wouldn't want to break my record now...

And among the 625 make-up shovel tests we're supposed to do out here, the fairly small corner of old soybean field that I and a few others are working on is supposed, due to some miscalculation of scale, to make up for 90 of them. At 15 meter intervals. (we might fit 90 at 7.5 m intervals...) We have determined that if we find things and dig raidals (half-interval extra stps in all 4 grid directions) then they count towards the number.

me: (yelling across to the next transect) Kelley! I found a dead ladybug in my shovel test!
Kelley: Let's dig radials!