fandomhigh | Shop Class

The Danger ~~Room~~ Shop looked like, of all things, a standard shop classroom this morning. Sam was sitting on the desk, swinging her feet and drinking copious amounts of coffee from a thermos that was on her right side.

On her left side was a roll of duct tape, a spool of elastic, and an electric cattle prod. She kept glancing around the room, keeping a vigilant eye out for small holographic children, many-teethed black things, and piranha, but hadn't seen any yet. Even if she did occasionally twitch.

A large table in the front of the room held many small coniferous trees--both Cypress and Pine. Another table held woods of a far more inferior type, but still suitable for building purposes. Another table has shovels, fertilizer, potting soil, ceramic pots, tubing, and anything else that might be found in a nursery.

Sam addressed the class. "Morning. I thought we'd try something new today and actually build something." She grinned. "I know, it's kind of a novel approach to our Shop Class, but try to contain yourselves. Your assignment is to make a little home for the tiny trees," she pointed to the table of conifers.

"Today, I'd like you to write 100 words about the proper habitat (researched, please) for the conifer you've chosen, and sketch the habitat, that you think would be best, based on that research. For Wednesday, you'll build that habitat with the materials here. Please let me know if you need additional materials. The trees will be yours to keep, plant outside, or give to someone else, once Mac grades the projects."

"Any questions?"

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Because conifers are awesome, yo, and deserve excellent homes.

"I picked the cypress instead of the Virginia Pine even though the pine is obviously a local, because they tend to be really vulnerable to disease and bugs, and the cypress really only has one major weakness, cypress canker. Arizona Cypress seem most resistant to that, yay, so I went with that one. ~~Plus silver=pretty.~~ My habitat will have at least three containers of increasing size in it for transplanting the cypress -- because boy, do those babies grow fast! -- and will be lined with dry pine bark, peat moss, and builder's sand for protecting and supporting the rootball and trunk."

Oh look, sketchysketchysketchy. Because that doesn't require Xander to, like, make eye-contact with anybody who might've heard the radio last night.

What Nadia is doing? It's not flailing. ~~It's handwaving, because her mun sucks at plants and is feeling much too lazy to research them after work today.~~ And her not-flailing certainly doesn't involve ~~very much~~ any peering over Xander's shoulder in hopes of ~~cheating~~ getting some inspiration from his ideas.

Xander's ideas include being pretty damn glad to see Nadia is indeed in Shop class as she said she would be, and not... wherever she might've been thnking of going, before.

Had Nadia been aware of that, she would have been quite thoroughly embarrassed. But she isn't, so she simply acts as though all is perfectly normal.

Which it totally is.

Totally.

"I picked the Ponderosa Pine. It's sturdy and used for windbreaks and shelter planting. So when it grows up, it's gonna do some good for the other trees around it. It ends up having long needles, up to 8 inches. And it's an evergreen, so it won't lose its leaves or needles or whatever during the winter. When it's young, its bark is black and scaley to protect itself against the weather. It can grow in all different types of soil, but I'll probably make a habitat with fairly dry soil to get it used to the rough times. Basically, I won't pamper it with moist soil, but I won't torture it with really dry soil either. Middle ground so it can grow and have a good chance to adapt either way. Plus I'll give it enough fertilizer to feed it without giving it too much."

Sam nodded. "Impressive, Kawalsky. I didn't know you knew trees."

"I know shelter." The Ponderosa was just about the only tree he did know because of its sheltering abilities.

"Point."

John spends most of his time swatting and whispering and erasing and grimacing.

"I picked the bald cypress tree. The bald cypress tree requires a deciduous habitat with with some sun. It can grow in a variety of soils including wet, dry and compacted. They have a fine texture with small leaves that are spirally around the stem. Their colors range from green to brown to orange. My habitat will be a small, plastic box probably, set up just off the ground so the wet soil can drain."

And he sketches.

Stark picked a Loblolly Pine, because he liked the name.

"I chose a Loblolly Pine. They are native to the southeastern United States, but grow other places as well. Loblolly means 'a low wet place' and they grow in such places, but not exclusively, and can be found acidic sandy soil. They grow very rapidly.
My habitat will have moist soil and ways of keeping it moist, but will also have to allow for drainage so the tree doesn't drown. And it will be fairly easy to disassemble, so that the tree can be moved when it grows too large for the original habitat."

And then he sketched something he thought would work. Hoped would work.

Because a day without silliness is not a shop class day.

Kawalsky made sure to give Denver some snacks.

Denver was very happy for the snacks and proceeded to spend the class period following closely behind Kawalsky ~~in search of more snacks~~ out of love and adoration.

To end the OCD

[ooc: AWWW]

[ooc: Think of it as a welcome home gift to the new conifer parent. *g*]

[ooc: *seconds the "AWWW", but also will have to get to this project later, as swampedish at work.*]

[OOC: Thirds the awwwwwwww.]

((*fourths the AWWW*))

*loves*

*loves in a totally platonic way so as not to incur the wrath of Bridge*

*tries to picture Bridge being wrathful*

*tries really hard*

*sniffles*

BEST. TA. EVAH.

*offers tissue*

Thanks, boss.

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