We wanted to put up a couple of new pics so you can see what we have been doing. The first one is of Dave sorting through a tray of artifacts. The second was taken in the wet lab where we washed everything. I know the shot is small, but this particular was full of small bones - especially snake vertebrae. Today we did more sorting and washing. Some of the artifacts are probably from about 4000 years ago. We saw a lot of snake and turtle bones which had been burned. This must have been a major part of the diet of the people of that time. We are still working of the Gumbo Limbo Hammock site and judging from all of the washing we did today, we will be working on this site for quite some time. Tomorrow we will be using books and charts to further identify the artifacts that we rough sorted yesterday. We now can tell the difference between hard shell and soft shell turtle carapace. I'm not sure how useful that is in daily life, but it is quite interesting. We did ask about the squirrel and apparently there is a whole family with this genetic defect. Some of them are albino, but the one we saw was not as it had the gray stripe down its back. We stopped on the way home for a burger and now are watching TV and doing embroidery. The temp this morning was 28 (a bit brisk for here), but it got up to 52 by the time we got out. It is supposed to get up to the mid 70's over the weekend - bring it on!
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