Squee!
Only 36 hours and 20 minutes left. ...Nooo...I'm not keeping count.
To top everything off, my mother decided to take Becky to Ocean City this weekend with my uncle and cousins, so they've left and its just Dad and me here until Saturday afternoon. At which point, its not going to matter that they're back because I'll be at Liz's and with any kind of luck will be there for almost all of the day on Sunday too. Then I come back here and babysit a neighbor 'til nine. Tonight and today were really, really good. We hung out in the lab today and washed and sorted stuff. Saw my first pink pipe and let me tell you, it literally is bubblegum pink. SO cool. I can't wait to find one this summer. I also hope that I find another one of the stamps for the decorations. There's only 3 in existence, and one of them was found at our site at Swan Cove. The other 2 are in England. There's also a kind of pipe called a crumhorn pipe (think a normal tobacco pipe, but one that's been bent so its kinda wavey). There's 2 of these in existence. One in a museum in Amsterdam, and one, you guessed it, in storage at the lab that was found at Swan Cove too. Swan cove, for the record, is the only known location of a colonial pipe kiln. People know that pipes were being made in America, but this is the only site that's ever been found for certain. This guy, Emanuel Drue, made pipes of all different colors...pink, red, orangey, white, grey, ones with a greenish hue, brown, beige...they're really, really cool.
By the way, the stamp I was talking about? It's the exact stamp that was used on the crumhorn pipe. The crumhorn has about three other kinds of decorations on it as well, so there's at least 3 other stamps out there hopefully. It'd be -really- big to find one of them.
The only reason I keep going on about pipes is because the mother of one of the highschool interns came into the lab today (while we were washing stuff from Swan Cove actually). Our field director got really excited and brought out some of the boxes with the pipes in them.
Tomorrow we're going to be way out in the middle of nowhere in a resevoir that's been partially dammed up for repairs picking up artifacts from a colonial settlement that used to be there. So with any kind of luck the thing won't burst while we're still in the resevoir. Yes, I've been to Johnstown, I know what can happen. And big thunderstorms are predicted for tomorrow too. Not paranoid, I swear!
So yes, definitely -much- cheerier today.
To top everything off, my mother decided to take Becky to Ocean City this weekend with my uncle and cousins, so they've left and its just Dad and me here until Saturday afternoon. At which point, its not going to matter that they're back because I'll be at Liz's and with any kind of luck will be there for almost all of the day on Sunday too. Then I come back here and babysit a neighbor 'til nine. Tonight and today were really, really good. We hung out in the lab today and washed and sorted stuff. Saw my first pink pipe and let me tell you, it literally is bubblegum pink. SO cool. I can't wait to find one this summer. I also hope that I find another one of the stamps for the decorations. There's only 3 in existence, and one of them was found at our site at Swan Cove. The other 2 are in England. There's also a kind of pipe called a crumhorn pipe (think a normal tobacco pipe, but one that's been bent so its kinda wavey). There's 2 of these in existence. One in a museum in Amsterdam, and one, you guessed it, in storage at the lab that was found at Swan Cove too. Swan cove, for the record, is the only known location of a colonial pipe kiln. People know that pipes were being made in America, but this is the only site that's ever been found for certain. This guy, Emanuel Drue, made pipes of all different colors...pink, red, orangey, white, grey, ones with a greenish hue, brown, beige...they're really, really cool.
By the way, the stamp I was talking about? It's the exact stamp that was used on the crumhorn pipe. The crumhorn has about three other kinds of decorations on it as well, so there's at least 3 other stamps out there hopefully. It'd be -really- big to find one of them.
The only reason I keep going on about pipes is because the mother of one of the highschool interns came into the lab today (while we were washing stuff from Swan Cove actually). Our field director got really excited and brought out some of the boxes with the pipes in them.
Tomorrow we're going to be way out in the middle of nowhere in a resevoir that's been partially dammed up for repairs picking up artifacts from a colonial settlement that used to be there. So with any kind of luck the thing won't burst while we're still in the resevoir. Yes, I've been to Johnstown, I know what can happen. And big thunderstorms are predicted for tomorrow too. Not paranoid, I swear!
So yes, definitely -much- cheerier today.