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Perpetual French Fries
I don’t guess this really has that much to do with grieving, but it’s sort of amazing. In the week before Christmas I was on vacation. Debbie wasn’t, and since she works at our church, Christmas is one of her busy seasons. I went in to help her one morning with some stuff to get…
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Tree Thieves Strike
Christmas was always a big deal to Richard. So we put out a Christmas tree at his grave and one at my mom’s grave which is located right behind Richard’s. We used live trees, intending to plant them somewhere later. They were in pots. We just dug into the ground and buried them up to…
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Footprints
I was in town this morning, so I went to the cemetery. The cemetery had been closed on Sunday because of the snowy weather. Today it was open again. As I left my car and started walking down the hill to Richard’s grave I looked out over the snow covered ground. There was one set…
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Christmas Decorating at the Cemetery
Sunday afternoon we did a little Christmas decorating at the cemetery. There have already been many wreaths showing up. Debbie decided she wanted Richards grave to look different. So she bought a couple of small live trees. She put in a few ornaments and red bows. Richard always insisted on cranberry sauce for Christmas. Not…
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Trouble at the Cemetery
Got a call last week from Mark at the cemetery. “Someone put up a rock border around your son’s headstone.” Well, yeah. Debbie and I spent an entire Sunday afternoon putting that there. We wanted to get it looking nice for Richard’s birthday. It was hard work. The sod in that area of the cemetery…