Update 2023-12-29: Turpentine Afterburn 2023-12-22.
This is a McCoy turpentine cup collected some time back from my property.
As you can see, it is folded metal, so far as I know galvanized steel, although quite rusted.
Another of those is what you see the remains of on the fallen catface. Continue reading
Update 2022-03-20: McCoy turpentine cup 2022-03-20.
It’s been 80 or 90 years since turpentining paid off the farm during the Great Depression. Yet we still find turpentine cups, and sometimes cat faces.
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Downed catface with Carolina dog, closeup of turpentine cup
Blondie is a Carolina Dog, which is a native landrace breed, as in they bred themselves. Carolina Dogs were discovered in South Carolina in the 1970s, thus the name. They were living in longleaf pine forests and cypress swamps, just like where Blondie and Arrow (and Honeybun) live now in Georgia. Continue reading
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