Sharing My Story

(Journal entry for May 26, 2006)
Got up this morning and found it to be a nice day—
a little windy at times, sunny and hot. This morning
we waited on Dr. Baugh to return to camp (he is
staying off site in a cabin in Massadona) to get a
group photo before the Rainey’s left. He finally
came and we were able to take the photo. This
being my birthday the group sang happy birthday
to me. Then we went up to the dig site and extracted
the field jacketed bone block that was prepped
yesterday. Joe made a makeshift slide and shoved
the bone block on it and putted it down the hillside
using Joe’s four wheeler. I took short video clips of
this process. Once we got near the camp site it took
several of us to shove the block to the trailer platform
of Dr. Baugh’s vehicle.After that we came back for lunch.
We spent a longtime at lunch waiting for some cloud
cover to cool the temperature down a bit. Joe held
forth on his desire to start a paleontology school at
the Mt, Blanco Museum in Crosbyton. His audience
was the young people like Josiah, Caitlyn Fitzgerald,
Chantell and several others. Joe’s dream is a
good dream, but without real financial backers it is
probably won't happen for some time, even though Joe has
a museum full of fossils, books and documents. He has
the resources but not the finances. This afternoon about
4 PM I when with Burton Stokes into Vernal and had a
good birthday dinner at the Golden Corral cafe. Got
back and had a very nice time fellowshipping with
the group. Joe played his guitar and Chantell played
her harp. Very sweet time.

(Note: I have had trouble with posting the last several days)
(Journal entry for May 25, 2006)
Got up this morning and felt regular again. Still have some sinus congestion. Perhaps a little dehydrated from the sun yesterday. This morning we when back to the dig site and did more work on the grids. I am working beside the Rainey family from Tucson, they are on the grids to the left of me. I uncovered more bone fragments in my grid square at several different levels. Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between the bones and the rocks. Today there was a lot of activity in plastering a field jacket around the O grid section. Joe, Terry, Josiah and the others were plastering a bone mass. We came back after lunch but it was very hot and worked more. We left the dig site after 3 PM for a break and returned to it about 5 PM. Also turned over the field jacketed block of bones over. It was filmed by Ian Juby (who took over from the regular site videographer, David Lines).
Later I asked why some creationists aren’t willing or interested in using artifacts like the Paluxy tracks and the Ica Stones. It was said that creationists have so much to contend with that they don’t want to have to deal with such controversial evidence like the Paluxy tracks. Dr. Baugh feels that evolutionists have so concentrated their attacks on the Paluxy tracks that creationists don’t want to deal with the added burden. Also is the issue of “too good to be true” evidence.

Journal entry May 24, 2006
Got up about 6:30 AM this morning and slept well last night. Somewhat congested this morning and took some more cold tablets (as I did yesterday). This morning we went up to the dig site about 9:30 PM and spent some time with the area (F-4) that I was working on yesterday. More small fossil bone fragments were showing up. I reduced the left side of the square and found (what appeared to be bone) was bone after all. I reduced it down correctly to find the bone. I called some of the new diggers over and showed them my procedure. We came down for lunch about 12:30 PM. When went back up about 2 PM and worked until about 4:45 PM. Joe started making a field jacket with some of the bones on the site (Josiah and Ian helped him). Terry Beh arrived about 3 PM and also helped with the field jacketing. Terry is using a walking stick because of bad knees. Thus evening we (Ian, Josiah, Terry, myself) sat together by Joe’s Trailer (he recently purchased a new/used one) which provided shade and ate dinner. We then went into Rangely this evening in Joe’s truck (Joe, Josiah, Burton, Ian, Terry and myself) to the Assembly of God Church and heard Dr. Baugh give a Creation presentation. He spoke on basic Genesis questions, apparent age, cave men, how tall was Adam and showed slides of the human “Coffee” footprint in Permian rock. Small group. We diggers (including the Lines group and the Rainey family) outnumbered the church folks.
(Yesterday June 5, 2006 I did blog but it did not upload properly).

