Since I changed my “Booted Harleydude” website on March 1, 2024, to “Rick’s website (aka “BHD”) A Gay Guy Into Boots, Leather, Shoes, and Suits” along with its header image and home page images too, I thought it was appropriate to change the image header and statement of this blog to:
BHD’s Musings: the life and times of Rick aka “BHD”
An average former biker, gay leatherman, bootman, shoe & suitman, ‘burbs living guy”
… so the transition will be complete.
As I said on this blog when I made the decision to …
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My 
My engagement with the internet boot world began with hotboots.com. This was a website that Larry Kenney and his (then partner, later husband) Bill created on March 3, 1997, at the early stages when the internet was just beginning to be available. Larry and Bill were pioneers in developing websites, this one being the premier site for men into boots. This is the introduction from an early page of the site written by Larry: 
I rarely use profanity, but this time it’s deserved. Google owns YouTube. Since they took it over, my ability to work with my “Booted Harleydude” channel has been difficult.
For those who don’t know how these things work, all websites, including my 
Dear readers,
Sheesh… after spending about 100 hours recoding 822 pages of 
I am always curious about who visits this blog. I have a small snippet of software that collects information about visitors (in a general but not specific sense) and provides interesting information.