germination

The peas are coming! The beans are coming! The alyssum is coming up all over like stubble, and oh boy did I sow that heavier than I meant to!

The mustard, of course, is well up, and the winged beans are huge. The Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, who can tell it from a weed seedling? Some green things are coming there.

I planted some lamb's lettuce, and potted a small rosemary which I'd picked up because I felt naked without one.

DAMN I'm dumb and lucky, or, molten aluminum

If you leave an aluminum-clad pot on a hot electric-stove burner after the water in it boils dry, the pot may melt.

Right now I have a huge amount of respect for the safety factors built into consumer products that allow the burner cup to catch the dripping aluminum rather than letting it go anyplace whose ignition point might be less than 1200 °F. Tomorrow I'll deal with chiseling(?) the aluminum globs off the burner spiral, and perhaps getting the ingot out as a "YOU DUMBASS" memento.

Unsettling cracking noises can be heard as the ingot cools in its cup.