The Old Folks Home

[ozexpat]

Hey! I'm not the grouchy old lady you make me out to be! Anyone that wants to see them repeatedly can go back and look as many times as he/she wants............I've been back three times already.

Great pics, Oz, I am surely jealous of your travels. I am making plans (trying to save) to make the 2015 Chicken Mission. It will likely be my once in a lifetime trip.

BTW - I was just teasing you about smoozing Mrs. Oz, it is obvious you two are special people and mutually enamored.











It was nice not to have to wade through 5 pages of the same wonderful pics, though, wasn't it?

i know you are not grouchy. I was just trying to remind people of a very sensible rule.

I cant wait for y'all to come over.

 

[Pozees]

I have been known to have whole coversations with sheep

Any particular wisdom they offer, that you care to share with us?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Took the kids to the playground today, and thankfully there was a cemetery right across the street for Aunty SCG to enjoy after the swing set pinched my butt and I was done with the playground. And because I wanted to go, the kids came, too. My sister wasn't pleased, but at least it wasn't foxicide.

The cemetery was pretty small but really interesting. A couple of 1700 stones which were barely legible, one Revolutionary War soldiers stone was redone with a veteran marker, and the rest were 1800s stones. I do love a good graveyard. It's peaceful, I love to read names, and even the sayings on the stones are interesting.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: Don't know about Oz's sheepish friends. but I had a sheep once. She hadn't much to say about a lot of things, but she was definitely of the opinion that horns on a goat are baaaaad news.

Took the kids to the playground today, and thankfully there was a cemetery right across the street for Aunty SCG to enjoy after the swing set pinched my butt and I was done with the playground. And because I wanted to go, the kids came, too. My sister wasn't pleased, but at least it wasn't foxicide.

The cemetery was pretty small but really interesting. A couple of 1700 stones which were barely legible, one Revolutionary War soldiers stone was redone with a veteran marker, and the rest were 1800s stones. I do love a good graveyard. It's peaceful, I love to read names, and even the sayings on the stones are interesting.

SCG, are the markers themselves as interesting as they are here? Old grave markers here have a symbolic language that can be very poignant.

 

[bamadude]

I put some of my fermented chicken feed (part purina flock raiser, part scatch grains, and part boss into my redworm bed. The boss has sprouted. Guess im gonna plant it and see if i can get free seeds

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I enjoy the sayings on the markers. This one stood out at me:



Back home (Maryland) all our cemeteries are "official" ones associated with a religious establishment (in college I was a few blocks from Poe's grave, and would go to that old cemetery to study on breaks - it was by far the most peaceful place in Baltimore) but what I find fascinating about Maine is that there's little "family" or "area" cemeteries randomly along the side of roads with about 20 old gravestones in it. They aren't surrounded by fences and are just gorgeous.



The family pictured down front here all died within an 11 year time period. The father died first, then the two kids, and then the mother a few years later. It made me sit and ponder what that womans life was like to have her whole family gone and how desolate her winters had to be. Maybe it was just a different time period and that's how life was, but I can't imagine her sorrow.

 

[Bunnylady]

Yes, the tales the headstones tell can really tug at the heartstrings. I can remember one that was a 5-foot-tall monument with two names on it. By matching up the dates, it was evident that it was a mother and her infant daughter; the mother had apparently died in childbirth and the baby a couple of days later. There's a small family graveyard down the street from us that has the graves of 4 family members that all died within about a 3 week period in late summer - looks like an outbreak of something really nasty like maybe typhoid?

 

[ronott1]

Yes, the tales the headstones tell can really tug at the heartstrings. I can remember one that was a 5-foot-tall monument with two names on it. By matching up the dates, it was evident that it was a mother and her infant daughter; the mother had apparently died in childbirth and the baby a couple of days later. There's a small family graveyard down the street from us that has the graves of 4 family members that all died within about a 3 week period in late summer - looks like an outbreak of something really nasty like maybe typhoid?

What year did they die?

There have been outbreaks of a lot of diseases over the years.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: I don't remember the year; I'll have to check next time I'm down that way.

 

[RedPulletMama]

Got this pic while visiting a cemetery where my parents live lol. Thought it was funny