Artist's rendering
Second corpse - this one was a sinker.
Second mouse - a floater.
Artist's rendering
Second chipmunk of 1998.
(Lazy) artist's rendering Third mouse - south skimmer.
(Lazy) Artist's rendering
Fourth mouse corpse - south skimmer again
May 20, 1998
Still no dead critters.
May 23, 1998
Disappointingly, still no dead critters. A lot of leaves,
though.
May 27, 1998
Our first fatality! A hapless chipmunk was found bobbing
in the northern skimmer. I snapped some photos for later inclusion.
Then it was off into the woods for poor Mr. Chipmunk.
May 30, 1998
I found a mouse at the bottom of the pool in the deep end.
It catapulted excellently.
June 14, 1998
Found a mouse floating under the diving board. He's resting
quietly in the woods now.
June 19, 1998
Yet another chipmunk. This one sank at the north end of the
pool.
June 26, 1998
Our third mouse - eeeww. I should have cleaned the skimmer
a few days earlier...
July 1, 1998
Mouse number four. It was a dark and stormy night...
August 15, 1998
A flurry of dead amphibians. I removed five in one day -
two from the south bucket, and three from the north. I also got a
mouse and two more frogs sometime in the preceding weeks. One sad
note: For the first time in the twenty years that I have owned my
camera, I loaded the film incorrectly. Hence, actual photos of the
above will not be forthcoming. Embarrassing and disappointing.
August 21, 1998
Four more frogs - two in each skimmer. I have reloaded the
camera with film (correctly, I hope), and I'm taking more shots.
November 17, 1998
The pool closed a long time ago. I updated the death counts.
Still waiting for the film to get developed...
