One problem will be the intense logging operations that take place in the eastern US.  Most of the eastern forests have been cut over, replanted and re cut over several times.  She is in a national forrest, I think, so it may not have the intense cultivation that a lot of forests in her area will display.

I can't believe a primitive girl such as yourself takes a shower.
Where's all your allurement going?!
Mauro.

For your information, Mauro, I hate being dirty, despite the primitive skills.  The showers finally work.  I smell like coconuts.
 
As to today's finds - nada.  I dug a bunch of STPs (shovel test pits), really rocked them out, and got nothing for the effort.  Tomorrow I may be excavating a midden site elsewhere, but I'm getting put on the heavy-duty metal detectors after that, so there's still hope for a brass point which is what I really want.

Dug some STPs yesterday.  I ended up with a really good second pit.  Tons of quartz flakes, so many that when the lab gets them they're probably be able to put together the guy's entire reduction sequence.  We were probably the first people to touch those objects in a few thousand years.  There was also one beautiful flake of higher quality stuff, a dark chert.  It was right at the bottom of my pit, on top of this huge boulder.  I moved the boulder after about twenty minutes of extreme effort (it was probably over 100 pounds) and then found the sterile C layer right beneath it.  Rats.  I bet if they open an adjacent unit, they'll get lots more debitage.

Drink lots of water, not soft drinks, not sports drinks, just water.  Cool water, not cold, real cold water will make you puke.  I'm probably telling you something you already know but lots of people just tough it out.  Especially if you get caught up in what you are doing.  If you have a minor low grade headache, you are in the first stages of heat exhaustion.

When I worked cable we didn't have air conditioners in our trucks and the way they were designed we sat right next to the motors.  We'd spend hot days humping the ladder and often working in 140+ Fahrenheit attics, climbing poles, etc...  you either drank at least five gallons of liquid per day or you passed out.  I had a big cylindrical cooler that I kept filled with ice and water.  After every job, whether or not I was thirsty, I'd have a big glass of water. Some guys didn't do that and ended up in the hospital.  You have to stay hydrated.

In the lab today, thankfully.  Huge thunderstorms.  Turned out the find I thought was a toggle bar has been cleaned up and x-rayed and is in fact a 17th century pocket knife, or rather a big broken piece of one.  Possibly dropped by the retreating English as they were harried by Pequot warriors.