Pipe rock..

..chores (daily animal routines) done, tea made, bins put out, daily sudoko done, and breakfast..

Then planned today's tasks, reading polytunnel instructions, again.. Just making sure I know what's going where, and the order to do things.. Planned to fix bottom ground rail on one side, and dig and concrete in the last corner post.. Good plans..

Overalls on, wellies on, and out to shed. Select the parts needed, 4 bolts, M10's and 140 mm, 2 bolts, M10's by 80 mm, 4 spacers, 2 corner brackets, and a joining plate and nails, 17 mm socket and spanner, hammer, spirit level, and 10 mm bit with hand drill, and then..

It rained poured down.. All day.. Till about 4ish..

No field work today.. I don't mind the wet, it's the pathering about in the mud that's the problem..

Geology class tonight,so a pic of a lump of pipe rock. Overlying the Lewisian gneiss (3,000,000,000 years old) is a layer of Durness limestone. Once a shallow seabed, worms lived in the sediments, in tubes, emerging to feed. These burrows when vacated infilled with silica forming a "cement" in the tubes. Erosion exposes these harder silicates (the lumps on the top). This piece is a 4" cube, this being one of the corners.. I collected this piece from the Cape Wrath peninsular..

A better day forecast tomorrow.