Soil Study Mugs

Garden Shop - Top Soil, Bottom Soil (manure)

"Do you want to play doctorate?"

Grad School Parent-Teacher Conference

"I had all the right answers, but I had them in the wrong order."

'Dr Hodges, here, is from England and he's been observing us for 14 years. Mr Ferrell, an American, has been here only 3 weeks. Monique Corveu, from Paris, has practically been living with us for about nine years...'

"Can you change this quiz grade from an A to a C? I like to keep expectations low until I blow my parents' mind by acing the final exam."

"Before vaporizing this one, we need to file an environmental impact report."

"It says here that people can't live without soil. I knew it!"

"Bob! Your manure's here!"

Garden Shop: Top Soil. Bottom Soil.

'That plant food really works!'

University Cafeteria. The first semester of college is tough. I'm not taking geography because I couldn't find the classroom on the map. I'm way behind on my archeology assignments. I'm buried and need to dig my way out. And everybody in political science lies and cheats to get ahead. How are you doing in statistics? I think I'm doing very well! My test scores are hugely below the class median. I should probably learn what that means.

Penguin

How Glaciations Begin

'Number three?', 'This is NOT a quiz!'

All this pressure to be the perfect storm...

Sorry, I only eat organic, fair-trade, shade-grown, biodynamic, raw dirt.

The life of penguins.

Megabyte Information Processing Center.

"Well, I can't figure it out either. Do we know anyone that can help us with math homework?"

I'm doing my essay on John Milton's "Paradise Lost"...the video game.

"I say we settle around here, there's no chemical aftertaste to the soil: Must be an organic farmer..."

"Enjoy university darling, and don't come back during the holidays, we're going to air BnB your room."

"Hey, Doris. I'm learning some interesting things about animals from my trail camera! For instance, I never knew that bears were capable of making obscene paw gestures!"

'Hey - It says here, we're related!'

Garden Talk - "I've decided to do some muck spreading."

'I know that's what your father calls it, Sweetheart...but a nicer word for it is fertilizer!'

'The good news is I just dethatched the lawn. The bad news is the lawn was nothing but thatch. . .'

"We call it, 'Green meadows' because that's what it was before we decided to build on it."

'Dirty binoculars?! You mean I wasted 30 years studying what I thought was the rare spotted rhino?'

The timing doesn't work for eco-club to start a garden. I have a better idea. Build a compost bin. You can recycle the school's leaves and grass clippings. You'll have good soil for a garden next spring. That's not enough time for college admissions essays. Write about the trauma of delayed gratification. Never heard of it.

"Mom, Dad, college changed me."

How's this mulch for improving my soil? Not good. It's full of toxic wood chips. They poison the dirt and don't decompose. Just what I need. Subprime loam.

The hummingbird's hum.

I think he's spent his whole career studying this one Great Lake just so he can say he has "superior knowledge"! Duluth.