The day before yesterday, I decided to go on a walk- so might as well take ellen's dog with me. So Jack and i wandered into the preserves.

I am a little infuriated they are plowing the land and wiping away all the plants so they can build more useless houses. These houses would block the most wonderful view of hills,windmills, mountains, and the tollroad freeway. Plus it will also leave the coyotes homeless and they'll start wandering around the neighborhoods!

Back to my adventure.. I climbed over huge piles of dirt and i found all these computer chips and other strange odds and ends. So i shoved those in my pocket. As i was collecting rocks hoping(this sounds silly and impossible) i'd find some sort of ..fossil or... artifact.. I started to hear this loud clanking noise so i climb over a hill and there is this huge army of bulldozers. After 40 or so minutes of wandering it begins to rain. I never should have worn flip flops. One of them fell off so i had to look for it in this pile of dirt. Then when i was looking for my shoe, i find a shovel.

my wonderful finds

picture of arrowheads from Deciphering the Past

When my parents went back to china 3 years ago to go to my dad's dad's funeral.
They visited a village our family established decades ago and found some artifacts:

2 locks, a comb, a cracked plate and ..?

I'm not sure what this is but by looking at it it may be:
1. some sort of smoking pipe
2. an oil lighter type of device