Continuing my series about tips for boots after a busy weekend, when I pulled on a pair of my favorite motorcycle boots — Chippewa Firefighters — yesterday as I prepared to go for a ride with some buddies, I reminded myself about the easy trick on how to keep these boots ultra-shiny and good-looking.
So if you are a guy like me who likes good-looking boots but really hates spending time shining them…
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Following the wildly popular previous post (giggle) about preventing boot leather from cracking, this is post #2 about tips for boots — about boot fit on the legs.
What do you do if you have boots that are tight on your legs? Can boots be stretched, or is something else going on? Do boots shrink? Why in the heck are boots that have always been comfortable for me seem to feel tight on my legs now? What can I do about that? More after the jump…
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While searching for things to write about on this boot-oriented blog, a friend suggested that I share my own top five “boot hacks” — or tips — that I have written about and applied for years. So here goes… BHD’s “Top Five Boot Hacks”…
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One idea provided to me by my buddy “S” with whom I went on a crazy-awesome motorcycle adventure in Utah on ideas to blog about was “boot improvisation.” He suggested that I describe what boots we selected for this trip, and why these boots were different from what one may expect to wear when riding a Harley.
Great idea! Thanks, “S”! So here goes… what did we improvise (that is, choose to make available) for boots on this trip, and why? More after the jump…
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I having been writing this blog for over ten years now, and it is harder and harder to come up with fresh content on my schedule of posting something new every other day.
I found some web pages that provided some suggests on how to overcome this situation which happens much too often to me.
One website suggested that I need to write catchy titles. Using the word “boots” as a title generating noun, the website was suggesting…
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My most recent blog post took Tecovas Boots to task for offering a boot jack for US$95. A friend contacted the company, and a few of their replies from customer service staff were posted as comments on that blog post.
This caught the Tecovas Boots owner’s attention. The owner, Paul Hedrick, submitted a reply to that blog post. Rather than post the comment (which wouldn’t be as searchable or findable), I thought his message deserved its own post, below, and my response follows after that. Read on…
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I have blogged before about being a fan of Tecovas Boots. This company stormed on the boot retail market in 2015 by contracting production of cowboy boots in Leon, Mexico, using slack bootmaking capacity abundant in the Bootmaking Capital of North America. Instead of operating…
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Twenty-three years ago today, the Spouse and I were in Sydney, Australia, for our first of six visits to the country and continent.
We had heard about the Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and wanted to see what it was all about. With a year of planning ahead, we arranged the most fantastic journey, starting with going there first class in a Qantas 747.
First Class? Wow… how much did those tickets cost? …
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Lately I have had a rather serious medical problem and have been seeing doctors rather frequently to have the situation examined and treated. The Spouse was always with me, caring for me, holding my hand, and helping me deal with anxiety I was feeling. I hate going to doctors, and even worse, anything having to do with needles.
I will not describe the medical problem I have, but its consequences meant that…
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Recently, a study of the most diverse cities in the USA release its results, and my hometown as well as my home county, was ranked…
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