Happy St. Patricks Day

Today everyone is Irish!

Courtesy of karenswhimsy.com - public domain images

Work has been rather crazy as of late - will be back soon.

More later..

DAG

St Pat's Parade

I was planning on doing another jacket post.  But the combination of my camera and the lights in my office just really threw that out the window this time.  Once I get it sorted out I'll get back to the inventory.

For now - we tend to have our St. Patrick's Day parade early around here so we can get some of the better pipe bands in from the surrounding area.  So here's a pic blog of the day with some short explanations.

 

The crowd was pretty big this year. Thousands according to the local print media. 

 

  

Saw this guy right away.  Had no idea who he was at first - other than some college kid in green suit and by all appearances is naked under there.  Turns out to be "The Green Man" from a show called "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" . Maybe someone out there can shed some light - I've never heard of it.  He wasn't in the parade - just standing there with friends.

Philadelphia Police & Fire Pipe and Drum Band.

Local Celtic Kazoo band. Over 130 members playing Kazoo in parades during the "holy" season of St. Patrick's Day.

Greater Scranton Black Diamonds Pipe Band.

Look real close at the hooves - green and sparkly. 

One of several Irish Dancing groups.

 

Small group of Mummers.

There were many, many more groups, bands, trucks floats...this shindig started at 1:30pm.  We left at 3:30pm and it wasn't quite over yet.  You always know the end because it's fire truck after fire truck after fire truck...

I love the pipe bands.  I don't know why - there is something about the slightly haunting sound that draws me to them.

More later - 

DAG

Snow and Jacket II

We finally got shoveled out.  School was canceled on Thursday and Friday.  We ended up with 22" in our front yard of blowing, grainy, snow.  We closed the office early on Thursday.  I finally got to the office at 11 on Friday. 

 

Drive way to the family manse (mom's-not mine).

This picture was Thursday early afternoon.  We had only gotten about 10" at that point.

It's pretty but I'll be glad when it's gone.

Jacket Colletion II

This is one of the jackets I got mostly for fun.  It's an old GAP jacket - wool, green with camel and navy plaid with a small red stripe (comes across more like orange in the bottom photo). Three button on both front and sleeve, no vent.

I wouldn't usually have gone for this, but like I said - it's fun. I think it will look great with jeans on the week end or "casual" days at the office.  I wore it with khakis and a camel color cashmere v-neck sweater and white broad cloth button down.

 

  

The pictures don't do much for it - again the office lights.

But take a look at the pockets and sleeves.  If it weren't for the small darts at the waist, the lines would go all the way down across the pockets to the bottom and across from one sleeve to the next.  The cheaper brands today don't pay attention to that today.  It's fairly heavy and thick, good for the cold days.

At the moment it's pressed at the top button.  

I think I'm going to re-press it as a 3/2. 

Maybe. 

If I'm ambitious.

More later.

DAG

Good winter day to you all

Woke up this morning to a blanket of white.

It's really much prettier than it comes across in the photo's.

Across the street and into the valley.

Happy winter.

  DAG

One of the new collection

So here's the first of the jackets I picked up in said previous post.
I know - nothing special.  It's from Jos. Banks but I think it's "older".  It seems to be fairly well made.  It only has two buttons but it is 100% wool and I liked the colors.  This was taken in my office so the lights throw a strange color on it, but it's black and kind of a bronze small houndstooth.

No ticket pocket or anything special - but again, I liked it and it was $6.99.  How could you go wrong.

DAG

OMG I can't believe what I found

I had a day off last week and another this week so I decided I'd take a stab at the thrift stores.  "G" over at An Affordable Wardrobe has great luck finding great deals.  But he lives in an area with "money'd" people.  I don't find much very often.  Well, between the two trip to three different stores I've ended up with 7 sport coats and two dress shirts and I spent about $45 for everything.  I'm going to save pictures for another day but the "pud'n on top" was when I found a J. Press navy blazer that actually fit me and was in pretty good shape.  Shhhh...my wife doesn't know about them yet.

More to come...

DAG

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