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Muck Boots

Muck Boots and Dollar Store…and great old Xmas Pictures

Tonight I got all ready to ride outside.  I thought that I could wear three pair of socks with my muck boots.  Muck boots are rubber.  They stretch.  Oh, I forgot to mention that I have heat generating insoles already placed inside my muck boots.

As I live and breathe, three pairs of extra heavy socks plus the heat generating insoles were too much for the muck boots. They didn’t stretch.  They just squeezed my feet and cut off my heat generating insole device.

Tomorrow, I’m going for two extra heavy socks plus the heat generating insoles.  Let’s see how that works.

After this trauma was over and I got my husband to get those tight muck boots off, I went shopping at the Dollar Store.

Long ago Christmas with young son, grandma and grandpa

My goodness!  I can still find amazing fun things to give my adult children.  I think that I should tour all the “Dollar Stores” in my area.  They aren’t all called Dollar Stores, but they are the same wondrous place of discovery.

Oh adult children…I betcha just can’t wait to find what I discovered at the Dollar Store!

Feeling Your Body Freeze Means You Are Alive!

I’m getting old enough now to really appreciate being alive and being able to ride.

Here’s Velvet and I riding in front of Jazz and Hope.  I heard Hope talking and knew she was filming!

Velvet and facing into a freezing gusty wind today, Boy Howdy…full alert life up on that one! 

Having my body parts freeze today was a good reminder of being alive.  I suppose my feet froze last year, but I don’t remember that feeling.  I suppose my thighs froze last year, but I don’t remember that feeling either.

 Hope androde Jazz.  How many layers of clothes does she have on?  Even her hunter vest is padded against the cold.

Hope asked me if I wanted to wear one of her hunter vests.  I replied it would be better if one of them just shot me and got me out of my cold misery.  She yelled at me for being grumpy.

We broke the rules today. 
(Rule Number 1 – Ride Outdoors when it’s in the high 40’s and above.)
It was Hope’s fault. She wanted to ride.  I whined to no avail.  I grumped and was shut down. At the end of the ride, I moaned.  Moaning was allowed.

We met a big tractor-combine combination on the trail today.  The tractor tires were bigger than we were.  We had no where to get out of the way. We just stood on the side of the trail and let the big beast go by.  Velvet is used to stuff like that.  I’ve got to admit that I was just the slightest bit worried. The tractor combine guy waved when he went by.  Neither Hope or I waved back.  I wanted both  my hands on the reins!  Then the semi passed by us too.   I did manage to wave at the truck guy!  We were out in the middle of the park-on the trails.

We see big vehicle tracks now and then when we ride at the park.  In fact, we saw some today and commented on how big of a monster made those tracks.  And then we met it!

Just think if I had got my way and rode in an indoor arena, I might not have got to experience going one-on-one with a huge combine-tractor.

whoooo

PS:
Where are my Muck Boots? Where are my insole heat inserts. Gotta find those.  I live in Muck Boots all winter long.  Where are they!

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