Snow day today! More then a foot of fresh powder on the ground and no sign of letting up.
After starting the fire, having a mug of tea, and enjoying a celebratory cuddle with the girls, I finished putting together a prototype quiver. My deer hide should be coming back from the tanners in a week or two, bark-tanned, and I'm planning on making it into a side quiver. It's going to be sort of a hybrid of native American and northern European designs, trimmed with badger fur and claws, and hopefully incorporating a wool tartan fletching cover. This involves inventing a lot of techniques I've never tried before, especially working with fur. So, I had a practice run making a quiver out of the leg of an old pair of canvas pants, and the relatively worthless belly fur from the badger. I'm fairly pleased with how it came out, despite a lot of goofs and start-overs. Now it's done and I'm ready to get to work on the real deal as soon as I get it back.
Now, some music work: Sitting in my easy chair by the fire, mixing down the final song for an album I'm going to release next month.
Hey, Pappy, you reading this? Guess what. Life is good!
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