I'm sitting in my VERY organized lab (thank you Arnie, Tina, Rachel and others) and Brennan is taking the LAST photographs of our small finds (I believe it is a basalt grinding stone - very heavy), which will then end our week. "Supper" (a.k.a. cereal and whatever kosher leftovers there are from lunch) is in a few minutes, following which will be a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee and a slow good bye to all the people leaving on Saturday.
What a week - my muscles ache, sleep is definitely lacking, work looms for the weekend, but what satisfaction! I FINALLY got to dig yesterday and today and put those road-digging skills from two years ago to go use. The turrhea (a twisted Arabic shovel - good for scooping up dirt) is my personal favorite tool, although a few swings of an axes are the perfect remedy for ANY tension.
So tired and happy. Good end. I'll write tomorrow about all the cool small finds we've discovered. The winner of the beer contest this week is Darryl's square, who found at least 10 HUGE door nails WITHIN a stone door frame/threshold. Perfect context. Perfect winners. I'm taking them to the shady pub tonight to celebrate.
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