So, as many of you know, I sort of act like a drama queen sometimes… okay, fairly often. And as you may have read in Penny Scout’s genius tabloid spoof “Scout’s on the Outs,” we broke things off on Wednesday.

Though we never officially agreed to have a relationship, we basically have behaved that way for quite some time now. On Wednesday I called it off. You can read her blog for all the juicy gossip on that. Just so you know, though Penny Scout and I no longer have a romantic relationship, we still plan to work together on our rewilding stuff, and she plans to stay here for now. I sort of ignored the laundry list this week and focused on writing and feeling sorry for myself. I won’t even go through last weeks list but rather just re-use it for this week with one exception; Rabbitstick Rendezvous takes place next week, so I have moved Urban Scout’s buckskin short short from the back-burner to the top of the laundry list.

I tanned the other hide using eggs and had great success. Unfortunately, it does not have enough leather for making a pair of short shorts. So I re-tanned the first hide (our precious virgin-killing roadkill hide) using eggs again and had better results this time, though many patches still carry a stiffness with them. Penny says I can smoke it and then egg it again, the smoke holding the previous softness in place while the second (I guess third) round of eggs will only soften it more. But I have no patience for that. I mean, I’ll smoke it but I don’t know if I’ll egg it again. Enough places on the second hide feel soft enough to cut off and use with the smaller hide to sew a pair of short shorts, so I’ll probably just do that.

The new list for week 22:

Smoke Hides
Sew Urban Scout Buckskin Short Shorts
Complete Penny’s Buckskin Short Shorts
Create a list of “To Do @ Rabbitstick”
Bike/Camping trip up the Spring-Water Corridor
Schedule Tattoo appointment
Experiment with flint-knapping bottles
Continue experimenting with Nixtamalization
Get/buy/make a food dehydrator
Gather and dry more fruit and berries for the winter
Blog about routines of social capacity rather than technology
Experiment with drying meat

The Back-Burner:

Make Rose Hip Jam
Fire Penny’s Clay Pots (@ Rabbitstick?)
Carve Bow (@ Rabbitstick?)
Carve Arrows (@ Rabbitstick?)

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