Childrens' tomb after excavation:
Lots of Bones:
Best,
Adam
Monday, August 23, 2010
Patience
We finished the tomb I have been writing about the other day. It is likely that there were two children in the tomb, but definitely no adults. After finishing we moved back to a tomb we had worked on some last week. It is the one that has tons and tons of bones. It is rather difficult to excavate because they are all on top of each other and rather fragile. It is a big test of patience to be able to slowly take them out. It's possible to work on a single bone for about an hour and still not be able to get it out. Tomorrow is our last day of excavating. The following day we give presentations on a topic of our choosing (mine is Roman Burial Customs and how they change from the Republic to the Principate to Christianity). After that we have two days to do whatever we choose, and then I am off to Barcelona. I'm a bit sad that I only have one day of excavation left, but I have really enjoyed everything I've done and I have learned a ton. Here are some pictures...
Childrens' tomb after excavation:
Lots of Bones:
Best,
Adam
Childrens' tomb after excavation:
Lots of Bones:
Best,
Adam
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Adam, I am in awe of all that you are doing and the things you think about. I would have to pinch myself each and every day to realize what I was seeing and doing. Looks like a pretty cool group and the clay bath....well the girls were probably all into that. It is supposed to do wonders for the skin and prevent wrinkles. We pay top dollar for just a facial of clay. Grandpa & I are doing a little excavating of our own. For the second time in 3 weeks the sump pump malfunctioned and we are digging out again and it is amazing what grandpa has hidden under the guise of important papers. Of course I will be the first to say that for at least 4 yrs. I have been asking him to go through the "STUFF" and there is always a reason not to. Well, God moves in mysterious ways so all the work and daily calendars from the year 2000 that were tucked away in the only waterproof container of all the other junk can get thrown away. Grandpa’s reasoning was that he might like to look back and see what he did all those times :')) Anyway we are making progress and all the while we are doing that the huge trees are coming down along the back yard and I do think it will look beautiful. Who knows what we might discover back there. This whole sub division was very old farm land. Bring your team here.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Adam, we are so proud of all that you do and don't ever want you to change. One thing that you said was something I thought of many times. All the different races, and religions I am around all the time make me look at each person and understand that all the things they were born into and raised believing are just as vital to them as my upbringing is to me from the U.P. to all of the Jewish, American Indian Italian, Finnish we hung with. And then each place we moved to we found out that each city was home to someone else and you learn something new every day. I had an old friend come by the other day and she is from Ireland, but she has kind of stopped learning the things you can each day. I was a little sad about that but I dragged out some albums of things we did in the neighborhood and the spark just came right back. It was a good day. I am getting my job back with the same teachers in a different school and I am very excited about that. I really feel that we do make some difference in our type of student and an article in the newspaper last week about one of ours from a couple of years ago just kept plugging away and in high school someone tapped into his mathematical mind and got him involved in all kinds of math games going on all over the state. He just graduated and is going to Western majoring in Math. Hooray for him to leave all the negatives behind and go for a life beyond Jackson. Well, I have been wordy enough. WE really LYTMNR Grandma