Random crap with Uno.

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yep. 



Well, I've started on coffins...yeah, totally too normal, I know, but at least it's SOMETHING.  I might come up with some interesting things on them, we'll see how it works later. 

There's actually 2 lids stacked here.  Might finish one off tomorrow just to see something.   

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http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=7943

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http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=7951  Sorry about the lack of pictures - I actually googled and had a look at the Reuters website for you...

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This one's got a picture of a mummy: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=7974

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Yeah, someone out here just dug up some bones...why can't I have that kind of luck? 

Anyway, taking apart more rotting fence to build more coffins, and it was covered with some cocoons I can't identify.  The actual cocoons are covered in a sawdust and grass shell, NO freaking clue.  There's not a lot of cocoon identification help out there. 

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I guess you have to wait for emergence before you can use the wood?

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Today's avatar is William Blake's death mask, BTW...

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Utah boy finds American Indian remains in backyard
Associated Press
3 hours ago



SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 14-year-old boy digging a trout pond in the backyard of his father's Salt Lake City home stumbled across a surprise: the remains of an American Indian who lived about 1,000 years ago.

Experts from the Utah Department of Heritage and Arts spent Friday removing the remains, which were confirmed by medical examiners as those of a person from a millennium ago, and investigating the site for archaeological clues after ninth-grader Ali Erturk's discovery earlier in the week.

"Humans have occupied this valley for up to 10,000 years," department spokesman Geoffrey Fattah told The Salt Lake Tribune. "We do run into situations where progress runs into the ancient past."

A forensic anthropologist will analyze the remains to try to learn more, including the person's sex and cultural affiliation. A report will go to the state Division of Indian Affairs, which will try to determine whether the remains are linked to current tribes, Fattah said. A tribe may claim the remains and perform interment rites.

Other private property in Salt Lake City has occasionally yielded Native American graves. The department typically receives about six reports of ancient remains statewide each year, Fattah said.

Erturk said he had been working on the trout pond for a couple of weeks until he discovered what he initially thought was just an animal bone.

"When I saw it looked like a human skull, then it definitely was a bit creepy," he told KTVX-TV. "I really do think there's other bones nearby, and I don't think that it's that unlikely or that lucky that I stumbled across this."

Fattah urged the public to contact law enforcement authorities if human remains are unearthed so they can be removed professionally and respectfully. Erturk's father notified Salt Lake City police after his son's discovery.

http://news.yahoo.com/utah-boy-finds-american-indian-remains-backyard-223214788.html

 

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I guess you have to wait for emergence before you can use the wood?

It's all empty.  Most likely some kind of moth/borer.  But, I don't know of any that weave the silk to glue a sawdust shell this these did, and there's so little info out there on cocoons, google hasn't helped.  What's that bug even gave up when I sent a pic, so that's pretty much that. 

Picking them up to get some yardwork done, I'm half tempted to build coffin-henge. 



Got another fence section torn apart, so I now have enough to make 2 more coffins.  Might be able to swing 3.  Then there's a few more piles of crap wood within a block I might go knocking on doors and asking if they would like to get rid of them.  Gotta figure a way to transport it home first, with the truck no longer an option (don't ask). 

Rectangle design I got off some 'green burial' website.  It's a lot easier than dealing with the toe pincher angles, but I don't think it works out quite as well, overall.  It could just be a wooden box of nondescript manner.  Properly staged, it comes off fine, but a toe pincher is just so iconic. 


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the truck no longer an option

Distinct from your dad sold your truck?

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Oh, it's not sold.  At least not yet.  But they made damn sure it's where I can't get to it. 

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Animal mummies: http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=8025.msg45263#msg45263

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Last pumpkin finally going all moldy.  She's had it in her room since early October. 

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Shoutout to good ole Calvin and Hobbes.