Not the usual tribute you give fire fighters – although the grass skirt is kinda like a kilt the pipers wear when they play at some memorials. Not sure where that tradition came from either- the Scots Irish mafia of fire/police? btw, somehow lost my POTD feed in my travels last month, will this comment get it back filing into my inbox?
The kilt/bagpipe thing derives (I imagine) from New York and Chicago where there are large populations of us Scots-Irish. As far as the emails go, for some reason your name has dropped off the list (except for your old forest service address for some reason). It probably happened when I switched to MailChimp to handle the POTD emails. Commenting on this post didn’t fix that, but I’ve taken care of it so you should see emails daily now.
Not the usual tribute you give fire fighters – although the grass skirt is kinda like a kilt the pipers wear when they play at some memorials. Not sure where that tradition came from either- the Scots Irish mafia of fire/police? btw, somehow lost my POTD feed in my travels last month, will this comment get it back filing into my inbox?
The kilt/bagpipe thing derives (I imagine) from New York and Chicago where there are large populations of us Scots-Irish. As far as the emails go, for some reason your name has dropped off the list (except for your old forest service address for some reason). It probably happened when I switched to MailChimp to handle the POTD emails. Commenting on this post didn’t fix that, but I’ve taken care of it so you should see emails daily now.