The slow and plodding labors on the Roediger House irrigation system are proceeding, and it seemed appropriate to offer an update. First, the fun news: while I've mostly been digging up both live and dead roots, lots of broken bricks, chunks of mortar and concrete, and tons of Piedmont red clay, I have finally and at last actually surfaced an old coin, as shown above. Not a high dollar one and given its size, I almost missed it, but that there is a 1945 Liberty dime that turned up in the front yard.
Perhaps it's the dime one might have received for a bottle deposit, because in the back yard I dug up this very-nearly-intact old Pepsi "wave" bottle. A bit of internet research and an earnest review of the coding on the bottle's bottom suggest it might just be a 1948 vintage, or thereabouts. The labeling long ago wore off but the embossed glass design (common from around 1941 through the 1950s, I think) is still distinct.
Finally, here are a couple of shots of the state of the front yard as of this week, with most of the trenches dug and also some of the various zone lines laid and awaiting sprinkler heads.
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