Being something of a tinkerer, Ol’ Petie brought a homemade periscope over the other day — to better see all of the fish, tadpoles, crawdads, and frogs holding down my pond’s murky bottom during these hot, summer days.

Pretty cool, but it leaks a bit and the mirror is set at sort of a weird angle, so it doesn’t work quite as well as he would’ve liked. He’s now busy guzzling another carton of milk so that he can go back to the drawing board. I’ll keep you posted…

–S.