The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 July 5th- A few of my favorite things...

~Tools to dig

~Tools to measure

~Tools to clean...making a kit ready to do some kid-friendly archeology this summer

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 28th- A few of my favorite things...
~When the weather swings to spring and...
~You can really dig the temperatures,...
~Don't forget to stop and smell the first of the flowers with your friends

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 14th- A few of my favorite things...
~Having the opportunity to visit a real archaeology site here in CNY run by the State Museum, local archaeologists, and historians
~Learning about a people group, the Crowfield, whose culture in our area is just beginning to be understood
~Getting the chance to help sift through history so that one day, we may know more

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

July 8th- A few of my favorite things...
~Getting permission to dig at an old church
~Finding different kinds of nails from old square nails to modern finishing nails, spanning the life of the building
~Recording our finds and what we have learned for later reference

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Oct 30th- A few of my favorite things...
~A bumper sticker with a sentiment that I can really dig
~The evidence that the girlies must have watched the 1981 Annie recently
~Collecting stories before they disappear forever with their storyteller <3

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Nov 19th- A few of my favorite things...
~Starting a dig and the exciting finding an old shell...
~Some old nails and plaster...
~And a small but pretty piece of pottery...Good Eyes Gwyn!

We've been digging at the site of a house that used to sit on our property

that sits on the old towpath on the Old Erie Canal.

The girls have been digging near the old chimney remains.

Overheard outside by one young archaeologist, "Trench number one has been shut down. We are opening trench number two." Yep they've been watching Time Team (and like any good Time Team in the UK...it's about to rain wink emoticon smile emoticon )

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 8th- A few of my favorite things...
~Casually mentioning (once again) to the girlies we have the remains of an old house buried in out back yard after watching Time Team 
~And mentioning I have an old map of the area
~And having the girlies help me locate where things used to be 125 years ago in our neighborhood...now they want to dig!

Treasure Hunt in Our Own Backyard!