Curing with borax and salt. Been getting lots of curing questions.. there are posts under my DIY projects link with dry preservation and wet preservation but i figured why not do a more simplistic rambling post on home mummification. You can cure pretty much anything you want with borax and salt… from animal hides to small rodent feet….from full bird capes and skins to entire heads. Depending on what you are curing, your climate and your curing environment the process can take as little as a couple weeks to as long as a year. Right now ive got a bunch of natural remains in various stages of curing and completion, Since our move to the rainforest environment of the washington woodlands, usual curing time for me has almost doubled thanks to the perpetual rainfall and humidity ( which i LOVE!) One thing that has been such a perpetual inquiry is how long certain things will take to cure, always remember it depends on size, how much flesh and fat it has, your environment and curing set up. Hot dry places will have a faster curing time opposed to more warm wet environments… moisture tends to provoke the decomposition process so when you are curing in a wet humid environment its best to go a bit overboard with the borax/salt and exchange it out every couple weeks so the moisture doesnt stay contained within the curing solution and flesh… dry environments dont necessarily need to exchange out the curing solutions as frequently, mostly when replacing the borax/salt solutions in drier climates its for odor prevention rather than moisture prevention. Another thing to keep in mind is the size and amount of flesh…. little mice feet,bird wings, small bird feet,smaller tails and the like, take only a couple of weeks to fully cure, this is because they dont have much flesh for the curing solution to soak and extract through.
* when curing, always make sure your curing container is able to breath… last thing you want in any climate is a closed container with fleshy bits trying to cure in something that will sweat condensation… Ive done that a few times with mason jars and mice… leading to a bunch of condensation so when i opened the jar there was a nice pop,hiss and a smell you wouldnt believe.
For larger feet like cats,dogs,deer,raccoon etc will take quite a bit longer since there is a much thicker amount of flesh for the solution to work through… for anything larger than a raccoon paw… it helps to rub the borax or salt solution under as much of the skin as you can or make a small slit down the center to fill and rub down with the solution…. you can even skin what you are curing and rub the skin and flesh down before sewing and putting it back together… every bit helps when mummifying.
How can you tell your piece is done curing? Well personally i wait until ALLLLLLL moisture is gone from the flesh and limbs are no longer flexible.. I find that leaving even a hint of moisture within flesh even if its been cured , can leave a strange odor….. so to keep safe and make sure there is no odor or possibility of future decomp, i cure until everything is dried, stiff as hell and flesh is hard to the touch
Another common question is odor…. odor can come hand in hand with mummification… alot of it depends on how fresh your remains are when you start the process, moisture and general upkeep. The best thing for me when trying to keep odor down is to always mix in cedar sprigs, burn cedar, layer the curing container with cedar or even pine or use cedar and pine as a stuffer for creatures that have been gutted…. cedar is a great bug and pest repellant,it is a wonderful aid for mummification ( especially when burned or ground and mixed into the solution or rubbed on the flesh) as well as carrying great magical properties that are beneficial for working with remains. After the curing process you can take your remains and hot box them with cedar smoke to further mummify and allow it to absorb the very sweet woodland aroma of burning cedar… same for pine, rosemary and various other plants. If that doesnt take away your odor you can repeat the smoke process a few times, air dry, sun dry or give a dry soak in some loose leaf teas/herbs…. Lavender/clove/cinnamon/dried citrus peels/ dried rosemary/rose/mint and pretty much any other aromatic herb would be great for a dry herb bath!
Home preservation and mummification is a cheap affordable way to collect mementos of fallen souls and keep their memory alive.
You can get as technical or intricate as you like or keep it basic and simple. Rubbing skins with honey and resin, burning herbs to dry and cure, using the sun to naturally mummify, using salt, using borax, using alcohol, formalin, cornmeal, teas, barks so on and so forth. There are endless possibilities for curing at home.
