The Old Folks Home

[Wisher1000]

SCG, did you ever post pics of the old confederate cemetery we found on our adventure? They might be interesting to insert here. I know I wouldn't mind seeing them again.

 

[perchie.girl]

I am going to the fair tomorrow with the kids.....

Only thing I have to wear are the pants I have been wearing for three weeks straight...not a prob...

But a fresh shirt would be good....



I only have 1. Worn off and on for about two weeks

Or

2. Worn off and on for maybe three weeks

Oh, or I have the worn for the last three weeks every night to sleep in short sleeve T.

Where are the laundry fairies?????? WHERE???????

Spray the least wrinkled one with fabreeze.... thats my goto... dont ask

deb

 

[chickisoup]

Wow! Please keep posting, I will always find this interesting!

X2!!! I'm always totally into learning how to preserve any piece of our history. I love the idea that people like you are willing to volunteer their time to do that.
I still remember, I think I was maybe 11 or 12 when I came across a small, very old, abandoned cemetery, going home and begging my mom to help me do something
and her looking at me like I was crazy.
I can still see that sad place in my mind and regret not at least trying to do something on my own. Silly, I know. Guess my love for rediscovering and saving pieces of the past
started earlier than I originally thought.

 

[chickisoup]

Good wet weekend all! At least to those of us who not flooding.

What a horror. It's like watching another Katrina in slow motion. I am so very grateful for answered prayer and my granddaughter is no longer working/living in Baton Rouge. For the past couple months now she has been safely in Boca Raton Florida. She was living in a complex that still has water in it and her apartment was on the ground floor. I don't know much about the condition of the zoo she was working at except that she said all she's heard is that it's not good.

If I wasn't involved with this darn clinical trial I would love to join a group heading south to help out.
At least I can volunteer as part of the transfer train shuffling displaced, homeless animals to the shelters up north. Once they make it to the state
they need volunteers to shuttle them to any shelters further north (or elsewhere) that have room for them.

And out west? Not much you can do to help there except support the agencies housing and caring for the displaced. Everything else is just gone. Just wow.

 

[chickisoup]

Al, I'm on to you!!! Wear smelly dirty clothes to the fair and the crowds part giving you a clear path!!!
Good plan!

 

[Alaskan]

Al, I'm on to you!!!  Wear smelly dirty clothes to the fair and the crowds part giving you a clear path!!!
Good plan! 

Perfect! Way better than washing!


Huh... Now I remember being 18 on public transport and purposely scratching myself inappropriately so that I would have free seats around me... More space to spread out.


I haven't changed!

 

[pennyJo1960]

or just not put my dentures in or brush the hair and I could scare
most anyone

 

[bruceha2000]

Fall is my favorite season & it doesn't really exist in San Diego. We stay too hot to bake until at least late October & get zero color.

Brown is a color

...

Beer can,

In the 16 hundreds my ancestors were in Massachusetts. Middlessex county, Norfolk county, Hampden County, Essex County, Plymouth County, Bristol County and Suffolk County. And a few were also in Connecticut in Wyndham County. Yeah, clearly, a BUNCH of my ancestors showed up in the 16 hundreds. Mostly British.

.......

We could be related. 3 of my grandparents (separately and unrelated at the time) immigrated from Spain in the early 1900's, things must have been pretty bad back then to sail steerage across the Atlantic. But my maternal grandfather's side goes back to the 1630's in Boston. We know a lot about one side from the book "Thomas Joy and His Descendents". The grandparents of my grandfather's grandmother (sorry confusing I know) Abigail are buried in the Dipping Hole Cemetery in Putney, VT. Capt. Amos's headstone was broken and on the ground when I found the cemetery (basically a short way up a logging road) a few years ago but Rachel's is intact. Abigail is the last in my line to carry the surname Joy, she married Reuben Wheeler Heywood.

According to lore, there was a Heywood on the bridge in Concord, MA.

Somewhere in there, I think the Heywood side, was a Mayflower voyager.

Alaskan, if your clothes start walking to the fair without you, it just might be time to think about tossing them into the wash...

Better yet, I figure if the clothes start walking to the fair "empty", Al doesn't have to go to the fair!!!

 

[chickadoodles]

Scg old cemeteries are fasinating to me. I love to walk thruough them when I get a chance. I went to several when I lived in Montgomery, AL. and took pictures for people who wanted them for their genealogy records. I have had a lot of folks go to cemeteries and take pics of my family members head stones also.
I have family from one end of the country to the other also from the migration routes. I had some family in some of the New England states but I have not found any reason to look in Maine yet.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Ok. Spent 7.5 hours today digging, lifting, hauling and cursing concrete. Not all of these are my projects and I'll try to separate them best I can. I took a ton of pictures, but I'll try to only bog us down with the major points.

1. Husband and wife. Problem: 3 piece stone unit pinned together using iron pins. Iron rusts and expands. The expansion presses against the stone and cracks it. Before it gets worse (the lower edges will be lost if we leave it) we need to take the pins out so they can do no more damage, fix what we can and reset with steel pins. Oh and someone years back thought it would be a great idea to just cement the whole thing together. That's never a good idea.
At the end of the day the team working on it got it all apart, got the pins drilled out (second picture) and got the bases dug out and leveled as well as the concrete all chiseled off. Tomorrow they'll be repinning and resetting and trying to fix the breaks. This was an entire day, y'all. This doesn't go quick. Especially when concrete is involved.





2. Problem: Single stone down and missing a base. This stone needed a base because if not the stone needs to be sunk in about 1/3 of its total length into the ground. While some stones are made to be sunk like that, the epitaph/writing was further down on this stone than would make sense for burying the stone, so a base had to be made. They dug out where the base would be and got it measured how big it should be. They built a mold out of 2x6's and poured quick cement in it. The styrofoam insulation is the correct size for the headstone to fit in (it will be tight). This concrete work is okay because it isn't concreting 2 stones together, it is making a base to set the stone in. No harm to the stone. Once dried the foam pops out and the stone will be lime mortared into place. The stone is built with a beveled edge for rain to run off.



3. Problem: Headstone concreted into base. This team spent a large portion of their day chiseling off concrete. NOTE: DO NOT CONCRETE THE STONES, PEOPLE. Once they got all the concrete off (luckily they were able to) we reset the stone with lime mortar. Stone will be covered in a plastic trash bag for about a month while it sets. Don't touch stones you see in plastic. It means they're having work set. Any disturbance you cause will cause bad outcomes.





4. Problem: This row looked awful. Headstones down off their base, face down with no base, footstones crooked. This is the family my team adopted. After fixing the footstones and one downed tablet, I went to work on Georgia Etta. She was sunken into the ground, no sign of a base. Dug her out, found her base behind her. Couple problems: she was missing the middle piece, and she has pins that are starting to rust. Her base wasn't level. She's now all dug out, base is level. The pins have been removed. She'll be reset tomorrow along with the others in her row that my other team mates are working on. Luckily I didn't find concrete on mine, but not all were lucky in this row.







5. Problem: Major filth on what appears to be a very unique stone. This was the first thing me and my teammate tackled this morning.





There was another stone in my row that wasn't so lucky to survive its concrete enclosure. It was also off its base and concreted into the ground before its base. We had to cut it off (and will bury it with the base to keep the record straight) but luckily didn't hurt the epitaph. The stone was too brittle to chisel the concrete off and just started splitting. Rather than damage it further by splitting, it got sawed off by the expert. We will reset that one tomorrow, too.