Hello,
Well, sorry to hear that. I am sure that in ways it must be agonizing at times to have such a keen desire for understanding what is going on and only have photographs and text to read. But you do considerably well retaining words and information. The way your blog reads to Michael at Drexel, I thought you had formal education in geophysics and chemistry and was an astute scientist, also, been on site working in mud. You know, know the tricks of the trade, hands on type experience - wow, nothing like it. Oh, and nothing is like the feel of nice plaster and a good trowel job -or slick, smooth or polished rock surfaces. I don't think pictures can do that justice. But pictures do, do good in some areas for sure, as you have gone to such great lengths to show us how you worked out all what you worked out on that corner with only just a photograph. That was really very impressive. That must have taken a lot of staring and thinking I suspect. Hey, how tall are you when you superimpose yourself in that corner? Do you know? Where does your head come up to in the corner, lets say? How tall are you in real life? I guess you know you can figure approximately how tall or large something is by imagining your body next to it if you know how tall you are. Right?

I wondered if you had seen what I saw, and if you had, then we could talk more about what I was going to talk about in the chambers. If you had building experience in mud/concrete/masonry/monumental structures - we could discuss techniques and short cuts and types of mud and their consistencies and laugh at some dumb things that occur when we add too much water or not enough, and how that changes curing time or how the atmosphere does and then slumps can occur and then- oops, big blunders......so we must watch for the weather changes when scheduling a job, and cover some initial work if exposed to the elements. Or, "Hey, were the blocks wetted down first or were they dry boys?" You know, job talk on how the GP might have been built by looking at and feeling the various aspects of stone and mud in it. Or, we could discuss our favorite size of aggregate and what we use it mostly for. Well, there is so much about working with mud and rock, I could go on and on I suppose. Oh, touch is a great sense to have too and to use it to analyze surfaces. The finger tips are highly sensitive - somewhat like cat's whiskers on their nose.Too, something might look polished shiny, but when you touch it, it is just wet.

You write with so many questions for Robert I have a great idea for you. How about going to his website at robertschoch.com and look for his contact email and then get in touch with him and ask him all of those questions you are wondering about (as he should know - you said). "They" do say that is how you get it straight from the horses mouth!

Good luck, I do hope you can make it some day to Egypt and take your own camera so you have your own photographs to look at then. It would be a great thing for you to be able to do. You would love it and I bet you would take a deep breath and sigh out of joy. But, I am kind of a sentimentalist and a romantic I have been told, so maybe I am wrong about that.

Thank you for all of your great input.

Oh, you remarked a Steve had asked you if you had seen the Sphinx or? Maybe he would have liked to talk to you too. Had he seen it? Or just pictures too?

I have gone past my time on this message board on this topic already, I am through here now. I did say goodbye once, but thought of some thing else..OK.....later.
I am off to read my links for the next while. Thank you every one.




Dr. Colette M. Dowell, N.D.
Circular Times
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