Please keep in mind that i am NOT a professional when it comes to these things, i am self taught so my ways of preservation may be much different than the professional taxidermist and curator
Below A curing container with full racoon head. The container is nothing more than 2 plastic potting containers lined with sprigs of cedar and pine, then filled with borax and salt
The racoon head after a few weeks in the solution, notice the eyes, nostrils and even the mouth have all been filled and packed with borax and salt.
Next curing container is a plant drain tray, again filled with curing solution and sprigs of cedar. This little tray has about 30 small pieces curing, from mouse heads, to tails and feet, from raccoon paws to squirrel bits.
photo below shows 2 small rat heads, a back raccoon paw, to back rat feet, 1 forward paw and tail. looking in the container you can see the partial squirrel head, more rat heads, tails, paws and small cedar pieces.
The rat feet and tails are about done, the raccoon paw will need another couple weeks and the heads will probably need another week if not 2.
Photo below A plate filled with rodent skins, skins have all been rubbed down with salt and borax and then placed on a plate with a layer of old coffee grounds, layer of borax, layer of salt and of course some cedar. The coffee grounds are experimental for odor control and pest repellant.
Heartbreaking Simpsons Moments 1/∞: Bart Gets an F
I never understood why it’s an F if he gets more than half out of 100? Unless it’s more than 100. If you get more than half the answers right how is it an F?
You must not be from America. Here, grading is fucked up.
Average American Grading Scale: A+- 97-100 A – 94-96 A- – 90-93 B- 80-89 C- 70-79 D- 60-69 F- 59 and under
oh wow that is fucked up
why do they skip E in america
There’s an E in other grading scales?
And in some places in America it goes by a 7 point scale, so it’d be A – 100-93 B – 92-85 C – 84-78 D – 77-70 F – 69 and below
Now you understand why American kid’s feel like there’s no point to school. If you have a 100 question text, and get 79 of them correct, that’s a C. That mean’s your Average Intelligence on this particular subject. And it get’s even worse when you have only like… a 10 question quiz. If you get two wrong? that’s a B. 80 fucking %. Now tell me again why American school’s are easier?
No wait but whats the grading system in other countries?
UK Grading Scale
100-70: A
69-60: B
59-50: C
49-40: D
Below 40: F
ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME?! THATS INSANE!!!!
next time you try to tell americans that we’re stupid
i’m gonna remind you
that our “average” is your “A”
French system: a grade on 20, 40 on big exams, 10 for short tests. There are no real levels but kids made them: above 15 is great, above 10 is good, above 5 is a bit low and under 5 is bad. We are only judged by our unofficial system we do by ourselves, teachers often announce an average on tests so you know how good you did. And it’s better like this.
If you want to know why the United States has one of the highest student depression/anxiety rates in the world, please examine this post. Americans aren’t stupid, our grading scale is much harder.
I’ve been reposting this for six years and shall do so till my dying day please EU Liberate our country.
Poland grading ( This is college tho any other fellow Polish student please add the high school grading system pls? ):
5 -> 91-100% ( very good grade )
4.5 -> 81-90% ( good grade plus )
4 -> 71-80% ( good grade )
3.5 -> 61-70% ( passing/sufficient grade plus )
3 -> 51-60% ( passing/sufficient grade )
2 -> 50 and below ( failed/insufficient grade )
Aaaaa… I hate the american school system.
Also American college costs a fortune and if you are on scholarships you have to maintain a B or A average and you DO NOT pass the class if you score below a C overall. I had a math class where you had to pass the final exam with. C or you failed the whole class regardless if you had good grades and did your homework (I only failed the final cause I’m bad at taking tests).
To keep a 3.0 grade point average in college in America (which they push and hound you all the time about because the good graduate schools won’t take you if your GPA is below 3.0) you have to maintain all Bs. And if you want to be an honours student you have to maintain all As.
