yurts, cat

[cellio]

I got mail from another school class looking to build a yurt. Did some education journal just run an article on yurts or something? These are ninth-graders in Albuqueque, so it's probably just a coincidence. (I'm out of the loop on tent supplies. Where do people buy canvas these days? I mean raw materials, not prepared tent parts.)

I dropped Baldur off at the vet around 7:30 this morning. Around 9:30 I got a call saying everything had gone fine. That was much faster than I expected. And the good vet of years past called; I'm glad he was the one to take care of him. (This was the vet I saw regularly until his hours completely shifted to weekdays and the more-distant location.) I can pick him up between 4 and 7; given weather forecasts and traffic, I think I will aim for earlier rather than later.

Ironically, Erik is finishing a round of antibiotics and Baldur is about to start a round (for the gingivitis that led to the dental treatment). So the pill-in-canned-food exercise is just going to shift one cat over, it seems. Baldur has been jealous of Erik getting special treatment, so now it's his turn. I wonder if I can head off any sickness in Embla that might be looming by just giving her the good stuff too?

The form I had to fill out when I dropped him off asked me to rate (good/fair/poor) several factors, including "appetite". I decided against writing in "enthusiastic". I do have hopes that simply hiding a pill in his food will work, though; with Erik I've had to crush them and mix them in. Baldur resembles a vacuum cleaner when eating, so I might get lucky.

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[dagonell.livejournal.com]

Custom Canvas in Buffalo. They're also *very* familar with the SCA. If you tell them you want to do a Viking tent that's 7 foot tall with an 8'x12' footprint and you want it blue with a yellow center section, they can calculate how much of each color you need. Lady Alis is blind. They made her tent for her, to her exact specs. I can't say for sure that they can do yurts or calculate the yardage needec, but I'd be willing to bet that way. :D
--- Dagonell

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

Yes, I should add that I was lucky enough to find that Mistress Clothilde von der Insel had an industrial sewing machine in her basement and helped us with roofs and hems (by sewing them -- the machine scared me).

[cellio]

Y'know, that might be where I got my yurt canvas, now that I think about it. Someone up in the Hael recommended some local-to-them canvas supplier, anyway -- how many can there be? :-) It's been long enough since I built the yurt that I had forgotten.