Back to work and softball 2012 starts

It was a sunny warm fall day in southern Kentucky today ... good bee day with lots of fall wildflowers blooming.

We met for the second time this week in Genetics after being out two mornings for the PLAN testing ... prepped up our two labs for next week.  A DNA extraction using common Food Lion products on Tuesday and on Thursday, we will be doing a lab using our spectrophotometers ... to determine the % light transmission through some given samples.  We use specs in the Spring and this lab gives us a chance to practice.  We went through about half of the Chapter 6 discussion questions and brainstormed a former free response question from AP Biology.

In Selected Topics we went outside to build our model of the solar system to scale using a softball as the sun.  Pluto (recently demoted from being a planet) was more than 350 meters from the softball and the size of a small period.

In computer science, we worked on or mailing label program using single dimension arrays.  We should finish this set of problems up on Friday or Monday ... then on to some low res graphics and animating objects.

We had our first conditioning session for our 2012 team was after school today ... about 20 players ... we met for a few minutes in my room then moved to the field to throw a little.  Finished up running on the track and did a 300 meter run for time.   We will work out again on Tuesday.

Came home and bush-hogged until dark. I have a couple of small area, less than six acres to plant with a cover crop within a week or so ... There was a lot of pollen ... looked like yellow smoke rolling out behind my bushhog.  I say lots of deer and when in the woods, lots of what appears to be thoroughwort ... and in the woods, white snakeroot ... will get some pictures this weekend.

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