Tomorrow would be a no-kilt day in Indiana

[Don'tCallMeJimmie]

If the experience in Missouri this afternoon is any indicator.

Chunks 'a apartment flying all about here most of the afternoon and into the evening.

I was brave (ok, crazy) and walked the 1/4 mile to my mailbox in this stuff. The only thing worse than walking to the mailbox was walking back without any mail today.

Now we've got epic thunder snow.

Hang on to your sporran and grab yer hem. It's gonna get 'airy.

 

[ellis8500]

Yes, it was rather windy yesterday here is St. Louis. Even the house was creaking and groaning as the 50 mph west wind gusts hit the broadside of the two story house.

 

[Mike]

I was going around unlocking doors to the building I work in. I would unlock a door and the wind would rip it open. It was really howling, all night. But we're down to wind speeds around 6 - 8 MPH, now. Perfect weather for a kilt!

 

[ellis8500]

Yah...a kilt with some long johns...

 

[Mike]

You would actually be surprised at how comfortable a kilt can be in this kind of weather. Imagine having 16 oz. wool at your sides, with an upper and lower apron in the front and pleats at rear. Then a pair of wool kilt hose, which leaves only your knees exposed. With a good grade of wool (14 - 16 oz.), you rarely ever get the kilt blowing up, so you actaully stay quite warm.

A few years back, I did a graveside service at Robert 'Rob Roy' Macgregor's grave for a Jacobite organization. Temperatures were in the low 20°F range and the humidity was so high the frost on the ground looked like snow. We marched ~2 miles from Kingshouse to the Balquhidder Parish Church, performed the commemoration service and then marched back to Kingshouse. I was wearing gloves, yet my hands were like blocks of ice and I didn't think my nose would ever thaw out. Other than that, I was very comfortable.

I had to remove a glove to turn pages in my Bible and my hand was numb, it was so cold.

I would much rather be wearing a kilt on a 20° day, rather than on a 90° day. I used to attend the Highland Games at Glasgow, KY every year and wearing a kilt in the heat and humidity was murderous.

 

[Duke]

Hard to tell from the photo, but the kilt looks like the Duncan Clan.

 

[Mike]

The tartan is Ancient Lamont. I have connections to several families (Donald, MacDougall and MacGregor, most notably), but I identify most with my Lamont heritage. But most of those connections, on both my paternal and maternal side are from the western Highlands (Cowal/Argyll and the Trossachs in Stirlingshire), rather than the east. I do have family connections to Clackmannanshire and Fife, but that is about as far east as it gets. And those in Clackmannashire are only as a result of the destruction of much of my family in Dunoon, by the soup-makers, back in 1646.

And as all of us with any connection to the Lamont of Cowal would say, "It's pronounced 'Lamb-it', damn it."