[AT] Nice day

[Ralph Goff]

Not nearly as nice in Sask. today. Windy and cloudy with temps just below
freezing. So when the rain started in late afternoon we soon had everything
coated in ice. Poor walking and worse driving conditions.
Yes, those old artifacts from a previous civilization do make a person
think. There have been many arrow heads found in this area (but not by me).
My nephew picked one up right on the school grounds and I have had a few
donated to me by friends. Best I ever did was finding a small stone hammer
head out in the field near home. Several of those hammer heads have turned
up over the 100 years this farm has been in cultivation. Along with a small
steel axe head unlike any I have ever seen before.
Farming is only a very small part of the history of this land. Those little
arrowheads and stone hammers are a real window into the past. Maybe a few
hundred years from now people will be unearthing rusty cast iron tractor
parts from the grass and wondering about another lost way of life.

Ralph in Sask.
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/lgoff/latestpage.html

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From: Robinson <robinson at svs.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:54 PM
Subject: [AT] Nice day


> Our son was here after work yesterday and we walked down to look at the
> tiny dam we had been doing a little work on. We got to talking and
> walked on back to one tiny woods about a quarter mile east from the
> house where there is another small pond. Looks like we may have a pair
> of otters in it this year. We kicked up a pair of mallards when we
> walked up. We were looking for deer antlers that may have been shed
> there. He said that a fellow that he works with hunts them every night
> and has close to a pickup load of them. We walked on back to the
> Christmas tree plot about a quarter mile north of there to look there.
> We walked on back in the general direction of the house and cut across
> one field that was in soybeans last year. I said "well, well" and
> reached down and picked up a perfect arrowhead in the dirt. My son is
> always having a cow about how I can find arrowheads and he can't.  :-)
> He turned the other way and said "I'm not even going to look at it".  :-)
> We don't find many here any more. Things have been searched pretty
> heavy and the soil stirred pretty deep. Finding one always sets me to
> thinking about those who lived here before us and what the land was like
> in years past. This was a small game point about 1 1/2" long and about
> 1" wide at the back. Fairly thin and very nicely made. The fellow that
> made it was very skilled at his craft. I'm not knowledgeable enough to
> estimate its age nor which of the several peoples that lived in this
> area over the centuries made it. It triggers thoughts of wonder about
> how it came to be where I found it. The possibilities are endless.
> Carried off by an injured game animal? Used to shoot at a fellow human?
> Shot at a turkey and missed and lost? Carried by a child and dropped?
> While that field is gently rolling today an 1856 atlas showed a stream
> crossing it indicated as having a running width in excess of 5 feet.
> Prior to that this area was very heavily forested. I'll be thinking
> about this for a few days...   :-)
> --
>
>
>
> "farmer"
>
> Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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