Addicted

 Kadizzle might be addicted to two things, food, and finding Indian sites.  Yesterday Kadizzle took off with the trail crew for our first day of official work on the trails.  In two trucks we went to Oak Flat.  Everyone but Kadizzle headed up the mountain at lighting speed.  Kadizzle took his time and worked on some water diversions to keep the trail from eroding.  As Kadizzle climbed higher he kept noticing some rocks across the valley.  Since the fire everything is so visible that was not before.  The rocks just seemed too orderly.  Finally unable to resist Kadizzle meandered over to the rocks.  Sure enough he encounter his first pot shard, then another, and another.  Indeed it was a site.  No particular rhyme or reason for the location.  One thing must almost always be somewhere near is water.  Kadizzle went on over the hill and sure enough there was a spring.  It has been so dry Kadizzle was amazed even the spring had water.  The water was coming out with a gross orange slim, but if it ran well the water would probably be better.  Always these sites raise the question, what was attractive about this spot.  The site was apparently just one large square, maybe a garden. 

One thing Kadizzle has not bee able to figure out is what kept the walls up.  At each of these sites the walls are all in a shamble fallen on the ground.  There is never enough rock for the walls to be more than three or four feet tall. These people mush have built the rest of the structure from wood of some sort.  Kadizzle has a theory on the walls. The people used a primitive mortar on the walls.  It was simply sand and mud.  Kadizzle's theory is the rain over six hundred years simple eroded the mortar and the walls fell over.  In other places like the cliff dwellings up Cherry Creek he stone was laid so carefully no mortar was needed.  At the cliff dwellings near us the walls were found intact because the cliffs kept the walls protected from rain.