Woe is me - my hat has holes

[OC Richard]

If those pipers live in different climates than you...

The puzzling thing is that they're local pipers here, guys in the same pipe band I'm in, and other local pipers I know.

Here in the highlands of Tennessee along the North Carolina border, for instance, I've never once seen a moth in a closet/dresser/etc.

That's something to look forward to! In a few years I plan on retiring and hopefully moving back to the highlands of West Virginia, where I'm from. BTW my Mom lived in Elizabethton, near Johnson City, for a few years before returning to WV. I would visit annually and drive over to the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games.

[rlloyd]

That's something to look forward to! In a few years I plan on retiring and hopefully moving back to the highlands of West Virginia, where I'm from. BTW my Mom lived in Elizabethton, near Johnson City, for a few years before returning to WV. I would visit annually and drive over to the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games.

I both work at and attend ETSU in Johnson City and my girlfriend is originally from Elizabethton. Always a bit surprising to randomly run across someone familiar enough with the area to "name name's," so to speak! Grandfather is always a great time and I make it whenever possible, though haven't been able to the past few years. I'd planned on going this year, but alas...hopefully, next year on the Mountain.

[OC Richard]

And for those not familiar, it's /uh-LIZ-uh-BETH-tun/ with two stressed syllables.

Elsewhere it would be /uh-LIZ-uh-buth-tun/ with one stressed syllable.