Ordered my Neos from Gemplers on the net. ?
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Ray Holden
Olympia, WA

Life is for the birds.


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From: Gary Bletsch <garybletsch at yahoo.com>
To: zuckerbond <zuckerbond at comcast.net>
Cc: tweeters tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] best knee boots?


Dear Mary and Tweeters,
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I wish I had?a pair of those?overshoes--haven't seen them in?a store, but would love to get some "Neos." I think they'd be the way to go; they'd probably pay for themselves by outlasting cheaper alternatives.
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Though I don't have cool overshoes, I did?learn something about rubber boots a few years ago. I was preparing for a stint working in an Alaskan fish cannery.?All the old hands told me that I absolutely had to get a pair of the brown "XtraTuff " brand neoprene boots. I was also told that I absolutely had to get a certain brand of insoles; I think they were called "Supertuff" insoles. In any case, I did buy exactly the products recommended. They were close to eighty bucks.
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Arriving at the?cannery, I noticed that close to 90% of the workers had those brown boots on.? When the drudgery began, I was able to stand there on the cold concrete floor for my whole sixteen-hour shift with reasonably comforable feet.
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I still have those boots. They have outlasted any rubber boot I have ever owned. They stay in my trunk, for those times when a marsh beckons.
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Yours truly,
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Gary Bletsch
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Near Lyman, Washington (Skagit County), USA
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garybletsch at yahoo.com
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"Nun," sagte ich, "wenn ich ein Taugenichts bin, so ist's gut, so will ich in die Welt gehen, und mein Glueck machen." Und eigentlich war mir das recht lieb, denn es war mir kurz vorher selber eingefallen, auf Reisen zu gehen, da ich die Goldammer, welche im Herbst und Winter immer betruebt an unserm Fenster sang: "Bauer, miet' mich, Bauer, miet' mich!" nun in der schoenen Fruehlingszeit wieder ganz stolz und lustig vom Baume rufen hoerte: "Bauer, behalt' deinen Dienst!"


From: zuckerbond <zuckerbond at comcast.net>
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>Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 10:41 AM
>Subject: [Tweeters] best knee boots?
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>Tweeters, I?m finally ready to buy some good knee-high rubber boots for the winter birding season ahead, that is if it ever starts to rain! Probably best to email me offline if you have an opinion about which boots are best and where to buy them. My current plan is just to head to Cabela?s and try a bunch on, but I thought I?d check in with all of you experts as well. Thanks, Mary Bond, Seattle. Zuckerbond at Comcast dot net
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