Long-time lurker coming out of the woordwork

**dougle** · 2nd September 14, 04:05 PM

Hi welcome from Worcestershire England

**BadenochWolf** · 2nd September 14, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by Richrail

from Reno, NV.

Thank you for your service, from the father of three Army Vets.

Oof. If there's any job harder than being in the military, it's having family who are. I can't imagine being dad to three of them. Hope they're all home, whole and hale.

**BadenochWolf** · 2nd September 14, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by Java

Welcome, from the North Georgia mountains. I'm about 15 minutes from the South Carolina line. (around Seneca)

Hi Tom!

I literally passed through your neck of the woods yesterday! The fiancee's mom lives outside Chattanooga, and we decided to take 76 across the top of the state back. It was a gorgeous, winding ride. Wish we could do it more often.

Do you happen to know what happened to the "Loch" Hartwell highland games? I went several years ago, but can't seem to find any info. Their old url appears to have been taken over by squatters from off.

**BadenochWolf** · 2nd September 14, 05:23 PM

Thanks! Nice US Army tartan avatar. I think my next purchase from USAkits is going to be a Premium Argyll package with an Army kilt. I can explain that to the soon-to-be missus fairly easily. "Sweetheart, I needed all the other stuff, and it was cheaper just to include the kilt, too!" I'd ask how you stand to wear a kilt in that dry heat, but you'd probably ask the same thing about our 100*/100%rH summers here in SC.

**BadenochWolf** · 2nd September 14, 05:27 PM

I LOVE these .gifs!

Thanks for the welcome, Father.

**BadenochWolf** · 2nd September 14, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by cck

:I spent a few years in SC at Ft. Jackson.

I am so very sorry. Ft Jax has nothing to recommend it besides being fairly close to University of SC coeds, and an hour from both beach and mountains. Were you a Drill Sergeant out there?

**BadenochWolf** · 2nd September 14, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Hawk

Welcome to the XMTS Community John......to this side of the keyboard....

Looking forward to to your contributions to the community, fellow veteran.

Hawk

Thanks! Were your Coulquhouns ever in South Carolina? There were scads of them up in the Ninety-Six District around the time of the US Revolution. They intermarried so much that (former US VP) John C. Calhoun and his wife, Floride Bonneau Coulhoun Calhoun, were first and second cousins at the same time.

**BadenochWolf** · 2nd September 14, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by creagdhubh

Welcome aboard, mate. My family are Macphersons from the capital of Badenoch, Kingussie.

Cheers,

I must admit, I knew next to nothing about the place when I chose the name, only that one Alexander Stewart had been called "the Wolf of Badenoch." Now knowing the whole story, I'm sorry I didn't find someone more virtuous from whom to derive my internet moniker. Ah, well. Such is the price we pay for not paying attention to clan/family history as a wee'an.

**ASinclair** · 2nd September 14, 07:07 PM

Hello John!

**BadenochWolf** · 2nd September 14, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by ASinclair

Hello John!

Hello, sir! Would you, by chance be representing Clan Sinclair at the Scottish Games in Charleston on the 20th? It'll be my first time going to a games kilted. Hope I remember to stay hydrated.