melting

getting the frozen coyote ready to go into the beetles. if you put the carcass in without thawing it, you run the risk of drowning the beetles when it melts. it is ideal to let it melt in a sealed container to keep other bugs from contaminating the meat. dermisted beetles don't play well with others.

1. a horse head in need of de-fleshing before putting it into the beetles. had been stored in a garbage bag for a couple of weeks before this process.

2. a great deal of flesh was removed from the skull.

3. the most interesting part of the process was removing the brains. here you will see that they had turned to a white paste and were easily scraped out of the brain cavity.

coyote

horse project

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Getting a horse skeleton ready for re-articulation is an intense process. The excitement, stimulation and overall energy pulsating from the whole process left us sore, exhausted and mentally foggy.

The following photos show a brief over view of the process. For the less faint at heart, a video of the defleshing process is available here: Horse Carving Video

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7:30am: The young Palamino died by collicking and we picked it up about 16 hours later.
10am: The Element had the trailer backed up to the horse at an angle and I pulled the horse out by the hind legs onto the trailer by my front tow hooks.
10:30am: We drove up into National Forest out of the public's eye. It took about 8 hours to deflesh the entire horse.
8pm: Here is the ribcage and vertebrae intact. This was the hardest piece to get into the freezer.
8:30pm: 9 bags of bones, plus the vertebra. Not much of the 1100 pound horse is left.
10pm: Unfortunately, the head didn't fit in the garage freezer, so here it sits with the popsicles and frozen green beans.

release.

life unlocked

the following audio files come from the pages of "life unlocked". the words ring so true that i wanted to have them available at a moment's notice. written by srinivasan pillay and read by yours truly:

Anxious Attachment

Avoidant Attachment

frozen embryo

fried. poached. boiled. scrambled. what does an egg look like when it's frozen? the best way to find out is to freeze it and cut it open with a hack saw.
i was hoping to see a clear fluid surrounding the yoke. Turns out the egg looks just like it would if it were boiled. I would like to find a fertilized egg and try the same experiment.