Tuesday three things

 * Even though I'm either fighting a bit of gastritis (maybe after  a mild virus?) or I got ahold of something at the two salad-suppers I attended that set off my food intolerances), I did go out to the field site and got my soil.

I doubt I'll find much in it. It was VERY dry - we haven't had much rain - and also the Corps has been out mowing so they mowed down the taller vegetation on one of my sample sites.

Not much was flowering out there because of the dryness.

I'm fairly sure this is Grindellia squarrosa or curlycup gumweed:

 But at least I did get it done, with enough time to shower before my evening meeting tonight. (I have another one tomorrow night)

* I'm knitting a bit more on the Dragon's Breath socks. Here's a photo showing the yarn and also a bit of the lace pattern:

I'm glad that these worked out; I was concerned I'd not be able to pick the pattern back up from where I left off. It's a waving lace pattern so getting it off by a stitch or so would be very noticeable. I'm about 11 rounds into the foot (usually these are somewhere on the order of 60 or 64, so I have a way to go)

* Not watching the debate. I have never voluntarily watched one (I may have, back when I was in school, when we were asked to for either American History or Social Studies). Anyway, I know how I am going to vote already and nothing would convince me to change that. If anything really big happens I'll hear about it tomorrow. 

Instead, I watched a couple old (OLD - like from the first run in the 60s when it wasn't really regarded as a kids' show) episodes of The Flintstones and while it IS very much of its time, it's also not as terrible as I remembered it. In fact, there are some clever puns in it (a private detective named Perry Gunnite - who comes across a bit like Cary Grant rather than the Peter Gunn character he was apparently based on. Gunnite, despite the geologic name, is actually a human-made thing - a type of sprayed-on concrete, almost like a very heavy stucco) and the "dinosaurs or other mock-prehistoric animals repurposed to do household chores" is mildly amusing. There was also a brief reference to "ashtrays" in the one episode, which surprised me until I remembered that these were made in the 60s, when lots of people smoked, and it wasn't seen as something taboo if kids see it. 

(I have a Bluey episode on right now, but am going to bed early - I hurt a little from the fieldwork - it was hard on my knee - and I want to try to FINALLY finish reading "Death on the Cherwell" - I have to keep going back in it after taking a few days' break to read something else)

(And the Stickbird episode of Bluey has a nice bit - Bluey's friend Mia - who if I remember correctly was her "older kid friend assigned by the school" - taught her a thing, that when you're angry or upset you imagine yourself gathering it all up (from your chest and your stomach and "don't forget to check your ears") an then balling it up and throwing it far away. It does help, a little bit)