Active shooter moulage.

What is Moulage?  

Moulage is the art of applying realistic, mock injuries for the purpose of training emergency response teams, medical, and military personnel.

I don’t know how much I can type before you see pictures that are gross. Just know they are NOT real. I went to get a bit of training and next day I was creating gunshot wounds on people for our active shooter exercise. It was very interesting and fun to do. Makes me sort of wish I was sticking around as I could do this again and be happy! 

Don’t scroll!!

Don’t do it!!!!

Ok here are the ones I worked on:

Gunshot to the left temple. 

Cut on right eye. 

Grazed shot in arm….

Graze shot on head….

Scrapes and bruises. 

I had him peel the end of his nose off when he fell. You have to zoom in. Skin is rolled….



THESE I DID NOT do!!

In progress

This is gauze soaked in blood then rolled in with some blue and red threads to simulate the gut…


Nice bone sticking out!

All dressed up with bloody cotton balls in the wounds. With chunky blood. Karo-syrup with red color and oats if you wanted to know :)

Very fun!

Life around the house

Well. My flurry of job applications paid off. I have a new job. The tricky part is I don’t know exactly when I start. The timeline is a bit weird too. I didn’t realize how LONG this process is until someone asked me and I had to go look it all up:

I applied 1/6/23

The job closed 1/20/23

Interviewed 02/23/23

Offered job 3/30/23

And it’s now MAY and still no closer to a firm date. The powers that be started negotiations for a release date a while back and they settled on after I finish appraisals. (Which I finished writing NLT 7 April - which I did)…and I’ve still not been able to give those to the employees. It’s a weird thing this leadership in the government. 

Sooooo I think my start date is the 22nd of this month but may well be the 5th of June. It will all work out. I will be on the cruise that week so it would be interesting to start work on vacation. Ha!  It all has to do with when the pay periods start/end. I just wait patiently. I should have my credentials for IRS sometime this week or early next. So yeah, it’s very weird. 

Other than that I continue to run the roads going to estate sales and buying stuff I don’t need and selling it on eBay. Mostly for profit :) bought a vase for $7.50 and sold it for $75 last week. Not all are that great. Some are stinkers. But most have been a few dollars of profit at a minimum. So all is good. 

Ran into an old co-worker at a random Flea market in the middle of nowhere. That was fun!  He was “thumbing a ride” as we were driving out and I rolled down my window to tell him he has to show leg to get rides around here - not even knowing it was him!  What a hoot!  As soon as he started talking I knew who he was and about died!!!