Bragg Family South

Hope and the kids are enjoying the near completion of our main bathroom near the bedrooms. While functional, the old bathroom was showing its age, and the tub needed replacing. So, over the last few months, we've been updating the bathroom. It now has a new vanity and sink, new toilet, a new medicine cabinet, a new tub and shower, new tile floor, and a beautiful new tile tub surround. Hope's hard work and dedication towards getting the tile work done right is a tribute to her effort in this project--especially since she did most of the tiling while 6+ months pregnant! We have some small finish details left, but we are very pleased with how this has turned out--hopefully, y'all will visit soon, and get a chance to see it for yourselves!

After a two week hiatus, I have returned to Monticello to rejoin the working world. Over the last couple of weeks (with the exception of Father's Day weekend, when I returned home) I have been staying in a hotel in Malvern, Arkansas, assisting as a volunteer on an archeological dig (for a website with more details on this dig, go to: http://www.hsu.edu/content.aspx?id=7270 ). This effort began on Saturday, June 9. After a several hour orientation at a local community college, they immediately took us to a site in the city of Malvern itself (a location currently under construction for a city recreation facility). We then began digging an 8 meter (roughly 26 feet) long "trench" comprised of four 2 meter by 2 meter (6.5 feet by 6.5 feet) "test unit" that we dug down about 10 centimeters (4 inches) at a time. The dirt we removed was sifted through 1/4" wire mesh screens, and any artifacts larger than 1/4" were separated and placed into bags to be washed a...

We haven't had much to post on recently, so it's been quiet here at Bragg Family South. Later today, I'm heading out of town to start a volunteer stint with the Arkansas Archeological Survey. We're digging at a site near Malvern, Arkansas (about 2 hours from Monticello) that was used in prehistoric times as a site to prepare novaculite (a type of flint used for points and tools). I'll definitely have some pictures from this dig soon, but there may be a bit of a lag in postings to the blog site until I return--either next weekend, or the following weekend (it is a two week effort for me).