snoring can be mitigated by sleeping on your side, using a breathe right strip which makes it easier to breathe through the nose, or in the most extreme case a surgery to fix the deviated septum
I remember a trivia line about the sand thing. It said that the number of distinct stars you can see with the naked eye (a few thousand at best) would fill a thimble (though I think a shot glass is more appropriate, but this WAS a kid’s book) the number of actual stars in our galaxy would fill a good sized wheelbarrow (roughly 1-400 billion) but for all the galaxies in the observable universe, every dry grain of sand on every beach and desert wouldn’t be enough (they SPECIFICALLY said dry sand, so I’m assuming if you scooped all of the sand from the bottom of the ocean that would be enough)
you know what? I think there is a legitimate reason why they never “just built a raft.” The whole point of the series is that a massive storm blew their small ship off course and wrecked it on that tiny island, which I DISTINCTLY remember being described as “remote as can be.” It wasn’t near ANY normal shipping lanes and likely was very far from anything they could use to restock supplies. The natural wind and ocean currents also could have been unfavorable, making it impossible to plot a course towards civilized waters. It probably wasn’t that the professor couldn’t build a boat at all, it was likely the case that he knew it would be suicide to try to go out into those waters in nothing but a small boat cobbled together with the resources they could find on that island, and fans have been slandering that poor man for DECADES.
If it wasn’t Tiff it could just as easily have been ANY girl who spent any amount of time with him. It’s only natural for a person to grow resentment towards someone who attempts to isolate them and lashes out at potential friendships (i.e. jealous girlfriend.) The only reason their relationship has lasted even this long is because she puts out so much, but that can only get you so far.
what you do is put a brick inside the pumpkin, so that when they go to smash it they hurt themselves, also make sure you have a camera that can see the pumpkin so you can identify vandals if they decide to break anything else.
snoring can be mitigated by sleeping on your side, using a breathe right strip which makes it easier to breathe through the nose, or in the most extreme case a surgery to fix the deviated septum