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Not exactly but close.
I neglected to get heel protectors put on my one-piece black Merrill slip-ons, and they've worn on the outside of the right shoe to the point that they throw ankles, knees, etc. out of alignment. Ouchy ouchy ouchy. And with much stand-uppage in my future later this week and next for The!Flower!Show! that will not do.
So I went to Benjamin Lovell, a small chain (5 or 6 branches) specializing in comfort shoes at price points from $80 to $500, and found another pair of black Merill slip-ons very much like the old ones but looking just a scootch dressier. I'll wear around the house today, wear out to a meeting tomorrow, and take them on a test spin around the show floor on Wednesday.
Oh, and I'll take them to the nice while-you-wait shoe man on my way home from tomorrow's meeting.
A new pair of shoes is a big deal for me. The Merrills were purchased in 2003. The last shoes I bought were a pair of Lands End sport Mary Janes last summer and before that it was a pair of sneakers the summer of 2007. I bought a pair of Danskos in 2004. And that's it.
In other news, the second hippeastrum has opened (sort of) and looks like a clone of its parent. And I'm on the final border of the Ben.Ben.Blankie, so that should be done this week. No new knitting projects during Flower Show time. I'll just crochet snowflakes.
I saw a modest Flower Show display in a shop window today. The shop wasn't open, so it was covered by a grate and wasn't very photogenic. I'll try again tomorrow. [Edit: I don't have to! It's here, along with a whole lot of other Flower Show-themed windows!]
My brother-in-law had laparascopic surgery to remove his appendix over the weekend. I met my two-doors-down neighbor this morning and she told me she had been laid off. She had been managing the construction of a large apartment complex in Harrisburg, the state capital.
Edit: put here so I won't forget it a link to Victor Davis Hanson's current column, Some Reflections in a Time of Hysteria.
I neglected to get heel protectors put on my one-piece black Merrill slip-ons, and they've worn on the outside of the right shoe to the point that they throw ankles, knees, etc. out of alignment. Ouchy ouchy ouchy. And with much stand-uppage in my future later this week and next for The!Flower!Show! that will not do.
So I went to Benjamin Lovell, a small chain (5 or 6 branches) specializing in comfort shoes at price points from $80 to $500, and found another pair of black Merill slip-ons very much like the old ones but looking just a scootch dressier. I'll wear around the house today, wear out to a meeting tomorrow, and take them on a test spin around the show floor on Wednesday.
Oh, and I'll take them to the nice while-you-wait shoe man on my way home from tomorrow's meeting.
A new pair of shoes is a big deal for me. The Merrills were purchased in 2003. The last shoes I bought were a pair of Lands End sport Mary Janes last summer and before that it was a pair of sneakers the summer of 2007. I bought a pair of Danskos in 2004. And that's it.
In other news, the second hippeastrum has opened (sort of) and looks like a clone of its parent. And I'm on the final border of the Ben.Ben.Blankie, so that should be done this week. No new knitting projects during Flower Show time. I'll just crochet snowflakes.I saw a modest Flower Show display in a shop window today. The shop wasn't open, so it was covered by a grate and wasn't very photogenic. I'll try again tomorrow. [Edit: I don't have to! It's here, along with a whole lot of other Flower Show-themed windows!]
My brother-in-law had laparascopic surgery to remove his appendix over the weekend. I met my two-doors-down neighbor this morning and she told me she had been laid off. She had been managing the construction of a large apartment complex in Harrisburg, the state capital.
Edit: put here so I won't forget it a link to Victor Davis Hanson's current column, Some Reflections in a Time of Hysteria.
