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Indeed, and as you have 'practised' your current heel-wearing in England, you ought to spell it that way! 🤯

I sent Steve an email last night - no response as yet

The hand warmers were for @pebblesf standing outside at an outboard engines swap. I could see them also useful when ice fishing. Or skiing when it's -10 F, or after surfing in 50 F ocean water.

They have, its called a mylar blanket.

I will try and keep that in mind. By the way, fun fact here: did you know it is impossible to tickle yourself? Leggings work really well for me because I am strange in that if my legs are warm, I can tolerate a lot of cold elsewhere. To some degree, not so much my feet as that can be another weak spot, but people are often surprised how little I wear on my top half. Like I almost never wear a jacket instead just wearing a sweatshirt over a T-shirt, and I am fine down to 0 degrees (F). But this is because other people don’t know my legs are protected by leggings, I look like I am wearing just jeans and a sweatshirt, but in reality, my legs are really warm so I’m fine. It is why I never saw the purpose of a vest. ‘It warms your core’, they say, but for me it would serve no purpose except paying for a garment that is half-useful with its sleeves lobbed off. I am surprised that someone has not come up with reflective leggings or a base layer as a way to retain more heat though. I use radiant barrier underneath all my floors; it is basically tin foil on both sides of bubble wrap. It is only a quarter inch thick (6 mm) but retains 95% of heat by breaking the reflective heat loss. I use it as insoles on my boots to keep my feet warmer in the winter. Sadly, it has an R-factor of only 1, but that is a misnomer because of the way the R-factor calculation does not account for various factors of heat loss. (Kind of like how horsepower is a poor way of calculating true power of something). I would think having a reflective base layer would retain even more body heat making a person warmer with no extra weight or bulk being added?

Awwwwww, don't be too hard on yourself. I have found EVERYTHING slows down in the winter. Yes, that might be in wearing high heels, but other things as well. It's not a bad thing. I learned that growing up on a farm. With no field work to do, we could slow down in the winter and enjoy other aspects of life more. Like playing pond hockey or going snowshoeing. I normally go for my walks daily, but with temps below zero and high winds, I have been putting it off. But that is okay, we are on the other side of the equinox and so the days are getting longer, the sun is higher in the sky, in another month things will be vastly different, and February is a very short month.

Well, for starters my pyjamas are basically warm track suit bottoms and a T-shirt and I’m just not going to wear those with stiletto boots. My stilettos are for dressing smartly. That’s just part of the deal. Indeed wearing heels has boosted my game in terms of dressing well for the home office. It’s just that one these chilly mornings, until I get the fire built, I’ve lingered in my already warm clothes and then get too focussed on work and forget. i don't need hand warmers. Once the stove gets going I’m plenty warm enough! I just need to take the time to go get dressed in my jeans and boots and return to work I'm somewhat relieved to hear that @mlroseplant has been slack in his heel wearing too, but I’m clearly losing ground big time to @higherheels whose now rocking her 13+ cm boots!

I split my baby toe while at university in the early 70's and it snowed. Snow was rare there, but I couldn't put my foot into a shoe, so had to go barefoot for about two weeks. At least the cold kept the swelling down. Moral of the story, stiletto spikes can split bones. Also, never tickle anyone when they have stilettos and you are barefooted.

It is easy to confuse where people are from on a forum but you are thinking of another member of this forum who is from the Midwest. Like you I am from the East Coast as well faithfully watching the waves of the ocean crash into shore endlessly as I write this. But living on an island, there are lots of fisherman so lots of old skiffs and old antique outboards sitting in barns. Sadly, I do not remember the man’s name. I never was good with names anyway and this was back in 1995, so 31 years ago. He was probably 50 back then and may be departed now. I know he had a bout with cancer, was devoted to church, and loved to carve wood. I sold him a whole truckload of Basswood for the endeavor back then. That is about as much as I remember… I said in a previous post that “it typically warms up to snow”, and that might seem odd but it is so true. A lot of times it will be cold, but for a snowstorm jump from 5 degrees to thirty when the storm blows in. Not on this one, it is 2 degrees with a gale blowing and heavy bouts of snow. We are in for a long, hard blow tonight. I hope the power holds out, but we are pretty good in that regard. The wind blows so hard, so often out here that the power company has got the system hardened against wind. I remember one New Years night it was about -20 degrees (f) and blowing 20 mph and the ex-wife and I were out to a dance hall. She was wearing high heels and not something she was used too. Her feet hurt in them and so she took them off, and as we went to go home, she walked from the venue to the car, in -20 degree weather, in a plowed but snowy parking lot in just her pantyhose covered feet. I thought that was pretty tough! I know everyone on this forum would have been wearing their high heels. Was it ever cold that year!

