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January 2014
On 7th January 17 people started digging on the site next to Carter's House at the entrance to the Valley of the Kings. They are involved in the important task of preserving the tombs in the Theban Necropolis. An exact facsimile of the tomb of Tutankhamun will open to visitors next spring.
The project has been funded by Factum Foundation.
More information: goo.gl/Eb6M29
A Hawk sounded an alarm and all activity ceased. All the Meerkat's headed toward their holes in the ground.
Lowry park Zoo
Tampa, Florida
If you don't have enough arm power to push the shovel down when digging then you RIDE it down *grin*. Blogged @ rosinahuber.blogspot.com/2011/03/chicken-coop-remodel.html
327/365 Days in Color
I noticed this beautiful , bright day lily in my neighbor's garden. Once I peered over the fence, I saw a bonus chocolate brown butterfly, enjoying lunch !!. I think it's a Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, the dark version, but I'm not 100% sure :)
Spent the day chiselling chunks of wayward concrete from beneath the fence, chopping up the cement base exposed when the flags were lifted, gathering up the gravel from the troughs either side of the garden and digging soil that backs up against the breeze block pen.
It's donkey work, but it will open things up. The garden is shaping up nicely.
Two vents from the defunct Annie Pit, reminders of west Cumbria's rich coal mining heritage, form the backdrop to a basement battle between Workington and Fleetwood in rugby union's North Lancs/Cumbria division. Visitors Fleetwood won this scrum and the game, 40-13, at the Ellis Sports Ground to all but condemn the Zebras to relegation to the Cumbria League.
Cousin Nathan & Josh dig for treasure in the back yard. They turned up numerous rocks, but nothing of value.
Will be covering this big pile to break down for using next year, and also growing squash in it over the summer. Still pondering what to do with all those stones removed from the new beds so far!
The disappearing butt of a busy little bee. We were waking a dusty trail on the Newnes Plateau when we came across a swarm of hundreds if not thousands, of Lasioglossum bees nesting in the soil. There were loads of flowering Pultenaea shrubs along the path that they were visiting for pollen. We watched and filmed them diving into, or digging into, their nesting holes. [NSW, Australia]
January 2014
On 7th January 17 people started digging on the site next to Carter's House at the entrance to the Valley of the Kings. They are involved in the important task of preserving the tombs in the Theban Necropolis. An exact facsimile of the tomb of Tutankhamun will open to visitors next spring.
The project has been funded by Factum Foundation.
More information: goo.gl/Eb6M29
Digging by the water earlier today. Charlie had a long day today, he went swimming twice, once in the morning with Mommy and a friend with her dogs, and he lost his kong because it fell too deep in the water, and another time in the afternoon when Daddy tried to go save the Kong but it was gone already. After 3.5 hours running, swimming, digging and playing with other doggies he was totally exhausted! :)
"Having reached the northern edge of the plain we had been traversing, we now entered the bed of sand hills and scrub which lay before us. We came in five miles to a spot where ... there existed a shallow native well in the sandy ground of a shallow hollow between the red sand hills, and this spot the blacks said was Youldeh." (Ernest Giles 1889)
This probably is not the shallow well that Ernest Giles wrote about, but it is Dave - our guide for the day’s adventure - scooping mud out of a hole, to get some Ooldea Soak water. You cannot see it here but there is water in the bottom of that hole. You can see the sandy mud Dave has tossed out at bottom left of the photo. The hole was dug by somebody else before our visit. That is evident by the green algae growth on the sand surrounding it.
Daisy Bates noted that water quality varied greatly from one part of the Soak to another: fresh water could be found at one spot, while a few metres away, digging would only yield brackish water.
Our sample was very chalky. But I’m still here, so it wasn’t poisonous!
hi res
Catlin Arctic Survey
Climate change science expedition
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