3 months after burying it I finally remembered where it was - this is after a clean and some soaking in diluted bleach...the dogs were excessively interested when it first came out of the ground. The neighbours, not so much.
I am a confirmed and certifiable nutbar with a penchant for skulls, bones, blood, guts, fire and anything slightly peculiar and mostly bizarre. I also...
@dianen It was a pig... @gamelee Yes it was, but nothing a mask and a bottle brush didn't solve... @joysabin I'm old bones and I have character so it wasn't much of a leap ;)
there was a horse head on our beach, the dogs would often pull it about and it moved about quite a bit, I really wanted to take it home and bury it, but couldnt bring myself to do it...i am sure you would have. what a horses head was doing on the beach is quite a puzzler. gross!
This is funny, so many thoughts and memories triggered by a grinning pig skull. Did you perhaps read Lord of The Flies?
My husband is a bit of a grade snob, and was very proud of his perfect grade point average until he took a set design class at the theater department. The play was called Museum, and his whole grade was based on getting bones from butchers and boiling them clean and wiring them into sculptures. It enrages him still that it was his only, ever C, grade
@pandorasecho I have read Lord of the Flies...but I've never had to attached bones to sculptures... @golftragic Absolutely...someone had cunningly disguised my marker as an overgrown vegetable garden, hence the delay @kali66 It's often quite strange where carcasses and bones show up...there was a dead sheep in our local beaches car park just last week. @maree_sanderson I'm only for hire if I get to keep what I'm cataloguing... @gracefullyetched Thank you very much :) @gardencat Thank you - the first step is burial to let Mother Nature take care of most of the flesh. After about 2 1/2 months it can be hosed off, soaked in a bucket of diluted bleach for a week and then cleaned by hand. @northy Thank you most kindly :)
It really does pop on black - 'the neighbours, not so much' lol! I can't see myself ever doing this with a dead animal but if I ever want cool skulls, that'd be the way... very cool shot.
We cleaned one cow skull up by submerging it in a mineral hot springs out in the desert, then let the sun so the bleaching. I enjoy the detail of this one.
@pixelchix Thank you very much :) @amandalockie Thanks very much ---auto correct is a complete and utter asshat @rosiekerr This is the pig, or one of the pigs that I buried. I lost the jaw to the other one @kerosene ;)
@kategoring Thanks very much :) @guysnape Thank you kindly - considering getting my teeth done like this... @snaggy Thank you very much :) @nicoleterheide Thank you very much :)
@radiogirl Thank you very much :) @ukandie1 Thank you kindly - he's a looker... @brett101 Thank you kindly :) @dh Thank you very much :) @rachelwithey Thank you very much :) @yrhenwr I seem to have lost weight... @maggiemae I hope so...regardless of that, we seem to be getting along famously. @susale Typecast!!! Gasp! @taffy Thanks very much :)
I wonder what your neighbours would think if you just hung it in a tree or tosted it on the roof of your house like we do with the deer heads around here.
@gamelee Yes it was, but nothing a mask and a bottle brush didn't solve... @joysabin I'm old bones and I have character so it wasn't much of a leap ;)
My husband is a bit of a grade snob, and was very proud of his perfect grade point average until he took a set design class at the theater department. The play was called Museum, and his whole grade was based on getting bones from butchers and boiling them clean and wiring them into sculptures. It enrages him still that it was his only, ever C, grade
@golftragic Absolutely...someone had cunningly disguised my marker as an overgrown vegetable garden, hence the delay
@kali66 It's often quite strange where carcasses and bones show up...there was a dead sheep in our local beaches car park just last week.
@maree_sanderson I'm only for hire if I get to keep what I'm cataloguing...
@gracefullyetched Thank you very much :)
@gardencat Thank you - the first step is burial to let Mother Nature take care of most of the flesh. After about 2 1/2 months it can be hosed off, soaked in a bucket of diluted bleach for a week and then cleaned by hand.
@northy Thank you most kindly :)
@amandalockie Thanks very much ---auto correct is a complete and utter asshat
@rosiekerr This is the pig, or one of the pigs that I buried. I lost the jaw to the other one
@kerosene ;)
@yaorenliu He certainly looks better clean
@snaggy
@guysnape Thank you kindly - considering getting my teeth done like this...
@snaggy Thank you very much :)
@nicoleterheide Thank you very much :)
@ukandie1 Thank you kindly - he's a looker...
@brett101 Thank you kindly :)
@dh Thank you very much :)
@rachelwithey Thank you very much :)
@yrhenwr I seem to have lost weight...
@maggiemae I hope so...regardless of that, we seem to be getting along famously.
@susale Typecast!!! Gasp!
@taffy Thanks very much :)