Friday February 6, 2009

It's starting to get warmer - only 30 this morning, but a lovely 62 this afternoon. We spent all day labeling artifacts. I became the pottery expert: Glades plain/Glades decorated, punctated, pinched or rolled lips, incised rims, etc. It was really quite interesting, but there were so many pieces to sort and evaluate! I also got pretty good at distinguishing between soft shelled and hard shelled turtle shells. Dave took on all of the bones and shells. Most of the bones were from fish, turtle, or small mammals. He also identified a number of different shark teeth. It was a full day. Next week we will be in the field and will try to take some pics so you can see what we are doing. We went to a lovely restaurant tonight and had steak and shrimp which we will be having again tomorrow night - plenty of leftovers. After dinner, we went back towards the center of the city to a place called Railroad Square. They have an open house once a month called First Friday. It is a large group of artist workshops - paintings, sculpture, woodworking, yarn goods, photography, jewelry. The best part was watching all the people - many artsy college types. We had a good time walking around and checking out everything. This will be our first free weekend in Tallahassee so we will check out some of the local sites.