A funny thought dawned on me as I climbed the stairs to the green house this morning. I began to wonder exactly how many stair steps I would have climbed by the end of this project. I know this is not exactly of intense importance, but time while climbing the stairs is not readily used up by anything other than concentrating on putting one foot higher than the other, so I began to count. It is 6 flights of stairs from the bottom of 6th st garage to the restricted access greenhouse area, and about 3 flights to the north entrance of the Chandler lab at Bio5. Because it is about 10 steps a flight, I estimate that I climb something around 520 steps a week! I might dedicate a slide in my presentation just to this calculation. Now that I have laid everyone's concerns about my aerobic health to rest, it's time to talk about the field.
If it is even possible the work is more arduous than that which I committed myself to in the summer of 2009. Thursday began with taking measurements of the field and dividing it into plots in which separate families would be grown. From 2 till sundown my small cohort walked the length of the land by the Veterinary Research Labs out on I-10. On Friday we really began to get our hands dirty. By the end of the day we have made it through about 6 plots. Apparently there's something like 30, because Mario estimates we will be finished planting by the middle of next week. My immediate concern is meteorologic because there is a 40% chance of rain this coming Thursday, and if it is anything like what we have been getting the seeds stand a fair chance of being washed away. Wish me luck!
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