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    My middle name should be Jones

    Twice in a little over a month now I have received word from one of our handsewn kiltmakers here on the forum that they had new kilts ready for me and were prepared to send them, and I actually had to ask them to hold onto them for an extra week each as I was heading out of twon and did not want to risk having them sit on my front porch and get rained on or stolen. The first "voluntary jones extension" occurred a bit ago when our own Bonnie Heather had my much awaited (about 6 weeks actually) Forrester Hunting tank ready to post, and I was heading out of the country for a week. I now just got word yesterday that Barb T has my "5-month jonesing for it" Maple Leaf tank ready to send out Monday. Only I am leaving town WEdnesday morning for 8 days in Wisconsin doing a charity cycling event with my wife in memory of her son Codie who died of Leukemia 8 years ago. I had to ask her to hold it til the following Monday to post so I could be sure to be home when it arrived. As a doctor I know there is no drug, no treatment, no cure for that intense internal ache I am going to be suffering for the next 12 days knowing my kilt is ready but I cannot have it yet.

    AAARRRGGGHHH!!! Sorry, that was the pirate in me getting out.

    Pictures will be forthcoming once I get her wrapped around my ample waist, but I just had to share my particular agony with you all. Okay, time for the pity party to start.

    jeff :ootd: and soon to be a legitimate member of the Tewksbury owner's group

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    Hmmm..... Perhaps it's time for a new social group: Clan Jones. For all those in a perpetual state of Jonesing. ;)


    -Elliott

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kilt_Em_All View Post
    Hmmm..... Perhaps it's time for a new social group: Clan Jones. For all those in a perpetual state of Jonesing. ;)


    -Elliott
    I would have to check with STA to see if there is a tartan already---if so we could all order a kilt in it and have a community jones.

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    A proud Great-Great Grandson of the Clan MacLellan from Kirkcudbright.

    "Think On!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by ForresterModern View Post
    I would have to check with STA to see if there is a tartan already---if so we could all order a kilt in it and have a community jones.
    Perhaps Mr. Newsome knows something about this?

    -Elliott

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    Maybe you should consider getting another kilt. According to the Scottish Tartan Authority there are three Jones tartans.
    Animo non astutia

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    I checked Scotweb. There is a Jones of Wales, a Jones, and a Bobby Jones tartan, some of which come in hunting versions as well. Not an ugly tartan in the bunch, but personally I think I have enough "jones" in my life that a Jones kilt would be just something more to "jones" about. Even more so if it was made by a kiltmaker named Jones.

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