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#maneymonday, again? no way!!! enrichment is VERY important! so this is your reminder to take a break, go outside, and kick around a fruit for a while! (preferably large and round) it also makes a great hydrating snack to gnaw on once you're good and tuckered 😌🍉

drove a lot this weekend!!! 13 & I visited Kerrville/San Antonio to celebrate @goodandslimy.bsky.social's birthday (HAPPY B-DAY ARLO🥳!!!) anyways, expect posts soon abt various the drainage and flood control things we saw down here! for now, here's some water storage tanks we saw on the drive down:

thinking about the improvised drain I saw in the alley behind one of my fave restaurants (Snuffer's 😈) where someone just drilled a bunch of holes in a welded-together sheet of diamond metal 💀

woah what's that? it's a brand new ref sheet of Arin by @goldpeach.bsky.social! ✨🌵🌧️ I've been gradually piecing ideas together for a new ref for AGES, so finally seeing it all come together feels like rain in the desert!

while on a walk the other day after a little bit of rain, I got a neat view of some open bridge deck drainage in action!! all down the bridge you could see little columns of water droplets falling from the drains (at least the unclogged ones lol)

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re: flow arrows, they literally make these vaned grates with arrows to indicate proper orientation BECAUSE IT MATTERS curved vane/tilted bar grates are typically quite hydraulically efficient compared to conventional grates, but placing them in the wrong direction TANK their efficiency

still haunted by this jank curb-grate inlet I saw on the way to a bar in Uptown... not only did they orient the Type-L grates so that the vanes are perpendicular to the gutter flow direction, half of them are pointing AWAY from the inlet (see the flow arrows on the grates) 😭

happy #maneymonday!!! 🎉 I hope everyone else is looking forward to the short work week! I can't fathom what we're meant to be celebrating, but I'll take a three-day weekend! 🎆 stay safe and hydrated out there!!!

it's #maneymonday!!! 🐾 I hope everyone else who went to TFS this weekend was also up to their elbows in good times! it's always nice getting to see so many new and familiar faces 🥰

ever wonder what the underside of an inlet cover looks like? here's one I saw on a walk near White Rock Lake! this side gives a better view of the hairpin spring locking mechanism used to try and keep the covers in place. the top side looks a bit like this third pic from a similar model in Denton!

boyfriends are good for many things, but one of them is listening to be yap about water ALL the time!!! :3 (base by @houndtombs.bsky.social and colored by my bf @13problemcat.bsky.social!)

happy first #maneymonday of pride🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I'm realizing that I've been on HRT for nearly three and a half years now, what a ride! in some ways so much has changed, and in others, things are delightfully the same. here's to more good changes this month and beyond! 💕 (AMAZING icon by @sakkiye.bsky.social)

it's #maneymonday, and good GRIEF it's been busy lately! that being said, here's the post I promised about the Sweetwater Wetlands from our visit to Arizona 👀

I almost missed this week's #maneymonday!!! anyways, one of the many benefits of being a maned wolf is that your long legs make it easy to get a great view of ponds! while I prefer the stormwater variety, here's a constructed wetland we recently visited over in Arizona (lengthier post to come)!

since everyone's talking abt the crazy storms in DFW yesterday, here's a pic I got of the anvil as we were flying back in from Arizona! (fortunately we landed just before all the crazy lightning across the metroplex started 😮‍💨)

sewer skills are always in demand! there's nothing worse than a sewer system that doesn't run seamlessly I could write a whole thread on why aging sewers are bad news!

happy #maneymonday!!! I hope you had a good easter weekend and found lots of eggs (or chew toys) this weekend :3