The trip out to Sinai and other places went well. I came back with almost 600 db of herbs, most notably a little bit of chukkah. I know that asukals was pleased when she saw that. Unfortunately, I didn't come home with any DS or SWF mushrooms, which was what I was hunting for. I think I might make the herb runs a regular trip, only because I love going to each swath of trees and getting a little something extra.
The next project is to get gardening open, but I hate to say that my heart just hasn't been in making sheet glass over the past few days. It's been devoted to things like making the revelation solvents for crossbreeding and genotyping. I've also made a LOT of bricks, and halfheartedly working on some firebricks as well. I need to get back into the groove of things, to keep up with the supplies so we can get things like flax gins (perhaps should get some bronze for bearings, now that I think about it).
It's been almost like reinventing the stone blade as far as our crossbreeding efforts have gone. I've been taking some of the Moira #85 seeds that have a lot of flax and a LOT of tendings and trying to break it down into something a bit more useful. Breed after breed produces something that's reasonable with a little water, but no flax, OR it's produced a strain with a LOT of flax and absolutely no use for practicality's sake because of the number of tendings. We've finally gotten to the point where we're doing a genotyping on one of the UGH seeds (Sapphicat #49 8/3/3 - 6 Water) to see exactly what's going on with it. Asukals made some VERY nice food, where the constitution hit is done by the time that the first solvents are made. Tonight might be a night for some Nut's Essence.
For crossbreeding info, you want to go to crossbreeding