I spent thirty minutes digging aquatic plants out of a puddle on the side of the road. This is my life now.

I collected several different kinds and have them in a bucket now, making sure they’re fully aquatic and seeing how they grow. Maybe some of them will work for a tank!
There are also crawdads living in that puddle, I realized – hand underwater, hooked onto plant roots – when I spotted an exoskeleton, then another, right in front of me. My hand did not go back under the plant roots.