I forgot to answer Old Dog's questions about bobcats yesterday. Truth be known, I looked them up just the other day because I didn't know a lot about them myself. I knew there were a few around here, but I was surprised that they came so close to the house at night. I only saw one bobcat on the property in all my 34 years of hunting and 20 years of living here, and that one was way back in the swamp. Anyway, here's the link:
Thanks to Uncle Ken for the clarification about those tempera paints. Although I remember them from school, I didn't know all that stuff about the eggs. I had heard that egg whites can be use as a type of glue, and that they were used in the construction of the Charles Bridge in Czechoslovakia. Legend has it that an egg tax was levied on all the villages to support this effort, and the residents of one town, I believe it was Lidice, were worried that their contribution would get broken in transit, so they hard boiled their eggs before they shipped them, which made them useless to the bridge builders. Even unto this day, when a Czech says or does something stupid, one of his fellow Czechs may chide him by saying, "Are you from Lidice, where they boil the eggs?"
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