Today was the first day my shiny new trowel ever hit an archaeological site. The site , Tell Ashkelon, one of the five Pentapolis cities of the Philistines from prophets of the Bible. The day began briskly at 4:30 in the morning. We had a quick first breakfast at the Dan Gardens Hotel and were bussed the 2 miles to the site. At the compound we removed the buckets goofas, brushes, trowels, scoops, wheel barrows, patishes, wheel barrows, and the generator. I was assigned to clean grid #38. What were we cleaning? Well, the normal