Contents soaking wet: Shuksan Middle School Principal Jay Jordan, right, pulls damaged photos with notes from a time capsule from 1989, while 1989 alumna Kristina Nelson takes a photo at Shuksan Middle School in Bellingham. When it was dug up Wednesday, it was half full of water. Photos were waterlogged. Some of the predictions students wrote 25 years ago were too soggy to be read. The Bellingham Herald reported that when the students bury another time capsule in the spring, they won’t be using a plastic bucket.