bigbendmarine
5 year old buck +
Appreciating many of y'all above the Mason Dixon line don't have to deal with feral hogs, I'll add one more reason to a very long list of reasons to be thankful for your fortune....
So I'm now suffering from "alopecia idiota" (idiotic hair loss), specifically with the vast majority of my right eyebrow missing.
"How did THAT happen?" you may be asking yourself. Well, this past weekend I trapped six hogs -- one sow with five piglets, and never one believing in wasting resources I set out to clean them with the hope of finding help. Alas (and not completely surprisingly), several friends who'd voiced a keen desire for fresh pork went MIA on me at cleaning time including one I NEVER remember letting me down before, even having helped me with midnight pig cleaning efforts in the past. The reliable friend ALWAYS has been up for any outdoor adventure, but as he was just getting off a 14-hour Emergency Room night shift when I reached out to him, he begged me to forgive his absence and save one piglet for him, which due to his years of reliability I agreed to honor.
So what in the heck does this have to do with my missing eyebrow? Well, being of 1/4 Spanish descent and now in my 50s, from time to time I get a wiry wild hair (or two, or three...) growing in my eyebrow and my wife is not big on me showing off my advancing age with bushy brows.. so she bought me a Norelco grooming shaver a few years back. Does anyone see where this is going? With my buddy telling me he hoped to grill the piglet whole, I thought I'd do the right thing for him and shave it clean before field dressing it to ensure the piglet was hair free / no hairs spoiled the meat... and... the only shaver I had at my disposal was, yes, the Norelco groomer.
Remove the eyebrow guard I generally keep on it... and zip zap the job was done, thorough disinfection followed, and I put the shaver up... BUT WITHOUT PUTTING THE EYEBROW LENGTH GUARD back on!
The next morning, still a bit groggy after waking up, I see a wiry hair in my right brow and reach for the shaver. Make ONE QUICK swipe across my brow, looking down into the sink to see if the single hair targeted has fallen AND TO MY HORROR I see what looks like a brown caterpillar plop down! So I look back up into my mirror and see a guy with one thick eyebrow and one not only missing but with shockingly white skin due to the prior thick brows preventing ANY tanning in the brow area. What started as a 10-second mission became a 15-minute exercise in doing my best to get my wife's mascara to hold onto incredibly short stubble in order to "beef up" what little remained.
The only blessing in having the Spanish eyebrow gene is that I know this too shall pass, and likely fairly quickly.
So I'm now suffering from "alopecia idiota" (idiotic hair loss), specifically with the vast majority of my right eyebrow missing.
"How did THAT happen?" you may be asking yourself. Well, this past weekend I trapped six hogs -- one sow with five piglets, and never one believing in wasting resources I set out to clean them with the hope of finding help. Alas (and not completely surprisingly), several friends who'd voiced a keen desire for fresh pork went MIA on me at cleaning time including one I NEVER remember letting me down before, even having helped me with midnight pig cleaning efforts in the past. The reliable friend ALWAYS has been up for any outdoor adventure, but as he was just getting off a 14-hour Emergency Room night shift when I reached out to him, he begged me to forgive his absence and save one piglet for him, which due to his years of reliability I agreed to honor.
So what in the heck does this have to do with my missing eyebrow? Well, being of 1/4 Spanish descent and now in my 50s, from time to time I get a wiry wild hair (or two, or three...) growing in my eyebrow and my wife is not big on me showing off my advancing age with bushy brows.. so she bought me a Norelco grooming shaver a few years back. Does anyone see where this is going? With my buddy telling me he hoped to grill the piglet whole, I thought I'd do the right thing for him and shave it clean before field dressing it to ensure the piglet was hair free / no hairs spoiled the meat... and... the only shaver I had at my disposal was, yes, the Norelco groomer.
Remove the eyebrow guard I generally keep on it... and zip zap the job was done, thorough disinfection followed, and I put the shaver up... BUT WITHOUT PUTTING THE EYEBROW LENGTH GUARD back on!
The next morning, still a bit groggy after waking up, I see a wiry hair in my right brow and reach for the shaver. Make ONE QUICK swipe across my brow, looking down into the sink to see if the single hair targeted has fallen AND TO MY HORROR I see what looks like a brown caterpillar plop down! So I look back up into my mirror and see a guy with one thick eyebrow and one not only missing but with shockingly white skin due to the prior thick brows preventing ANY tanning in the brow area. What started as a 10-second mission became a 15-minute exercise in doing my best to get my wife's mascara to hold onto incredibly short stubble in order to "beef up" what little remained.
The only blessing in having the Spanish eyebrow gene is that I know this too shall pass, and likely fairly quickly.