#buzzard talks

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I should call the DNR Monday and find out how to get a tanner's license. I know such a thing exists from when I was researching taxidermist's licensing in MN, the DNR website mentioned that you "don't need a tanner's license unless you're tanning hides for profit other than those you're mounting" and I cannot find any other mention of the damn MN tanner's license. Also to get an application for a taxidermist's license you have to call some specific dude from the DNR, and I really Don't Want To Do That.

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Oh boy a lot has happened since I was last hanging around on tumblr.

I bought a kit f.ox at a local fair. The MN Trappers Association had a booth with pelts on it, and I talked to the guy for quite awhile about conservation, traps, tanning, etc. The f.ox was marked at $29, and the t.anuki faces were $4 a piece. I only had $15 in cash after buying the trilobite (only $10! And it's real!) and aragonite (only $5! It's close to the size of my fist!) At a different booth. My mom had $10 so he knocked the cost down to $25, and after I gave him the cash my mom said she was surprised I didn't buy one of the faces, so he gave me one for free.

He told me about a trapping store not too far from where I live, which we've been to many years ago to buy gopher traps, so I went with mom about two weeks ago. She bought me this lovely red c.oyote for my Christmas gift, but sadly I don't get to hang it on my wall until Christmas.

My mom took a two week road trip down south to visit her cousin in FL and some friends in nearby states and brought me one of those tourist gator heads. Tacky, but I love it.

And for the more exciting stuff, I got a new job after the college year ended. I've been there for about four months now, and about a month ago they promoted me to a supervisor position. A couple weeks ago I bought a new car, a 2011 Corolla. My check book definitely felt that blow, but the van I was driving was twenty years old and falling apart rapidly.

I'm taking this year off of college to pay off my loans some, and because I bought a car. I'm excited to have more time this year to work on deads. A guy my mom knows who works for the DNR and is big with the MN trappers offered to teach me how to trap and tan hides, so that's pretty damn exciting.

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Ug. I can't wait for my engineering courses to be done so I can start on my geology classes.

In the meantime, have some debatable delightful taxidermy from the little shop of horrors antique shop near my home town!

Honestly relating to that fox right now

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I saw a dead r.abbit walking back from class but I still have nine days before I move home for the summer

If it was next Monday I could maybe hide it in my dorm until then... but even at that it's not likely to work :/

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Yesterday after the cave tour our class went fossil hunting in some road-side outcrops. There was a doe skull at the first stop, and I thought about grabbing it but didn't want my professor to see me carrying around a skull.

Later on his son saw said skull, and he thought it was neat. He was then running up to people to show off the skull. He ran up to me and this guy, and was like "look! It's a deer!" (I think the prof had told him that) so I said "yeah, a whitetail doe!" And the guy standing near me gave me the dirtiest look and I don't know why. I didn't have the ID wrong, so I don't know if he thought it was weird I knew what it was or what the hell. It was strange.

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*me, having just been given four male guppies and two snails in a three gallon tank, walking through a pet store with an armful of supplies* "Yeah my friend gave me her old five gallon tank from when her goldfish was smaller, and a filter. So I'll move the fish into that when I'm home for spring break."

*my absolute dumbass of a friend who knows nothing about fish care* "I'm gonna get a god fish, and this tank." *points to a tank that's, and I shit you not, not even half a gallon*

*me* "That's too small, it'll get stressed and die in there.

*her smartass* "Oh I want it to die, my mom won't let me have a fish at home."

Listen. If you are unprepared to care for an animal, do not get one. And for the love of fuck, if your end goal is to kill that animal, just save your money and let the poor thing live at a pet store where it might have a fighting chance with someone. Jesus christ people, it's not that hard to provide appropriate environments for most beginner fish. And gold fish need large tanks!!

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Getting real fucking sick of the "meet hot singles in your area!" ads tumblr. They're honestly the only ads I've seen for the last week. What was the point of the adult ban, when it's followed by nothing but adult ads?

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Scrolling through my recommended blogs, I read your blog name as "Bastard's Nest." Because Tumblr is Tumblr, I was actually surprised to realize I read it wrong.

That's definitely the first time I've heard that lol