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Some more of Kestrel’s amazing work: I finished off some tack for someone and got some pics with a new set-up for the background. I’ve set the doll up so he looks like he’s looking for lost cattle here. Will send a couple more of this set, of romal reins, braided headstall, pencil bosal (“bosalito”) with mecate and hanger and spade bit. I’m only showing the bosalito and mecate with hanger, here. The saddle is totally wrong but it’s the only one finished at present.
I think the background works amazingly well, and serves to highlight such beautiful work. Click for full size!
You can see the hand made sterling silver buckle pretty good in this pic. Also you can see the tassel (the vaqueros call it “la mota”).
aaaand here you can see all the gear that a vaquero or buckaroo would use. First the young horse is taught to respond to the bosal, then gradually taught to carry the spade bit, while the rider uses first the mecate reins and then gradually starts using the romal reins.
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© C. Ford.
A young squirrel noted the feeding stations being filled, and I noticed young squirrel. Told him no, because dinosaur photo day. I was back inside, where I normally am to shoot birds, with the window open. Young squirrel looks at me, I say no again. Young squirrel opts for the pity position, curling one hand in against the chest, a signifier of just how effing cold it is, have pity! No is reiterated. Young squirrel goes the full court pity position, with both hands curled in, it’s really really really really freezing cold! I remarked to young squirrel that he should not have chosen a day with the sun shining and the temp a very unseasonable 54 F.
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Sigh.
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People who have small animals know they have a special love for electrical cords. Chez Caine, there are always those rats who are looking to jack on. Part of setting up Athena (the new computing machine), is to deal with cord. For the very fine cord, which runs from the machine to the adapter is a favourite for jacking on. So, that part: slice open black aquarium tubing, place over the cord, secure with electrical tape. This impairs their ability to sense the current running through. For the rest, I cut lengths of cotton cloth, and wrap the cord, followed by a quick wrap of shiny wire, because rats are easily distracted by shiny metal, and will chew on that and forget about jacking on. Got Athena all fixed up, and Hades tested for me – yep, boring. That’s a good thing.
© C. Ford.
Via Atlas Obscura.
People with cats, rejoice they aren’t cows. Pictured above is a massive hairball, from a cow.
Situated at the entrance to the equally enjoyable Lee Richardson Zoo, the Finney County Historical Museum is a quaint museum that tells the history of Southwestern Kansas. It also tastefully displays the World’s Largest Hairball atop a brass spittoon.
Removed from the stomach of a cow that was processed in a nearby packing house, this mammoth trichobezoar was nearly 40 inches in circumference and was said to have weighed 55 pounds wet when first removed. Though smaller and drier now, it’s still a very impressive sight. Visitors are free to lightly touch the ball (it feels like a velvet basketball) but signage politely reminds them not to pick it up.
Via Atlas Obscura. All I can say is that cow must have been a mad groomer.
Tail light. :D Click for full size.
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A raft of baby Chinch photos, more than enough to start your day with a thawed heart. (Our vet is a Chinch person, has three of them!)
All the Light Pillar photography a person could want, from all over the world, here’s a few:
Isn’t that something? The most beautiful sounds. That’s subjective of course, but it’s a good reminder of how important sound is, and the part it plays in most of our lives. For me, the most beautiful sounds will always be ocean waves, especially a thunderstorm breaking over the ocean, but there’s a world of sound, all of it beautiful.
Anan Kaewkhammul / Shutterstock.
Owls are, of course, amazing. They can rotate their head almost 360 degrees, they have lopsided ears – all the better for hearing you with, my dear – and are collectively known as a parliament.
The Internet, however, is freaking out at what they look like naked.
Twitter user Dana Schwartz is obviously of curious, and brave, mind as she googled the now immortal words “what owls look like without feathers”, which produced this image that you now cannot unsee.
TFW someone interrupts you when you're in the middle of the spookiest meeting of all time pic.twitter.com/RqojCv4R5S
— Dana Schwartz (@DanaSchwartzzz) January 8, 2017
People had all manner of fun in the tweet stream, happily obliging with photos of other naked beings:
@DanaSchwartzzz Bald hedgehogs are testicles with a face pic.twitter.com/v7VNUdHu9W
— James H (@angusprune) January 8, 2017
A hairless hedgehog. That’s something to curse about!
Via IFLScience!
I can sort of add to the nekkid animals. This is Rune, (pronounced Rooh neh) who has been hairless most of his short life, and just now has developed a very fine, sparse coat of sorts. There are two others like him, but Rune grabbed my heart from the start. He’s a sweet, shy boy, with a penchant for perching on top of my head, much like his grandmother, Grace. Somewhere in that line, there was a hairless rat or two.
From rq, more of her immortalization of the three lab cats, who continue to look as if their lives are pretty good. I wouldn’t mind playing with lab equipment, either. :D Click for full size!
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