Love and hate are separated only by the thin edge of a coin ... flip it and it can come up either way....
I picked up a sterile specimen tube and a thin, small sheet of metal, locked my helmet in place, and went out.
It took me a little longer than I'd expected to find a reasonably large blob of mercury, but I made up for it by getting it into the tube on the second attempt.
I was just beginning to feel the cold when I got back to the tractor.
Helene had the specimen preservation kit out and open. I sealed the mercury in transparent plastic, made a ring from a piece of wire, bonded the mercury to it, and coated the whole works with more of the transparent plastic.
It wasn't much, but—
Then we got out the Bible.
Later, we set up a double bunk.
We didn't set the alarm. That was our honeymoon.