I am sure sucking rocks lately at practicing in high heels. This cold weather has made me very unmotivated.

Here, up north in Canada, we have been beyond cold! Overnight, it has been any where from -30 C to -40 C with the windchill. And it ain't stopping till we hit February. So another week of this cold for us.

Who says you can't wear you stilettos with your pajamas? Have you heard of battery (USB port) warmers? They are all the rage.

I hear ya for sure. I have to go out one more time to deal with the snow tonight, but at least I am wearing my leggings and tall Hunter boots.

Oh, I’m not. I’ve done some nice writing actually. It’s been really chilly and damp in the mornings and my focus has been more in hot coffee and building a fire, and staying in my still-warm pyjamas instead of putting on cold jeans and my stiletto boots!

I am a member of the anitque outboard club as well, aomci.org. I am from the east coast so not many old outboards left out here. Have often dreamed of roaming through boathouses/barns on midwest lake houses though! My swap meet went well yesterday, many more attended that I had figured... I could only hang out outside for about five or ten minutes at a time before having to go back inside for a bit, but my legs were not frozen! I am wearing my leggings again today for pushing the darn snow, love wearing my gloss black Hunter refined tall boots over my levis though, great for snow removal chores. Do you remember the name of the guy who was president of the local AOMCI chapter? So true.

Don't be too hard on yourself buddy

That’s a good age to stop. I’ve never seen a 111 year old who could convincingly carry off short shorts. They try, but there’s just something missing …

@mlroseplant I'm in my 70's and still can rock the short shorts. I think I'll stop at 111 years old.

I have been appallingly slack this past week and hardly practiced at all in my challenge heels - or indeed any heels at all. I’ve been getting up and building a fire and then plunging straight into my novel writing, not bothering to get dressed for work as I usually do. I keep telling myself I’ll just finish this section and put in my jeans and stiletto boots but somehow it just slips my mind. I really must get my focus back and out of these slovenly habits …

Admittedly, there is a fine line between self confidence/empowerment and self awareness. As I get older, I question myself more and more about my fashion choices, particularly shorts. Through a combination of dumb genetic luck, and a little hard work (diet/exercise), I do feel I can still pull it off. For how much longer, I do not know. However, there is a lady in my town whom I've known for decades, and recently got to know a little bit better through a book club we were both in. She wears shorts, though not as short as mine, and not with heels. I was putting two and two together, thinking about who her children are, and who her parents were, and come to find out this woman is 67 years old. 67, and still has very nice looking legs and cute feet. Admittedly, that is super rare, but maybe there is hope for me.

I suppose if those who have actually met Steve in person can't get hold of him, then neither can I. Still, I suppose it only takes a couple of minutes to dash off an email saying, "Thinking of you." What's the worst than can happen? Here in Iowa, we missed most of the snow, and it looks like we have about 24 more hours of this super cold stuff, then we return back to a blistering 20º (-7º C) for highs for a few days. It's going to feel like a heat wave!

Yeah, it is cold here too. The coldest day so far this winter at negative 6 below zero (F) as I type this, or negative 21 degrees (C). Other than the cold water under the kitchen sink freezing, nothing major to report from the cold. They are saying we are going to get slammed with 20 inches of snow (50 cm), but lately they like to hype things up so we shall see. I don’t expect more than a foot of snow really. But surprisingly it is not going to warm up to snow, staying cold and windy for the duration of the storm. We got our new furnace on Friday so it is nice to no longer be without heat and having to rely on small electric heaters to get by. But despite the new furnace; yes, I do have my leggings on as I type this. It was nice to hear you like antique outboard motors. I once worked with a guy who was the president of the local chapter regarding an antique outboard motor club. I am not sure if they are still active or not, but with so many fishermen here, there are a lot of skiffs. And fishermen… they do not throw anything away. I mean nothing! I bet half these barns here have antique outboard motors in them. They would never sell them, but sadly never do anything with them either.

I only know them because of their height chart that we already discussed. Of the two I only know Fuss-Schuhe, I have a few heels from them. I can recommend them, they're good quality at a fair price.

Sure interesting, but not really my thing. I'm more for simple and smaller things.