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[Debs Flock]

Sorry to worry y'all. Just been a rough couple of days. I'm ok,or will be at any rate. Just very tired and emotionally stretched to the limit.
I'm way behind and not up to a read through so if I've missed anything major please let me know.

Sorry you've had a rough couple of days! Hope all is back to good for ya very soon.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Sorry you've had a rough couple of days! Hope all is back to good for ya very soon.

It will be. It'll just take some time. Nothing I haven't dealt with before and it's always the same and it'll be fine in a day or two.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Sorry to worry y'all. Just been a rough couple of days. I'm ok,or will be at any rate. Just very tired and emotionally stretched to the limit.
I'm way behind and not up to a read through so if I've missed anything major please let me know.

No worries about catching up. . hope things get better for you and we are all here for you when you need us! Feel free to p m if you need to vent

I love cemeteries.

Yes, I have spent quite a lot of time this summer traveling across Maine and working in my local cemetery. I am a member of Maine Old Cemetery Association, which is helping to preserve and maintain local old cemeteries. I work on stones dated 1899 and before, and Veteran stones of any age. Some of them just require some TLC/cleaning, others require massive amounts of time and effort.

I am being taught by a preservationalist out of NY. He comes to Maine to teach and work. I was lucky enough to work under him the past 2 years. He teaches archivally correct preservation work. Most of the work is done with soft lime mortars and hand tools.

Forgive me those of you who have seen these on TOFH or who don't care.

This is a DAR project. Some epoxy work to put 4 pieces back together on this Veteran (later I infilled the crack)
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This is one in my local cemetery. Stone broke off and held up with boulders. I poured a new base at my house (no water at the cemetery), then transported it to the cemetery and reset the stone, and planted grass seed, which died in the drought this summer. View attachment 1145351
This is from a cemetery preservation project sponsored by the DAR (and what I did on my week vacation). The top of James' stone had, at some point in the past, broke apart. Some jerks decided to dig a hole around the stone, pour concrete in, set the headstone in the concrete and then threw the pieces of James' headstone into the concrete in the hole. It was a MESS. I spent 2.5 days of my life chiseling the top out of the concrete, then epoxying. Someone else did the infill. It doesn't look great, on account of still having a bit of concrete on it, but I did my best.
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This is a bit of the chiseling I was lucky to get to do. You can see the pieces of the gravestone encased in the concrete vomit. I think this was the concrete behind the headstone.
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This was the corresponding concrete vomit in front of the headstone.
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Another from that DAR project - I didn't do the fixing or the cleaning but I performed the infill in the fixed cracks (top right between the name and the curtains and along the bottom. I infilled the letters when we knew what they were).
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This is one from my local cemetery and one of the ones that started me on this journey (along with a 2 year old boy alone in his own cemetery and leaning at a 45 degree angle - he was the first I fixed). I drive past this little cemetery frequently, and it pained me to see Lois broken off and leaning on her neighbor. I spent an entire weekend on this project - about 12 hours of chiseling alone (because some jerk had used concrete... see a theme here?) but every time I drive past it now I smile and it is so worth it.
The work that Deb did to restore the picture of a Veteran is one of the Veteran stones in this small cemetery. There's only 14 stones in this cemetery but about 100 burials.
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I have shared it with the historical society here, and I posted it on FindAGrave. I love that you did it. <3
Thank you.

That is amazing and fascinating work. Great job!

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Any time a sensor only cost $150 , good deal.

I hope they aren't blowing smoke up my you know what lol

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

No worries about catching up. . hope things get better for you and we are all here for you when you need us! Feel free to p m if you need to vent


That is amazing and fascinating work. Great job!

Thanks Shaw. I appreciate it.

 

[pertnear09]

It will be. It'll just take some time. Nothing I haven't dealt with before and it's always the same and it'll be fine in a day or two.

Girl don't worry about catching up. We're just glad one of our own is ok .

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Girl don't worry about catching up. We're just glad one of our own is ok .

Here, I'll save her some time.

I think Pork Pie is a euphamism for something.

Discussion about self serve versus full service.

Nun abuse.

Poultry eye candy.

Facebook sucks.

Mailing testicles.

I think that'll do it.

There, don't ya feel better?

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Girl don't worry about catching up. We're just glad one of our own is ok .

Thanks

Here, I'll save her some time.

I think Pork Pie is a euphamism for something.

Discussion about self serve versus full service.

Nun abuse.

Poultry eye candy.

Facebook sucks.

Mailing testicles.

I think that'll do it.

There, don't ya feel better?

 

[pertnear09]

I hope they aren't blowing smoke up my you know what lol

Well, just keep your belt pulled tight and maybe it'll be fine.

 

[pertnear09]

Here, I'll save her some time.

I think Pork Pie is a euphamism for something.

Discussion about self serve versus full service.

Nun abuse.

Poultry eye candy.

Facebook sucks.

Mailing testicles.

I think that'll do it.

There, don't ya feel better?

Is that all? And I thought I was missing out on something by taking a long knap.