Here is an example of an email that I received out-of-the-blue. How would you reply to this?
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Yearly Archives: 2014
Common Questions About Boots
From time to time, I look at the questions about boots that drive visitors to my website. Following are some more recent questions that I have seen be entered through search engines and land there.
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This Blog Influences Wearing Boots and Leather
I seldom have such insight as to the influence of this blog.
A few months ago, someone wrote an email to me to ask some questions about boots. I replied, and we began a cordial exchange of email from time to time. I am always happy to answer questions and share what I have learned.
The other day, this gentleman sent me a message with the subject line, “gratitude.” Man, it blew me away….
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Where a Biker Goes on a Nice Day
Yesterday turned out to be as warm and delightful as promised in the forecast. My spouse was even feeling well enough to join me and my senior pals on our morning rounds of coupon-driven grocery gathering (giggle.)
After the fun of taking LOLITS to the grocery store, we returned them to their homes and returned home ourselves. I prepared my extra-special gluten-free pizza for my spouse.
I had messages waiting for me on the answering machine (yeah, I’m that old-fashioned) from some biker buddies who said they already departed for a ride, and we’ll ride together next time. Oh well, I wasn’t going to have the situation of missing the ride with my friends spoil my day. I made a call to make sure someone I wanted to visit was forewarned that a leather-clad, booted biker was on his way.
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Riding To Break Non-Riding Cold Cabin Fever
This winter has been the winter that won’t quit. I was able to get my Harley out and ride a few days last week, but otherwise, it has been cold. Damn cold. My gardens and trees usually show some life by this time of year, but not this year. Everything except the Hellebore is dormant.
Man, this biker is so ready to ride…
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What Taught Me English
Yes, the title of this post is correct. Not “who” but “what” taught me English.
I was born and raised in the USA, and learned American English. With its faults and easy abuse of the mother tongue, American English is easy to speak when you learn it as a native, but difficult to spell some words or worse, write with proper grammar.
It makes me cringe sometimes to read other blogs where writers do not proofread their work, and post blog articles that are riddled with misspellings and have many grammatical errors. Yes, then, I admit, I am a stickler for proper written English.
So if it were not “who,” then what taught me English?
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High-End Name Does Not Mean High-End Quality
A vendor that sells Xelement boots found a review of these boots on the “boots wiki” and wrote a message to me to express discontent. The vendor was unhappy with some opinions on that wiki page that said things like “available from websites that offer cheap boots and gear made for the masses, not for people who understand quality.”
I can understand why that statement would upset a vendor trying to sell those boots.
The vendor representative also said,
[Xelement] boots are made in the same factories that other high end brands (such as Official Harley-Davidson boots) are produced in.
as a defense or as fact, stating that the opinion above was a false assumption.
How did I deal with this input?
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Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Back to Work I Go
A whopping seven inches (18cm) of snow was enough to shut down the entire DC Metro area yesterday, including all school districts as well as the Federal Government. This was the tenth “snow day” for our local school district.
What did I do on St.-Paddy’s Day-Snow Day?
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What a Biker Does When It Snows
As forecast, snow began to fall Sunday afternoon. By then, I had completed all of my work to care for my spouse and senior pals for the weekend.
I especially enjoyed lunch at a friend’s house. This friend lost both legs while serving in the Army. He had completed rehab, and some buddies and I remodeled his house to make it more suitable for someone who gets around both in a wheelchair and also using prosthetic legs. He invited us over for lunch, which he made himself, to show off his abilities. His smile said it all, and I was grateful to be able to help him and his family.
So now that it was “officially” becoming a winter wonderland again, what did this biker do?
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Living Prepared on the Yo-Yo
This has been a winter that won’t quit. It has been trying to quit, but refuses to do so.
Three weeks ago, 60F (15.5C). I rode my Harley. Followed by 12 inches (30cm) of snow a few days later. Then one week ago, 62F (16C). I rode my Harley. It remained pleasant enough so that I could ride my Harley to work for two more days. Followed by the coldest windiest day this entire winter with wind speeds in excess of 50mph (80kph) with air temps at 10F (-12C) making the wind chill (“feels like”) temperature at -12F (-17C).
Then yesterday, it reached a balmy 65F (18C)! What did I do?
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