Free Bird (Sort of)

My camera broke, so here's a picture of Patches a few
weeks agoplaying in the Japoozi (the pit where they
mix the donkey manure and mud to form muna).  

Today we (finally) finished work in Zone 3, the enclosure wall area.  We had some last minute finds which forced us to extend work in that area a few days- we found seal impressions in a tiny corner adjacent the enclosure wall.   I sieved my last basket of dirt this morning, around 9:30am, and consequently was covered in dirt the rest of the work day.  We found some cool seal impressions in those layers, but it is a pain to sieve all the dirt looking for them.  And the sieve, made of steel mesh in a wood frame, likes to stab you at random, no matter how careful you are.

Now that I’m free of my responsibilities on site (I still have stuff to finish up at home, alas), I’m sort of a floater.  I have a bit of pottery from Zone 3 to draw but then I’ll alternate work for our ceramicists through the end of the week.   We only have five work days left- the rest of this week, and Saturday.  Everyone is in overdrive as Sunday is Pylon Day (the day we put the pottery and everything we leave behind in Edfu) into the temple pylon.  Sunday is also our last day in Edfu.  After that, Cairo, here we come!