To give you an idea of this university’s workload, my brother for one class, had to write 70 single-page or double-page papers last semester. For one single class. And he’s trying for a Bachelor’s degree, that wasn’t even Master’s Degree level workload.
The American education system is designed to make you fail because if you aren’t educated you can’t complain about being paid unfairly. If you aren’t educated they can pay you slave wages. If you are a business and you require a high end degree for every little job and your employees aren’t educated then you can disguise the pretense of wage theft as not paying you because you aren’t qualified.
Set people up to fail school and you marginalize entire groups of people, pay them hardly anything and keep the money for yourself.
Capitalism is literally the cause of this.
Israel grading scale
55 is technicaly a pass
65 is a pass
Anything over 65 is a grade you can be proud of, 50 and under is a fail.
I’m watching the video now, 2 minutes in and he already gives more reasons and more examples of censorship than just boobs being hidden from children. He even mentions magic being censored. Maybe you should watch the video before thinking you know everything about it?
Didn’t it also touch on how SU is censored in some countries because of its lesbian characters? And how the lesbian couple in Sailor Moon were turned into cousins in the states while leaving in their bedroom eyes for each other?
Man some of y’all in the comments really not giving the video a chance huh?
They didnt. Hell, he even goes into the stupidity of Jelly Donuts/Hamburgers for fucking rice balls.
So yeah OP, maybe next time you shouldn’t judge a video solely on it’s thumbnail so you don’t make yourself look like a dumbass
1. There are no variables; everything is a constant. Change is merely an illusion. You get out of each program exactly what you put in, but somehow you feel that you understand it better.
2. You are the compiler, and thus the code is written in whichever form fixes it best in your memory. There is an interesting algebra to account for the probability that some instructions will be forgotten. A number of papers have been written on the subject.
3. We consider all programs as living entities, of a sort. Ethically, therefore, we have some problems with the idea of a program that terminates. Instead, we write programs that will live for ever, assuming suitable infrastructure to live on. Because of this requirement, we are always short of resources. New programs are written only rarely, when we have had an equipment delivery. Of course, we lose many to crashes each year; but we are always careful to offer up a prayer for their souls.
4. Programs are myths, myths are programs. Each encapsulates the instructions of fate. It does not matter which queen sleeps with the fire god, or which flint is thrown down the well. The outcome is always the same in each possible world. And at the end all worlds will reach the terminating conditions by one path or another.
5. We offer up the code to the machine cautiously, hoping that it will approve. Based on certain tropes, intutions, and appreviations, we believe we have made the code more palatable to flow through the prayer wheels of our silicon angels. We have added more brackets, in the hope that they will be experienced as hugs. We loop only to the extent that it will not induce dizziness. When we receive our output we do so in respectful silence.
6. Errors and mishandled information are sins, and we have a heavy responsibility on us to eliminate them. Our languages are written above all else to minimise the number of bugs. It has been necessary to eliminate a certain amount of flexibility, choice and human input to do this. But at least we can be assured that our pope writes infallible code.
7. We indent with three spaces. This was the original intention of the developers. It is not correct to indent with four and is offensive to their memory. All such incidents of disrespect shall be dealt with.
8. We consider human languages to have developed greater and greater levels of abstraction, further and further from the underlying code. As such we work backwards, trying to reverse engineer ourselves. We learn the oldest languages we can. At night we fall asleep with the obsessive repetitions of Gilgamesh in our ears. We pray to Sapir and to Whorf that we can get back at last to the original instructions, so that we might debug them.
These two pictures are super important to get a feeling of how FAST Jackson is.
McQueen weight 1 pound per square while Jackson weight less then 0,30 pounds per square foot. This is the first huge advantage Jackie has over McQueen.
Then there’s the speed. The fastest McQueen can go is 198 mph, while Jackson is 294 mph. Jackson can go 96 mph faster than McQueen!!! No wonder our boy is falling behind!!
Then there’s air resistance. Jackson is extremely slick compared to McQueen and he as basically no air resistance.
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