Another uneventfull kilted day

[Freedomlover]

We recently had some friends from Florida up for a few days. On Monday last we drove up to Mt. Mitchell (highest peak East of the Mississippi River). I was wearing a Stillwater standard. Mistake. Mt. Mitchell is almost always windy, and on Monday the gusts were about 50 mph, and the temperature about 35. There were a few other folks up there, but only one asked if my knees were cold. I thought that a little strange since he was wearing shorts!

On the way home we stopped off at the Westen Carolina Nature Center to look at animals. There were lots of people there and the only comment I heard was from one of the girls that works there. We were in a large exhibit barn and she came in, stopped, and said "Wow, I just love the kilt mister". I answered, "thanks, so do I", with a big grin.

After that we went to a Greek restaurant with lots of customers (it is a locally famous place called Apollo Flame). Again, no reaction from anyone except some guy with his wife who kept stealing glances. I suspect that he was a little jealous.

Then we toured the Asheville Mall. Several positive comments were received from store help/customers. Two teenage girls, maybe 14 or 15, kept elbowing each other and giggling. I mean this in the nicest possible way: there is nothing sillier than two little girls on a giggle fest.
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Our friends and my wife got a kick out of it.

On Tuesday we decided to climb Mt. Pisgah which is near our house. The trail is only 1 1/2 miles, but it is really steep in places. Since I knew it would be cold I opted for an 8 yard wool kilt with heavy sweater. On the way up we met one couple coming down, we passed brief pleasantries and continued to the summit which we had to ourselves for about an hour. On the way back down it was just one group after another going up. There were two high points. Two young men, mid twenties I'd guess, and they were both in kilts. We visited for a while and it turns out that they were visiting from Tennessee. As we approached the parking area we ran up on another couple with a couple kids. He turns to his wife and says, "See?, I keep telling you".

Any way, a couple perfectly normal days here in hillbilly heaven.