Since Daria and Ellen were kind enough to ask...
Both Hank (my sweetie) and I are Irish, so we used that in the
tattoo. It's a Celtic design you may have seen that we modified
slightly. It's a man and woman facing each other with holding their
right hands, then their other arm and legs are intertwined below them
forming a Celtic knot. At the bottom, creating a lower frame, is two
Celtic dog heads; we had to have Happy (the rowdy golden retriever)
and Maggie (the staid, elder states-lady Bouvier des Flandres)
included, because they're joining this new family too. Along the
sides is intricate Celtic knotwork, it kinda looks like the two
people have long braids made of the knots.
For the job, I'm an organic farm and food processing inspector. I go
to the farms and processing plants to verify they are growing and/or
operating in compliance with the USDA National Organic Program. I
don't work directly for the USDA, I'm independent, but I work for
agencies that are accredited by the USDA. So, I have to do things
like verify temperatures and composition of compost heaps, check for
biological activity of soil, check if seeds are treated with
synthetic fungicides, that sort of thing. It's a great job, and I
get to meet some of the most amazing, upbeat folks who are actually
excited to be farming the way they farm.
Oh...one last thing...for our wedding, we're planning on the back
yard (which, granted, is about 5 acres of huge old trees and a 1.5
acre vegetable garden), a traditional North Carolina pig pickin', and
a couple of my farmer buddies have said they'd provide music (one is
a bluegrass fiddler, the other a drummer in a 70's-80's rock cover
band). Should be fun, and should I let y'all know when we pick a
date?
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