Woke up to a beautiful fall day, perfect for wool kilting. Saw I'd scrawled on my calendar for today, "Highland Regiment Day." But no clue when or why I'd done that.

A little Googling and I came up with

October 25 (1739): Highland Regiment Day, AKA: Regimental Day
The six independent companies of the "Highland Watch" or the "Black Watch", originally raised in 1729, along with four newly-raised companies, were incorporated into a Regiment of Foot (Infantry) under John, the Earl of Crawford. This Regiment was originally numbered the 43rd Highland Regiment, but was renumbered as the 42nd in 1749.

So Happy Highland Regiment Day today.

No one needs an excuse to be kilted, but a brisk fall day and an anniversary certainly may make the rabble stand an inch taller today.

Ron