Burl's Big Turnip Patch will be ready next weekend with picts ...

Friday in Genetics, we worked through some review and discussion questions ... assigned Chapters 7-8 for next week.  We have two labs on the schedule for this coming week ... a DNA extraction lab on Tuesday and a lab using our spectrophotometers on Thursday.  We will have a unit test on Friday before taking off for fall break ... Chapters 4-8, linkage problems, Chi Square analysis and labs.  Our fruit flies should be in after fall break and we have a bacterial transformation lab and restriction enzyme electrophoresis lab shortly after starting our flies.

In Selected Topics Friday we worked on review questions  ... constellations of the day was Ursa Major (contains the Big Dipper) and Casseopeia  ... Unit Test on Astronomy will be Tuesday.  Tomorrow we will continue our review and practice ... our final constellation and some reading in class.

Computer Programming is still working on arrays ... finishing the Countries and Capitals problem ... we will start our graphics unit later next week.

This weekend, I bush-hogged until dark on Friday.  Most of Saturday I worked at getting a field ready to plant in a covercrop of hairy vetch, winter peas, annual rye grass and ladino clover.  I had to disk several times to get enough dirt up to plant ... today, I walked on the clover and rye grass then ran the cultipacker over the field.  Suppose to rain tonight and tomorrow.  Took some pictures of where I was working and turnip patch below ...

Sue and I went to see Moneyball this evening ... good movie and good story.

This field is close to the highway ... looking toward Long Creek ... far in the background are our stripped out blackberry patch ... down that way is lots of golden rod blooming.  My seeder is in the picture ... my Grandfather Roberts and I spent a lot of quality time spreading clover seed on wheat fields in the late winter ... usually after a snow ... when I was young it was not appreciated but now it is!