Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Bugbear]

I found an old post of mine in a tartan thread, and saw that I needed to make things clearer. I'm copying it here for the record. Obviously, I can't go into the whole story and I wouldn't want to if I could. It's a little confusing and strange to me when I read people's post about their long family heritage and so on, but as I say in the following, I think that's great that some people can do that.

My tartans:
I mostly stick to the solid color kilts, but right now I have two tartans.
Weathered Halfset Lamont because the colors aren't bright and are kind of pastel-ish and I can't wear bright colors.
Nightstalker SWK because it is black with gray and that's one of the color combinations I can wear.
I plan on getting Granite tartans in the future for the same reason.
I think I could wear a Hunting Wallace.
I could care less about any of the blood connections to clans because on one side I don't really know them and the other side I don't really care.
That being said, I could probably look ok in the ***** tartan, but can't find it in the price range I'm looking at at this time.
*** Coming back and reading this I can see that it needed some clarification. I was probably feeling down about not feeling the connection to a blood line and clan that others have. My mother does come from ******, but the way I was raised, I don't really feel a connection to that name and clan. The following post responded to my post, and I am copying my response to this post because it has been a while. ***

don't worry, my father doesn't know who his father is, got brought up with his gran, so he's got his mothers maiden name, so my name is from my fathers mother's side of the family

There is a little bit of doubt in that way, but also on my father's side, the family line or history isn't "spoken" of and it's pretty much lost... I do know that I have many, many, many half relatives, most of which I have never met. I thought the half set Lamont tartan had an odd symbolic meaning in my life. I just don't feel that connection to my family line that others do...

It's funny, I lived with my grandmother for a while as a kid too. That was when my parents were working up to and going through their divorce. I don't think she had any Scottish roots though, what ever that means...
* I should add that I think it's great that a lot of the other folks have their family histories and so on worked out and that they are proud of their family connections. Also, I am not meaning to say that I do not care about my family, just that I do not feel the connection to the blood line or name and clan that others seem to feel.