Posted on 12/16/2005 4:23:55 PM PST by qam1
You are like me Diana, I'm into flea markets (swap meets to you yankees), yard sales and thrift stores. Why pay three times as much for something when you can get it nearly new for so much less money.
Fur is cozy.
Do you use the skins of the deer you harvest? I love the feel of deerskin. I'm hoping next year my sis's grandson or I get a deer on my property. I want to use the skin as a rug to hang on the wall of my cabin.
I never payed much attention to Joan Rivers till I read one of the PETA freaks threw red paint on a fur coat she was wearing once, and, if I remember correctly, she was about to kick some butt, till the freak got away.
I also read about how her late husband had bought her that fur, and what a special meaning it had for her. She's a pretty tough gal for a city slicker.
Bravo! I think I'll set some conibears and snares tomorrow.
I would pay money to see what happens when a PETA member splashes paint on some gang-banger's new fur jacket (although I would want to observe from a distance and behind bullet-proof glass)
I am very envious; I got to work in my daddy's GROCERY store......LOL.
"I am very envious; I got to work in my daddy's GROCERY store......LOL."
Well, you know...a cloth coat lined with freshly smoked bacon would be nice & warm, too. Though there's that "dog chasing you home" problem to overcome, LOL!
At least you had FOOD! We were naked and starving under our fur coats! *Insert sad violin music here* :(
It was a "mom and pop." I was 16 before I realized lettuce didn't come WILTED. :-)
LOL...nice. Notice, the room is devoid of anything but beaver. Oh, and carpet.
What else could you need?
Many girls get minks the same way minks get minks...
"Do you use the skins of the deer you harvest? I love the feel of deerskin."
My brother Dave is a master at tanning, so there's always some buckskin (technical term, if it doesn't have fur) around here to use.
This year, he's hogging the five capes (that's what they're called before you tan them) because he wants some skins for the hunting lodge he's building out on the parent's Back Forty. He started building them back when we were in High School. Back then, we just called them "Love Shacks" because that's where we'd go with our boy/girlfriends to make out, LOL!
The new one he's building (we're in our forties now) has windows and maybe even heat, LOL! The next one will definately need handrails at a minimum and wheelchair ramps as a luxury, LOL!
Funny. None of us feel any older than when we were in High School, eventhough our kids are all at that age; and no, they don't have permission to hang out in Uncle Dave's Love Shack, LOL!
You probably feel that way, too. As my Grandpa said at his last birthday pary, "Eighty Nine trips around the Sun and it STILL isn't enough!"
ROTFL!! Sounds like a great retort!
I like the smooth, sleek, look of mink, and I'd love a knee length coat, however, I'll likely never get one because I want to move South and stay there! Maybe a knee length leather coat instead; not too warm.
Well, that's the old joke: "If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?"
More Beavers .....:o)
OMG, reminds me of my raising.
Growing up we hung out at the lake (the mayor's daughter got caught skinnydipping there once on a summer night with a full moon providing the spotlight) and learned the ways of the world there.
Poor *****, about 15 of us teenagers did this on a dare, and when the lake patrol officer came by we all were hiding in the brush, laughing OBO when she (the last one
out) comes running for cover. The lake patrol cop caught her in his spotlight.
It was a REALLY small town, had just been incorporated.
No, we weren't bad kids, and nothing bad happened. Our town was so small there was no movie theater, or anything else whithin 20 miles. So, we made our own entertainment.
You missed the South Park "Vote or Die" episode then.
He is going to slice that one foul into right field. Where is his coach for crying out loud?
I know – fur is back bigtime. I got a coat, a couple of vests and a jacket which I bought recently, and I wear them with pride. Some people give me “certain” look... I just smile, lol. Love the look in their faces.
should read= "on" their faces.
Yes!! I'm tired of freezing! I recently got a fur lined coat and can comfortably wander about in below freezing weather now. It's comfort, not fashion that I'm after.
Synthetics are just not warm! And they're ugly too.
I think the other old joke is "Dead animals don't need fur anyway..."
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