Adventures of a Boomer: Champagne Springs (Greenlee) Ruins 4DL2333, Colorado

My life as a Boomer

Here I am with my first ever blog. When I was born many, many years ago, who knew what a blog was, let alone a computer. My daughter says it's easy to set up a blog, so bear with me as I stumble through setting this up and putting in content.

I hope you enjoy it and can somewhat identify with my life as it pertains to yours, whether a woman's life or a man's life, we share many similar feelings and ideas once we reach this time in our life.

This time in my life means exploration, learning, doing and letting go of the parts of my life that served me so well for so many years. I want to transition from the daily working world to a new kind of work....what I want to do! Tell me about you and your life as a boomer!

The posts below should really be read starting with the oldest first for a better understanding of the experiences.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Champagne Springs (Greenlee) Ruins 4DL2333, Colorado

May 2012

As a member of the Colorado Archaeological Society an opportunity arose to assist on a great southwestern archaeological excavation in Dove Spring, Colorado. These ancient Indian ruins were occupied between A.D. 900-1050 Pueblo I or early Pueblo II and includes over 250 rooms and 50 kivas (places used for rituals and ceremonies), discovered in part by use of remote sensing studies during 2003 and 2004. The age of the site is a rare find in the San Juan Region. Luckily, while we were there the Cortez Journal newspaper was doing an article on the site. If you'd like to get an overview and see a few pictures of the archaeologists and the dig, check out:

http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20120604/NEWS01/706049979/Unearthing-new-mysteries

I'm in the great kiva digging with three others - although I'm bent over and you can't really tell it's me! But, my name is in the caption.

This was a dream come true and I hope to do more at Dove Creek in the near future as field schools will likely be continuing next year. Here are a few pictures from the ruins of those that I worked with.