Waiting for dry weather?

Genesis Chapter 8

It appears to take some time for floods to recede here - 5 months for the floods to recede enough for the ark to come to rest, and another 11 weeks for the land to become visible

6 weeks later Noah tries a homing raven. It appears that homing ravens are not such a bright move.... Noah also sent out a dove which had the sense to come back.

A week later Noah tries again and gets an olive branch and then again another week later where the dove failed to come back.

All in all, Noah was on the ark for pretty much a year. I do not want to even imagine the aroma inside the ark at this stage.....

Once things are back, Noah and co come out of the ark and Noah builds an alter to God and we find out why seven pairs of all the clean animals were on the ark!.

Notice that God promises to never again curse the earth because of humans. Having said that we appear to be doing a pretty good job of harming the earth without any help from God.

Also another famous routine was "Three ha'pence a foot" by Stanley Holloway based on Noah's ark.

Worth a look if you don't already know it.

For younger readers ha'pence is half a penny and a foot is a bit under 30 cm (as well as the thing on the end of your leg!)

By the way, Noah's wife is not named - though it almost certainly is not Joan (of Arc.)