the rain it raineth on the dead snapping turtle, but not the albino aligator

Last week Wednesday night involved Fun with gas & plumbing, and I got up early the next morning to go in to the aquarium and help move stuff, which turned out not to happen because the freight elevator was broken. This week Wednesday night involved Fun with gas & plumbing (working towards installing the new water heater), and I got up early today to go in to the aquarium to help move stuff, which turned out not to happen because by the time we got there someone else had already moved it. On the way home, I passed a snapping turtle looking rather dead by the side of the road. My first thought of "oh how sad" was immediately followed by an excited, "ooh, is it really dead?" but I have not (yet) gone back equipped to carry off the corpse & try to rot it somewhere. Besides, they're not done mucking up the back yard yet, so there's not yet a lot of point in doing nice things to the clay where I hope one day to recreate topsoil.

When not fussing over plumbing or cutting out my hallowe'en costume (hey, maybe I should talk about that more!) I've been obsessively checking weather reports and historical statistics. The wettest month on record (by a long margin) for Baltimore was August of 1955, where they had 18.35" of rain. I'm guessing, based on this year's numbers, that they had a pair of hurricanes roughly equivalent to the two we've had, and they happened to fall in the same month. However, both July and September of 1955 were extremely dry (much less than an inch of rain all month) and previous to this year there had only been nine months since 1871 (when the records in the NOAA database start) with more than 10" of rain. August had almost 11", and we're over 13" for September so far (though at present the forecasts are clearing up, not that they haven't been varying wildly lately) making this the wettest two month span ever recorded by a long margin. Which I would think was sort of cool except that the back of our house has been open to some extent or another for most of it; I did not sign up to live in a rainforest for the duration of construction.

In other news, we find that the albino crocodilians really are expanding their domain.

the rain it raineth on the dead snapping turtle, but not the albino aligator

Last week Wednesday night involved Fun with gas & plumbing, and I got up early the next morning to go in to the aquarium and help move stuff, which turned out not to happen because the freight elevator was broken. This week Wednesday night involved Fun with gas & plumbing (working towards installing the new water heater), and I got up early today to go in to the aquarium to help move stuff, which turned out not to happen because by the time we got there someone else had already moved it. On the way home, I passed a snapping turtle looking rather dead by the side of the road. My first thought of "oh how sad" was immediately followed by an excited, "ooh, is it really dead?" but I have not (yet) gone back equipped to carry off the corpse & try to rot it somewhere. Besides, they're not done mucking up the back yard yet, so there's not yet a lot of point in doing nice things to the clay where I hope one day to recreate topsoil.

When not fussing over plumbing or cutting out my hallowe'en costume (hey, maybe I should talk about that more!) I've been obsessively checking weather reports and historical statistics. The wettest month on record (by a long margin) for Baltimore was August of 1955, where they had 18.35" of rain. I'm guessing, based on this year's numbers, that they had a pair of hurricanes roughly equivalent to the two we've had, and they happened to fall in the same month. However, both July and September of 1955 were extremely dry (much less than an inch of rain all month) and previous to this year there had only been nine months since 1871 (when the records in the NOAA database start) with more than 10" of rain. August had almost 11", and we're over 13" for September so far (though at present the forecasts are clearing up, not that they haven't been varying wildly lately) making this the wettest two month span ever recorded by a long margin. Which I would think was sort of cool except that the back of our house has been open to some extent or another for most of it; I did not sign up to live in a rainforest for the duration of construction.

In other news, we find that the albino crocodilians really are expanding their domain.

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