How to keep your feet dry in wet boots
Today's
homesteading tip originated with my mother, I swear, not with a
homeless person. On a farm, it's awfully easy to get your boots
wet even if they're waterproof. Maybe the world is full of deep,
damp snow (like last week) and clods drop down the back of your
heel. Maybe you slip off the creek bank while sawing through a
grapevine (like this week) and your foot submerges in frigid
water. Either way, the worst thing you can do is keep working
with wet feet. But if you don't have a good pair of spare boots,
what do you do?
Take a plastic grocery
store bag and wrap it around your dryly socked foot. Then slide the whole
shebang into your boot --- this has the added bonus of making boots
slide on even easier! The grocery store bag separates your foot
from the damp boot wall until the evening, when you can set your
footware by the stove to dry. Dry feet!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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