COLD DARK ROOM

[Abdulla6169]

Woodcrafting Christmas ornaments & baubles & trees & snowmen all done for the 2019 season. I have two last Snowmen that need a final spray of lacquer & hats attached. I might (still) have to start up an Etsy page just to get project funds!

Been out in the back garden cutting up our downed pine tree & cleaning up and found an old garden trowel that has seen better days. The plan is to clean up the rust & turn a new wooden handle. I have a piece of Willow Oak from branches I snipped in Fall - this will become the new handle.

The Start
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Send us updates!!! I would like to see the process pan out, good luck : D

 

[Abdulla6169]

A very late good morning to all of you!

DOGGO < 3

 

[Cathie G]

Hhmm. I don’t think it’s turning brown from mixing with air. It’s possibly taking on a tint from the ground it is in contact with. We have a few rivers here in Maryland that are almost black in color. One that comes to mind is the Pokomoke River.

• The Pocomoke originates in the Great Cypress Swamp on the Maryland-Delaware border and flows 55 miles through Maryland before it empties into the Pocomoke Sound at the Chesapeake Bay. Its total length is 73 miles. About 400 feet wide below Snow Hill, the depth of the Pocomoke ranges from 7 to 45 feet, averaging about 15 feet. Its tea color, characteristic of cypress swamps, comes from tannic acid in the roots and decaying leaves of trees and plants that line its banks.

Well...and another of my favorite subjects comes up. Tanning with tannic acid. I read once that some native American ladies, just tanned the leather in small streams running through a forest.

 

[Cathie G]

Send us updates!!! I would like to see the process pan out, good luck : D

I second that.

 

[Cathie G]

I think that maybe I could create a pipe which has been filled with the sand, gravel and activated charcoal, and then create a drip system in the garden. The water can then slowly filter through the pipe and into the hose for a drip system, that way it wont matter how long it takes to filter through it will still work well.

Yes...

 

[Cathie G]

the nameeeee is setttt !

I haven't been able to find the darling's name yet! Official name please...im in the dark here.

 

[Lyn W]

Hello all my friends, i have one more update, I saw the pulmonologist yesterday. No good news. He said there is only 2 things it can be based on ct scans and blood tests. I'm fighting a diagnosis between lymphoma or sacroidiosis. I am having a biopsy next Thursday and i should know the results about a week after that. I'm scared to death. My husband is worried sick the kids have no idea and they just run and play with no other thoughts. How much I wish I could be young and worry free again.

I'm so sorry it isn't better news for you.
There's nothing I can say to stop you worrying, but we are all thinking of you and if it helps to share your thoughts we are here and always ready to listen.
Take care

 

[Lyn W]

View attachment 284935 Here’s a cute little reticulated python.

Very scary!!!!

 

[Lyn W]

Trying to post a booty shake video. It is my Leopard Tortoise not me!

Lola used to do that but he hasn't for a long time.
It is funny to watch - I suspect it would have been funnier to see you shaking yours though!

 

[Lyn W]

My phone died before I could find a place to post a happy birthday to you. But here's a happy belated birthday wish! And have many more.

Thanks Cathie!

 

[Lyn W]

Yesss, happy belated birthday! I'm sorry I didn't know earlier because of my recent reintroduction to tfo ) hope all is goin well and greattt

Thanks Abdulla all good with me thanks.

 

[Lyn W]

Well...and another of my favorite subjects comes up. Tanning with tannic acid. I read once that some native American ladies, just tanned the leather in small streams running through a forest.

There is an old tannery that has been reconstructed in a folk museum in Wales and they used to collect urine to tan their hides.

 

[Lyn W]

A quick hello from me, hope everyone is having or had a good Tuesday.
Nos Da again for now!

 

[Cathie G]

There is an old tannery that has been reconstructed in a folk museum in Wales and they used to collect urine to tan their hides.

Yes it's acid. But when I tanned I used tannic acid from quebracco, yellow soap, and neetsfoot oil with lots of clean well...water...and even the water makes a big difference.

 

[Bambam1989]

You are just so talented. I love your work.

Did you ever receive the Christmas card that was sent to you? I hope everyone received theirs

 

[Cathie G]

Lola used to do that but he hasn't for a long time.
It is funny to watch - I suspect it would have been funnier to see you shaking yours though!

It must be the little youngsters that shake their booty...I've never had the pleasure of witnessing that. Teenage torts hehehe...

 

[Cathie G]

Ooooh I likeeeee... that’s the first time I’ve ever heard that (unusual for me)

How's Cinder'ella'? and that's a song I love. It's an oldie but goodie. It's amazing to me too when I find I've been missing a good song all these years.

 

[Cathie G]

Well the little one that tried to be another December baby got born today. Hooray for Levi.

 

[EllieMay]

It must be the little youngsters that shake their booty...I've never had the pleasure of witnessing that. Teenage torts hehehe...

Not just the youngsters.... Toretto (27lbs) still shakes like a teenager ;~}

 

[EllieMay]

How's Cinder'ella'? and that's a song I love. It's an oldie but goodie. It's amazing to me too when I find I've been missing a good song all these years.

She’s a rotten egg Cathie!!! She is snoring very loudly at the moment on her doggie bed by our couch.. she traveled with me all day and then played hard for a bit once we got home this evening. Now she’s a bit put out with me because I opted for a movie instead of the bed