Maintenance

Yesterday, I put new soles on my running shoes

Before I started, they looked like this

Natural rubber is heavenly to land on, but not that durable

I managed to get some of the gunk off the leather, but grime-laden  grease is tenacious stuff.  And anyway, all I really needed was to clean them enough to see the old stitching holes.

There was no way they'd return to looking like this: 

(I know, I know -- white shoes? 
But the white buckskin I had 
was sturdier than the brown.)

They were pristine for about a day.

But the point is to be outside, so the greasing had to start.

And the using.

I find it satisfying to keep them going

since they do the same for me.