"I'm going to get me a peat bog for storage purposes. Things really seem to keep well in one."
Excellent! LOL
Maybe you and I can go into business renting them as Self- Storage facilities!
Weird story, but I have a part of a creek (technically a river) on our ranch that turns to quick sand when it floods.
Not that long ago, I was out looking for a calf (after bad rains and a flood), and spotted a calf that looked like it had just drowned --- went over (carefully) and it had my great, great, great, grandfather's brand on it! Pre-Civil War!
I just shoved it back into the muck.