My attire

It's not that I mean to embarrass my wife or myself. It's not that I'm completely clueless to fashion. I just like to wear comfy things.

It all started (started is a stretch, let's say "flowered") after my wife had a stroke (she's fine now) and I my employer let me work from home a good deal while we helped her recover and I watched the kids etc..

When one works from home there is no magical event that says "Steve, get to the showers, you need to look good for work.". Instead, one gets up and gets the kids ready and then goes to the business of working. When "momma" says that it's time to quit, then it's time to quit.

Another factor is the garden. For me, all clothes are gardening ready, even my shoes for the office. This makes for a lot a reddish stained clothes (GA soils are often red). I just can't seem to find the right mix of clothes and I can't seem to get out of my good ones when I walk through the garden (when does a gardener walk through a garden without pulling a weed or two?).

Well some of my favorites for around the house is this combination:

Black workout pants (the shiny noisy kind)
Black fuzzy house shoes
Brown Jimmy Hendrix T-Shirt (psychedelic man!!!)
Bad hair

Well of course you know I take my 5 year old to kindergarten dressed this way. Also if it is chilly I wear my Dad's old BDU jacket. It adds a touch of the homeless vet to the ensemble.

Bed head and a beard often add to the look. It's not like I think it makes me a quirky eccentric, my wife has accused me of trying for that (I think I pull off homeless psychopath much better anyway). It's just that looking nice when you're working from home is largely over rated. Comfort, especially when one has occasional back problems, now that's important.

Much of this these days has become moot. I go into the office much more and sport my Khakis (if you look at the hem you might see some red clay stains) and I wear decent clothes, even nice ones occasionally.

But on weekends, if you listen closely to the sound of my shovel, rake or camera, you'll see a crazed looking man in Gee pants covered in ghosts, wearing slippers and a Monty Python T-shirt.

Oohhhhh Scary!!!!