[Sca-cooks] OT Air Mattress (was Pennsic Pity Party)

[Saint Phlip]

On 6/1/06, Micaylah <dy018 at ncf.ca> wrote:
>
> Actually I could just sit in my backyard and wait for bambi to saunter by.
> I
> live in a city but my house is on a hydro corridor that leads to the
> Ottawa
> River. When the coyotes and wolves aren't around the deer and bunnies come
> back. (if I could just stop stepping on the babies in the grass-twice this
> week!)
>
> There is also a deer farm just outside of Ottawa that I use as my venison
> source. I wonder if he sells hides? I cant imagine him allowing them to go
> to waste. tsk tsk
>
> Micaylah


DON'T try to use deer hide with the hair on. Because of the nature of the
hair, it will shed...and shed, and shed, and shed, and shed. Other critters
are fine, because the construction of their hides and the hair is different-
you'd love a bear hide, for example, although it's a bit heavy- but hair on
deer hide is out. I mean, those of us who have cats are used to everything
we own having cat hair on it. A deer hide is MUCH worse, and will shed a bit
at a time, for years, until it is bald. There's a definite reason Natvie
Americans used buck SKINS, not buck FURS.


-- 
Saint Phlip (leathersmith, among other thjings...)

Don't like getting old? Beats the Hel out of the alternative.

The purpose of life is not to arrive at the grave, a beautiful corpse,
pretty and well-preserved, but to slide in sideways, thoroughly used up,
totally worn out, proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!"
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