Sheilajeanne

Let's hope so! They have enough troubles with Burmese pythons! https://www.gainesville.com/story/news/local/2023/08/03/florida-python-hunt-amy-siewe-competes/70476867007/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_The_Gainesville_Sun&fbclid=IwAR1HyG4yFjXOqtn6_Vl_mJ-zNI0ZTzkxYJCZv-kyMlM5O0OG-lOs76D9Ar4

Yeah, kind of hard to date them accurately, unless you know exactly where they were found, and can search the site for something that can be radio-carbon dated. It's pretty big, too, about 2 inches long, which I think is rather big for an arrowhead. Might have been a spearhead. AAaaand of course, now that i want to actually measure it, I can't find where I put the darn thing!! Fred, wow, that is interesting! I'm a horse person, and I never knew that about the origin of the term! I live in a small town, which has a variety store, a restaurant, a drug store and a post office. Anything else I need, I have to drive to the largest nearby town, which is only about 15 minutes away. I like it here. Everyone is on a septic systems, so the lots have to be quite large. It's nice to be surrounded by farmer's fields...well, maybe not so much during spreading season... The farmers have just harvested their grain, and are fertilizing and plowing the fields. Between that and the smoke from the forest fires, I've been keeping my windows closed a lot!

Oh dear! Let's hope this is not true!! https://abc-7.com/news/2023/07/31/officials-investigating-presence-of-green-anacondas-in-collier-county/?fbclid=IwAR04f4jseR7y93miTBtUVW8if0WR3ncj73vEA4mRGt4-StBUTU94KZ5nI_I

My dad found this arrowhead not far from the farm where he grew up, near Bradford, Ontario. I've been told it's from the archaic period and may be about 2000 old. It's made out of chert, not flint. My parents had a property that had been a Presbyterian church in the pioneer days. My dad/ found an old harness bell when digging fence post holes near where the drive shed had been located. I still have it - it's a real beauty! Solid brass, and about 3 1/2" in diameter. Except for one quarter of it being bent in it was in excellent shape. I pried out the bent part with a screwdriver, polished it up, and it's good as new! The big sleigh bells were called chimes, and there would be 4 of them in a row across the horses' withers. You had to be fairly well-heeled to afford a set! The smaller bells were much more common. One of my uncles went over the site with a metal detector, but found nothing else of interest. I did find an inkwell with the cork still in it, and an old sugar bowl that had been smashed. It was Meakin pottery, probably the most common brand name for early Canadian pottery. It was a British firm that catered mostly to the export market. The inkwell probably belonged beside the guest book in the church entrance. Nice little piece of history! I use it to display my feather collection.

AlZilla, Now, now, I doubt Frodo is THAT old! Yeah, that's going to need a pretty robust belt...or belt AND suspenders!

Sounds like a good way of doing it! Those trowels get pretty sharp with use!

Fred, having taken part in a dig or two myself, where has your daughter been digging? I've also watched Digging For Britain, and found it very interesting! And did you know that the Drumheller dinosaur museum will allow you to take part in a dinosaur dig? That was one of the two digs - the other was part of a credit course I took at University. Profs love to use students as unpaid labour to do their digging for them...lol! The dinosaur dig took place on our honeymoon, and was very much enjoyed by both of us. I was excavating a dinosaur vertebrae. The central part of the vertebrae was the size of a dinner plate! I can tell you the exact date - as I was soaking my weary sunburnt bones in the jacuzzi of our B&B afterwards, my husband came into the bathroom to tell me Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash. Speaking of pony tails - love the tail lights on these mustangs!

Yep, I noticed that too!

Klara, you mean like this?? This was in Norway.

ERMcdow, this thread has been dormant since 2013. The 6 month old puppy the OP was referring to is no doubt long dead. (Original post was in 2009.) I agree a dog should not be left untended while wearing a muzzle. I had a dog-aggressive dog I was trying to rehab, and was using a wire basket muzzle with leather straps, which was attached to her collar at both the top and bottom. She put her toes inside the bottom of the basket, and ripped the straps in two... I also tried walking her in a Gentle Leader. She destroyed THAT in about 30 seconds! Crate training is definitely the best way to go! My dog spends the better part of the day lounging in her crate - door is always open.

Tribal Spirit offers a discount to people with native status, and I'm sure native craftspeople use a lot more artificial sinew than your average leatherworker. They obviously won't want to disappoint their customers, so will stock good stuff, not crap. I have a few other reasons for using them - they're Canadian, so no cross-border shipping. Also, I've dealt with them to buy moose and deer hides, and they've been fantastic - both the speed of shipping and the quality of the leather. So, I'm hoping I'll have the same experience with the artificial sinew. Third - it's hard to find a small roll of ANY type of thread!

