Finding Motivation

Ever find yourself totally unmotivated to do anything?

I've had plenty of those days. Often times I find myself putzing around the house doing mundane chores just to say that I at least did something. But often times when I go about this routine I end up actually motivated to do stuff!

We went hunting the other weekend and our friend's dad ended up shooting a young buck. Lucky, considering the whole weekend Matt and I didn't see any deer whatsoever. Well, it ended up back at our place where the guys processed it in our garage. I would've been out there helping but I was contending myself with the wifely duties of cleaning the bits of flesh they brought in:

It was pretty awesome. That night we ended up taking the flanks, marinating in garlic, rosemary, red wine, and olive oil, then sauted it with some mushrooms and onions. That was fresh.

After it was all processed, which took a few hours, there was this deer hide. I knew I wanted to keep it, but knew it was a mess of trouble to do it myself. It had to be fleshed, cleaned, and somehow tanned. Brains and chemicals were out of the question. I considered taking it to a local taxidermist to be processed but with Thanksgiving weekend coming out, it was out of the question...

So in the garage this beautiful hide sat...and sat...and sat. Procrastinating with the excuses of indecision. Do I make someone else tan this? Do I run around town looking for chemicals? Am I really in the mood to even flesh this thing? Do I even have the right tools?

Well I was tired of staring at the beautiful day outside from the confines of the house and decided "what the hell". Because earlier that morning I was outside splitting wood, which was my feeble rationale for at least doing something that day. So I grabbed a couple chairs and grabbed the largest plank of wood we had laying around. I propped up my station, grabbed the hide, and went to town fleshing the hide with a machete.

It is now salted and laying in our garage. Here's to hoping that just plain salt will do the trick. I'm really not concerned about how "pretty" or soft the skin is. I just want the fur to stay in and not go rancid. I'm thinking about incorporating it into the copper bangles I make with fabric. So, something like this but with fur!

Saucy.

But in short, you really don't need to be motivated to be motivated. Sometimes it just hits you in your everyday routines. You just need to get moving when that spark hits you, otherwise you'll never leave the couch!