Blizzard Will Live On

9:20 am

                Tonight is my spinning class, so I must gather everything into the camperbus today and haul it all to work.

·         Wheels

·         Carders – drum and hand

·         Flicker

·         Combs

·         Washed wool

·         Unwashed wool

·         Dye stuff – Kool-Aid, pot, bags

·         Spindles and spindle parts

·         Printed out instructions

·         Rabbit and grooming equipment? Or save that for next week?

·         Lazy Kates

·         Samples of spun/knit stuff

Well, I think that is everything…. I am anxious about getting myself ready today, though. In part because I am so late getting going. So much for my getting up at 7, but I had a rough night so I decided I would let myself sleep.  Now I will do buns, then gather the stuff, pack it into the bus, and set off. I don’t need to get to work particularly early, as I will be there until 10 tonight. Once there, I will have to unpack everything and haul it all upstairs and set stuff up. Then, with what is left of the afternoon I will continue work on Blizzard. Oh here is some news:

                I donated Blizzard’s body to science. To some this might seem gory and awful, but I am fine with it. One of the profs knows how to make skeletal preps using beetles, so my task has been to clean the skeleton as best as possible of skin, organs and muscle. I’m done with that. Now it must be dried in a very low drying oven, and before it goes in, the skeleton must be arranged the way you want it to be in the end. It will dry very hard, and the idea with the beetles is that they eat away any tissue left, but you keep an eye on things so that they leave the connective tissue that hold the bones together. That way you don’t have to go back and glue the whole thing together. I’m quite excited about all this, and am enjoying it enough that I offered to help prep other creatures that have been accumulating in the storage freezer at work. For example, the Barred owl that L & G found, a snake, and a family of baby skunks (that one might be a challenge!). So that could keep me very busy over JTerm, in between spinning class and everything else I have to do.

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