You know you're a botanist when typing.... you keep trying to spell "left" but muscle memory keeps making you type "leaf". Even better if autocorrect on your phone has learned you text "take a LEAF" a lot more than "take a LEFT". I call this plantsylexia. Which is still hard to spell, just like dis...dyslexia.
This use probably won't make it onto a toaster oven box or manual, but it was only too obvious for me. How else can you encourage some pine cones to open up in the middle of a cold soggy winter when they've closed back up after laying on the ground for a month or two? And all closed up is NOT going to make the right crafting project. What's a botanist to do? Toast them cones! Little toaster oven set to low is just the right size and not wasting too much energy to gently d
