Brigid's cross & being Irish

[marydell]

The new kitchen floor is in - yay! Video later today or tonight of Charlie checking it out.  We neglected to take stuff off of the walls for the installation, so my porcelain Brigid's cross,* a gift from my MIL, fell and broke.  As a 5th generation Irish-American on my mother's side, I am bummed and superstitious enough to think I need a new Brigid's cross for my kitchen RIGHT AWAY.  My MIL is a first generation Irish-American, which means I have to get onto ye internet and buy the exact same cross, so that she will never never never know that it broke, because she would take it as a very bad omen and be worried.  She's a sensible woman, but when you're Irish part of being sensible is paying attention to signs and portents. 

In fact I will feel weird about having an identical new cross, because pretending that nothing happened is unlucky, but it's more important to take care of my MIL. I think I'll bury the old one in the garden instead of throwing it out, so at least I show the proper respect for...whoever.

*Yes, I know that it should be straw, to protect the roof; I figure a porcelain cross will prevent the casseroles in the oven from catching fire, at least.  In my house that's probably the more likely source of fire anyway, since I am a distractable cook.

Comments

[curmudgn]

Can you give a description/maker of the cross? Possibly we've got something at the shop that'll work.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I've found it online already, here: http://search.celtichills.com/search?w=tara+brigid - but I'm going to try to pick it up at a local shop today if I can, since she's coming to see the new floor soon.

If your shop has an internet presence, though, please send me a link, so I can keep it in mind for xmas and so forth.

[curmudgn]

We're here, but the online shop is only about ten percent of what we actually carry; it's something to do with the shortage of full-time Webmasters. If you want something and you don't see it online, phone the shop (WATS +1 888.921.9529) and ask.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

I make my own from garlic stalks, and all the ones I know of in Ireland are made from river rushes, not straw. I think your roof will be okay. I think porcelain is quite sensible, indeed, as is never never letting your MIL know it broke.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

So your house is protected from bad luck, fire, and vampires! Very nice.

River rushes...I believe I have a fake ancestral memory of those, courtesy of Mr. Burns. Two, two, the lily-white boys, clothed all in green ho. My, that does acquire new meanings as time goes on.