Kerr Christian Homeschool Academy

On Saturday morning, we started out bright and early to dig for diamonds.  We rented the big kit and selected a nice unlevel, turned up, not recently traversed area to start our digging.  We used the kids sand toys and sifted into the rented buckets and then Craig went to the wet sifting area.  We worked until about 1:00pm and then went and had lunch in the RV. The afternoon was spent resting and playing on the playground right outside our door.  After an early dinner, we went back to the diamond mines and sifted some more.  This time, we went to the other side of the area where the shade had already started to grow.  Apparently, the big time to dig is in the heat of the afternoon instead of the cool of the morning or evening, so we pretty much had the area to ourselves so the girls went on surface walks to see what they could find. At the end of the trip, we didn't find any diamonds.  We did find many quartz crystals and jasper.   ...

Since we missed the Star Party, and the San Jacinto Battlefield was flooded and all sorts of other things not panning out, we decided to take an impromptu visit to the Diamond Mines in Musfreesboro, Arkansas.  We arrived early evening on Friday and decided it was too late to start digging for diamonds and we needed to visit the local RV dealers for light bulbs - inside and out - for the trailer While exiting the RV store, we saw a sign for the Ka-Do-Ha Indian Mounds and decided it might be worth a short look.  We were pleasantly surprised to find that it wasn't only founds, there are excavations of several mounds, a nice walking trail, and a place to dig for arrowheads.  This was the top of one of the mounds where a "temple" area was recreated on the top of the mound.  We learned from the museum and from the placards that the Caddo's, probably including the ones that settled into TX, built their temples on the mounds.  When their current chief...