Ladies and gentlemen:

Yesterday I took my family to the Texas Renaissance Festival. It's a family tradition for me, my wife and daughters, and, indeed, it was a family tradition for my parents, my sister and me as well.

Since my wife is great with child, she mostly observed as the girls and I rode on the elephant, on the giant swings, on the spinning things, as we catapulted frogs onto lily-pads, watched sword-and-buckler play, and generally goofed around and had a good time.

I wore my homemade MacGregor modern kilt---Kingussie style, with a narrower apron and unpressed pleats and no buckles nor straps, and a maroon dress shirt and tweed vest and Vibram Five Fingers.

The sun was out, the breeze was mild, the temperature was in the mid 70s, and a grand time was had by all.

I saw a lot of "kilt don'ts" yesterday, but saw a goodly number of kilties wearing it well.