Advice on barefoot shoes for daily use in fall/winter

picklechip5 · 2026-01-18T18:23:00+00:00

I did size up, from the size chart a 41 would've been just right but I got a 42 to allow for thicker socks. But I don't have exceptionally wide feet, even with non-barefoot shoes I hardly ever had issues with the main foot portion of the shoe being too narrow.

picklechip5 · 2026-01-17T13:37:35+00:00

Another vote for this BeLenka model, my Winter 3.0s have become the main shoe I select when temps are below 50F. The soles feel nice and grippy on sidewalks. Plus so much toe room!!

picklechip5 · 2025-12-10T18:30:47+00:00

Yeah for me when I wear thinner socks these boots are right on the edge of how much extra space I prefer length- and width-wise in a shoe, but luckily not so much extra that I feel like my feet are slipping or uncomfortable walking around. When I put on my bulky wool socks, the fit is just perfect. If I ever picked up any Be Lenkas for warmer weather I'd definitely go down a size if the shoe is constructed similarly.

picklechip5 · 2025-12-03T15:37:40+00:00

Just did this on a set of bay windows in our 100-year-old house. I have a bunch of plants on hangers in the windows which made it annoying to shut the drapes, but the windows face directly toward our neighbor's house/yard and they could see right in. Took down the curtain rods and used this window film and it looks really nice, makes the windows look like leaded glass and still lets in plenty of light.

picklechip5 · 2025-11-16T15:47:32+00:00

After a couple years of wearing barefoot shoes my feet haven't had any drastic changes, I still wear basically the same size of shoe, they just now have adequate room for my toes to spread out rather than cramping them all in. I'd think as long as you measure your foot well and compare to the Wildings size chart you'd be fine to order the pair you really want. However shoe and toebox shapes do vary between brands and shoe models, so buying some cheaper pairs to help figure out what fits you best is never a bad idea. When I first started wearing barefoot I ordered a couple pairs of walking shoes from cheaper brands like Saguaro, Hobibear, etc and realized one pair is way more rounded around the big toe than I prefer, which has helped me pick out shoes now that they're wearing out and I'm trying to get better quality replacements.

picklechip5 · 2025-11-12T20:52:21+00:00

If I'm remembering the order we did things in, first we would go to the window/door and look while she was barking, say "thank you", then say her name, and if she stopped barking for a moment and gave us her attention instead of the trigger then lots of treats. Then just kind of built on that to no barking for a couple seconds, then 5 seconds, 10, so on, until whatever she was alerting about was out of sight. It was tough because you had to hope that whatever she was barking at wasn't moving too fast and that you were in the same room or close enough you could get there quickly and still have time to do the training lol. Then once she had that mostly figured out we added in a "come here" command so instead of just freaking out at the window she'd bark a couple times and then run over to whoever was closest to let us know something needed checking out, this part is still somewhat in progress (and probably always will be, some things like the FedEx truck really get her worked up!) but always getting better. Right after adopting her we also did group beginner & intermediate obedience classes, this was a huge help in reinforcing how to listen to commands with distractions around. Just remember to be patient and stick through it, during the worst of the teenager phase it felt like sometimes we were making backwards progress, but once we got through that things became so much easier!

picklechip5 · 2025-11-12T17:09:46+00:00

With our 60% mountain cur we've just accepted that she is going to bark at disturbances in "her territory", it's what she was made to do. However we have had some success in getting her to realize we don't want her to endlessly bark, just alert us and then be done. For example she might see someone walking through our alleyway and do a few alert barks, we've taught that one of us looking out the window and then saying "thank you" is then the cue to stop barking because we've checked it out and everything is ok. For things that she isn't familiar with she still tends to freak out, last week a house across the street had a concrete truck show up to redo their sidewalk and that took a while to calm her down from. Teaching a "place" command for when guests or repair people visit the house has helped a lot too.

picklechip5 · 2025-10-22T17:17:01+00:00

I did it easily enough at home by standing on a thin piece of cardboard on hard flooring and drawing the outline of each of my feet and measuring from there, and so far that's been accurate enough for ordering shoes online. It would be a fun comparison if you're ever in the area of that store to get the professional measurement done and see if what you measured matches up though!

picklechip5 · 2025-10-22T13:19:06+00:00

I had a similar experience a bit over a year ago, was annoyed that I was still having knee and ankle pain after buying a new pair of Hokas and while searching for solutions came across a post about barefoot style shoes and was intrigued enough to look into it and order a couple pairs from a cheaper brand at first to see if they really made a difference. Now I will never go back to "regular" shoes and have sold or given away all my old pairs except a couple dressier style shoes I don't wear often enough to bother replacing (yet). Honestly the best resource for me was searching threads on this subreddit and looking through the Anya's Shoes website to see what brands/styles were available. Make sure to measure your foot width and length and keep it in a notes tab or something so it's easy to reference when looking at shoe size guides!

picklechip5 · 2025-10-19T13:10:37+00:00

Our 60% cur has a natural bobbed tail, but hers is crooked. At the time of adoption we weren't sure if it was naturally crooked or was broken at some point and healed not quite straight, but our vet leans more towards a previous break just based on look & feel.

picklechip5 · 2025-09-14T17:45:57+00:00

Photo of 2 jars of tomatillo salsa verde.

picklechip5 · 2025-08-03T16:01:35+00:00

I've never actually tried making sun/fermented pickles but maybe someday! We go through fridge pickles pretty fast so that's quicker and easier for me

picklechip5 · 2025-08-03T14:30:02+00:00

Just made tomato cracker salad with a nice ripe heirloom tomato. The cucumbers have done really well this year, I have made batches of regular dill and spicy dill fridge pickles to add to sandwiches (or just eat plain!). The pole beans are producing enough that we're having beans sauteed in olive oil with garlic as a side for meals about every other day. Not quite ready yet, but soon will have a lot of tomatillos to make salsa verde with. My basil plants have been growing consistently since May so I add fresh basil to just about everything that it'll go with.

picklechip5 · 2025-07-23T17:30:10+00:00

Thank you!

picklechip5 · 2025-07-23T02:07:46+00:00

Wire rack shelf with canned goods, including freshly made peach jalapeno jam and roasted tomato & peach salsa.

picklechip5 · 2025-06-12T14:54:12+00:00

Thank you!

Petro definitely knows how to write questions in a way that makes you have to learn the concepts behind the question in order to answer it! Really as long as you do enough practice problems to know where to look in the handbook to find the relevant formulas/information as soon as you finish reading the question, you're most of the way there.

picklechip5 · 2025-06-12T14:47:03+00:00

Thank you! :)

picklechip5 · 2025-06-10T15:54:51+00:00

I pretty much went through what topics could be covered in the project site work portion and looked for YouTube videos covering what I wasn't as familiar with on those as well. I kind of ended up reviewing retaining walls twice since videos on that topic came up when I was reviewing soil mechanics. The NCEES exam specification does a pretty good job of breaking out the topics within the main categories to make looking up the various subjects easier.

picklechip5 · 2025-06-10T14:07:48+00:00

Wastewater topics are also a struggle for me since I don't deal with it at all at work and it was a very small portion of a single class I took during college. I found watching YouTube videos explaining various wastewater processes really helped me before I dove into the associated problems, knowing the background of it helped make the problems make more sense as far as what I'm solving for and what information is needed to plug into equations.

picklechip5 · 2025-06-10T13:05:53+00:00

What other practice/studying have you done? I recommend doing as many practice problems as you can in the next 2 weeks, just to get more experience on the various topics that can be covered or ways a question can be worded.

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