5/17/05

  It was already hotter than heck when we met up at 8am. Steve's friend Joe was along. He will be illustrating our upcoming "Adventures of Dug and Phil" cartoon. He wanted to experience what digging was about to have a better idea on how to lay out the cartoon. Steve had some juicy knockers lined up. I think he may have been a little early though. Some didn't come to the door. Others just gave a "no" without much thought.

    We decided to head for a left over tunnel job. It was a deep one and in the direct sunlight. Luckily there was enough structure around to stretch out a tarp for shade.

I don't think we could have done it without the tarp

   The ground was drier than a popcorn fart. The high temps and lack of rain has caused the lawns to completely burn out and the sod turn to dust.

   On the way down we started catching bits of shards and ash along the one side of the shaft. Sure enough, there was a bonus pit. We came right down in the middle of both of them. We had probed the crap out of this yard. It is tough to believe we missed this pit, but I was not complaining. Just goes to show if you don't find them the first time, doesn't mean they are not there.

    The guys were pulling out some slick meds. Steve got a J. Roemheld & co Chicago  med on one of his turns. On my turn a bisque doll head rolled out of the wall and on to floor. A little bit later a JSP monogrammed, teal green beer did the same drop and roll. Last year we dug a pit right by this one and got two of the same from it. Joe did get a intact doll sized tea cup.

dollhead

JSP Beer

Joe digging out a bunk bottle

    I wish I could say it got better from here. A couple more slicks and some broken pottery and she was done. Steve tunneled over to the next one and found some broken bits of a fancy blue glazed crock. But, this pit was skinny on bottles save one Dr Cummings Vegetine.

  Steve's pet gold fish in his back yard pond