

Ireland is a beautiful place, the country itself is still very young and from what I understand, has been in a recession for a while now. Margret has her OPINIONATED ideas and views on the people here and the life, which sometimes I find as bullshit, but I am always a firm believer in you make your own choices. So as long as you are miserable, it is your fault because you are choosing to do nothing about it, and that’s kind of how she is. She has a good side, but she’s just as somewhat conniving as the people she talks about and a little bit of a horder also.L not in my area though. Besides that, she has been a decent host and taught me a lot about the history of Ireland and how things run. Sligo was and is loveley. Here I come Dublin to take you in and hold you for one good time.J J J

Shower and my favorite thing to do, pack this 8.9 KILO backpack of mine. JOY!J

 

My day went good and I got my things packed again! Ohh it’s so hard, and I think I physically dread it! I wanted to enlighten everyone with another of my crazy dreams, I mean I’ve thought and laughed about it all day because this has just become a little ridiculous. Last night I had mulitple dreams but my most vivid one is this: I was dreaming about all these dogs floating on like rocks(some floatable device, yes I know it doesn’t include rocks) down the creek. Now, this creek was Debbie and Tommys creek in Hillsville, the one in front of the house. So dogs are floating down stream, under the bridge and somehow it turns into a pool and Im getting the dogs out of the pool. Lucy was there of course but nothing bad happened to her. After all the dogs were out, I saw this whale floating to the bottom, so I dove in to try to save it. I was like the whale had drowned, IT’S A WHALE. When I realized it had died and I was getting out on the pool latter, a shark was coming for me! I got out but it had my foot, and I was hitting it on the head. But it had my foot like Mazzi(our other dog, she’s a bull mastif?) and I was hitting the shark like I hit Mazzi to let go of my pants. WEIRD. I even think my brain was playing the jaws song.. I swear I havent done any drugs and I don’t even get to drink every night, which might settle the dreams. They are ridiculous, are they not? And I remember them so vividly. Now when I googled this, the response I liked most was that I must have a high IQ! You can keep your laughs to yourself. Maybe it’s this house, maybe I won’t be so restless in France, hopefully I’ll be drinking wine and pass out.J just kidding. Kind of.J

Anyhow, I think because I don’t like my new book I’m going to try and meditate. I’ll imagine that I’m buddah, I bet I’ll dream it too. Goodnight to all. P.s It’s Jeff’s Birthday today(well when I get to post this it will be.) Call him and remind him of how old he is!J I loves my Jeffery! Happy Birthday Old Man! I’ll try to not stress you out so much this year so you don’t go completely grey.J

Comments

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So kind of the two faced American to help, unwillingly it seems, after all the extra time and effort i spent helping her to understand my personal situation , with her endless boring questions, cheers Magi, so happy i am not like you,never never again, from the very happy in Sligo Magi, who just so happens to be very honest and very protective.

  Margaret Hedge Nov 17, 2010 4:09 AM

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Dear J!

Wow, this is incredible! I stayed on the Triskel Flower Farm 3 years ago for a period of an entire month and was just looking on the internet again to see if there are any news about Maggie and the farm. Incredible what you say - this is just incredible! I had a very nice time in Ireland, a month that I'll never forget due to NICE experiences and a lot of fun!
When you don't want to work - why do you travel via HelpX then?

This is really disgusting! Staying with a host, benefiting from a thing like HelpX and then just complaining!

I learnd a lot - I had a wonderfuil time riding Desi on the beach, also I went out on little trail rides with him... Maggie provided super accommodation and cooked nice meals for me... and come on, what kind of a rider are you if you don't understand that someone has to look after a horse by providing a clean stable and clean meadows?

I really can't understand why you would be this ingrate and unappreciative! This is really sad!

  kathi_in_beltra Nov 25, 2011 1:56 AM

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Addressing both of you:
As a matter of fact, I had a very splendid time. Maggie showed me a lot of Ireland and her lifestyle! I don't know if this was the one journal entry of mine that you took the time to read, but in the many others there are PLENTY of positive/happy/greatful entries on my experience in Sligo. This was all of my opinion and personal experience, so I find it sad of how people can get so defensive over one's thoughts. AGREE TO DISAGREE! These were daily entries for me. The other host I stayed with I was completely over satisfied with my time there! Enough said...I still wish the best for Maggie and her beautiful farm, and also for you (whomever you are) and that you can learn to take one's opinion not to heart. geeezzZ!

  Maggie Nov 26, 2011 6:50 AM

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PLEASE REMOVE THIS INFORMATION as it does not describe my farm correctly. Thanks Margaret.

  Margaret Hedge Jun 3, 2014 1:21 AM

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Triskel Flower Farm? That's a joke. Did you use free labour again, maggi?LAFTSW

  Dave Aug 13, 2020 10:03 AM

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