Ard Righ, if I ever run out of the large-ish roll of sinew I bought from Tandy, I'm going to give Tribal Spirit a try: https://tribalspiritmusic.com/artists/supplies/needles-and-sinew/ Since native people were the first North Americans to sew with sinew, I'm hoping they know where to find the good stuff now that it's made out of polyester! Most shops only sell large spools of sinew, but Tribal Spirit has the natural colour available in a 65 ft. roll, so I won't feel bad about getting rid of it if it doesn't work as well as I think it should!

I was able to buy a six pack at Canadian Tire, and still have most of them. I might find the missing ones if I check the couch cushions or under the seats in my car... The only ones I've had to replace recently were the extra strong ones I use for stitching. The plastic frames just don't last. I wonder if they are sensitive to the sun? The pair I had on the dining table just seemed to crack for no reason, and that table does get a fair bit of sun in the spring and fall. The six pack were all black metal frames, so we're good... I had one pair that had the puppy chew off one of the nose pads, and the plastic ear covers, and scratch the lenses up pretty badly. Do you think I could ever loose that pair?? No, it was always the expensive ones with the metal case that I'd buy to put in my purse! I think a lens finally popped out on the damaged pair, and I gave them the heave-ho.

Fred, here's how to make sure you never loose your glasses again! Let's hear it for Command Hooks (name brand)... A friend of mine used to have a Z28! Unfortunately, she lived in a large apartment complex where thieves were constantly targeting the cars in the parking garage. She had the sound system stolen out of the car, and they tried to take the tires one time, too, but guess they got scared off by security. Needless to say, she had an alarm system put in the car after the sound system was stolen, but it wasn't rigged to go off if someone was trying to steal the tires! When I first got married, I briefly lived in the same area (Thorncliffe Park, Toronto) and couldn't WAIT to move elsewhere!! Too many people, too much traffic. Love where I live now, where traffic jams are due to farm vehicles on the road.

Handstitched, me too! Currently have a pair on my nose, which I try to leave on the desk, so I usually take them off before I leave the room. There's an extra strong pair on the dining table, where I sometimes do stitching, another extra strong pair in a drawer in my leatherworking bench, one in my purse, and yet another in the glove box of my car, in case the ones in my purse go missing. (Now and then, I might put them down on a table in a restaurant or the shelves at a store and forget them.)

Yeah, I was just going to comment, 'hey, it's moulting season for birds, so no harm done!' My friend across the road has a number of budgies, so I know it's that time of year for them.

I did a few leatherwork projects when I was 12-13. I was using my mom's cloth needles for sewing, and engineered some stamping tools out of nails and bits of scrap metal. I found an old awl in Dad's toolbox, and he let me have it. My knives were jackknives my dad gave me after confiscating them from the kids at school... Hey, I got some really good steel blades on some of them! My leather was from an old leather gunbelt I'd had as a kid, along with a cap pistol. If only my parents had introduced me to Tandy!! There was a store (Radio Shack) at a local shopping mall, where we often shopped! Without the proper tools, I soon lost interested. When I found Tandy as an adult, that's when things really took off! I was lucky enough to find a wonderful mentor at their store, the guy who taught their leather working classes! Thank you, Bill! You always found the time to answer my questions!

Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about, Chuck! Didn't know they'd identified him though!

One of my favourite pieces by the Stones! :D Wow, Brian Jones playing sitar!

Fred, they once found someone's foot, still encased in a sneaker. I don't think they ever identified who it belonged to.

A poster on the Canadian Leathercraft FB forum said they are reticulated python skins.

HS, I recently joined the Yellowstone National Park: Invasion of the Idiots. They call them 'tourons' a combo of 'tourist' and 'moron'. Now that tourist season is in full swing, there are daily pictures of tourists getting too close to bison and bears, and even walking out past the signs that say 'DANGER - THERMAL AREA - BOILING WATER - DO NOT ENTER!' One guy even walked up to Old Faithful and pointed his camera down the geyser spout! He was promptly arrested when he got back to safe ground. The mineral content of the hot springs will very quickly dissolve a whole body. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=6242726555823218&set=g.183268598737928

When my husband and I were living in a rented house, the landlord told us this story about the hot car his brother had owned when they were young. I'm sorry I can't remember the details of make, model, etc. as this was more than 20 years ago, but it was definitely a sleeper. When the cops pulled him over for speeding on the highway, they were more interested in seeing what was under the hood than giving him a ticket! He'd left their cruisers in the dust, and only got pulled over because they radioed a squad car that was further up the highway.

A poster in the Canadian Leathercrafter's forum says these are reticulated python skins, and they are actually farmed for their skins, as are Burmese pythons! The reticulated python is native to south and south-east Asia. It is the world's longest snake, and yes, they have been documented as eating humans! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulated_python

I was thinking South America. And I've been informed that there are STILL snakes that size in various parts of the world, especially South America!