~~~~What so proudly we hail ~~~~~
Stiltwalkers taken through double window screen
placed to prevent KD from leaping out at birds
or any other elevated walkers below
July 4th parade 2013
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Walking many miles
in a pair of Russell Moccasins
Eventually if you do
a small hole might begin at a heel
and
A re-sole is needed.
These shoes came from the Russell Moccasin Co.
in Berlin Wis.,
who know what to do.
They will remove the worn bull-hide sole
- a cobbler at a work bench will do it -
and a fresh piece of new hide
will neatly be sewn on.
Would that all soles/souls could be changed that simply.
In the Russell Moc lexicon
the term 'triple vamp' is used
for extra hardy construction
and it refers to three layers
of leather to go beneath the
trammeling foot.
http://www.russellmoccasin.com/shoes_moccasins/moc_oneida_slipon.html
For our comfortable Oneida mocs
one more layer
a single vamp
will probably do it
for those light-tred miles we have left.
In jest, a triple-vamp
postal card requesting
an estimate for such a fix
was devised:
in a pair of Russell Moccasins
Eventually if you do
a small hole might begin at a heel
and
A re-sole is needed.
These shoes came from the Russell Moccasin Co.
in Berlin Wis.,
who know what to do.
They will remove the worn bull-hide sole
- a cobbler at a work bench will do it -
and a fresh piece of new hide
will neatly be sewn on.
Would that all soles/souls could be changed that simply.
In the Russell Moc lexicon
the term 'triple vamp' is used
for extra hardy construction
and it refers to three layers
of leather to go beneath the
trammeling foot.
http://www.russellmoccasin.com/shoes_moccasins/moc_oneida_slipon.html
For our comfortable Oneida mocs
one more layer
a single vamp
will probably do it
for those light-tred miles we have left.
In jest, a triple-vamp
postal card requesting
an estimate for such a fix
was devised:
We glued three pieces of card stock
together and numbered them
one - two -three
and peeled back one corner of the card
to number the 3 layers thusly.
and now await a reply.
together and numbered them
one - two -three
and peeled back one corner of the card
to number the 3 layers thusly.
and now await a reply.
A single layer of this thick sole
should do it, yield many more stealthy miles
around the river walk circuit
or out at Minooka. (see below)
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should do it, yield many more stealthy miles
around the river walk circuit
or out at Minooka. (see below)
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The Russell Moccasin Company is on a side street in the small town of Berlin, as we have advised in the past.
A simple screen door used to be their main entrance.
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A new chapter of fitness
opened
this past week at Minooka County Park
where we were moved off our semi-paralysis dime
by son Lee whose good advice was heeded
in year 2005, having likewise to do with a health subject.
That was life-saving, literally.
That was life-saving, literally.
I shall walk the soft trails once again
in this wonderful county asset,
this park which has meant much to me
over the years.
I shall walk putting more miles
on the re-soled Russell Mocs.
and so have begun walking
four days already
at the encouragement of Lee.
See annual country park sticker
on the lower-left windshield
per R and R.
I am wearing my belt mile-o-meter gauge.
I this week sallied from downtown
to the Moreland Ave bridge and back
carrying my bamboo walking staff.
I saw a nice sewer manhole cover,
a large fox;
and some interesting shore birds.
A ghost approaching the Bryant bears on an early morning circuit
along the river walk.
.............
Not every day is a good day:
Here, Dee shows stinging insect fearing visitors how
to remove one of the many wasps that get into the Odd Fellows hall
through cracks and crevices.
Dee instructs Ben as he holds a small glass
she placed over a wasp on the window
while she gets a piece of card stock paper
to slide under the buzzing, infuriated/confused bug,
whereupon Dee holds the glass-entrapped wasp
and lets it loose out a briefly opened window.
Daughter Erin cannot watch.
(She is allergic to insect venom.)
WASP
+ OTHER STINGING INSECTS:
to the Moreland Ave bridge and back
carrying my bamboo walking staff.
I saw a nice sewer manhole cover,
a large fox;
and some interesting shore birds.
A ghost approaching the Bryant bears on an early morning circuit
along the river walk.
.............
Not every day is a good day:
Here, Dee shows stinging insect fearing visitors how
to remove one of the many wasps that get into the Odd Fellows hall
through cracks and crevices.
Dee instructs Ben as he holds a small glass
she placed over a wasp on the window
while she gets a piece of card stock paper
to slide under the buzzing, infuriated/confused bug,
whereupon Dee holds the glass-entrapped wasp
and lets it loose out a briefly opened window.
Daughter Erin cannot watch.
(She is allergic to insect venom.)
WASP
+ OTHER STINGING INSECTS:
Bad Day
Not every day
is a good day
for the elfin tailor.
Some days
the stolen cloth
reveals what it
was made for:
a handsome weskit
or the jerkin
of an elfin sailor.
Other days
the tailor
sees a jacket
in his mind
and sets about
to find the fabric.
But some days
neither the idea
nor the material
presents itself;
and these are
the hard days
for the tailor elf.
is a good day
for the elfin tailor.
Some days
the stolen cloth
reveals what it
was made for:
a handsome weskit
or the jerkin
of an elfin sailor.
Other days
the tailor
sees a jacket
in his mind
and sets about
to find the fabric.
But some days
neither the idea
nor the material
presents itself;
and these are
the hard days
for the tailor elf.
