Wild Earth Integration

Happy Friday everybody! I’m ready for the weekend, how about you?

I was recently minding my own business, researching caves on the internet (as one does), when I came across this awesome experiment. Not only will it make you smarter, but it will impress the you-know-what out of your kids/friends/dog.

Have you ever seen the deep, dark caves of the world? Have you noticed the drippy rock structures that hang from the top and pierce up from the bottom. You may know that those are called stalactites and stalagmites. (Stalactites hang tight to the ceiling, while stalagmites are mighty, because… um.. they’re on the floor. You get it.)

Here’s the rundown.

• water
• string
• epsom salts
• 2 jars
• pilfered rocks from neighbor’s garden outside
• small saucer

Fill the jars with water and add salt until no more will dissolve. Dip the string in the water to wet it completely, and tie a rock to each end. Drop your rocks into each jar, leaving a bit of string hanging in between over the saucer.

Presto – you’ve got yourself the beginnings of a cave! Put your contraption somewhere the cat won’t find it (it’s her saucer, I presume) and check back each day to see if stalactites and stalagmites have formed.

Listening to this will definitely speed up the process. (Come on, today would have been Elvis’ 75th, and the song has ‘rock’ in the title. It’s like it was meant to be.)

I hope someone got my title pun…