Weekly Flylady Thread 4th February 2008

Mudbath

Soup and brownies perfect comfort food. I don't think you can have chosen better. Hugs to you again and hugs to your cousin too xxxxxx

PS would it be rude to ask you to save me a chocolate brownie?

pigpen

SSL.. soup and brownies sound good to me.. but them if it is edible I'll usually eat it!

Toria.. (((hugs))) Glad it went well... as well as these things get I guess.

Mudbath

Torianut - hugs to you, I can send virtual soup and brownies if it helps xx

tiamai_d

x_raphael_xx wrote: »

Oooh random (and slightly weird) question...when walking up on the moors this morning Shadow found a rams skeleton, I bought the skull & horns home (they have been picked clean so no flesh/slimy bits etc) I thought it would look quite good up on the wall.
I found a horse skeleton last time I went on the moors but alas no skull.
Now my question...when they say to bleach the bones, does that just mean to put it in bleach?

weirder still is that I know this.

Buy a bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide from your local salon supplies (the stuff that's used to bleach hair) or chemist, dilute it down with water in a container large enough to submerge the whole skull in. Once it stops bubbling, remove it, rinse it and allow to dry. It can be repeated until you get it how you like.

Do not use chlorine bleach, it breaks down the bone and just ruins it.. can't remember exactly why....

Then use spray polyurethane laquer or mix PVA and water and paint on.

You don't have to bleach it if you like it's natural colour, but it's safer to give it a dunk in very dilute Hydrogen peroxide/water mix to clean it and get rid of smells. Also some diseases can linger on bone, very very rare, but it can happen.

Now, I have a jar of nutella and I aint sharing! :mad:

I still have living room and kitchen to do too.

Horseshoes has been scrubbed a bit though, it's looking good.

Mudbath

How did you know that tia? Have any of your friends ever gone missing!

tiamai_d

uhm.. uhm...

I wanted to be a Vet Nurse....

skintscotslass

Mudbath wrote: »

Soup and brownies perfect comfort food. I don't think you can have chosen better. Hugs to you again and hugs to your cousin too xxxxxx

PS would it be rude to ask you to save me a chocolate brownie?

LOL, of course not! Thanks for making me smile. You too pigpen. Have decided on cranberry and walnut brownies. That will wait til tomorrow now as I dont have any eggs in the house. Kinda weird not having anything to do and DD is at her Dads. So have managed to do loads of stuff.

Toria - I'm sorry, I've missed your news, so big hugs to you. Thank you for your kind thoughts when you've got stuff going on xx

Tia - why would you need to know how to bleach bones as a vet nurse? and did you become one or do a lot of research and then decide you didnt want to???

x_raphael_xx

tiamai_d wrote: »

weirder still is that I know this.

Buy a bottle of Hydrogen Peroxide from your local salon supplies (the stuff that's used to bleach hair) or chemist, dilute it down with water in a container large enough to submerge the whole skull in. Once it stops bubbling, remove it, rinse it and allow to dry. It can be repeated until you get it how you like.

Do not use chlorine bleach, it breaks down the bone and just ruins it.. can't remember exactly why....

Then use spray polyurethane laquer or mix PVA and water and paint on.

You don't have to bleach it if you like it's natural colour, but it's safer to give it a dunk in very dilute Hydrogen peroxide/water mix to clean it and get rid of smells. Also some diseases can linger on bone, very very rare, but it can happen.

Oooh thanks I mainly wanted to do it to make sure it was clean, I like the colour of the horns (kinda yellowy-brown) will it change the colour? Or just use very dilute? The horns might just be ok with a rinse thru, they look pretty clean. Also...do you need to use laquer/pva? I know bones can go crumbly when dry, does it stop this?

tiamai_d wrote: »

uhm.. uhm...

I wanted to be a Vet Nurse....

Any reason vets need to bleach bones? :D

The dishes are done, fish are clean and fed, now going to put a trout in the oven for dinner

Solwaykid

Oh bums, bums, bums and more.. lost post. Hugs to maralum, SSL and Torianut. Raphael, second what Tia says, don't use household bleach. I only know how to get it to the bare bone stage (lidded bucket and let the flies do the rest) I'll ask the guy at work tomorrow before you buy any Hydrogen peroxide. (work in a large animal post mortem place by the way and sometimes get 'exotics'. Haven't really got hitch hikers under my floorboards)

Level 1'd the livingroom and very little else tonight.

AnW'sMum

Please Miss Pigpen :wave: can I have my me time now?????? Erm I know I haven't exactly done [STRIKE]any[/STRIKE] a lot of flying this week but tomorrow and Friday are the paid working days and they ain't going to be easy as I think it's going to be me and some person helping us out on the counter at work. I've got some maltesers left will leave them on the side. They are safe for now as W has gone to bed :rotfl: