Today I worked from home while Travalon explored historic train sites and went swimming in the Wisconsin River. It was very hot again today, so we walked outside early, but not early enough to see the train that went by around 9:35. I spaced out about praying the rosary while walking around inside on my lunch break, so I just put on my headphones and walked around to music. I walked inside on my afternoon break as well.
When Travalon came home, I said we should head to the Elks Club early to avoid the storm, which my phone said was coming in forty-five minutes, but when I went outside, it felt imminent. Then my phone said it was coming in eleven minutes, which would be before we got to the Elks Club, so we went back inside and waited until the storm passed. Finally we headed to the Elks Club and joined our Shamrock Club buddy and her friend, but nobody else joined us, and the head fiddler was not at the session. In fact, there were a lot less musicians than usual, probably owing to the weather. Travalon was happy because they were showing the Croatia game (but sadly they lost to Portugal), while I chatted with the other two women about plants and other stuff that didn't interest him. At one point we were talking about genetic tests, and I have done both 23 and Me and Ancestry, but I deleted my 23 and Me account when they went bankrupt. My buddy logged into her Ancestry account to show us her background, and I tried logging into mine and was stunned to find out I'm one-quarter from Munster, Ireland. It said I had some ancestry from other parts of Ireland, like Donegal, but 23 and Me said my ancestry was mostly from the south and west of Ireland, and for a moment I thought Munster was up in the north. I said, "How can that be??? Wait... is Munster the part where Cork is?" Indeed it is, so my world was turned right-side up again - I am who I always thought I was. Both tests said I have some Cornish in me, so now I can go to Mineral Point with great pride in that part of my ancestry. Both also said I have some German and a touch of West African, so I'm trusting that they're pretty accurate. I also have quite a bit of Scottish, but the biggest chunk of my ancestry is Munsterish, if that's a word. I wondered if that's where Munster cheese comes from, while my buddy thought it came from Munster, Germany, but we're both wrong - it comes from a French town of that name in the Alsace region of France. Wherever it comes from, I love it - I'm a Munster monster!
Interestingly, when I googled "Munster" and it told me all this stuff, it was showing a slideshow of places in the Irish province, which includes the Cliffs of Moher and lots of castles, like Blarney Castle. No wonder I built that little shrine of Belleek Irish castles! It's in my blood.
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