It's been a gray day... on and off rain showers and a lot of wind. Right after lunch the power went out at the station for about 2 hours. I managed to keep pecking away at things on my laptop, figuring that if the power didn't come back on before my 3 hours of battery life, well, so be it. Two and a half hours later, presto, power. I had a nice chat this afternoon with the director, Heikki Smolander, METLA scientists Risto Rikala, Jaana Luoranen, Juha Heiskanen, and Markku Nygren, and Markku's PhD student Katri. We laid out some ideas for how to proceed this summer, what topics sounded timely, and our respective schedules. It was good to get that groundwork done. Otherwise, same o same o... potatos for lunch and work on manuscripts. I took a break from volume 2 of the tribal manual to grind on the Fusarium biocontrol paper. Variety is the spice of life. I'm going to call it a workday and grab my loaner bike and ride into town... I could use some fresh air and a bit of exercise. The owner of this car was loading up his trailer with seedlings. This is great tree planting weather. Part of me says that looks like fun; most of me knows that's a lot of work!No new birds today... too windy for both bird and watcher. I gave my Finnish bird wishlist to Risto today, so hopefully he can point me in some good directions!
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