Sneaky Snake

Most People think that it was St. Patrick who drove the snakes from Ireland. Well they couldn't be more wrong. It was my great great great, etc. uncle Nikolai O'Berezowski.

This is the real story.

Years ago the people of Ireland were plagued by snakes. St. Patrick agreed to rid the island of snakes but when the time came to do the work he couldn't be found. He was drunked up in a bar somewhere.

The people of Ireland were becoming frantic. Then my great great great, etc. uncle Nicky said he would rid the island of snakes. He would take the snakes and settle in Canada but in return he wanted a pot of gold. The deal was struck.

Uncle Nicky took the snakes and settled in north eastern Saskatchewan. The Irish people gave a pot of gold to some vertically challenged people to carry across the ocean to Uncle Nicky. But as it turned out these guys took the gold and absconded with it. Even today these miscreants are running around Ireland hiding their ill gotten treasure.

Even though Uncle Nicky never received his payment he bore no hard feelings. He did not return the snakes.

Today the snakes still roam free around Pelly Saskatchewan and are a huge tourist attraction http://www.pelly.ca/thesnakepit.html .

As long as an O'Berezowski is alive the snakes will not be allowed to return to Ireland.

Stupid ducks

I dunno what it is, maybe sunspots, could be global warming it just beats me.

I've been having these weird dreams again.

In this one I'm a kid, about 15 or 16, and I am going on a trip to what was then the Soviet Union, what is now Russia. Part of the deal is that I have to take this duck with me, it's a mallard duck. It's the winter time and the duck is under the ice in a pond. This duck seems to be doing fine under the ice with no air. In fact, it's swimming around having a great time
I take a tractor and drive it on the ice. The tractor breaks through the ice and splashes into the pond; somehow I end up with the duck in my arms.

hmmmmmm, I wonder what it could mean