Over the last several months, over 90% of the visitors driven by search engines to this blog are looking for information about boots. Cowboy boots: wearing them with suits, heel and toe types, how they fit, etc. — and motorcycle boots: what boot works best on a motorcycle, and many searches about motorcycle police boots.

Few, if any visitors care about my daily life, and I don’t blame ’em. I lead a boring life filled with mundane activities. I work full time, care for my spouse and his recovery from a horrible prolonged and torturous illness, and occasionally when weather permits, post about riding my Harley. I look after a bunch of LOLITs (little old ladies in tennis shoes), and am engaged with my community in civic voluntarism, including home remodeling projects for people who need that kind of help.

But people don’t care about that, so there will be less posts about those activities.

For the next while (however long a while is), I will post…

…about my boot knowledge, boot life, and occasionally about wearing leather and the functionality of leather gear. That’s what people are interested in.

So today, how am I dressed?

I wish I had my camera, which I don’t, but for now, accept a description. Salmon button-down dress shirt, lavender tie, tan dress khakis, and Cognac-colored Lucchese “Landon” hornback caiman cowboy boots.

I do not have one of those phony thingies, so I cannot take a “selfie.” But take it from me, these Spring colors and boots go with my bright and sunny personality, well known and regarded where I work.

While the outdoor temperature is 20F (-7C) and most men around here wear dark and dreary clothes of drab colors and dorky dress shoes — I am an early arrival of Spring.

Today, we are gearing up for a major snowstorm to occur in our area by Friday afternoon through Saturday. The office is abuzz with chatter about the oncoming storm. In November, I entered the office “snow pool” where we entered two guesses for the date of when the first inch of snow will fall. Funny, I am not a meteorologist, but one of my picks is the date that this big storm is forecast to hit us. (For me, it is experience that paid off. I know when we usually get snow around here, having lived in this area my whole life.)

So again, the bright side of my personality makes a bad thing a good one — I will win a small cash prize, and intend to donate the winnings to my small non-profit where I collect funds for wounded warrior home remodeling and my Senior Safety Saturday projects.

Woops… there I go again, prattling on about my life and not the boots.

These Lucchese caiman hornback cowboy boots look really good with dressy khaki slacks and men’s dresswear. The boots are bold, yet understated. They are not plain-old black, but cognac. Matches the color palate of today’s choice of clothing. They resonate on hard flooring — so when I go to the daily briefing with The Big Cheese in a tile-floored room, you can hear me coming. (So has been stated by TBC himself.)

The boots are mighty comfortable, too. I have had some trouble with different pairs of Luccheses. It seems as if Lucchese boots run differently in sizing. While most are true-to-size in the foot, about half are tight in the legs. As I had to do with this pair, I inserted my boot stretcher into each boot (one at a time) and stretched the boot calf leather for about 3 days each. Now, the boots fit great.

I like how boots feel on my legs, but I don’t like being squeezed. The amount of stretching I did made them, as Goldilocks would say, “ahhh… just right.”

What is “just right” for cowboy boot calfs? You can feel that you are wearing boots, but there is sufficient space between the boot and the leg so air can circulate a bit, so they do not get hot or sweaty. They do not squeeze the legs, and at the end of the day when my old legs swell a little bit (as is normal with a middle-aged man), feel as comfortable on the legs as they did in the morning.

Also, I have had occasional difficulties with Lucchese boots with the comfort of the footbed. These boots feel great. Some other Luccheses — not so much. In the latter cases, I insert a very thin additional insole. I cannot insert a thick gel insole because there is not enough room in the foot for one of those. A thin insole fits and helps with comfort.

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Life is short: wear and live boots!