Local farm and ranch store is having a sale, so I popped in this morning (this is where I bought the quirt). Few slick-soled boots; most working folk around here -- men and women -- are more likely to want lugged soles and steel toes on their cowboy boots.

So I drove over to the western store. I'll go a hundred bucks for a nice pair, but four and five hundred dollars for a pair of boots made outa somethin' I be afraid to stomp is kinda outa my league.

I'll just keep using what I have and have them resoled when the time comes. We have at least two cobbler's shops in town; one will even install calks if you want them.