The Old Folks Home

[chickadoodles]

Micro I had a few broodies only two were good mommas. And one of those quit at 3 weeks she wanted back in the coop.

I hope your hen does a good job for your sake.

 

[microchick]

We had a patient once who told us never to retire to a 7 acre yard......so we retired to a 9 acre one with 21 acres of timber.

 

[pennyJo1960]

need to get out do main already been in Silky land but thought I would see what all where up to

 

[microchick]

Thanks @chickadoodles. I'm hopeful the two remaining hens will do a good job. They are both very attentive mammas. The first won't let me get near her or her chick/eggs without chastising me greatly. The other hen, Iris, is a doll and trusts me touching her eggs and her chicks. Both are talking to the babies and I saw Iris teaching her oldest chick about food today so she is on the right track.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Here's the story of the day. I continued to be anti-tree/bush and tackled the thorn bush that was engulfing the rest of the Clay family. Their stones were all tilted forwards on account of the bush. The bush is left in this picture - around the 4 standing stones. Dig out the bush, dig out the bases, use a pry bar to lift it as someone else pushes fill into it and keep leveling it.

I will cut to the chase, got it done:

However, I asked Deb to dig out the last grave while I worked on the second to last, and she was CERTAIN there was treasure under it. I may have insisted she leave it alone. However...

Yup, it was treasure.

The Coker-Marble family had a replacement stone made probably in the mid to late 1800s - likely this one was broke (because it's broke) and they just replaced it with a marble stone because the slate stones were going out of fashion. The slate stones hold up much better than marble stones do - not sure what we're going to do with it yet. Anyway, it's likely the family abandoned the old stone on the cemetery outskirts and someone used it to shim the Clay grave. So it was a slate Marble stone under Clay replaced by a marble stone for all the Marbles.

 

[chickadoodles]

How nice to find a wonderful treasure! Beautiful work you all are doing!

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Here's the story of the day. I continued to be anti-tree/bush and tackled the thorn bush that was engulfing the rest of the Clay family. Their stones were all tilted forwards on account of the bush. The bush is left in this picture - around the 4 standing stones. Dig out the bush, dig out the bases, use a pry bar to lift it as someone else pushes fill into it and keep leveling it.
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I will cut to the chase, got it done:
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However, I asked Deb to dig out the last grave while I worked on the second to last, and she was CERTAIN there was treasure under it. I may have insisted she leave it alone. However...

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Yup, it was treasure.

The Coker-Marble family had a replacement stone made probably in the mid to late 1800s - likely this one was broke (because it's broke) and they just replaced it with a marble stone because the slate stones were going out of fashion. The slate stones hold up much better than marble stones do - not sure what we're going to do with it yet. Anyway, it's likely the family abandoned the old stone on the cemetery outskirts and someone used it to shim the Clay grave. So it was a slate Marble stone under Clay replaced by a marble stone for all the Marbles.

Amazing work each of you are doing,enriched in so much history

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Good night everyone

 

[pennyJo1960]

Night there Misty rest well

 

[Alaskan]

Here's the story of the day. I continued to be anti-tree/bush and tackled the thorn bush that was engulfing the rest of the Clay family. Their stones were all tilted forwards on account of the bush. The bush is left in this picture - around the 4 standing stones. Dig out the bush, dig out the bases, use a pry bar to lift it as someone else pushes fill into it and keep leveling it.
View attachment 1418505

View attachment 1418508

I will cut to the chase, got it done:
View attachment 1418502

However, I asked Deb to dig out the last grave while I worked on the second to last, and she was CERTAIN there was treasure under it. I may have insisted she leave it alone. However...

View attachment 1418503

View attachment 1418501
View attachment 1418504

Yup, it was treasure.

The Coker-Marble family had a replacement stone made probably in the mid to late 1800s - likely this one was broke (because it's broke) and they just replaced it with a marble stone because the slate stones were going out of fashion. The slate stones hold up much better than marble stones do - not sure what we're going to do with it yet. Anyway, it's likely the family abandoned the old stone on the cemetery outskirts and someone used it to shim the Clay grave. So it was a slate Marble stone under Clay replaced by a marble stone for all the Marbles.

a great day!