The Concordia Team "Headquarters"
It's Saturday morning, July 22 (Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene) at the kibbutz. I'm missing the trip to Ceasarea and Meggido so I can stay and take care of Mark, whose intestinal problems continue. On Wednesday he sprained his ankle badly up on the dig site; Thursday I was the interim site supervisor (there’s another story there!), and Friday I was nursemaid to a very sick husband---as he made numerous trips to the WC during the night and slept much of the day---and assistant pottery processor. Over lunch on Friday everyone started by saying how fortunate it was I had come this year; we ended by saying that perhaps I was bad luck (that MUST have been Darryl). We’ve certainly had a string of it!
I spent most of Friday afternoon and evening processing pottery with Linda, one of the 2 other remaining women on our team. With our work and the help of others, we got EVERYTHING processed from the first 3 weeks. All the pottery and other finds (iron nails, animal bones, glass fragments) come to the "lab" area, which is also where Mark’s and my room is. It's difficult to describe the space here. As one enters from the exterior door, there's a long hall-like room (with no AC). Straight ahead is a small room with closet of cleaning supplies and off of that 2 bathrooms with showers. To the left of the entrance and up 3 stairs is the "kitchen" area with frig, sink, counter, some shelves, and a hot pot. To the right along the exterior wall is a long hallway with a low counter, mirrors, and individual lights above them; part way down the hallway on the right is a sliding door to our room (with AC, old and very, very loud). Directly ahead in the hallway is a door to the "lab," a good size room with more counters, mirrors, lights, and AC. It has the computer with internet connection used by the group members and was full of unprocessed pottery until yesterday (about 2 weeks worth of huge ziplock bags full of pottery shards lined up for six linear feet). For our room, imagine a square in which our bedroom/office is an L-shaped space; the little square that fits inside the L is our private bathroom We have our two twin beds pushed together, 2 bedside stands, one "easy" chair, one dresser, and a table/desk with two chairs. On the table are our 2 laptops, piles of papers, and wires for laptops, cell phone, charging the camera, etc.
Why all the mirrors in the hallway and "lab"? We're in what once was the dressing room area for the theater on the kibbutz; I believe our bedroom must have been the dressing room for the conductor. In the 1920s and 30s this kibbutz was the cultural center of the Galilee and they had orchestra concert here. I think we are the only who use this space now. There's a large sliding door from the kitchen area that leads directly to the stage of the theater, which is dusty and full of pigeon dung. We've commandeered a section of it just inside the door to store all the processed pottery. You'd be amazed at the amount of pottery 20+ people working for 2 weeks can find. The amount dropped off the third week with the smaller number of diggers, which made it possible for us to process it all in a couple of days.
Stephanie and Tabitha, Pottery Queen and Crown Princess of Pottery, we miss you!
Andrea, maybe you could do a drawing of the "lab" space and post it for everyone to visualize.
I spent most of Friday afternoon and evening processing pottery with Linda, one of the 2 other remaining women on our team. With our work and the help of others, we got EVERYTHING processed from the first 3 weeks. All the pottery and other finds (iron nails, animal bones, glass fragments) come to the "lab" area, which is also where Mark’s and my room is. It's difficult to describe the space here. As one enters from the exterior door, there's a long hall-like room (with no AC). Straight ahead is a small room with closet of cleaning supplies and off of that 2 bathrooms with showers. To the left of the entrance and up 3 stairs is the "kitchen" area with frig, sink, counter, some shelves, and a hot pot. To the right along the exterior wall is a long hallway with a low counter, mirrors, and individual lights above them; part way down the hallway on the right is a sliding door to our room (with AC, old and very, very loud). Directly ahead in the hallway is a door to the "lab," a good size room with more counters, mirrors, lights, and AC. It has the computer with internet connection used by the group members and was full of unprocessed pottery until yesterday (about 2 weeks worth of huge ziplock bags full of pottery shards lined up for six linear feet). For our room, imagine a square in which our bedroom/office is an L-shaped space; the little square that fits inside the L is our private bathroom We have our two twin beds pushed together, 2 bedside stands, one "easy" chair, one dresser, and a table/desk with two chairs. On the table are our 2 laptops, piles of papers, and wires for laptops, cell phone, charging the camera, etc.
Why all the mirrors in the hallway and "lab"? We're in what once was the dressing room area for the theater on the kibbutz; I believe our bedroom must have been the dressing room for the conductor. In the 1920s and 30s this kibbutz was the cultural center of the Galilee and they had orchestra concert here. I think we are the only who use this space now. There's a large sliding door from the kitchen area that leads directly to the stage of the theater, which is dusty and full of pigeon dung. We've commandeered a section of it just inside the door to store all the processed pottery. You'd be amazed at the amount of pottery 20+ people working for 2 weeks can find. The amount dropped off the third week with the smaller number of diggers, which made it possible for us to process it all in a couple of days.
Stephanie and Tabitha, Pottery Queen and Crown Princess of Pottery, we miss you!
Andrea, maybe you could do a drawing of the "lab" space and post it for everyone to visualize.
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