You can see the fresh ground I have been scraping and digging in, located on a slight slope of the hill depicted in the other pics of the sagenite site at Tapado, in Chihuahua, Mexico, a few miles to the southeast of San Carlos Canyon. I collected about thirty pounds from this spot, including an amethyst geode I gave to Jim, before quitting and moving across the arroyo to check out the spot where my helper and guides were digging other agates. It is a little treacherous, due to the cactus plants mixed in with surrounding vegetation and a few scorpions we sometimes dig up with the rocks.

Digging for gold

All measured and the digging begins!

This is Taz at 12 weeks old, she's my feeble excuse for not being involved in the group lately!

Ned planted a conker in my mums garden a while ago but now it needs to be transferred to a more open space, as it was to near to the house.

here are the pictures of its replanting

There's always that one spot where you can't quite reach....but wingtip to tail balance helps Dad Swan to have a good go at it!

HuskMitNavn ‘Digging Lunch', 2017, exhibition ‘Framework’, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Digging beyond the miseries

Scene from "Digging Graves" by Dustin Engstrom

Kelvin, Charlton and John finishing off the last bit of excavations for the outside walls to house 5. We had left this section because we hoped that a lorry would delivery laterite right onto the site in the position we wanted, but later the haulier said we didn't want to reverse this far down the site.

Sheep digging for food near the pottery

We are having a snowstorm and when I went to the store this am I snapped these.

This was my first time mining flourite! Exceptional vugs!

A sequence of the amazing solifug digging behaviour:

1- Turning a rock 5 times bigger and 20 times heavier;

2- For one the most powerful chelicerae in the animal kingdom biting a sandy rock is like having a muffin for breakfast;

3- The bitten rock is them passed under the body and pushed away through the back legs;

4- Shooing in more rock;

5- and shooing and using the suctorial ability of the palps to grab "small" rocks;

6- And them using the chelicerae as a shovel and pushing the rocky remains out;

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Polly finds something interesting in one the planters.

I asked permission to take their photo. They told me he'd achieved this in an hour and a half!

Today we were digging a trench for the fence we're putting in for the Kingdom Hall. We worked from 9am-2pm. It was hot, the ground was incredibly hard, and we had faulty tools that kept breaking. We loved it.

First we put down a string and broke through with the tools, then we moved the string and did the same on the otherside. After that, we started removing the grass from on top. After the grass was off, we softened the soil by digging into it and breaking up the clumps. The dirt was mixed with clay and rocks, so a few of the tools broke and bent. It was actually extremely hard work in the incredibly hot sun. Good news, the clouds rolled in after we were all done. Figures. :]

(This is Samuel, and he worked so hard for such a little guy! The sunglasses that were being passed around just didn't fit him!)

A perfect day to say farewell to Lizbet. Clear blue skies and warm sunshine and a nice cosy site for "the do". Plenty of jobs for Sedgers. Digging nettle roots, chopping trees, strimming and lots of it, dam fixing just to mention those tasks I observed during my brief few hours over lunch. The main event was of course our humble presentation to Liz and this was carried out with due "aplomb"(?)by Malcolm with his wild flower bunch (Ragwort, Himalayan Balsam, Giant Hogweed, Nettles and some Comfrey and much more all wrapped beautifully in an old copy of "The Sun") and then lovingly by Wendy, a stunning bouquet, organised by Jim from a Voles collection. After a rousing chorus of "She is a jolly good fellow" we had the caterpillar cutting and tea ceremony. Somewhere we squeezed in Mr B's wonderful hotpot followed by Rhubarb & custard. Cakes( Malcolm) & choc biscuits (Roz) were available.Thanks Guys/Gals and to Sue Y for the beetroot.

We also had the company of Hotrod and his fellow Ampthillian Colin Calvert.

I hope we have not put of Tim the new ranger as he had a few worried look at times.

Well not much else to groan on about.

this place is a big place where digging for moclay is made for commercial purpose and the moclay is being used for cat-strey and for tiles inside the fireplace...

We are allowed to walk there and look for fossils and when we were there nobody were working...but trucks use to drive in and out on working days....

CRJI Leadership Training -Digging Deeper Project

This is everyone building jumps.

We buried a large amount of toy dinosaurs and creepy crawlies in this sand box and provided shovels for the kids to dig. Anything they dug up, they kept. Made for an interesting and slightly different party game :)

Digging lesson

For Musically Challenged

Digging in the Dirt by Peter Gabriel

"I'm digging in the dirt

Stay with me I need support"

I realize this might be a bit too literal, but it does show some elements of struggle.

Saw at a riverside of Taiwan

Digging a couple hundred holes for new coffee trees. Sometimes digging by hand is actually more efficient than bringing in fancy equipment. My neighbor was digging holes at the same time but these guys actually went faster than his backhoe.

Let's hope the hunt lasts til this evening for another night of even more wacky digging in the dark.

Runner 1669 digs deep in the heat of the Lisbon Marathon as he pulls on his inspiration

Men digging with long-handled spade, Tana-Andasibe road. This seems to be the preferred implement in this area.

Digging for Britain

Apologies to anyone who walks Penrhos beach, but she has been at this hole for months!

Scene from "Digging Graves" by Dustin Engstrom