Not to rain on your parade but 4 miles each way is still something. I mean that's 40 miles a week just commuting. That is not 'nothing special' in my book. I think you might be underselling yourself a bit. But hey, your mileage may vary.

The frozen statue is way worse, had my cat do the same thing with a Halloween costume.

My buddy paid fifty bucks for a 'writing course' that was just the guy reading his own emails out loud.

Actually yellowing from drying out usually means the moss is dormant, not dead. Try misting it heavily and putting a clear dome or bag over it for a few days to trap humidity.

My map wall is my pride and joy and that Lake Kaweah find would fit right in. I drove two hours to a little museum in Nebraska once because an old railroad map showed a town called "Sanderson" that turned out to be just a water tower and a boarded up general store that nobody could verify ever really had people living there. The lady running the place just shrugged and said maps were full of wishful thinking back then. Now I keep an eye out for those phantom towns and phantom lakes, they're way more interesting than the real ones.