Archive for October, 2007

Sorry to bother you, but your child is throwing things off the roof.

This was a lousy pit! No questions asked, it bottomed out at 3 1/2 feet, hard clay all the way to the bottom and nothing but hammer bottles to show for it. Be that as it may, Tricky Dickie was happy; he got some keepers and that’s better than a poke in the eye [...]

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Digging in the pouring rain

This was the other side of the fence to the “are you going to use all of them bottles” dig. It turned out that it was a shared privy which sat over the property line. The neighbor kids were so happy to see us again poking around two doors over they invited [...]

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Are you going to use all them bottles?

We started this hole at 8:30am and finished at 5:00pm with no break! It was a slow start to the day but bottles were flying out at about 5 ft. After pulling out a couple of Cherry Pectorals (which helped lift our spirits) we finally got to the bottom and started [...]

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