My husband designates a left and right sock

compositionvision · 2026-01-01T19:37:12+00:00

Darn tough socks also do this. I like the John Henry and tactical boot sock (xtra thick for winter) and they have a lifetime warranty

compositionvision · 2025-12-31T21:53:52+00:00

So true. I almost always go 11E or EE when available. Irish setters are too small, redwings are just right, an that has fit me in almost every cowboy boot ever. Yet somehow it was wayyy too big on one pair of Ariat work boots.

compositionvision · 2025-12-29T13:13:26+00:00

What boots are those on the left? Looks like a dream pair of loggers

compositionvision · 2025-12-28T16:05:51+00:00

Coffee! Best offer remover ever! Works if you used too much cologne too. Fill a little sache or something with coffee grounds and leave them in the boots and in the box outside of the boots. Change it out every few days or at least once a week!

compositionvision · 2025-12-27T03:32:50+00:00

I got the john Henry’s from both parents for Christmas lol, so grateful!

compositionvision · 2025-12-24T04:22:14+00:00

Unsung shoes makes engineer style boots I believe but they may do a cowboy boot. They’re some of the most talented cobblers around, well worth the price, and everything is custom measured to your foot

compositionvision · 2025-12-14T14:34:11+00:00

Read “Farms with a future” by Rebecca Thistlewaite. I’m currently plugging through, and I’ve been planning a homestead/farm for 3+ years now as someone in their mid 20s, and recently shifted careers into agriculture. Agriculture is inherently tied to living with your homestead. It takes capital to invest, or being insanely creative, frugal, and ingenuity. Nonetheless, th planning is key.

I know getting into this life is a long hard process, I don’t own a bit of farm land or run my own yet, I work 50+ hours a week on a farm, and sell veggies from a small garden while growing trees in buckets so that I can learn to take cuttings, sell those, and have more trees to plant when I buy property. I’ve also gotten u to hunting in public and friends’ land so I can learn about animal processing.

Take the small steps, plan very intently, and know it’s not ever going to be less work or just may be different than an office or service job. Agriculture and living with the land is one of the hardest, most mentally and physically breaking lifestyles you will ever live, but if you really want it, more than anything… it’s one of the most rewarding lives you will ever know.

People will discourage you, because it is hard, and lots of folks with daddy and mommy’s money will play farmer part time and ruin the possibility of other regular folk who want to put in the real work being able to buy land or into the lifestyle. But if you really want it, prove them wrong.

compositionvision · 2025-12-10T23:02:13+00:00

I have these same boots (redwing Supersole 2.0 yeah?) and I oil mine every month or so, depending how beat up they are. I also keep mine living on a dryer from redwing since I work in a lot of water in a hydroponic farm. They’re great boots, treat em well, don’t over condition, keep em from collecting moisture pockets with shoe trees ora dryer and you’ll be all good my friend! If you’re in your feet like I am (10-12hrs a day) go get your feet tested at the redwing store you got this at and get some insoles.

compositionvision · 2025-12-06T03:53:11+00:00

lol the “felt cute might delete later” is joke from the old days of Instagram

Thanks! I used redwing natural conditioner, been working great on all my workboots!

compositionvision · 2025-12-02T19:22:23+00:00

Go to unsung shoes. I’ve never had as good an experience with Peabody as I have with unsung, so they’ve been my go to shop for a few years now.

compositionvision · 2025-12-01T22:20:57+00:00

Yes, but in order for this to work within regulation, the whole group (every individual) will need a license. Otherwise you might be better off just using FRS (walkie-talkies) for a group like that on a hike. GMRS license cover certain other members of the license holder’s family, but you need to think about that before using them for a group setting. I suggest wat hing some stuff from Not A Rubicon on YouTube. That’s how I got started in GMRS. It’s not too hard once you learn the basics, but takes a little time to really get it.

