Cemetery Work

Spent five hours working at the cemetery. Rayke and I started out the day, with the feeding of Patches, Ray's starter calf his bottle. Then off to Zionsville to Marsh, they had a portable 10x10 Gazebo for $20.00 considering, we got fried last time we were at the cemetery on a sunny day, needed something. Well Zionsville location was out, so they found us one at nearest location, but before that, off to  True Value, has a shovel and wheeled tote, to mix the gravel and sand together in. Picked up Gazebo, then off to Lowes for Pea Gravel, Sand, and kneeler. 600lbs of heavy for Ray to load, great to have a 6'2" son, built like a tree. Then off to the cemetery. Cleaned Rebecca Long's stone, her base was lichen covered deep horrid black green hardy crud. Then did rubbings of her motif, of vines and leaves, top of obelisk three oak leaves on top of all four faces. Ray dug around the little Strawmyer boys stone, removed all the bricks and rocks that someone had used to try to probe it up with. He finally got it out we measured, and buried a little more than a third, tamping, the sand gravel fill tight. Who ever had set it did so very deep almost too deep. It was a finished stone all around with clean lines and no rough edges. The score mark was right under the relief carved heart, but about half of the tablet was buried. His stone looks better now. Ray packed and slanted the earth around the stone, for drainage. After five hours of work, we are done tired fulfilled and home.