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With a little help from a clear plastic cup and later a 10” clear pot I’ll be watching this little peanut grow from seed and hopefully set some seeds.

There’s already some neat stuff going on. The roots are growing almost visibly, and I should start seeing root hairs today or tomorrow.

The way peanuts grow is neat. After pollination the old flower stalk is pushed down into the soil, called pegging, where then nut will grow in somewhat safety. I’m looking forward to this.

It may not be very large or very complicated, but I’m obsessed with these kits. If it’s a marble run I’ve seen it, and probably have a copy.

You can never have too many clamps. Of all sizes.

I have a lovely piece of green sandalwood scrap from a crochet hook project I’m slowly working on. Almost any other wood I’d toss it, but this stuff is hard to find, pretty, fragrant, and green. I have a couple “meh” ideas what to do with it: make a pendant, make it a long bead, make several beads. I’m not great at inlay or I’d slice it and inlay. So far the best idea is save other species’ scraps from the crochet project and make a bracelet? Hrmmmm.

What would you do?

I have a sapling Lucy Glo apple tree, in a very large pot, that bloomed for the first time this year. And then it set fruit, lots of fruit. Can I let it keep a few, or do I need to take all of them off? There are about two dozen last time I counted, but it looks like a few aborted recently.

Also sharing the cool pink flowers.

I wanted to try to replicate the color pattern on a shirt posted on Instagram by cloud9tiedyes, who was generous enough to share both the dye layout and the finished shirt. I sat there at the table for hours, trying to rewind the patterns identify the colors by powder look and end result. In the end I believe it was too much dye that did me in, and likely a few other factors. Still, it looks GREAT, I just need to try again. Last two pics are from cloud9tiedyes.

If I seem a little awkward at some angles, you’re correct. Some positions are new to my hands and so I’m still a little iffy there. It’s OK, hands will adapt. I also have rather small hands; these nuts are 55 mm wide.

I say, if you run across a set for sale, go for it. They’re really fun and different.

Now they’re flat.

OK, kidding about the sat on, but they sure are flat!