(Journal entry for May 23, 2006)
After the hard rain late (yesterday) afternoon
it stopped and the wind died down. This
morning it began to clear up but there were
clouds in the sky. I woke up with a little “sore”
throat—not sure if it is a start of a cold. I did
sleep well last night. Josiah and Ian went up
to scout out the dig site and said it was very
muddy after the rain. Both Joe and Dr. Baugh
said we needed to wait until it got dry. Joe and
Burton went into Vernal (Utah) to get parts
(hoses) for Joe’s four wheeler. The hoses were
starting to wear out. They returned around
11:30 AM. In the meantime Dr. Baugh came
and we made an impromptu movie (David
Lines was the camera man) about the men
and women’s porta potties. Chantell Lines was
in one of the restrooms and several of us men
hauled (by hand) the porta potties by their trailer
tongue around the camp ground. Linda Lines
wanted it placed somewhere that was more
convenient. At the end Chantell emerged
dazed and stumbled out of the movable
restroom. That evening David showed the
unedited film footage—quite funny.

A couple with two children William and
Beverly Rainey came in this morning
and they live in northern Tucson.
William is pastor of the Desert Springs
Baptist Church. We finally returned to the
dig site after lunch about 1 PM and worked
until about 4 PM. Today an small Allosaur
tooth tip was found at the dig site. Dr. Baugh
wanted everyone to become acclimated and
not overdo the physical labor. I do notice the
6200 ft elevation. We were able to get some
of the clay matrix moved and we were finding
more bones in F-2 (besides my F-4). This
evening the group sat around the camp fire
and Dr. Baugh asked Joe (with his guitar) to
sing some of his songs. Joe is quite a prolific
song writer and he has written some
beautiful ballads.

(Journal entry for May 22, 2006)
Didn’t have that wonderful a night’s sleep last night—probably because I was on the slopping angle of the ground. Also hurt one of my right ribs a day or so ago and it is somewhat tender. Got up and it was overcast today, but no rain. This morning Dr. Carl Baugh came up with two Porta Potties (men & women) and we talked about the dig and signed release forms for being there. Josiah was giving the responsibility to see that everyone did that. David Lines had some car trouble getting to the site and were delayed in Craig. Ian Juby (a traveling Creation speaker) and Josiah Detwiler (from Akron, Ohio is a director of a Creation Museum there). Burton Stokes (the official site photographer) chatted as we had breakfast this morning. We when up to the dig site this morning and Joe Taylor assigned everyone to work on a section (I was given section F-4). I found some dinosaur bone fragments and put PVA on them. We left the dig site about 12:15 PM for lunch. Today the weather was increasingly overcast with high wind and eventually rain (some very hard rain around 6 PM). The David Lines family (David, wife Linda and university student daughter Chantell) and three teenage girls came in and we helped them set up camp. They had three tents. We decided to go to Massadona to the Cafe there and ate dinner. Dr. Baugh and David Lines showed some photos (via Computer) of new human footprints discovered at the Paluxy River in Texas. Then we returned to the dig site.
(This evening a group of us watched a 1 1/2 hour long DVD of life on the cattle ranch were the dig site is located. A bit long but surprising well done).

(May 21, 2006 Journal entry)
This morning I relaxed awhile in the motel in Monticello.
Watched some Christian programs (David Jeremiah,
Day of Discovery-on the DaVinci Code and Charles Stanley).
I got off about 8:45 AM (MT) and drove to Moab.
On the way there was about a half hour stop on US 191,
30 miles or so south of Moab. The Utah Highway Patrol
was apparently looking for someone. This stopped traffic
each way for around a half hour to 40 minutes. At this
delay there was quite a collection of people—young
people throwing a football on the road and another
athlete doing stretching exercises. A local truck
driver explaining local hiking and sight seeing
attractions to a biker couple. A young man I spoke
with was travelling from Arizona to have breakfast
in Moab. I got out my sketch book and did a
drawing of the landscape. Arrived in Moab and
stopped a drug store to buy sunglasses and picked
up a Salt Lake Newspaper with a front page
dinosaur story. Then I traveled to Interstate
70 and then to Rangely via CO139. Didn’t
remember that this was such a mountainous
route. Arrived in Rangely and got gas and a
late lunch around 2:30 PM. The came to the
dig site (on a private ranch) around 4 PM and
got through the cattle gates. Then I put up my
tent—Joe Taylor and the others weren’t there.
It was quite breezy—hope my tent will hold up
to it. The camping site hasn’t changed much.
The old shepherd wagon is still there that is
used for on site storage. Joe Taylor, Burton
Stokes, Ian Juby and Josiah Detwiler came
back around 7 PM.