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Last Days Landfill Limericks

This lore I tell may be known by few,
But the puzzle is truer than true.
I’ve set out on my quest,
To resolve this strange jest,
With determination, I’ll find what’s askew!

At landfill prairie I roamed with dread
The mystery swirled round in my head
At last, like a flag,
A twenty-nine tag!
I grabbed it and onward I fled.

The field has been a wonderful friend
But my time here has come to an end
With joy I confess,
I’ve fixed up this mess,
Leaving others no doubt still to mend.

Team Echinacea Day at a Glance

Horoscope 28 Aug 2023: Avenza can lead you to your random points but you must open your eyes to see the flags

Do:

Slip on shoes

Staffanson Row

Downy Gentian

Don’t:

Holes

Leaky pens

Empty picnic table

On this sweltering day, Lindsey and I worked on developing a system for keeping track of demopup, the process of mopping up any mistakes, mishaps, and general instances of misses. We collected a list of every site and made a poster to keep a close eye on the process, and have some fun. Chupy the chupacabra/badger/puppy has made a reappearance.

We will revisit every site to search, demo, and survey flowering echinacea one more time. Team members will keep track of how many plants they find that aren’t all the way through the process, and once they get back to Hjelm they get to put a corresponding number of their own special sticker next to the site in question. Sticker options to come!

Poster finished. Lindsey’s art degree pending.

Haiku for Total Demo

I was consulting

The total demo-meter

Wow! We’re almost done!

Total Demo Final Countdown

Our Total Demo days are numbered! With 90.6% of our Locs demo’d we might be wrapping up as soon as tomorrow. We’ll keep you posted.

Done By Yours Truly

While working with the Echinacea Project since spring, I have surprisingly only ever cleaned one or two Echinacea heads. I have done a lot of cleaning and randomizing with Liatris aspera as well as rechecking, scanning, and randomizing for Echinacea angustifolia. But here is one of those rare heads cleaned by me! It has been cleaned, rechecked, and now scanned by yours truly. Sadly there were no achenes found in this one.

Rainy Garden Days

It’s rainy season! The past few days we have been getting a good amount of rain. Walking into the garden, it felt like I had woken up at the crack of dawn or was getting in late in the afternoon. While the rain makes me a little drowsy, it makes all the plants very happy. Here are some of those happy plants!

Total Demo Morning Memo

It’s an exciting time to be a demographer with the Echinacea Project… We are 69.3% done with total demo! We’ll start today with a team effort to knock out Landfill, which is one of our last big sites! Stay tuned to see how much progress we make!