Where does dirt come from?

How does it accumulate?

Following Hurricane Ivan (last September) I had to turn off the main water valve at the street so some plumbing repairs could be made. There's an 8" X 15" box in the ground. I flipped up the lid and saw nothing but dirt. After digging around I uncovered the meter and the valve. After I turned off the water, I cleaned all the dirt out of the box.

Yesterday I had to turn the water off again. More plumbing stuff. I flipped open the lid and the box is full of dirt again. Are worms THIS active? Where's all this dirt come from? If we humans didn't move around would we be buried alive?

It's a puzzlement.

Take your shoes off before you come in the house, please.

and Dogs

Fuzz does not count as dirt. :P They wash it before they shed it.

Sometimes it's from an ant colony. Inside I blame the dirt faeries that sprinkle it about when I'm sleeping.

They've been having quite the time in my house lately.

I think it works like an offering or something. You know, like cookies for Santa. :)

...but usually there is a nice selection of crumbs available at any one time.

Wanna come eat at my house now? :P

This kind


or this kind


There's clearly a difference. :P

:D

depending on the surrounding suface the box, the dirt could be carried in by rain runnoff.

...wait, that's dust. never mind...;)

Light Dirt -- that gravitates to dark things.
Dark Dirt -- that gravitates to light things.

:rofl:

it just falls from the ceiling. No one tracks it in on their shoes and no one makes a mess.. it just puts itself there:shrug:

And I'm not completely serious about finding an answer.
But the box is next to a stand of pampas grass, fairly high elevation.
Last September I cleaned it out, and now the valve and meter were covered again.

Does this have anything to do with the rapture?
:shrug: