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OMG! I just got it! After looking at your avatar and screen name all this time, it finally hit me! b737drvr, you're an airline pilot!!

Duhhh! Sometimes I'm so dense I amaze myself. I always wondered what kind of job kept you flying back and forth all the time!

 

[Juise]

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Shoes are like tools, you should have the right one for the job.
Using the aerator or log splitter requires steel toed boots. Wet trails, water proof boots. Riding the iron horse, I wear cowboys boots. They are quite comfortable.

Last year in my Aquatics Plant class, we were in streams and swamps everyday. The other kids wore waders and nearly everyone had problems like flooding or muck pulling off their hip boots. I wore good water sandals and just waded in everyplace without a care in the world.

ETA and for biosecurity, a cheap pair of slip ons that I can kick off before coming into the house from the coop.

Bah to shoes. I don't wear em. Feet wreckers.

There are certain jobs I would wear them for, and since having kids, I throw something on my own and their feet to go into stores because I don't need more *@#^ to deal with than I already have, not because I think we need them.

Hello everyone

Welcome!

Occasionally I will post something that a few people agree with. I would be willing to bet that they feel that way because I wear cowboy boots that are older than Juise.

 

[Juise]

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OMG! I just got it!

 

[M.sue]

Now that I've caught up on the all the posts....I'm totally exhausted. It's been a great day & a long one and I did enjoy reading every ones comments.

Remember back a while ago when everyone was talking about the Snow Owls and how so many have been sighted. Well tonight we were all out in back planting a White Pine my DD got as a token from school for Arbor Day and I happened to look up to see this huge white thing gliding over our front yard towards a row of pines on the property line. When I first noticed it, I was totally puzzled and didn't know if I was seeing clear. I said "What the heck is that?" It was huge, had a huge wing spread, was white & glided so smoothly! DH quickly looked up and said "Holy cow.....that's one of those Snow Owls." After we planted the pine we hopped on the quad and drove over to where we thought it landed in the pines but couldn't see anything.

Tonight was also the night for seeing vultures. Really never noticed them much around us but we had a group of 6 flying out back also. I really kept my eye on them cause the chickens were out. Don't know much about them except I see them eating road kill on the shoulder of the road. They didn't come too close to us or the chickens...would they go for the girls or do they just perfer the dead stuff? The owl also ignored the girls or just didn't see them.

 

[Juise]

The vultures won't eat a live chicken.

 

[Juise]

Very cool to see the owl! A little more nerve wracking when you have chickens, though.

 

[Opa]

I make no claims that a cowboy boot is the only footwear and while I own several pair I have many other type of shoes and boots dedicated to a particular task of function. Chest waders for stream fishing, tennis shoes for athletic pursuits, hiking boots, dress shoes both brown & black, Muck boots for working the garden, felt packs & Arctic boots for ice fishing. So many that I am reminded of a story by Patrick McManus in which he tells of his wife's complaint of his owning so many boots and shoes dedicated to a single endeavor. She asks hasn't anyone invented a multi-task boot. He flashes back to his childhood and remembers that he had once owned just such a shoe. That he was sure it had been invented by a man named Tenner. Pretty hilarious reading and I believe the story was in his book "They shoot canoes" or "Never sniff a gift fish".

Like any boot or shoe a cowboy boot must be fitted properly to be comfortable. My oldest pair are extremely comfortable. They are a pair of roach killer elephant hide Tony Lama's that my oldest son bought them for me when he was stationed in El Paso. While they are on their 4th or 5th set of soles and heels, they still have yet to sustain a single scuff due to the almost indestructible quality of the leather.

 

[EeyoreD]

After I posted that I thought, "Hmmm, I wonder how much time Eeyore will spend tomorrow staring at his groin and wondering how close the poison ivy has gotten." He'll totally be around.

"So... nice to meet you Mr. Hill. Hear you got a nasty case of the scratchy nethers. You'll understand if I don't shake your hand, and stifle laughter watching you try to walk. You scrubbed up before you touched my birds, right?"

Juise, I'm right there with you. Barefoot. Muck boots if that's not safe. Vibram Five Fingers if I have to wear "shoes" in a place of business. And the slip on flip flops for easy on off.

 

[Olive Hill]

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Bah to shoes. I don't wear em. Feet wreckers.

There are certain jobs I would wear them for, and since having kids, I throw something on my own and their feet to go into stores because I don't need more *@#^ to deal with than I already have, not because I think we need them.

Have you ever tried five fingers?

 

[Opa]

I went back and reread the post about cowboy boots being useless. If you have ever had a low heel boot go through a stirrup you will find yourself wishing for a cowboy boot.