woohoo - first snow storm kilted!

**pugcasso** · 23rd November 11, 02:36 PM

This was the first day of snow here in Halifax, Nova Scotia this winter and it's actually quite an all-day snowfall.... I just got back inside. I walked a fair ways to a few stores in the snow that's been falling all day. Sidewalks and roads have many inches and some cars are having some problems getting 'unparked' (whilst some others are having problems not becoming parked against a tree!).

The temperature online says it's -2 Celcius (28 Fahrenheit ) but "feels like" -9 degrees Celcius (16 Fahrenheit ) ... and I was out there in my kilt and didn't feel cold at all.

I had my usual scarf leg-wraps around each calf and then another scarf leg wrap around each knee area - so I felt warm.

I can guarantee (since I remember it) that wearing blue jeans in that would have been colder. Jeans become horribly cold and stiff in that weather. Yet I can imagine some people wearing jeans out there looking at me and thinking I must be cold haha

That was awesome ... now I know I can go through the winter kilted for sure!

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I was walking on a sidewalk and this guy from across the sidewalk yelled out

"Dude! Power to you!"

haha...that was one of the best comments yet!

My legs were wrapped like in this pic (but I had not staff or "cape" although I am thinking how a big piece of tartan material would be great as a giant scarf for these winter storms) ... two scarves around each calf and knee area with long boot laces criss-crossing around and tied and another lace wrapped around and tied above that ... looks kind of primitive but this is my current kilt-wearing philosophy ... sort of use what's available to me - long lengths of warm cloth do the trick.

This type of weather makes me want to make a 'great kilt' ... I'd really like to try that out this winter

**Meadcrafter** · 23rd November 11, 03:30 PM

Dude, we need pictures of you in the snow with your kilt. I'm kinda new here, but I know that without pictures it didn't happen.

**pugcasso** · 23rd November 11, 03:42 PM

It did happen ... I guarantee it!

It was such a storm ... that if I had gotten pics, it would have been just pure white anyway

Here's a vid by someone else around 3:30pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAYBw-Jk4Kk

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It was really moist snow... excellent snowball material (not to mention snow fort and snow sculpture material) - the type of snow that as a kid, you squeeze it hard and form the hardest iceballs for snowball fights.

**Jimmy** · 23rd November 11, 03:57 PM

totally brilliant your outfit, its classic stuff, and your weather is something else

**Meadcrafter** · 23rd November 11, 03:58 PM

O.K., we know it snowed, but how do we "really' know you were in it kilted?

**pugcasso** · 23rd November 11, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by Meadcrafter

O.K., we know it snowed, but how do we "really' know you were in it kilted?

A CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) news truck had to wait as I crossed a cross walk... surely their camera man would have filmed a kilted dude in a snow storm

....if that's not news worthy , then what is

**chrisupyonder** · 23rd November 11, 06:17 PM

It seems we are much further north in Scotland than Nova Scotia and if we did not have the warm gulf stream caressing our shores we would be under 6 foot of snow by now.

It is 5C tonight and forcast rain and 10C tomorrow. Good luck to you in the snow.

Chris.

**Geoff Withnell** · 23rd November 11, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by pugcasso

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My legs were wrapped like in this pic (but I had not staff or "cape" although I am thinking how a big piece of tartan material would be great as a giant scarf for these winter storms) ... two scarves around each calf and knee area with long boot laces criss-crossing around and tied and another lace wrapped around and tied above that ... looks kind of primitive but this is my current kilt-wearing philosophy ... sort of use what's available to me - long lengths of warm cloth do the trick.

This type of weather makes me want to make a 'great kilt' ... I'd really like to try that out this winter

As far as the "big piece of tartan material" - that is essentially what a laird's or day plaid is. And while we don't get quite as much cold weather here in Maryland, we do get a significant amount some years. I can tell you from personal experience, a nice laird's plaid can be wonderful as an additional layer for the unexpected storm.

**pugcasso** · 23rd November 11, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell

As far as the "big piece of tartan material" - that is essentially what a laird's or day plaid is. And while we don't get quite as much cold weather here in Maryland, we do get a significant amount some years. I can tell you from personal experience, a nice laird's plaid can be wonderful as an additional layer for the unexpected storm.

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I'll have to attain the sufficient "Laird's Plaid" to wrap about me as I see fit according to the current weather.

I had been looking at some old cape/cloak information but to stay within the usual avenue of the kilted (*Scottish") realm, perhaps just a large chunk of tartan fabric will suffice in even the most aggressive storms (that I'd want to be out and about in ... although I personally love storms, high winds, snow and rain ... 'bring it on home' - I love violent weather! It makes me feel alive and happy to feel 'Mother Earth's' and 'Father Sky's' actions flowing about me)

There is this part of me that thinks and feels that some long length of wonderful and desired material is some sort of a philosophical stage of living in this Earthly realm ... to go outside the modern restrictions of pre-fabricated jackets and coats (often annoyingly visibly labeled with some Corporate logo or text) into a more archaic time when one would wrap one's self in a warm length of cloth thaat one could acquire in one's territory depending upon the observed current weather.

Personally I've begun to feel that wearing a kilt brings me closer to feeling more attuned to Nature... the unpredictable actions of the wind and weather move the kilt "this way and that" and you feel part of it more than wearing some modern pants or jeans! You attain some feeling of having been in some sort of Communion with the Wind and Air when you are out and about...

That's my felt opinion at least!

**pugcasso** · 23rd November 11, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by chrisupyonder

It seems we are much further north in Scotland than Nova Scotia and if we did not have the warm gulf stream caressing our shores we would be under 6 foot of snow by now.

It is 5C tonight and forcast rain and 10C tomorrow. Good luck to you in the snow.

Chris.

10 degrees Celcius? Oh h ow the gods smile upon you! .... you'll surely be out in shorts absorbing the Sun in an attempt to gain some tan in that weather.

Myself .... I'll be ploughing through feet of snow to the Post Office ... I've packages to send to irate Ebay buyers!