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Sep 14, 2012 20:32


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kabuldur September 15 2012, 10:06:44 UTC
I like the first one and all the others because they are out in nature and restful and beautiful. I can see there are some low-lying areas because of the boards. Are they home-made shoes on the fence?

Maybe you can get out there again next summer - I hope so.

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ian_green September 15 2012, 22:40:40 UTC
it is not real shoes but an inlay(?) for high rubber boots
but yes it is homemade may be from some old clothes

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kabuldur September 16 2012, 09:39:32 UTC
Oh, thank you for explaining. I thought maybe they were made out of leather with the fur still on it.

It does not get that cold here that we need to have such thick inlays for boots. Where I grew up, which gets colder than here, some people didn't even wear socks in their rubber boots!

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ian_green September 16 2012, 12:35:27 UTC
once we went fishing in winter and during a break had some tea in a hut
some more people came and added to our party
we were sitting around burning stove and drying our clothes while resting
one man took of his boots - boots were wet from water under the snow and have some holes
he had no socks at all too - it was -20C at day
noticing i had been wide staring at him - he went shy and said that he had forgotten his socks
others laughed and said that he just had none

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kabuldur September 18 2012, 10:08:38 UTC
Oh my goodness! Did he get any frostbite or anything?

Where I grew up we only got frosts, bny the way. Many farmers and farmer's kids didn't bother with socks - it was easier that way. Sometimes even my brothers and I didn't wear socks. Not because we were poor, though. Just because we chose to.

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ian_green September 19 2012, 23:33:18 UTC
afaik he is totally ok
not sure whether he had chosen to though

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