Friday, 30 August 2013

There's a puncture in my shoe!

I like trees. In fact I love trees. That's why I have some beautiful trees in my garden and enjoy being outside under the trees. I specifically love thorn trees and the Acacia family probably includes all my favorite trees. One of these is the "Acacia sieberiana" or "Papierbasdoring" or "Paperbark Thorn". I planted one of these trees in my garden in February 2007.
February 2007

 It has grown quite a bit since then...
August 2013

 It has some beautiful thorns now...

I stepped on a branch like the one above this morning with my Nike running shoes and heard a pop and a hiss...! My shoe got punctured! The Nike Air was deflated! The heel does not have support anymore and collapses when I step on it. Shoe retired!
The red arrow points to the puncture :)

 I still love my thorn tree!

 Have a great weekend everyone!
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13 comments:

  1. Unknown30 August 2013 at 14:54

    I've heard of deflating a bike tire, but never a shoe!

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  2. Anonymous30 August 2013 at 15:44

    Oh yes, you have to love again your tree!
    I have also a garden with many beautiful trees, in spring is a festival of colors.

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  3. KovasP30 August 2013 at 15:49

    That's too funny! Perhaps work boots with steel shanks might be a safer alternative for you? :)

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  4. One Crazy Penguin30 August 2013 at 15:51

    Bahaha, I love this. RIP Nike shoe!

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  5. Jill30 August 2013 at 16:43

    I guess Nike doesn't like when they said their souls are filled with air, eh? :) Yeah, I'd keep the tree over the shoes everyday...but next time, wear some non-air filled trail shoes in the backyard! :)

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  6. misszippy30 August 2013 at 18:57

    Ow! Reminds me of a hike we did in the desert once where my husband ended up with a cactus thorn in his shoe!

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  7. Char30 August 2013 at 19:39

    Oops. It's kind of funny - I've never heard of a deflated shoe before.

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  8. Giorgio30 August 2013 at 22:49

    With regards to thorns, I have heard of deflated balls or bike tire but not of running shoes. Glad you don't forget the importance of trees.

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  9. ajh31 August 2013 at 02:33

    I found this kind of funny. Who would ever guess? Can you patch your shoe like a tire?

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  10. Lauren31 August 2013 at 05:48

    Wow! I never would have thought. (Those are some nice thorns though)

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  11. Unknown31 August 2013 at 20:15

    had no idea you could deflate a shoe (duly noted). Those are long suckers.

    What is it about thorns that you like? I prefer not to get scratched or punctured.... but that is just me ;-)

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  12. Karien P.2 September 2013 at 09:04

    Oh, no!!! Thankful for my Asics Gel then - we have a lot of Sweet Thorn here in the FS! :)

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  13. rustiey martien21 September 2013 at 12:14

    Once I went to a camp and at that time a thorn just steeped into my walktall shoes and after that I just stopped loving thorns :D but it's cool that you still love your thorn

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