are you Irish from Ireland or of Irish descent? Do you live in NC? If so how did you discover Gene and the Post and the chat? That's a really different kind of job. With the wedding everyone will see a different side of you, unless you're doing a jeans-and-t shirts wedding to go with the pig-pickin'.
--- In [email protected], "algriner1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weingartenchatters/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
