I fetched the lavender and the cherry pits from school, and I was trying to process them for the rest of the day. The cherry pits got boiled several times and are now drying on the extremely warm balcony - no need to put them into the oven, 31 degrees (tomorrow and several days afterwards) ought to do the trick. The lavender is to 40 percent processed; thankfully, it's dry enough already, but processing lavender is a bit like cooking spinach. You start with a huge heap of it, but by the time you've reduced it to the actually usable elements, you end up with the amount that would fit into a thimble. Ah, well.