YOUR NEXT POP-UP

FROM THE TIME THAT OUR PATRIARCH ARRIVED IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS FOR AIR FORCE BASIC TRAINING, THE 17 YEAR OLD SCOTSMAN KNEW THAT HIS GAELIC ROOTS AND LOVE OF HOME AND FAMILY WOULD SUSTAIN HIM THROUGH DIFFICULT TIMES. THIS LOVE WOULD PROVIDE HIM WITH A TOUCHSTONE FOR THE WARM, HUMOR-FILLED LIFE HE WOULD PROVIDE FOR HIS FAMILY IN THE DECADES TO FOLLOW.  IT WAS THIS WARMTH, ALONG WITH A RELENTLESSLY CORNY SENSE OF HUMOR, THAT CREATED THE IMAGINATIVE CLIMATE IN WHICH SEEDS OF THE GILDED THISTLE WERE GERMINATED.  RAISED WITH HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, WE HAVE A STRONG DESIRE TO CREATE JOY AND LOVE OF HOME AND HEARTH FOR THOSE WHO WELCOME THE GILDED THISTLE INTO THEIR HOMES.