Count the number of puffs it takes a kid to blow all the seeds away, multiply by 60, and you have the time. Or something like that.

A bit more poetry for corona time:
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“Faith” is a fine invention
For Gentlemen who see!
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency!
—Emily Dickinson

"Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room"

Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;
And hermits are contented with their cells;
And students with their pensive citadels;
Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells,
Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells:
In truth the prison, into which we doom
Ourselves, no prison is: and hence for me,
In sundry moods, ’twas pastime to be bound
Within the Sonnet’s scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be)
Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
—Wordsworth