Call me Dr. Spengler
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torquillI seem to be at loose ends. Heaven knows there are enough things that I should be doing, and I may go off to do them in a bit...
One of those is pressing specimens. We went on a field trip for Plant Path yesterday, where they took us out to the test plots and walked us around. (I ride right by the plots when I take the train, it turns out.) I collected several samples, and they're sitting in my bag, waiting to be processed -- I should dehydrate the barley leaves in particular before the virus coloration fades.
My whole collection needs to be documented a bit better, of course -- I have several things where I have vague memories of where I got them and when, but some aren't even labeled with disease name (let alone host name), and my memory is not reliable. I need to spend some time labeling and documenting.
"I need to stay home and organize my plant disease collection." Yeah, give me the blinking neon "DORK" sign. :)
The rain has stopped, too, and I should take the opportunity to go out and rummage around in the garden. Not too much, though -- my legs are stiff and my back has been very unhappy, and I'm still feeling those six weeks of sleep deficit.
One of those is pressing specimens. We went on a field trip for Plant Path yesterday, where they took us out to the test plots and walked us around. (I ride right by the plots when I take the train, it turns out.) I collected several samples, and they're sitting in my bag, waiting to be processed -- I should dehydrate the barley leaves in particular before the virus coloration fades.
My whole collection needs to be documented a bit better, of course -- I have several things where I have vague memories of where I got them and when, but some aren't even labeled with disease name (let alone host name), and my memory is not reliable. I need to spend some time labeling and documenting.
"I need to stay home and organize my plant disease collection." Yeah, give me the blinking neon "DORK" sign. :)
The rain has stopped, too, and I should take the opportunity to go out and rummage around in the garden. Not too much, though -- my legs are stiff and my back has been very unhappy, and I'm still feeling those six weeks of sleep deficit.
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Date: 2007-05-04 22:52 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-04 22:54 (UTC)(I have a rock collection. I collected the first of them in '74. A full 25% of the rocks are serpentine.)
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Date: 2007-05-04 23:02 (UTC)And most people understand a rock collection -- perhaps a bit nerdy, but we all have things like that. A folder where I can flip through and show off my excellent sample of cherry crinkle? Not so much. :)
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Date: 2007-05-04 23:10 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-05 07:54 (UTC)I remember one of my chores was pulling the 'weird' leaves off the peach tree and throwing them in the trash (Because you couldn't drop them on the ground or they would re-infect the tree. Or so my daddi told me.)
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Date: 2007-05-05 08:43 (UTC)