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[Alaskan]

as soon as possible.

Snap out of it!

NOT as soon as possible. ...way many, many years from now.

 

[Alaskan]

Not sure you can see the markers in this picture (will need to go back when the sun is better) but I had a dowser come out and she confirmed my suspicions; that even though there's only 13 stones in this big cemetery, it's full. FULL.

Huh....how do you go about doing that?

I used a well dowser...but I got numbers from the well driller.

Because remember the family cemetery I am trying to improve? Well, on the Plat it is LARGE. I wonder how many graves were originally there.... since it fell into disuse there are no sextant records. Also, there was no close church when it started... when my ancestor was buried there they had to ride quite a ways to get a preacher to bury her....so I am sure different preachers were used at different burials.

Anyway... how would you find a grave dowser, and know they were telling the truth? Supposedly, at some point, a bunch of the headstones were pushed off of the cemetery and into the creek. .... so no stones.

The guy that is doing the work for us said he walked around with a rod, stabbing it into the ground, trying to see if he could find any more stones...he found nothing. This is an area that is very fertile, very few naturally occurring stones and deep soil.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Huh....how do you go about doing that?

I used a well dowser...but I got numbers from the well driller.

Because remember the family cemetery I am trying to improve? Well, on the Plat it is LARGE. I wonder how many graves were originally there.... since it fell into disuse there are no sextant records. Also, there was no close church when it started... when my ancestor was buried there they had to ride quite a ways to get a preacher to bury her....so I am sure different preachers were used at different burials.

Anyway... how would you find a grave dowser, and know they were telling the truth? Supposedly, at some point, a bunch of the headstones were pushed off of the cemetery and into the creek. .... so no stones.

The guy that is doing the work for us said he walked around with a rod, stabbing it into the ground, trying to see if he could find any more stones...he found nothing. This is an area that is very fertile, very few naturally occurring stones and deep soil.

Dowsers use two metal rods or a forked branch to look for things, often water , that are different than the soil.

 

[perchie.girl]

Snap out of it!

NOT as soon as possible. ...way many, many years from now.

That read wrong... As soon as possible AFTER my death... When ever that is.... LOL.

spend the money for a funeral on a party for me... and family...

deb

 

[microchick]

Well, egg number 7 was also dead in the shell. I brought it inside to candle it and it was very liquidy. Never a good sign in a 21 day egg. I did a partial eggtopsy and it looked like it died early on. Too yucky to do more than peek at it and say, yep, that's a dead chick all right

Then I went out to pull corn...and discovered that some stinking, scum sucking, bottom dwelling, rotten, disgusting raccoon had stripped every last ear of sweet corn from the two rows I planted. Tomorrow the have a heart trap gets set.I will definitely not have a heart when I deal with the corn thief.

Can you tell that I really hate raccoons?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Well, egg number 7 was also dead in the shell. I brought it inside to candle it and it was very liquidy. Never a good sign in a 21 day egg. I did a partial eggtopsy and it looked like it died early on. Too yucky to do more than peek at it and say, yep, that's a dead chick all right

Then I went out to pull corn...and discovered that some stinking, scum sucking, bottom dwelling, rotten, disgusting raccoon had stripped every last ear of sweet corn from the two rows I planted. Tomorrow the have a heart trap gets set.I will definitely not have a heart when I deal with the corn thief.

Can you tell that I really hate raccoons?

Yes, I hate them too. Did I tell you I shot a coin out of a tree, skinned it, gutted it and cooked the carcass? Fed it to the Great Pyrenees and my chickens! I would be mad too!

 

[microchick]

I've been trying to grow sweet corn for the past three years. Every year I got thwarted until this year when I bought seed from Burpees.

The corn was fantastic! Big plump ears. I'd replanted seed that had been washed out by heavy rain early in the spring and that corn was just starting to make ears. There isn't an ear left.

Now my pop corn is getting ready to tassel so that raccoon has to go. If I catch it I doubt if I'll cook it. Prolly just toss it out in the timber and let the vermin enjoy it along with the vultures.

 

[Alaskan]

Dowsers use two metal rods or a forked branch to look for things, often water , that are different than the soil.

I understand that part...like I said in my post, I have used well dowsers. But dowsers aren't listed in the phone book... so I have no idea how you would find one that did cemeteries.

Also, with a well dowser. ..you can ask around and see just how accurate they are.... was the water at the depth that they said you would find it? How could you check the accuracy of a cemetery dowser??

 

[Alaskan]

That read wrong... As soon as possible AFTER my death... When ever that is.... LOL.

spend the money for a funeral on a party for me... and family...

deb

Good to know.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I've been trying to grow sweet corn for the past three years. Every year I got thwarted until this year when I bought seed from Burpees.
That coon ripped half the leg off one of my chickens. Payback, you see?
I love home grown corn. Had some really good corn we grew in TN.
The corn was fantastic! Big plump ears. I'd replanted seed that had been washed out by heavy rain early in the spring and that corn was just starting to make ears. There isn't an ear left.

Now my pop corn is getting ready to tassel so that raccoon has to go. If I catch it I doubt if I'll cook it. Prolly just toss it out in the timber and let the vermin enjoy it along with the vultures.