Laird O' Tha Haggis Returns to the Redneck Riveria

One of the very best things about being a Realtor is the people you collect along the way. And I've collected some "doozies." From the hip New York socialite to the Laird O' Tha Haggis, I love my clients and their stories.

Jim Walters, aka the Laird, is one of my more colorful clients and he has an unfolding story that needs telling. Jim grew up on the family farm in Bon Secour, AL, and spent his formative years stomping around Gulf Shores and Foley. He remembers doing "beer excursions" to the WORLD FAMOUS Flora-Bama.

For those of you not familiar with the Flora-Bama it's a combination roadhouse, oyster bar, lounge and liquor store straddling the Florida-Alabama border. The Flora-Bama has watched the condo towers sprout up around its gorgeous foothold on the Gulf of Mexico, but has held tight to it's little square of the Redneck Riveria.

Back to Jim . . . he's currently working on plans for a Scottish Festival at the Flora-Bama in the fall. And why not? His "Bagpipes on the Beach" makes every bit as much sense as the Flora-Bama's other well known events; the Mullet Toss, Polar Bear Dip and the Mullet Man Triathlon. Jim tells me he has selected the Flora-Bama for his festival as it is the "Cultural Epicenter of the Redneck Riveria."

If you'd like to learn more about Jim's festival I'm sure he'd love to share information. He's already gotten the Scottish Society of Mobile to agree to provide some manpower and Scottish musicians from Texas are ready to march into lower Alabama in support of this noble cause.

You can reach Jim through his website www.CaledonianKitchen.com where, by the way, you can pick up a pungent can of lamb haggis or a much more appetizing (in my book) Barbados rum cake.