Brown Fedora

I am sporting a new, brown fedora today.  It goes rather well with my very similarly colored corduroy sport coat this morning.   I only wear fedoras during very cold weather as they "feel" wintery to my manner of thinking.  I have two other brown fedoras, but each is a variation of a mild plaid color.  The one shown is solid in color, and I have looked for one for a while.  It especially reminds me of a cherished uncle of mine. My Uncle Chester was a shorter fellow, perhaps 5' 6", but he always seemed "larger-than-life" to me.  I also thought he had an exceptionally great first name (His full name was the rather cool sounding….. Chester, even though we typically called him “Uncle Chet”).  And   I remember as a young kid, he would ALWAYS wear hats, and very frequently they would be fedoras, often with a tiny tuft of a feather in the band.  He also sported a bushy mustache.  

My fedora does not have a feather, though, because it seems somewhat superfluous in this day-and-age..... but hell, most would think a fedora is rather superfluous anyway.... but I digress. 

In more pleasant weather, I typically wear to most places a snap-brimmed cap.  Or, when I feel very casual, I may wear a baseball cap.  

My uncle was also a pipe smoker like most of the males in my heritage.  Wearing my new fedora today,, I can almost sense the whiskey infused pipe tobacco he tended to prefer.  I miss him and his colorful stories.  He had a wry, pleasantly bombastic personality, and he was in many regards an additional father figure for me.  

I would very much like to write A LOT today, and relive pleasant times and pleasant memories.  But, I am under the gun with a whole helluva lot of deadlines looming, and I need to try to work through some of them to reduce stress as best as a I can.

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