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Posted on 12/11/2005 8:37:40 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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BRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
Pretty. Cold, but pretty.
Does it seam rather quiet in here today?
My wife and I got her a full length raccoon coat before we were married! She really enjoyed the luxuriant warm comfort of that coat. When she was a baby my daughter liked to pet it!!
Then we moved to Florida 20 years ago, and kept it in storage ever since!!
Oh baby baby!! My radishes sprouted! My square foot garden is off and running, despite the snow the other day!
I have them covered with a kind of gauzy white cloth just for gardening. A row cover, you know? Moisture and sunlight get through, but it helps keep frost off.
Besides the radishes, I've planted two types of carrots (tapered and stumpy), red-leaf lettuce, collards, turnips, garlic and spinach.
I would pet her coat, too! Even when I was older, if I found myself in the closet, I would open up the storage bag and run my hand over it.
While researching my story on the Internet, I found the weirdest thing ... a plucked fur mink coat! For some reason, the idea of plucking mink freaks me out!
What's left after it gets plucked? Minkhide? ;-)
Or does it leave the undercoat?
Sounds odd, in any case.
How exactly does one pluck a mink? Very carefully?
On the one hand, apparently people pluck the fur from animal hides and mix it with wool to weave yarn.
Then, there's this atrocity:
and this:
Both are advertised as "plucked mink," but the pink atrocity looks fluffy, while the white one looks like suede.
Speaking of warmth ... found these:
Leather gloves with cashmere armwarmers! Ooooooo!
Well...I like the *color* of the pink atrocity, but...
I know people use hair to make yarn, either alone or in combination with wool. But in minks' case, does this mean they more or less harvest it and let the poor shorn mink go back to the farm? Odd.
There's a fair back home every year for various arts that would have been common in the past - everything from blacksmiths to soapmaking. There's one lady that demonstrates spinning yarn and various yarn crafts. One year she had yarn she'd made from her German Shepherd's hair. It was actually rather pretty...but I couldn't help thinkin' it might not be pleasant if you got caught in the rain wearing a German Shepherd sweater. ;-) Way to ruin a hot date...
*snicker* I suppose after you wash the oils out it would be not too bad. After all wet wool does not smell like wet sheep.
I remember when Thursdays were my "easy" days....
Oh yeah, I can see that!
Got more baby pictures! *happy dancing*
Here is a historical picture of our state capital building from the lake. This is one of the more photographed locations in town.
A couple years ago, someone decided the trees in front of the capital building were getting too big and were blocking the view of the Capital. So they cut them all down. Scalped it. I thought it looked like hell. And it's been a disaster ever since, the bank, scalped of all vegetation except the little potted shrubs they've tried to plant there, has probably sluffed off 10 feet a year, and is showing no sign of stopping. It's now sliding again from all the rain.
Every year that building gets closer to the bank. Heh... What were they thinkin'?
Has a structural engineer looked at that? I think your capitol is about to slip-slide away!
I mean, y'all're due for another ten days of rain, aren't you?
The rain ain't stopping, no...
But maybe it'll be OK if they throw some more beauty bark on it :~D
wow... I don't think I've been down there to see all the trees cut. That's just dumb to do it to "improve" the view of the building. There wasn't some other reason given?
But yeah, it looks like the capitol is about to become lakefront.
No - the only reason for cutting it was so people could see the capital from the lake.
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