Just shaking my head at myself... dug out some muskrat skins and cut all the dark hair from one entire skin. It makes a pretty good size wad of dubbing. But I could not find the carding combs and the drive band on the big carding machine is broken. I wanted to blend it nicely and by hand was not working. The coffee grinder is too slow and I am too impatient.

Then I remembered hearing about a plastic bag and a hair dryer.

Yup, a hair dryer.

The bag filled quickly but it still felt like a big wad instead of fluttering hair mixing. Then the bag slipped out of my hand...

Looking up into the mirror I realized I was caught in a snow dome of muskrat fur in great abundance! Shirtless, pot-bellied old man looking very sheepish is an image hard to forget.
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