Valentine's Day is Coming!

SifuPhil said:
They must be warm - my son was sweating all day, and I don't think it was because he was getting married. He said his legs were nice and cool, though. :D
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They are wool and a proper kilt weighs a ton. Knee socks are worn with it. Underwear is optional. My husband wore the kilt for several hours in 85 degree heat for the wedding.
 

Shalimar said:
Be afraid, very afraid. This Welsh merwitch is not happy with you.
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I guess I shouldn't mention the hasenpfeffer then ... :cower:

Ameriscot said:
They are wool and a proper kilt weighs a ton. Knee socks are worn with it. Underwear is optional. My husband wore the kilt for several hours in 85 degree heat for the wedding.
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And the underwear was probably mohair - seems your menfolk like to suffer ...
 
SifuPhil said:
I guess I shouldn't mention the hasenpfeffer then ... :cower:



And the underwear was probably mohair - seems your menfolk like to suffer ...
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Oh, no way. The wool is actually fairly soft. And hubby wears boxers under his, although many wear nothing. But they have to be careful about sudden breezes.

Nice photo BTW!
 
SifuPhil said:
The sporran, lassie- does he swing the sporran? :eek:

My son at his wedding, honoring his bride's heritage -

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wow Phil...very nice pic of you and your offspring. My personal memory of kilts is really just my cousin's funeral 10 years ago..our mothers are sisters and are Scottish name and blood and her (my cousins) husband was of Scottish ancestry and heavy into it...so they had her picture and her clan tartan crossed with his clan tartan..and all the men from his family were in kilts and so forth..and of course bagpipes. Very ceremonial but nice too.
 
SifuPhil said:
Thank you, m'Lady.

Sounds like an impressive ceremony for your cousin. I always think of Amazing Grace when I hear bagpipes ...
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yes it was nice I think. I like bagpipes for funerals as nothing sounds so mournful. Amazing Grace was played graveside for my dad. He had a military funeral...I put a shell casing from the salute with his flag. I know he would have been pleased. :)
 
Here's a beautiful and romantic song and clip .."Lara's Theme" from "Doctor Zhivago"..I saw this when I was 15 or 16..and oh I thought Omar Sharif was just so dreamy...l'amor, l'amor

 
SifuPhil said:
By my reckoning it's a little over two weeks until Valentine's Day!

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Is this day a big deal for you, with flowers and cards and candy and candlelight dinners, or is it just another day?[/Q

It's a big day for those who sell all those things for sure. For me and my Honey, we love cards that express our feelings perfectly to each other. Neither one of us have the gift of putting into words exactly what we wanted to say...but we can always find a card that does. We both have every card we have ever given each other and I like to take them out every now and then and see that the love that was expressed in the first cards has aged really well with the last ones.
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Valentine's Day is just another day for me. I've no significant other and no one gets me any gifts. I thought about getting some things for my family of origin but I opted for to get them something for Easter instead.

When I was 15 years old my mom made me go live with my dad because she had enough of me. That Valentines day my dad got me a cute little heart shaped box of candy and was so cute when giving it to me. It's a nice memory I have of him. It's so memorable because my dad always was the tough guy image but giving me that candy was a softer side of him I didn't see that often as a kid.
 
Ruth, your dad sounds like a sweetheart, sorry about your mom. I didn't have a nice mom either, Even without a significant other, I treat myself on Valentine's Day. Perhaps you could too? You deserve it.:love_heart:
 
Who needs a significant other to enjoy the day really, either ignore it's existance or have fun with it, but no need to make oneself unhappy about it, when I have nothing to do on the day, I don't even give it a thought, sometimes I get cards or a call from friends, gotta love those friends, this year, will just be an entire day in with my favorite tv show, I was asked out, but, uh no TWD gets first dibs that evening, sick I know, the night before I will party it up with my meetup group buddies. :D Either way, I stopped feeling anything special about it sometime back in my 20's all I looked forward to was the after sale chocolate as I realized it was just another day to sell stuff mostly, but, still it can be whatever one wants to make of it or not. Most years I do nothing and just wait for the markdowns. :chocolate::excited::grin:
 
I think its a good mid-February non-event kind of day to get us through the rest of bleak winter up north here with some chocolate and treats. We humans seem to need these special marked out 'holidays' during the calendar year to give our life some kind of meaning and structure, for social and psychological reasons maybe --- otherwise its shuffling through one crummy day after another, after another with nothing to look forward to except more mashed potatoes or fried bread.
 
I'm shuffling through my day right now, late morning coffee and already excited about the prospect of having some ice cream after which will come a little nap. Such fun!
 
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