Thursday February 19, 2009

Wow! There were some really powerful thunderstorms around last night. The last one woke us up at about 3:30 AM. There was lightening, thunder, and lots of driving rain. I guess we were lucky as there were some tornadoes not too far away. Despite what the weatherman predicted, it was very warm all day today (he said it was going to cool down today). It was in the high 60's first thing this morning and was in the low 70's when we got out of work. Dave continued sorting artifacts today. His best find today was a fourth stage quartz flake which proves that the people of the time were using stone tools. He also find a piece of worked sting ray spine which was probably used as a pin. I, on the other hand, got a break from sorting and used a laptop to enter all of the artifacts we have been bagging up on a spreadsheet. This involves giving each item or group of similar items a catalog number and then listing the object, species and common name if it was alive, and specifics of pottery, etc. I am about half way done so will complete the cataloging tomorrow. We left a little early in order to get to the post office before closing time - I was running low on stamps. We also stopped to get some batteries as the ones in the computer mouse died last night. While we were out, we decided to stop for a quick bite for dinner. We chose Whataburger - they do a good job. We are full now, but may each have a piece of pie later. I introduced some of the staff to Flat Stanley at lunch today and got a few ideas for pics which I will get to next week. I have to finish with the laptop tomorrow because someone else has it on Monday.