I'm sure I'm on the "watch list" here. Once my husband went off on a trip and that
night I was dragging caribou carcasses into my back yard in big black plastic bags.
He was gone two weeks and within that time I had washed the blood off the shed
floor. I sort of expected yellow crime tape all around my house though.
Diane
And along the "hope the neighbors don't see" vein
>
> I was digging up a cougar skull from my backyard one day, when my
> elderly next door neighbor looks over the fence (clearly not high enough!)
> and says "What are you doing?". I looked at the dirty but quite round skull
> in my hands, thinking it looks remarkably human-like unless you can see the
> teeth. To add to my consternation, this neighbor is very deaf, and to make
> her hear I will have to shout back my answer. In the end, I said I was
> digging in the garden and she went off with a rather puzzled look on her
> face. I spent the next little while cleaning the skull, wondering if the
> police were going to be knocking on the door shortly. They never did, but
> to this day I wonder what she thought I was doing!
> Cheers, Becky
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Curl,Julie" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 2:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] processing specimens
>
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Thank you to everyone for information on processing, it's been really
>> interesting and very much appreciated. I'm getting a Barbary Ape from a
>> zoo at the weekend and keen to get this processed as fast as possible.
>> I'm hopeless at de-fleshing anything, so will try the horse manure in a
>> plastic tub method. Assuming that my neighbours don't see me in the
>> garden boxing a dead ape with horse manure and have me arrested, I shall
>> report back on how long the processing takes...
>>
>> Best wishes, Julie
>>
>>
>>
>> Julie Curl AIFA
>> Faunal Remains Specialist/Graphics Assistant
>> NAU Archaeology
>> Scanic House
>> 85, Mountergate
>> Norwich. NR1 1PY
>>
>> Tel: 01603 756178
>> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
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