Somehow, I missed the fact that there is a NoBloShoeMo photo pool on Flickr. It’s too late now to join the “30 days of shoes” effort*, but I wanted to show you my new shoes anyway.

I first saw these boots this summer in Missouri, where the fancy-pants shoe store downtown was closing. I tried them on in a fit of goofiness. And I loved them. They were marked down quite a bit but not enough to satisfy my inate sense of cheapness. I went back to the store twice before it closed for good, but I never bought the shoes.

Months passed before I saw them again. I was at a TJ Maxx in North Carolina. And there they were. Cheaper than before. But we were about to move to Holland, and I was in spend-no-money mode, so once again, I bid them adieu.

Again, months passed. And just a few days before the Greatest Day of the Year, we were reunited.

Thanks, Rockford, for the rock star boots. I love them, and I promise I will wear them somewhere, someday.

*It says “Post daily, or once in a while, or when the shoe whim strikes.” So I joined anyway.