This week ended more or less as it began, with the volunteers
and crew bailing and briefly opening the site, then closing up
shop as torrents of rain swept across eastern Virginia and
dumped oceans of water all over us, the site, and our hopes of
digging at the distillery. Nonetheless, the crew has been
gainfully (and muddily) employed in useful tasks all week long.
Unfortunately, even at this moment a truly alarming thunderstorm
is frenziedly whipping around 150-year-old oak trees and
producing prodigious quantities of moisture. This bodes ill for
tomorrow's volunteer day. The Farmers' Almanac suggests four out
of every five days will be rainy along the east coast this
summer. That's been fairly accurate so far, and we fear a
continuation of our apparently endless bailing, bailing,
bailing! Hopefully we'll eventually get to further explore the
robber's trenches, foundation walls, and other features that
remained undisturbed this week. Is it a Cellar? by Eleanor Breen
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