The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

Seems odd that there is a cemetery for a single person. Makes one wonder what happened to the rest of the family.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Love your decorated jeans Cap. By the time I finish shortening any, there is no decoration left.

Thanks, I got them cheap at Goodwill!

 

[CapricornFarm]

So Cap is Sunny going to be a LGD when she grows up? Just teasing. I know little things can grow into mighty ones.

I would never leave her out at night, we have bears and coyotes! In fact we bring in the GSD at night too. But she might chase off a few squirrels.

 

[ronott1]

We finally got a non-rainy, nice weekend day, here.

I went out for a few (early) hours with a bad hand drawn map with the goal of GPSing all the known cemeteries in my town. I had found the "missing" cemeteries last fall and GPSed them, and had the others to get to and get noted and inspected for work needed.

The first cemetery I visited was the little 1 stone cemetery of the 2 year old boy that died in the mid 1800s that is right near my house. He was one of 2 stones in my town that I drove past every day and it bothered me that they were cockeyed or broken, so I got trained to do something about it.

Anyway, a few years ago he was my first stone in my town that I worked on (I've since fixed that other one that bothered me, too). I knew the stone had to have a base, but I couldn't find it at the time (too many rocks and roots when I probed), and thus just reset the stone into the ground, noting that eventually I'd have to build him a base. Well, with all the rain we've had recently, I spotted a wee corner of his base at the edge of the rock wall surrounding his little cemetery (probably about 8 feet square).



Dug it out and cleaned it up and it was pristine. Mixed mortar and reset it properly and I am so glad it is done, now.

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I also seeded his little area with grass seed, as it splashes dirt on his stones when it rains, so hopefully that will help, some.

During my GPSing I found a cemetery that had a lot of unique stones in it.
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The weather plans to hold tomorrow, so provided I'm not too sore from today, I'll head there and do a few hours worth. Both the headstone and base I had to haul out of the small cemetery today and up and over the rock wall to be able to clean them without making mud in the area I needed to reset the stone in. The base was at least 50 lbs. Then I walked the dog, planted onions, put another box on each of my bee hives, did some laundry, regular chores, etc... I'm already feeling sore.

The stone of the little boy was a multiple year project!

Nice job

Reminds me of something I read on the Jersey Giant club, came from same, http://nationaljerseygiantclub.com/media/Document_17.pdf

That is a very touching account of culling due to disease!

 

[drumstick diva]

very sad- money can't replace the loss

 

[pennyJo1960]

I would never leave her out at night, we have bears and coyotes! In fact we bring in the GSD at night too. But she might chase off a few squirrels.

Some do have wonderful respect you don't ..

 

[perchie.girl]

all my dogs come in at night when I live at home.... they have a dog run with Doggy door access at night so they can do their business and alert me if they need to.

Even when it is rainy there is no mud to track in just Decomposed granite. Sweeps up clean when it dries out.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

Fear stayed out she had the barn and the porch as she got older we are fully fenced bears do not come down this low normally it would be rare.. loosing her do not feel right leaving snow out alone she is still a bit too wild

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Added two broad breasted bronze turkeys to my too many to feed bird collection for some reason. Had to take them, free. Oldest DD boyfriends father picked up a dozen .50 cents each at a feed store, couple weeks later realized he didn't want to feed that many lol. Been prob 10 yrs since I've had chickens ducks and turkeys.

You need guineas, now

Seems odd that there is a cemetery for a single person. Makes one wonder what happened to the rest of the family.

They're down the road in a public cemetery. This is on what was their property. The kid was 2. Assuming they either needed to be near him or he had to be buried fast due to disease.

 

[getaclue]

CA has banned poultry from fairs and shows for now. Hopefully the outbreak will be over soon.

For the record, "shows" includes cockfights. The chicken owner gets to pick the category their birds fall under. Cockfights are being called shows, and cockfighting roosters are being called show birds. They were trying to get people with sick birds to come forward, without fear of reprisal for the use of the birds, so it could be dealt with properly.

Another thing, when it first started, it was within the cockfighting community. I suspect they thought that the exposure was mainly limited to those involved with the illegal activity, therefore it would be sort of self limiting, and burn itself out. Another factor they wrongly based their control measures on, was spread pattern. Unlike AI, vND spreads differently.

3 things that should be done immediately, statewide, and they're still behind on, is 1. Information. Far too many are complaining they didn't even know anything about it, until it was too late. It's time to get everyone informed now. Get that information out there. 2. Lock down, and enforce the fines for poultry movement across the entire state. That means, shows of whatever type, sales of any live poultry, and transporting live poultry. 3. Initial decontamination of affected properties. They depopulate the fowls, decontaminate the people involved, and the equipment, but leave it up to the property owner to decontaminate the property. That property is a slow ticking time bomb. Many of those that have been depopulated are saying they won't get anymore chickens, so they don't see the need to decontaminate the property. On confirmed cases, when the team that depopulates is ready to leave, a team to decontaminate should be ready to go in, and spray down the property.

Some of those thing are just now being done, and mostly in the affected areas only. The fines for transporting live birds is not being aggressively enforced, even now.