My First Odds & Ends FriDay: People may think I’m Crazy, but I’m Only Bored.

Want something interesting to do?  If you’re in or near Mount Dora, Fl.

 

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Try Rusty Anchor tours:

Address400 W 4th Ave,

Mt Dora, FL 32757

 Hours:  9:30 am – 7:30 pm Daily
Their tours range from $10 for a 30 min Lake Front tour where you can see the Mount Dora Light House, Alligator Cove, the town’s lovely lake front homes as well as the Lakeside Inn the oldest continuing operating hotel in the state of Florida and the Mount Dora Yacht Club, the first fresh water yacht club in the state.
to two $50 tours:  a 3 hr Dora Canal Lunch tour (11:30 – 2:30)
  or a Sunset Dinner Cruise   (the boat stops at a restaurant for both , but meal is not included in price)
There is also a Dora Canal Tour (2 hrs leaves 3 times a day–cost $28.00)
a 1 hr sunset cruise ($20) —this sunset cruise along the shoreline can also be taken during the day I(leave 3 times a day) and is exactly like the sunset cruise, except the sunset.
 
​The Dora Canal (Elfin River),
​often described as:
​”the most beautiful mile of waterway in the world”

 

 

Can’t get away–try a little pampering of self at home

MAKE COOKIES FOR YOUR BATH

From Dr. Myles H. Bader’s 1,001 Secret Household Formulas & Money Saving Tips

My Pal Publishing, 2007

1/2 Cup Baking Soda (Fresh)

2 Tbsp. light corn oil

2 Eggs (large)

2 Cups of powdered sea salt (Health food stores)

3 Drops of rose oil fragrance

Place all the ingredients in a medium bowl and knead by hand until a workable dough is formed.  Form the dough into small tbsp. size balls and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake the cookies in a pre-heated 350 degree F oven for 10-12 minutes, keeping an eye on them so that they do not burn.  They should be just lightly browned, not black.  A soothing bath can be achieved by adding two “cookies to your bath water.

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The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Eminem

 

A couple of weeks ago we went walking about downtown Winter Park, Florida—its a fun way to spend a Saturday with lots of great shops and eateries and a large park with fountains and the like….when I got ready to drive away I saw that there was something under my wipers…I didn’t wanta stop so I tried turning the wipers on.  When that didn’t work I just left it to the force of the wind—but when I got home it was still there—and this was what it was.  So I figured I’d reward it’s staying power and pass it along to you

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise you just get confused. Cliff Burton 

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There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy,       yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever. Viggo Mortensen

 

 

Sitting high on a hill top in Inishowen County Donegal is a stone fort  said to be that of Grianan of Allech and it was built on an earthen rath.

The Stone Fort of Grianán of Aileach sits on a hilltop in Inishowen County Donegal. 250m above sea level, the stone fort was probably first built on an earthen rath.   (if you’re interest on exactly what those are you can find the info  Irish Raths and Cashels: Some Notes on Chronology, Origins and Survivals   Bruce Proudfoot  Ulster Journal of Archaeology Third Series, Vol. 33 (1970), pp. 37-48   and if you go here you can get a preview of the article which should tell you all you’re probably interested in  https://www.jstor.org/stable/20567665?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents )

 

The fort has been  dated back to 1700 BC.  And historians attribute it to the Tuatha de Danann who invaded Ireland before the Celts   According to Celtic Myths and Legends (T.W. Rolleston) translates as “the folk of the god whose mother is Dana (it is also said that Dana bears another name, that of Brigit, a goddess held in much honour by pagan Ireland whose attributes   were transferred in legend to the Christian St. Brigit.

 

The rivers Brent in England, Braint in Wales, and Brigid in Ireland are all related linguistically and maybe religiously to the root Brig/Brigant. [10] [11] brenhin, from the goddess’ name, Brigan_, understanding it to mean originally “consort of the goddess”; Cartimandua’s own freedom in discarding one husband for another seems like evidence that she followed the goddess’ model, selecting a mate with whom to rule the Brigantes. [12] . But the more ordinary Celtic words for king come from an Indo-European root, *regs– which has given us Irish , Latin rex, Germanreich; and Cartimandua was unusual among Celtic leaders, who were normally men.   [St. Brigit of Ireland]  This paper was written as part of a (then) forthcoming monograph on the cults of St. Brigit of Ireland and St. Genovefa of Paris.     https://monasticmatrix.osu.edu/commentaria/st-brigit-ireland

 

Below is St Bridget’s church and Holy Well both in Kildare, Ireland

Check out the possibilities from various views below:

The Story of St. Bridget

St. Brigid’s Sacred Sites & Stories

 

 

      

 

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