Almost done

Almost... This was taken last night from Clayton's front yard.  He knew I was there this time.  He had been sitting on the porch watching us work.  I told him I thought he might come down and help, but Not.  He did offer me a cold drink.  The white specks in the center of the trees is a white gravestone.  If you click and enlarge the image, you can see 2 white stones.

Closer view.  All the little trees and brush are gone.

One of the down dead trees gone. 

 

Here you can see the last down dead tree.  When we get it out we will be through with clearing. 

All clear.

There are 20 or 30 markers like these two throughout the cemetery.  Just rocks stuck in the ground at the head of a grave with no markings.

Resting...

Now, we have to remove that dead tree in the background and get Jacob's stone out and reset.  George says he has some ideas.  I hope so because it is very heavy and will not budge.  I want him to take the tractor in there and pull it out, but I am not sure what he has in mind.  I am sure he will get it done.  He has done great with getting this all done.  I am  lucky to have such a generous husband.  He has gone way above and beyond here.

And today...

We went to the cemetery when I got off work today and stayed for about 2 and a half hours.  We got the northwest corner in the foreground on the right cleared.  If you click to enlarge the photo, you can see a gray headstone in that corner.  I took the photo while standing at the edge of Clayton's garden.  Don't tell him.  He does not know I was there.

Well, I stayed for 2 1/2 hours.  George stayed another 45 minutes or so to clean up the piles of brush he had cut.  Here is the cemetery man coming up the driveway.

Spring is here.  This is Patsy's tulip blooming in the old lot across the road from me.  There is still a peony, some daffodils, and orange day lilies growing there.  This is the only tulip, but it is really pretty, like me.  One of a kind.

It looks like it might rain tonight.  If the weather holds, we will go back to the cemetery tomorrow after work. A few more hours and we will have all the little trees out.  There are 3 big dead ones to cut and 2 dead ones that are down and will need to be removed.  I guess we did not make the April 1 deadline.  I think I will try for May 1.  Or May 2nd.  That is a really good day.

Just for Helen

Answers from Google, not Yahoo

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=0d8af5cd37e68714&hl=en

Important and not so much

There are opinions and then there are facts.  Many people confuse the two and their point of confusion can usually be attributed to viewpoint.  Things expressed by another when viewed by oneself are often pointed to as opinions. Things expressed by oneself when viewed by oneself are often pointed to as fact.

When I was a child, I did not get along well with my mother.  I was often mean and hateful. My mother was a good mother, always.  I was not always a good daughter.  I don't have many regrets about my adult life, but I do regret behaving badly towards my mother when I was a child.  I should have treated her with greater respect.

Patsy and I are having a dispute about cemeteries.  Patsy remembers playing in a cemetery as a child that was either on the farm Daddy owned or very close by over on the Leather's place.  In Patsy's memory, this cemetery is not in the same location as the cemetery that George and I are working on cleaning. In Patsy's memory, her cemetery had large trees and marked gravestones with names and dates, not just a cemetery with a few unmaked rocks.  The problem with this memory is that it means there would have had to have at one time been two cemeteries in the area of our home place or very near to our home place just across the fence on the Leathers place.  Even in Patsy's memory, there is not two cemeteries, only one cemetery that is located in a different place yet very near to the location of the current know cemetery.   Two memories, but only one cemetery.

Now we have the answer. When I went to log in at Yahoo today, the page said :

YAHOO! MAKES IT EASY TO ENJOY WHAT MATTERS MOST IN YOUR WORLD.

Yahoo is the answer to all our questions.  And, that is one of the major things that is wrong with our world today, that anyone could write those words and not realize how stupid the concept that what matters most in anyone's world would be available on a webpage anywhere in anyone's world.

All those things are the not so much.  Here is the important stuff.  Last weekend Robert was here and he was holding up his fingers and tallying things off.  He loves watching cars or other things crash on TV, so he would touch one finger and say, it broke, touch the next finger and say, it went off the road, touch another finger and add a detail until he got to the fifth finger which was always it CRASHED.  I have tried to get him to count things, and he would repeat the words, but it was obvious he did not get the concept of counting.  When he was tallying things off on his fingers, I thought they were getting somewhere with learning to count.  This weekend he was here again and he was counting his cars one two three four five. And, he understood that was how many cars he had as in this is two cars but that is five cars.  That is really important in my world and Yahoo had no hand in it.

I am going to have Robert count the cemeteries.

Clear Progress

We got the center cleared out today.  Anther day of clearing and we should have all the little trees out that we are going to take out.  Then, we need to remove the two down dead trees.  I have always thought the Callen cemetery over by the Stone house was one of the prettiest cemeteries I have seen.  Someday, this one with the large trees and green grass will be just as pretty.

Another thing Dan said about the cemetery is that Watson said the tornado that went through Green Forest in 1927 blew the fence that was round the cemetery down.  The fence there now was put up about 10 or 12 years ago.

Back to the grind tomorrow.

Walking at Sunrise

I walked up on the rock quary on the road from Clayton's house about 7:30 this morning.  Saw lots of grass, trees and tons of rocks.