Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Fortunately it sort of petered out and doesn't seem to have touched down anywhere. It passed somewhat to the north of us, which is an improvement as they usually go right over our house.
We only have a crawlspace here, so we all climb into the wine closet which a previous owner built down into the floor. We haven't had to do this since we got the dogs . . . it would be a little crowded in there with 4 people, 2 Labs, and a Siamese cat!
When the last kid leaves home and we sell this huge old barn of a house and move to the country, we are going to have a basement, and in the southwest corner of the basement we are going to build a steel reinforced tornado room with bunks and all the modern conveniences. We are snakebit in the matter of tornados . . . my mom was in the Gainesville tornado in the 30s, the big one in 74 or 75 went right over my parents' house, and we have had two pass directly over this house . . . one of which devastated a major intersection in Marietta about 5 miles on up the road. Too close for comfort!
I used to ride Lady with feathers tied in her mane. I braided them into her mane and tail before she was put down. I had an eagle feather that I could never use for fear someone would report it - I braided it into her tail, seemed appropriate. If an archeologist finds her 100 years from now I won’t be around to prosecute :)
Any cat people around?
That's a nice thing to do for Lady though. I buried my Siamese cats with their pedigrees and show ribbons, in case St. Peter needed a reference . . . .
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Hey congratulations. Glad your computer finally made it. I’ll bet it has a program to download digital pictures too :)
As in what? Your pregnant cat problem?
Woodpeckers are probably on some kind of endanger list now :) I definately want to see pictures of this all.
Yeah. I think she’s trying to tell me something...maybe that she’s tired of being pregnant. Tonight was Sarah’s birthday party so I was home early. I went outside awhile and she was on the porch crying. So I fed and PETTED her. She is restless and keeps acting like she is hungry but has food. She just walked in my house like she owned it. I got alarmed when she started checking out under the bed. She’s in the garage right now. Should I just make her stay outside? Darn. This is not even my cat. My husband needs to get his butt home.
Do you have a dog crate? Large box? Put it and towels and food in the garage for her. Box would be better with a top on it I think and a hole cut in the side.
I think so. I laid a cover down for her. I even cracked the garage about 6 inches and she went out and turned around and came back in.
Yeh, I’d close the garage and make her a hidey hole type nest there with food and water close by - a crate with the door open or a large box should work if she accepts it. The other reason for using a crate is after the kittens are born and old enough, you can take her in and have her spayed. She’ll be accustomed to the crate.
The buckskin shirt is all sewn up and fits fine. The hides are really high quality - beautifully soft and easy to sew, and they smell just faintly of smoke!
I still need to fringe all the edges, but I can't wear it til I get the neck panels completed. The first trade cloth neck panel is completely beaded, and I'm starting on the second one, I'm about half way up the first side of the border. The expert I have been consulting at Crazy Crow recommends what he calls "working within the style" i.e. not copying someone else's work exactly. He has Emailed me dozens of examples of Crow war shirts, and I've found a number on the internet, and I designed a neck panel that is similar in style but different in color and slightly different in layout. It's closely based on the neck panels of an early war shirt that was published in a learned article back in 1915.
I went to a beauty supply store and bought ponytail extensions to braid for "scalplocks". They will be sewn to the bottom edge of the neck panels, along with "ermine tails" that I am manufacturing out of white rabbit skins (real ermine tails are up to $10 a pop - you can get 5-6 fake ones out of a single large $6 rabbit skin and color the ends with a black magic marker).
Once I sew on the neck panels (they are let in to the neck facing) the shirt will be wearable, but I'll still need to bead and apply the sleeve strips and the body strips. Then more ermine tails and horsehair dangles with brass cones and pony beads need to be attached to the sleeve strips.
I'll need to decide soon whether I want to use paint on the body of the shirt. A lot of Sioux and Cheyenne shirts are painted with a dark blue on the body, but their beading is mostly white . . . Crow beading tends to be blue and pale blue, and I think blue paint would swallow the beading. I'm thinking about a light ochre earth paint, perhaps in rows of spots rather than solid, or just leaving the shirt plain -- the buckskin is a lovely pale smoke color, like an eggshell tempera.
I hope to have it ready some time this summer!!!!! The beading is all with 11/0 and 12/0 seed beads, I'm using spot or overlay stitch which is much slower than the lazy stitch that I used for the leggings, because it uses two needles and threads.
I'm just going to loom bead the facings for Gracie's bridle, and attach them with velcro (the Crows would have used velcro, if they could have gotten any!) Maybe she will tolerate feathers in her mane . . . she doesn't mind hunting braids at all, but then again they don't dangle.
I agree with the dog crate idea, in the garage with either the door up slightly or the man door cracked. Leave the crate door open and put a large box inside the crate upside down with a hole cut in the side, lots of old towels and rags inside to nest in.
She'll probably have the kittens in the back seat of the Porsche though, if you don't roll up the windows. < g >
One of my cats insisted on having her kittens IN our bed on Sunday morning -- so we just spread out a towel. Then she insisted on keeping them in a wicker trash basket, instead of the nice queening box with the heat lamp that we had all ready for her. They pretty much do what they want, and they're very persistent.
Do keep an eye on her if you can, if you can see contractions and you don't have a kitten or two within an hour or so, you may need a vet.
That is going to look so great. I’d be tempted to leave the buckskin natural I think. It would look really nice that way.
Yeah, I have noticed while reviewing the examples of Crow war shirts that only a few are painted. The Crow were very proud of their hide tanning methods, and other tribes coveted their hides and traded for them. The Crow liked even their smoked hides very very pale, almost white. It makes sense that they wouldn’t want to cover up their handiwork with paint.
I made her a box but she’s either hiding or went to her next house. I cracked the garage door if she wants to come back in.
You've made a nice nest available if she wants it. If she's a feral cat she may feel a little too confined in the garage.
She’s back. She didn’t like it but I closed the garage door. If Miss Hannah Montana would just leave her alone now. I told Sarah I didn’t want her petting the cat until the vet checked her skin so now she’s wanting to give her a bath!
Thst’s what I was wondering. You think I should open the garage a little so she can get out if she wants, then?
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