Hi, today is our last day of work for the week. It was hot and humid today. Dan was feeling a bit queezy after breakfast so Nancy offered a Pepto Bismol tablet. You can guess what happened next :O Yep! There was an orthodox priest looking at the ruins and he offered to take Dan to the kubbitz so I took him up on it, because it was only 9:30.
Before that, Jim Gimbal (pastor) was stung on the leg 3 times by a big black scorpion that crawled up his pants leg. I gave my bug bite medicine up to the first-aid kit and they applied that after getting his pants off and lying him on the sacra (the road that runs perpendicular to the decamanas). Really this is a fancy name for the Roman road we walk on to get to our squares. Anyway he was taken to the medical clinic here for observation and soon was told to drink a lot of water and rest. He is limping and says his leg is tingly from the mid-calf to the mid-thigh.
Harry was already absent due to a back injury, so our team is shrinking. Jim Rodgers went home Tuesday night. Harry and Dan (father and son) will go to Jeruselem and continue on with their sight seeing. We will be down to 19 I think.
We are working only 2-3 squares now with Jess drawing and Nancy and I conserving the mosaics and plastering. I am not sure what we will be doing in the beginning of the week, because it looks like we are almost done with the second mosaic. In 2004, they used a concrete type material to stabilize the edges of the mosaic and it is really strong. Dr. Schuler said it was in much better shape than he expected. We are just repairing what we can inside the mosaic and cleaning it up for photos and drawings.
Big news happened in the square with Steph, Darrell, Jim Applebaum and Nathan and Chris (C-5). They found a stone bowl, a mortar with a fantastic stand, and a Roman incense shovel that was in almost perfect condition. I think you can see these pictures on Jake's blog first. Stop and look!
Other stuff...
Laundry day was successful and we got back all of our clothes or so it appears.
I have heard from Carl and he is dog tired, up at 3 AM with jet lag and has a ton of problems to solve including what appears to be a water leak in the floor at my house.
Carl is going to Blog about his trip home so you can read about it.
Love you all, Tina and Dan
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