Kilted Fridays Adventures

[Taffy Jack]

What an overall delightful day. Gym, coffee, and gardening with Pretty Wife, followed by an Indian buffet lunch with friends (I succeeded, mostly by luck, in keeping goat curry and my most-beloved butter chicken off my kilt apron). Ran an errand or two, then picked up the Teenster and her friend from the school bus stop and schlepped them across town to shop a bit in Ballard.

Whilst they were exercising whatever sophisticated sartorial wisdom drives youth these days, we poked around coffee and furniture shops, resulting in this nice, big ice bucket for deck parties with friends. Back home, PW and T headed for grocery shopping while I poked through the neighborhood for a few minutes with Viki, our pint-sized (at <110 lbs.) Great Dane.

While out wandering the mean streets of suburbia, met a U.S. Missions volunteer named Skip and had a nice chat comparing experiences, in and out of the army vs. his serving with Head Start after being arrested for being a C.O. during the Vietnam conflict. I passed him a fin, and received in return a carefully handwritten receipt.

I'm keeping the kilt, the wife, and the dog. The teen we have to let go in about three years. I do hope she'll keep in touch, as she is turning out to be a truly delightful young woman.