Bag of metal animals

I played with all those toys then, and mercury too, and there's nothing wrong with me..with me...with me...with m.....*
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However...I am mad at my hatter.

 

Hi,
What the hell is the big deal about mercury? I had a bottle of it about a pound weight. I poured it out into cardboard container and played with it for many years. Always poured back into the bottle except once when I left it out, my Gram played with it and her gold ring turned bright shiny silver about two months later it broke into three parts. Thank goodness it wasn't her wedding ring. That she lost two years before. Three years later it turned up in a pea patch hanging off a pea pod.
Goodness sakes we all played with lead, melting it in a old big soup spoon and pouring into bottle top caps to make "silver dollars". My father-in-law still has a huge hunk of lead about the size of a cement block from when he used to make bullets for his black powder rifles. I melted down lead pipes to make weights for some of my clocks. I should be dead from all the dangerous things that I played with including asbestos.
greg

 

I can say the same thing, but it has NOTHING to do with toxic metals.............

 

Hi Mansons,
Some things do not need to be said. Lord knows why I am still here.
greg

 

I remember that in fourth grade, massaging mercury into dimes to make them really silver, was right up there with trading cards...

 

We played with it all the time. It just rolled off our hands, we didn't eat it.
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I still have a heavy 6'x6' heavy sheet of asbestos. It is for welding spatter and I could cover near anything necessary with it.

 

Yes!!!!!

 

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...US573&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Minamata,+Japan

http://www.medicinenet.com/mercury_poisoning/article.htm

http://www.healthline.com/health/lead-poisoning#RiskFactors3

 

The thrift shop frowns upon people just grabbing stuff and running out!

Is Figgy an indoor or outdoor bunny?

 

OK, Messi! Got it! No more playing with the elements! No more, no more, no more, no more, hit the road, Jack.

 

Look what you started, Quirky! LOL!

 

A mahout is the guy who rides an elephant. I'd think it was Indian brass. I wonder if he had something else in his other hand.

 

It is very hard for laypersons to tell brass from bronze, and often not worth the effort. If u need it for a sales description just call it copper alloy, which is true of both alloys. Yes XRF machines may be able to tell if all metals in the alloy are detectable by that particular make/model of machine-read the handbook carefully.

I usually guess whether brass or bronze by looking at the application of the item-Did it need to be bronze to work as intended, or would much cheaper brass have been satisfactory?

 

She is in an outdoor hutch under cover.

 

Every summer we get a rabbit or two hanging out on our property. I've always wondered how they survive our brutal winters. Or if they don't, where do the new ones come from?

 

They burrow so they are fairly warm. They don't have cable TV so they add to their families.
It is generally 55 degrees 2-3' underground almost anywhere in the contiguous USA. This is why, if you have the room, and have the ability, or can afford it, you can run ducting underground and cool your house.

 

How do they get nutrition below ground? Or do they hibernate? I don't know about 2-3 feet below ground, but I think in the winter our ground is pretty frozen for a foot or more below the surface.

"This is why, if you have the room, and have the ability, or can afford it, you can run ducting underground and cool your house."

Which is, I imagine, why our basement is cooler than the rest of the house in the summer when the AC isn't running.

 

They come out for food as needed and may store extras as they find them. They're also not very active now so they don't need as much. Figgy isn't eating much now because it's hot and she's pretty quiet. In winter she eats more because she is out and needs to make her own heat though she has a fur coat and spotlight to warm her too.
Yes, same as your basement though it is essentially open to the outside air.
Remember that the earth is making heat not cold and out, or up, it comes so cold will only penetrate so far.

 

I have to agree... Not every animal (or flower, etc) depiction by a maker was made to be specific ! Artistic license so to speak