I was introduced to Southwest Boot Company by a reader who wrote to me a couple months ago to ask for my opinion about this company and their boots.
According to the company website, they have been in business in Glendale, Southern California, since 1990. Funny, I’ve been around the block a lot in the Boot World, and only learned about them recently, so they must have been a small outfit that has expanded.
Today, I write about their “FFB” series of station boots — a favorite boot style of mine. (more after the jump)
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I can’t believe it is August 1 (date of this post.) I regret it has been two weeks since I last posted here. There is one main reason…
I received an email the other day from a regular reader who wrote: 
Again, I am finding myself apologizing for not keeping up with this blog. One may think that since I retired and am pretty much staying home to reduce exposure to the Covid-19 virus, I would have more time to write on this blog.
I realize that I have not posted much on this blog. There are some things going on at home about which I would rather not disclose that have returned me to being a caregiver.
Someone wrote to me recently to ask,
I have been writing this blog since January 2008; some 12+ years now. During that time, I have been contacted by people who had questions about something that I wrote about on this blog (boots, leather, or motorcycle riding, or combination thereof.)
YAY! I finally fixed this vexing issue where I had converted this blog domain (bootedmanblog.com) to HTTPS:// but after doing that, the images were not showing.
During the “stay-at-home” order period, which here in Maryland began March 30 and technically hasn’t ended (for good reason!), I was a good schnook and did just that — stayed home!