If yer stupid, everything seems unprecedented.

All righty then. Today I had the opportunity to compare myself with President Bush, our current sungod iteration. (Ray's work on the eptithet etymologies requires some editing. Remember sungod, Ray!). And I was tempted, just for a little while, to plead that the situation I was in was unprecedented. You see, I was confronted today with the certitude that the Valburn soil potentially containing some of the last remaining bracted twistflower (Streptanthus bracteatus) seeds on earth, that I had sort of presumed was mythological soil, is in fact actual soil. More importantly, it is being shipped to the Cow Barn next Wednesday. The Valburn soil is headed this way because I, the Crumby Ovate, sort of volunteered RGVECB. Also, I only sort of told Red it was coming along anon, maybe.

Whoa! I need to back up on this particular subtopic. The Valburn soil was scooped up from a known Streptanthus location prior to that locations being obliterated by development. And the Valburn soil is thought to contain Streptanthus seeds which may remain viable for a number of growing seasons, perhaps as many as ten growing seasons. That said, next Wednesday it(the Valburn soil potentially containing viable Streptanthus seeds) is coming to the Cow barn. Yikes!

All righty then, again. Unprecedented.

What the heck is Streptanthus bracteatus? Well, just for the ignorant and vulgar, it is a largish annual mustard with rather glaucous foilage and purplish blue flowers, very pretty, and it is on the brink of extinction.

Perhaps you can guess from the numerous hints above where this is going. RGVECB will definitely become the repository of the Valburn soil and its contents. Wednesday, a portion of the Streptanthus Saviors Working Group will construct a containment area for the soil that will drain properly, exclude herbivores and perhaps produce mustard plants from the presumptive viable mustard seeds. So now I, the Crumby Ovate and my bosom associates of RGVECB, have something useful to do for the next decade; watch the Valburn soil for emergent mustards.

Is RGVECB up to the task? You betchum.