Chapter VIII. "Working again"

Part 1.
Emmitsburg, Maryland

Mount St. Mary's College campus corn fields

Above is James, Mark's helper.

Mark was out here in January to do the pile driving and testing. What can I say...it was cold, snowy and very very muddy back then.

Part 2.
Emmitsburg, Maryland 4 months later

Conditions improved somewhat by April. It is raining and hailing and it is cold and very muddy, but no more snow. The backhoe will not be stuck that's for certain.

Mark is digging trenches and I am logging the soil. In technical language, we are playing geology in the mud.

On our second day, the sun came out and the fog lifted by 11:00 am. It actually warmed up nicely to do some soil sampling.

The Mount St. Mary's College Campus
A little hazy, but there is Mary on the hillside looking over her pupils.

Here I am looking over my ring sample.

Driving the rings down to pull up some soil

The muddy clay makes the driving the sampler easier, but walking in it is a different story. The truck didn't exactly stay clean after this one either.