The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

Superchemicalgirl, I agree with you 100%. Sloppy craftmanship. The snow is beautiful, though, So much history in those old tombstones. I read them and try to imagine who these people were and what they looked like-what their lives were like 150-200 years ago. Such a treasure needs to be preserved.

That's what gets me, too. I also love the old names and I like to see the history. Sometimes you can tell a family died in a disease. It just peaks my imagination. I'm sure the reality isn't anywhere near what I imagine. I also love the art and the epitaphs.

 

[microchick]

That's what gets me, too. I also love the old names and I like to see the history. Sometimes you can tell a family died in a disease. It just peaks my imagination. I'm sure the reality isn't anywhere near what I imagine. I also love the art and the epitaphs.

Especially the children and babies tombstones from the mid 1800's. Medicine was so basic back then. Premature babies, unless they were only 8 monthers instead of full term stood virtually no chance of survival back then. Children with leukemia or childhood cancers, the same. I read the tombstones and wonder what snuffed out their young lives and would they have lived today had they been born in our time frame.

One of the most interesting cemetery stories I ever read was about the grade school I went to back in central Illinois. Sometime in the 70 they tore it down (it was a majestic brick monster of a building with marble staircases and hand painted ceramic mosaics) to build a shopping center and were leveling the two city blocks where the school and playgrounds stood when they stumbled upon old coffins in one corner of the playground where it wasn't paved. Research disclosed that the remains were those of settlers who succumbed to typhoid fever during an outbreak I think it was in the 1800s. There was quite an uproar about it as Typhoid is a disease that doesn't die out. It can live in the soil indefinitely. They had to use hazmat precautions to move the remains to a far corner of the city's oldest cemetery and re-inter them. Nobody was harmed but I suddenly remembered all the times I had played on top of those poor souls graves as a kid.....

It's a wonder we all survived to the 6th grade!

 

[casportpony]

A couple pics

 

[perchie.girl]

TB took out alot of people too. TB in my dads family... so much so that dad couldnt get vaccinated for it... Because his body reacted violently to it. All his sisters had it and survived it.

deb

 

[chickadoodles]

A couple pics

Very pretty!

 

[WVduckchick]

Thanks everyone! They are the friendliest birds that I own, love them bunches. I just wish they would start laying better so I can have more! Lol

 

[microchick]

My little mutt OEGB are just adorable. The girls are petite and sweet natured and the two boys are just hysterical to watch, especially when they are around the 'big boy' roosters. I've seen my 'alpha' OEGB cockerel try to correct my big 8 pound Buff O rooster....and the Buff O actually back down. Big bird attitude in a small package.

I just went down to the pond to cut some willow branches for a project I have on going. Bad bad idea. Think I'll just call it quits and hit the sofa.

 

[Alaskan]

Just a quick shout out to those experiencing prolonged winter darkness. Haven't seen anything from Felix in forever and Al has been relatively hibernational (whaddayathink of my new word?) as well it seems. Days are getting longer! Won't be long and there will be more light once again. For those encased in ice, I have it on good authority that you'll be complaining about the heat in virtually no time at all, all thanks to global warming! Have you contributed your daily share of carbon to the environment? Other green house gasses will be accepted in lieu thereof...

Howdy!

I am here... just quieter than I used to be.


I am maybe midlife-crises-ing or something....or maybe it is just the time of year.....

February is always the hardest month up here.

 

[Alaskan]

TB took out alot of people too.   TB in my dads family...  so much so that dad couldnt get vaccinated for it...  Because his body reacted violently to it.   All his sisters had it and survived it. 

deb

Disease and genetics are interesting....

A couple of greats grandma died of TB, but her kids were all fine.

I have one several great grandfather where EVERYONE in the family (four uncles with their wives and all of their kids) ALL died over two years except the one I am descended from and one brother.

 

[drumstick diva]

I think Felix got a new job that keeps him too busy to pop in and say HI.