Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Platform Mounds

Rita, Ken, Winky, and Kadizzle took off to explore the platform mounds on the other side of the Salt River.  Kadizzle never loses the joy of finding pot shards.  It is like Indian golf.  You walk around and spot little pieces of six hundred year old pottery.  Instead of approaching a golf green you find an ancient site.  If the pot shard is there, then someone was there hundreds of years ago.  Winky found a lot of black on white pottery shards which are rare, and also we found some black on red.  The natives in this area built these large square mounds of earth that apparently had some rooms on them.  One thing Kadizzle found unusual was a strait line trail leading to the platform mound.  All along the trail were pot shards.  There also seemed to be many irrigation ditches.  It appeared the ancient people were channelling water to a catchment basin.  The day was perfect temperature and crystal clear.

It is very early and dark today the crew is going up on the mountain to hike Cottonwood Trail.  Kadizzle has been assigned the job of writing articles for the local paper about the trails. The first article has already been published in the Globe newspaper.

In the background the world is proceeding NPR.  The level of insanity with Trump has reached well beyond the point of reality.  The worthless gutless people who represent North Dakota still grate on Kadizzles mind.  Such pathetic lickspittles. 

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