Last weekend, we checked out Seedy Saturday — a seed exhange. It was a lovely event run by Seeds of Diversity. The culture of sharing and mutual aid was so strong. As we left, a volunteer chased after us to give the girls little pink packets full of wildflower seed. Beautiful!
On the day before Pi Day, we brought in six pies to campus. We gave three to the faculty, one to the TAs, one to the Math Help room. What about the last one? We ate it as family. The kids got really excited about Pi Day. It is something of a tradition in our family.
On Pi Day (March 14th) itself, we all stayed home and recovered from a cold. It was a very sleepy, snuggly, lazy day.
Mira decided that she wanted to send drawings of monsters to her uncle Brian. She drew a handful of monsters, cut them out of paper, put them in an envelope, and wrote the address on the envelope herself. I would love to see Brian’s face when they arrive. (Also, I would love to see the postal workers faces as it passes through their hands.)
Deppe, Carol. Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener’s and Farmer’s Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving, 2nd Edition. United States, Chelsea Green Pub., 2000.
Absolutely lovely read. Packed full of information about vegetables. It is touchingly personal at times. For example, the author wanted to breed tomatoes that are perfect for her exact preferred flavour profile. She notes that such tomatoes won’t need to survive transport because they go “from the vine to my mouth.”
Reading along, I realized that we’re already breeding pumpkins by manually cross-pollinating, selectively breeding, and saving seeds. We’re already doing the thing that she’s advocating for here. I look forward to going deeper with plant breeding.
Deppe, Carol. The Tao of Vegetable Gardening : Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015.
A library hold came in while I was writing this post. This one seems just as lovely as Breed Your Own. We had a good laugh in the library reading out load a passage about Deppe carrying a 20lb kohlrabi home from a farmer’s market.
I wrote up a draft of the material on Growing Linearly Independent Sets. My collaborator, Eric, has been a bit slammed with teaching lately; we mostly just chat about the administrative woes of teaching. Luckily, this week we made a bit of progress (on the math, not the woes). We’re not sure if it’ll make it in to the final piece, but the plot thickens.
Two weeks after the MAT D92 article went out to Bridges, we reconstructed a string figure and would like to share the construction in BISFA. This is an exciting semester for writing projects.
Details to come!
I watched Smoov Movement warm-up stretching videos. Unfortunately, I put out my neck somehow after playing with the moves. So, I’m back to my usual “stretching while making coffee” set every morning. Nothing too experimental but a little bit of a stretching every day. On a positive note: Smoove Movement got me interested in playing foot bag again. I’ve put one in my office and play with it whenever I take a break to move.
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