March 11, 2011
March 11th, 2011 by admin
Good morning from Collegeville,
I heard my first Cardinal call yesterday, but it was not back this morning. It is a very good sign. The temps are going to dip tomorrow and then next week we will have a melt. I love it when a plan comes together.
I brought an old friend home from the hospital yesterday. Mr. Regulator was at the clock hospital. Doc Dom had assisted in getting him back on his feet. The regulator had once belonged to my Dad’s Grandmother Dokken in French Lake. I am not sure when my Dad’s mother Anna inherited it, but it hung in Grandma Anna’s kitchen on the farm outside of Upsala until the late 80’s. The steady beat of the clock and the mournful chime was a source of joy. It still reminds me of country lunches in the summer time which happened mid morning and mid afternoon. Ginger snap cookies, fresh milk and the smell of barn clothes hanging in the entrance way.
Anna passed before her husband Francis Johnson, so the clock moved from the farm kitchen to an apartment in Upsala and then when Francis died in 1988, Dad took the clock to his apartment in a high rise in downtown Saint Paul. In 1998 Dad and the clock moved in with me in the old Parsonage house in Upsala. Now it sits on the kitchen counter in a loft in downtown Saint Joseph. The gentle chime did not wake me once.
I have often wondered how a movie by Steven King written from the eyes of a video camera inside of the clock would play out. What stories that clock must have witnessed while staring at the kitchen table in all those settings the way that it is now.
The show this week is a special Saint Patrick’s Day compilation. Special guests include Martin Sheen, the late Frank Harte, Sean O’Driscoll, Cathal McConnell and The Boys of the Lough. Grab your hankie for a ” Danny Boy” sing-along.
Enjoy the show.
The Ring of Kerry is having a CD release concert at The Paramount Theater in downtown Saint Cloud tomorrow night at 7:30. Tickets are available at the door or by calling 259-LINE or at www.paramountarts.org
“Good judgment come from experience and often experience comes from bad judgment.” Rita Mae Brown
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