Friday, June 4 - Final Day of Projects

Today was our final official day to work on our projects. Because we had so much to do, Rebecca and I spent much of Wednesday and Thursday evening finishing up the staple pulling and organizing, and I spent the entire ride to and from Hadrian’s Wall yesterday retyping the finding aid from 2006 – all 25 pages of it. Due to all of this extra work, we were able to have all of the documents finished and proofread by around 2:30 this afternoon.

With Allison and Lynn ferrying our luggage to York this afternoon (we packed this morning), we spent the rest of the afternoon walking around Kiplin Hall and chatting with Elaine and her mom. Here are some pictures I took of the various animals that call Kiplin Hall home.

Resident ferrets

Florence, a super old cat, and Venus, the last of a litter of kittens left at Kiplin

Petting Big Ginge

Big Ginge and Florence sunning themselves

Bess the sheepdog

Male rooster. His mate was killed by Lily the spaniel, who I don't have a picture of. Haley says, "Murderous dogs don't deserve pictures on blogs."

It feels as though we have been here for much longer than three weeks. I wish we had had more time to work on our projects, and I just hope that Dawn is happy with the work we have done. But I am looking forward to moving to York, where we will have more freedom to walk and explore the city.