Mukluk Owners Unite!

I bought my first, and only, pair of Steger Moosehide Mukluks last weekend.

I was in Ely shopping with some family, a light snow was falling and winter was in the air. Muklluks are handmade in one place and one place only in the whole entire world (yes, right where I was standing) and are said to be the warmest boot around. Hey, 2 pair were just shipped to Cameron Diaz. . .so, yes, I bought a pair. Thought about it as we shopped some, thought about it more over lunch and again as we went back and tried them on one more time. Impulse buy? Maybe. Incredibly soft and slipper like? Yes.

So, if you were to purchase a pair, which ones would you choose? Arctic, Navajo, or Traditional? Maybe Tall Ojibwa or Short?

Minnesota HR in November

Ok, this really has got absolutely nothing to so with HR but here goes anyway.

Right now, Minnesotans are into DAY 3 of deer hunting season. We are done with bow and are into shotguns. I use "we" very loosely because I am not a Minnesota native and as such, want absolutely nothing to do with deer hunting. My husband headed north to the woods on Friday and my daughter and I headed north too - right to the water park.  The body slide was one of the fastest I have been on and the indoor/outdoor hot tub was awesome - but I digress.

After so many years in this fine state I am no longer startled by men, women and children walking on the edge of the woods or along the side the road with shotguns, rifles, or whatever over their shoulder; am accepting (because of its safety purpose) of the blaze orange clothing worn through out the town; and now know enough not to look in the beds of trucks or closely at passing trailers lest I want to see what I really don't want to see. I understand "drives" but do not understand sitting in a cold tree stand for hours on end.

Others hunt and enjoy it and I am ok with that. What am I not ok with? Hunting music. If I have to hear the 30 Point Buck Song on more time, I am simply going to have to scream.

Ah, I feel so much better now :)