After a 227-day drought ending with December temperatures above 90, a polar air mass collided with a wave of damp tropical air, condensed it in seven days of cloudburst.

Wow, sixteen lemonades? That could be enough to pay for our Jerseys.

Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see? Arrah, Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?"

I described how and where I had found the old mining gear and claim markers and then speculated that perhaps I should restake the claim.