What are you doing today?

[Deleted member 149562]

Today......wheelie bins out for emptying, grocery shopping being delivered and my weekly wrestling match with the duvet that is non compliant when changing its cover... (usually ends with a vast vocabulary of expletives from me and a duvet pinned down and dealt with after a fight)

 

[WhistlingBadger]

@Rocky998 speed goat is slang for pronghorn. Whew, got it all cut up. I'm going to get about 10 pounds of sausage from this guy, which I'll grind tomorrow night, 5 pounds of jerky meat which is now curing in the fridge (I'll get it smoking over cherry wood Thursday morning) which should come out to around 2 lb of finished jerky. Plus another dozen pounds or so of steaks and pot roasts. And a rather nice skull mount on the wall of the den.

Now, if I can manage to kill an elk too, we'll have enough meat to last the whole year and then some.

 

[Essjay]

my weekly wrestling match with the duvet that is non compliant when changing its cover...

Pegs, 10 of them for a king size duvet. 2 to hold each top corner in place, 6 spread across the top, and the last 2 half way down each side. The bottom half is then quite easy. I look like an inverted hedgehog when I start as I clip all 10 pegs to the front of my T shirt to make them easier to get hold of while holding a quilt in place inside the cover.

 

[Valkyrie_Lips]

I have a field skills lab later today. We are learning about biological measurement using parallel calipers, clinometer, and diameter tape.

 

[Rocky998]

I have a field skills lab later today. We are learning about biological measurement using parallel calipers, clinometer, and diameter tape.

Good luck! Kinda sounds fun!

 

[Valkyrie_Lips]

Good luck! Kinda sounds fun!

Thanks! I always enjoy my field skills and ecology labs, so I think it will be fun in a nerdy nature girl kinda way.

 

[Rocky998]

Thanks! I always enjoy my field skills and ecology labs, so I think it will be fun in a nerdy nature girl kinda way.

Yup! I'm kinda nerdy when it comes to those things as well LOL . I love learning new things about nature and the world. I wish I could find a place that does stuff like that around here... But I don't think there are many opportunities in my area of NC.

 

[Valkyrie_Lips]

Yup! I'm kinda nerdy when it comes to those things as well LOL . I love learning new things about nature and the world. I wish I could find a place that does stuff like that around here... But I don't think there are many opportunities in my area of NC.

You never know, there may a college near you that has a program like mine. The college that I'm at right now specializes in environmental science so most of their programs are heavily geared toward that.

 

[Rocky998]

You never know, there may a college near you that has a program like mine. The college that I'm at right now specializes in environmental science so most of their programs are heavily geared toward that.

I need to find one for aquatics biology... That's even harder

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Pegs, 10 of them for a king size duvet. 2 to hold each top corner in place, 6 spread across the top, and the last 2 half way down each side. The bottom half is then quite easy. I look like an inverted hedgehog when I start as I clip all 10 pegs to the front of my T shirt to make them easier to get hold of while holding a quilt in place inside the cover.

Duvet Cover Replacement must be a uniquely British pastime. I have never done that. Sounds like it should be an Olympic sport.

 

[Valkyrie_Lips]

I need to find one for aquatics biology... That's even harder

Very true since it's so specialized. Well, if you want to move to Canada, my school has a fish hatchery so I'm 90% sure they probably also offer some kind of aquatic biology program.

 

[Rocky998]

Very true since it's so specialized. Well, if you want to move to Canada, my school has a fish hatchery so I'm 90% sure they probably also offer some kind of aquatic biology program.

Maybe I'll visit some time

 

[Essjay]

Duvet Cover Replacement must be a uniquely British pastime.

That raises a question.

What does the typical American in cold weather places use as bedding?



Many, many years ago, in the UK we had a sheet, then blankets the number of which were determined by how cold it was (this was pre-central heating in most homes), then an 'eiderdown'*, finally topped with a bedspread often made from candlewick.
*a quilt, originally stuffed with down from an eider duck, but the cheap ones had duck feathers. It fit from the bottom edge of the pillow to the bottom of the bed, and exactly edge to edge sideways. There was no overhang over the edges of the bed.
In the early 1970s the continental quilt or duvet was introduced to the UK and that's what almost everyone uses nowadays. We have 4 (1 tog, 4.5 tog. 7.5 tog and 9 tog) depending on the season. The 1 tog is the most difficult to get inside the cover as it's the thinnest. I cannot get the cover on that one without pegs. The 4.5 tog isn't too bad, I have to resort to pegs around half the time.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

That raises a question.

What does the typical American in cold weather places use as bedding?



Many, many years ago, in the UK we had a sheet, then blankets the number of which were determined by how cold it was (this was pre-central heating in most homes), then an 'eiderdown'*, finally topped with a bedspread often made from candlewick.
*a quilt, originally stuffed with down from an eider duck, but the cheap ones had duck feathers. It fit from the bottom edge of the pillow to the bottom of the bed, and exactly edge to edge sideways. There was no overhang over the edges of the bed.
In the early 1970s the continental quilt or duvet was introduced to the UK and that's what almost everyone uses nowadays. We have 4 (1 tog, 4.5 tog. 7.5 tog and 9 tog) depending on the season. The 1 tog is the most difficult to get inside the cover as it's the thinnest. I cannot get the cover on that one without pegs. The 4.5 tog isn't too bad, I have to resort to pegs around half the time.

Looks like a duvet is what most of us call a comforter or a down quilt in the USA. We have one of those, which we call the marshmallow blanket. Usually we just pile on the blankets when it gets cold. I'm partial to wool blankets myself, but they make Mrs. Badger itchy, so we mostly use flat/patchwork quilts my mother-in-law makes.

I have a friend who has tanned moose hides on his beds. That might be TOO warm!

 

[Slaphppy7]

That raises a question.

What does the typical American in cold weather places use as bedding?

My dogs