Boots last week, yesterday, today, tomorrow… what’s on my feet.
My week last week continued as it usually does… work, caregiving at home and with my senior pals, building “that big thing for the kitchen,” and doctor’s visits and a biker’s meeting… same old same old. Here is how I was booted this past week:
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461 days ago in the county seat of the county and state of my birth, I was given this ring and had it placed on the third finger on my left hand. I returned an identical ring to the man I married.
With this ring, we married. Such a simple, uneventful, private ceremony, yet so profound…
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A colleague from work walked with me yesterday to a meeting in a building about a half-mile away. The weather was warm, humid, and sunny.
My colleague was complaining about the heat and wearing a shirt & tie (like I was) and feeling sweaty. Then he looked at my feet, saw my boots and asked,
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I regret that I do not have much time to write a blog post — my spouse had a really bad day yesterday, and once again, I poured myself into my caregiving role.
This morning at oh-dark-30, he is sleeping well and I have to go to work. I have a major meeting with the boss’ boss today that I can’t miss. This tug-o-heart between working at a job that I am passionate about and caring for my spouse who remains quite ill is awful, but I soldier on.
My spouse knows how torn I am, so a few days ago, he presented me with a gift — yeah, boots — Tony Lama Signature Series
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As I said before I took my blog break for the long Independence Day weekend, I lined up a lot of projects to do. Always more projects than weekend, but I accomplished three things: I built a bridge, I lowered my taxes, and I was filmed for a TV show.
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Greetings, loyal blog followers.
With this post, I am taking a holiday break. Here in the good ol’ USA, July 4 is our Independence Day. No, it is not the “fourth of July holiday” — that expression always drives me nuts, like when I hear people wish each other, “Happy Fourth of July!”
Independence Day recognizes the date when we choose to celebrate that the United States of America declared her independence from Great Britain in 1776. I’ll let the patriotic bloggers get into the politics of it, but for the rest of us, it is a day of celebrating our nation’s independence and freedom.
By the way, this post is being posted on July 3. So “Happy Third of July, everyone!”
Now, back to the point… what will we be doing on this long holiday weekend, and what footwear will I be wearing, considering that the weather will be the typical HHH? (Hot, humid, hazy?)
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I continued with my daily routine of wearing boots. Following are the boots that I wore each day during the past week.
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Usually I post a blog on Sundays with a routine, mundane, “what boots did I wear during the past week” post. But I have breaking news. I interrupt the pattern of this blog to exclaim,
CONGRATULATIONS! to a reader of this blog who…
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Slight delay in posting… things have been busy in the ol’ BHD household. My spouse, my work life, Harley repairs, rental house renovations, and my daily life in the community have kept me quite busy.
But life rolls on, sweetly on a Harley that feels new.
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Ahhh… how one word makes a huge difference in boot design and use.
So what is the difference between “firefighter boots” and “wildland firefighter boots”, also known as “fire boots” or by the names applied to the boots by their respective manufacturers, such as “Firestormer” (Wesco) and “Smokejumpers” (White’s Boots).
More after the jump…
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