^I only dusted the mounts........and I just brushed the dust on the floor, which combined with drips of mineral oil I used on the antlers.
Plus I left the rag and brush I used laying out.
So yep.......she was thrilled!!!!
Actually she is cool with it.
Funny story though.......I was at my dad's place last night; we had a dinner for some family who came in from out of state.
Anyway........we were going through the pictures from Bavaria and he stopped and showed me one picture in particular.
It was a picture of my aunt sitting in a room. On the walls of the room were rifles, deer skulls, and a large painting of a hunting scene. There was one of those Italian "globe bars" in the corner. Also, there were some hand carved folding chairs from somewhere in Europe. All of these things exuded "manliness".
Now.........years ago my dad remarried. About the same time, he asked his sister to move in to his house as well. Before that (when I lived there), we had the entire house decorated with guns, skulls, skin mounts, lots of dark wood, etc.
After that, the women took over.
As we sat discussing this, we both noticed that almost every item in the picture was NOW in my dad's tiny office.......safely out of view from the rest of the house.
Sad really.
I looked around the rest of the home I helped to build and noticed such things as Kinkade paintings, lace table coverings, antique clutter, flowers, etc.
What a terrible thing.
His last bastion of manhood was the "reloading room" on the second floor........a room dedicated to guns, hunting, hand loading, etc.
There is a quilt rack in it now.
