Another Week in the Books

Another cold and rainy week in the books in Oklahoma.  My Minnesota roots are paying off as I know how to dress for this kind of weather.  Layers have been my friend.  Good thing I brought my long underwear back.

Monday we worked at clearing an old cemetery.  That was an interesting experience.  Small trees and brush were overgrown, so we cleared away and raked out debris.  The gravestones were sandstone, and quite old so grave markers were reduced to plain rocks on the ground.  There was one gravestone that actually looked like a modern one and had a name on it.

Here is what most of the gravestones looked like.

The one big gravestone.

What the area looked like after we cleared it out.

Just as we were finishing up at the cemetery a man who lived nearby came to check out what we were doing.  The archaeologist we were working with didn't know much about the origins of the cemetery, and had assumed it was an old Choctaw cemetery.  The man who lived nearby was able to shed some light onto the origins of the cemetery for us.  He told us an old wagon train passed by this area back in the day and a bunch of people got sick and died from something, and this was where they buried them. Interesting stuff.

The rest of the week was pretty rainy so we did some more clearing at work centers and things like that.  Nothing too exciting.  There was some tornado damage we cleared up left from last year's tornado here.

Friday we were able to do some burning, so that brought a fun end to the week.  Burning is something I'm really enjoying doing.  Who woulda thought?!  

Max with one of the fires.

The biggest highlight of my week was most definitely the packages I received!  Two of them.  I am now set on candy for quite a while.  Thanks mom and Janet.  

Yum!

Janet, Sonic was delicious.  I treated my teammate Laura, too.