tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080124.post-1163864311035651912006-11-18T09:38:00.000-06:002006-11-18T09:38:31.056-06:00Well, here it is November of 2006 and my two good friends each now have brand new babies. The second for Wendy and the first for Shannon. What a world. <br /><br />I bet we won't hear from them on this blog for awhile as they will be busy sleepless bees.<br /><br />I myself am leaving town every ten days for one project or another. I was just in Ohio. Not at all what I expected. We were surveying the Wayne National Forest in southeast Ohio. It is part of the Appalachians and thus very hilly. Not what a flatlander is used to, not to mention the trees and greenbriars. The only good thing is there were no leaves on the trees (making it easy to see and move through the forest) and it was not hot!<br /><br />I liked Ohio. I did get to see some of the famous burial mounds, Adena and Hopewell. These were very sophisticated and interesting folks who built very large mounds on top of their loved ones once the passed. This was between 1000BC to AD 1200. <br />Other than those mounds (which we visited), we found mostly evidence for coal and clay mining. They moved a lot of dirt in the early 1900's!<br /><br />Well, that's all I have to report and now I have to go back to writing my report. Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope we hear from those other two girls soon.<br /><br />:)Ginnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07728141013075952581noreply@blogger.com