Gyrating...

[alexpgp]

The factory manufacturing our kitchen is doing a pretty good job of keeping us informed. Originally, they said our cabinets would ship on 3/27. Now the date is 3/20, so we should see them sometime next week.

Galina and I have finally sawn and burned our way through most of a pile of scrap wood, with me being particularly careful about embedded hardware (specifically, nails). There's still a little pile left, but that will probably be gone by Monday.

Back when we first moved into the place, I looked and looked, and could never seem to find any kind of fossils among the local rocks, which run to sandstone and shale. Recently, I've been finding all sorts of odd little items and discontinuities and putting them by, to photograph them for a special "geology" post.

In other news, the cucumbers are now small plants, and the cherry tomatoes have finally come up into the light. I've also just planted some wild (not sure) dill seeds in a peat pellet. The seeds are a couple of years old, but if they're still viable, they ought to sprout within a week or so.

The work plate is down to a 20,000-word edit job that I took against my better judgment, but there comes a time (a) I need to be reminded of just why I hate editing, and (b) the bank account needs replenishment, so there you have it. I should probably plan on trying to get it done as soon as possible, despite the job having a deadline of Monday. It shouldn't take more than 24 hours or so; less if I'm lucky.

Cheers...

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[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I know very little about Rocky Mountain geology. Sandstone and shale? I would've guessed granite, like our Sierras. I'm looking forward to the geology post.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Do you have wild dill in your area? We don't in our California mountains, but one thing you could definitely find would be wild poison hemlock, which is in the umbelliferae family, like dill and other plants with the big umbrella shaped groupings of flowers. When your plants get big, don't eat them if they have hemlock's purple splotches on the stems!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

See this:

http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/poison/plants/pppoiso.htm

and this:

http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/coima.htm

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Always a good thing to know. Thanks.

Cheers...

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

The seeds originally came from a garden of some people I know, from plants that represented the n-th generation of planted seeds.

So, perhaps I should have used the adjective "heirloom" instead of "wild," though my acquaintances would have laughed at the idea.

Cheers...