{"id":9587,"date":"2015-04-13T04:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=9587"},"modified":"2015-04-13T05:37:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T09:37:13","slug":"booted-weekend-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=9587","title":{"rendered":"Booted Weekend Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, I had a really busy weekend! The busy weekend involved five pairs of boots.<\/p>\n

So what did I do and what boots did I wear?
\n
\nAll day Saturday: Double H “gel ice” cowboy\/work boots<\/a><\/em>. Very comfy boots for a long, long day of work on Saturday. I served as the primary organizer (general contractor) for a bath remodeling job for a wounded warrior and his family. I had help from 28 skilled trades helpers and volunteers. \"Bathredo02112015\"In one full day, we ripped out his old narrow bath, blew out a wall, and built a fully accommodating walk-in no-step shower, ADA-compliant toilet, and lowered double vanity twin sinks. I did fundraising again and organizing for this project for months before this “big day” of executing the remodel.<\/p>\n

I came home Saturday evening quite sore and tired. My spouse, bless him, had a hot bath waiting for me, then helped me into bed where I fell sound asleep almost instantly.<\/p>\n

(not so) Bright ‘n early Sunday morning: Chippewa hikers<\/a><\/em> to wear at 0530 when I met my senior walking pal for a short walk. I was still quite sore, so we didn’t go very far (just a couple miles.) <\/p>\n

I was home by 0630, showered, and changed boots to<\/p>\n

bare feet… (LOL)<\/em>. I prepared foods for my spouse to eat during the upcoming week. Stew, lasagna, and gluten-free waffle mix. See below why I’m cooking for the week ahead. By 0830 with most of the cooking done, I fed the spouse, then pulled on my<\/p>\n

Boulet brown square-toe cowboy boots<\/a><\/em>. I wore them while I escorted seven lovely senior pals in two trips — along with my spouse — for grocery shopping. Upon return home, I prepared a quick lunch, then tied on my<\/p>\n

Timberland Work Boots<\/a><\/em>. I mowed the lawn, then fired up our tiller and “tilled in” compost to feed the lawn while the tilling aerated it. That was a lot of back-breaking work, but fortunately, our lawn is rather small so this work only took a couple hours.<\/p>\n

At 1430, I heard a familiar noise out front — the rumble off a Harley’s engine. My spouse gave me a sly smile. Turns out that he emailed my cop buddy JB and suggested that he come over to take me out for a motorcycle ride. What a thoughtful gesture!<\/p>\n

I quickly changed to breeches and <\/p>\n

lug-soled dress instep Dehner boots<\/a><\/em>. JB said, “I understand you are being released for good behavior!” Ha ha, man. We rode together for about an hour on a stunning, sunshiny, warm day. Couldn’t have been better!\"Ride04122015blog\"I arrived home by 1600, then pulled off the breeches and boots. I returned to the kitchen wearing…<\/p>\n

socks. Just socks.<\/em> My feet were tired and my body was sore, but I had more cooking to do for the spouse. <\/p>\n

I whipped up a batch of my uncle’s famous chicken soup. My spouse and I ate chicken and a serving of the soup for dinner. Now he will also have this nutritious soup to eat for his lunches during the week while…<\/p>\n

Alas, I’m going “OCONUS” again for work. I will post when I can something like “where is BHD today?” on this blog when I can. I will be in five different cities and towns over the next week. Man — I thought the weekend was busy — the upcoming week will be even busier!<\/p>\n

Life is short: lead it fulfillingly, and always booted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, I had a really busy weekend! The busy weekend involved five pairs of boots. So what did I do and what boots did I wear?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,18,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cop-boots","category-cowboy-boots","category-dehner-boots","category-work-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}