I can’t take wearing clunky, snow-resistant shoes any more, and winter has lasted too long. I officially declare that winter is at last abating.
Guess the hide (this one is easy):
Spring has arrived and no more snow, ’cause my footwear told me so
February 23, 2015 • 5:55 am
Elephant. I’ve had a pair since 1986.
Really? Do they have exemption from the CITES international laws in your part of the world?
I conceded that we can now walk and not have to tramp through snow, and that the solid piles in the parking spots are now often shorter than I am.
But my phone says that it is -19C outside and that the high today will be -10. We won’t even get up to freezing until next Sunday when +1C predicted, and that’s only for one day. This is spring? Srsly. What did I move to……..
A place that has considerable cultural and culinary advantages over where you were before.
True enough – and things to do indoors, went to the auto show yesterday, using public transit – something that I hadn’t had available since leaving SF……but it does get cold here
Only weenies complain about the cold. After you visit a few good restaurants you’ll change your tune. And yes, public transportation is very good.
Just remember that when what passes for summer there arrives and everybody is complaining about the “sweltering” 90°f daytime high temperatures that might not even reach our overnight low temperatures here….
b&
Do you treat your boots with anything to protect them? Dubbin, mink oil, silicone, stuff like that? Is there a ton of salt on the roads and sidewalks, like most of the Northeast and Canada?
I condition them with either Bick 4 leather condition or Meltonian colorless boot cream, and wash off dirt and salt with a special leather cleaner. All of my boots are clean, shiny, and impeccable! There isn’t much salt on the sidewalks now, though some still remains on the road.
Nice boots! Dang, how do you store them all? 🙂
I recall a picture of a large section of shelving neatly covered in boots. Basically an entire wall of boots. I also recall an envious sigh or two when I first saw the picture.
I like boots myself, and Jerry’s collection is the stuff dreams are made of.
Imelda Coyne.
😀
J/K–cowboy boots are sexy. Um, if easy–cowhide?
Like a great deal of people you will run into down Texas way — makes for a nice drugstore cowboy.
Looks like Buffalo.
Easy. Creationist.
Hurrah! The boots are back!
Excellent elephants!
Not only am I wearing my giant Merrell boots constantly, but I bought more because my fancy looking boots are not good for long walks. I do have some nicer Roots boots that I’m going to wear more when it warms up (my toes freeze in them right now and I don’t want to put thick socks in & stretch them out too much).
Yep, I wear my clunky boots with skirts. I don’t care anymore.
It’s probably been thought before … but there is probable a god-fearing bovine farmer somewhere carefully growing a bull (or cow, if they’re imaginative) called “Jerry Coyne” so that they cna get lots of kudos for making Hen Kam (to pick a Liar-for-Jeebus more or less at random) a pair of cowboy boots out of “certified” “Jerry Coyne” hide.
Or is that expecting too much of their attention spans?