The Old Folks Home

[Wickedchicken6]

Yeah, it was a lovely funeral.

I enjoy all of the rituals around funerals. The visitation of the body at his house, then the body at the church and people take turns reading psalms, then the service, then the burial, then a shared meal and sharing stories of the person's life. It is fun.

Usually at the end of the service at the gravesite everyone helps by starting to fill the grave, close family first. Then the people with strong backs finish up.

Not sure why, but this time the backhoe guy offered to come back and finish up for us...maybe because most of Tom's friends were pretty old and tottery? Not quite sure why, there were enough good backs to get the job done.

I like viewing a funeral as a celebration of the person's life...instead of just an ending.

That's a very personal type of funeral...I like that. I'd never seen family and friends work together to help fill the grave before. I find it has more "meaning," at least for me...than the funerals where everyone walks away while the casket/box is still above ground etc.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I scattered my Aunts' ashes at sea. She never married and had no children. I read some passages and recited a speech i had memorized. Afterwards i scattered roses on the water from my garden. She would have liked it, she loved sailing and the ocean.

 

[chickadoodles]

Cap I like your avatar and yours is so cute Wicked! I loved pac man!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Cap I like your avatar and yours is so cute Wicked! I loved pac man!

I grew those morning glories from seed. We have wild ones in white that are really tiny! Thanks!

 

[pennyJo1960]

That looks like a lovely funeral. (If I may call it that)

Is the grave filled in by the people with shovels? Or is it done with a machine?

When I was about 15, I attended the funeral of a friend, he was only 21. He was of native descent. There was a wake for him and he was transported to the burial site in the back of a half ton. It looked very much the same as the funeral pic above. At the end, the men each took turns filling the gravesite once the box was lowered. It was and still is one of the nicest burials I've been too.

very good way to take them on here

 

[drumstick diva]

Alaskan which one was you in the photos? Come on fess up we know you long enough.

You got to see me when I was a Conehead. I thought I looked pretty cool and you just hated it.

 

[Alaskan]

Alaskan which one was you in the photos? Come on fess up we know you long enough.

You got to see me when I was a Conehead. I thought I looked pretty cool and you just hated it.

I loved you as a conehead!!!

hey, it was odd...but odd is good.


No me in the photos...I was the one taking them.

 

[perchie.girl]

I have always liked and handled snakes. The concept of being afraid of them is foreign to me. As long as they are not poisonous, i am good with them.

Me as well... I handled them till I found out one could bite and draw blood...
A garter snake Nailed me... Perfect little smile of beads of blood on the tip of my finger....

No infection but stopped catching them for no reason. Only to relocate....

Even Rattle snakes.

My son has caught two now one under his car last year.... He relocated it to the field behind the houses. And just recently he found a baby on the back porch... Newly hatched it was cool so the snake wasnt interested in moving. He scooped it into a bucket and took it to our drop spot.

... Before they built houses here they called this hill Rattle Snake Hill.

deb

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Cap I like your avatar and yours is so cute Wicked! I loved pac man!

I was tired the other night...but the right cells must've been firing. I think I figured out how to shrink/make gifs work for the avatars

I still have to try the one that @perchie.girl tried to help me with. If I can get it to work...only then will I consider that I made a breakthrough.

I loved pac man too!
What would this be...Pac Pumpkin??

 

[chickadoodles]

Yes pac pumpkin!