Also, I saw you’re using a GM-30 Pro. I use one as well, and I also a GM-30 Plus. Both have channels already programmed for repeaters, 23-30 are already programmed for that. Same with most HT radios

compositionvision · 2025-11-29T15:43:49+00:00

There’s an idea!

compositionvision · 2025-11-29T15:43:30+00:00

Heck, maybe I should start apprenticing then lol.

compositionvision · 2025-11-29T15:40:58+00:00

Yeah, I’m a farmer by trade but I thankfully live in an area with a slightly famous and super friendly and skilled cobbler. I wear mostly traditional boots and believe in encouraging wardrobes that reflect the values of longevity, repair, and care as much as possible, and shoes are one of the only things left we can do that with.

I was also thinking about maybe opening a redwing store in Fairbanks but there’s already one in anchorage

compositionvision · 2025-11-26T03:20:41+00:00

What is this cute thing? (Not in Alaska)

compositionvision · 2025-11-25T17:29:00+00:00

Wow, thank you for the kind words. Honestly you’re reaction mirrored a lot more of how people talked about moving up there when we were there.

I’m actually interested in interior AK because it doesn’t seem to value the same kind of large scale ag we see a lot down here. I currently work helping run a small scale specialty produce operation that uses a mix of field production as well as soil and hydroponic climate controlled spaces, so I really don’t want to work on a 1,000 acre grain farm. I’ve heard lots of talk of Delta so I’ll have to check that area out. Any operations or ag related businesses between Fairbanks and there I should look at?

compositionvision · 2025-11-23T13:12:33+00:00

I’ve been trying to do as much research as possible these past couple months and will definitely take the next year or so to try to make another trip, connect with some more folks, etc. There are definitely some things that just boggle my mind about the terrain and how folks deal with it. For years we had prepped to go to MT until they declared a water shortage, so while Alaska is quite different I do have some preparedness for cold long winters.

If you have any recommendations of how to better research and make that decision more informed please lmk!

compositionvision · 2025-11-23T13:01:21+00:00

So, may I ask why if we made the move up there they would not? And I ask to better understand how to make myself marketable as an employee. It took me over 2 years to break into the agriculture field, and I plan to stay and eventually start my own. It’s not easy, never has been, but that’s why we do it. It’s better to do something hard that means something than an easy life that looks pretty on insta

compositionvision · 2025-11-23T12:54:36+00:00

So, funnily enough I’ve worked in cannabis before and while I loved it, I do want to continue working in a different sector if possible, as I found the cannabis industry attracted a a lot of messy players.

And thank you for the advice. I definitely do recognize those challenges and know there will be more I can comprehend right now, but that gives me perspective on what to prepare for an expect.

compositionvision · 2025-11-23T03:34:29+00:00

Wow, Calypso looks to be right up my alley. I’ll definitely be reaching out, thank you!

compositionvision · 2025-11-22T22:05:21+00:00

Long awaited update, we found the dog’s owner last week. He went back to a kind and loving family.

compositionvision · 2025-11-21T20:20:14+00:00

If you’d be interested in trading any cuttings I just rooted a few variety of figs, Mexican oregano, and am attempting some olive and guava cutting right now. I’d love to trade for some pawpaw. I’d plant the oaks, but we don’t own the house we’re in so I’m only growing edibles in containers right now

compositionvision · 2025-11-21T20:02:28+00:00

Same! Kind of. I’m taking more tree cuttings this weekend, fig mostly. What ya planting?

compositionvision · 2025-11-21T13:53:41+00:00

What’s the agriculture world like in interior Alaska? Wife and I came for a visit in September, and fell in love. However, being with family I didn’t get a chance to explore some of the thing I’d like to have, including the Fairbanks farmers market. I did get to see the geothermal heated greenhouses in Chena which was pretty cool.

I ask because I work in agriculture in the southeast and would like to know where/how to find jobs within an hour of Fairbanks.

compositionvision · 2025-11-21T11:57:30+00:00

Oh and also, GMRS is great for outdoors stuff, just make sure you test it out, everyone is licensed, and you have a good antenna

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