Summer has come as a furnace blast, along with more work than we have time for. Rayke has been doing farm work at his grandmothers farm, and has been needed in keeping ahead of the noxious weeds that have flourished with the rainy, now hot weather. Luckily no weeds in Howard's Yeah. We are in the process of scheduling the ground penetrating radar for this month. Rayke has found three numbered discs in the ground in the green space between the road and the known stones. I know that the green space was traditionally part of the school property and supposedly does not have burials in it. This has raised questions and pushed back our planting of the landscaping, until after we have the radar is completed; as we do not want to run into any obstacles. If we don't find any surprises we should have everything in the ground by the end of the month. This fall the Yucca and Peony's that are on the graves will be dug up and placed in our landscaping. They have a historic value in cemetery landscapes, but they are destroying the stones they are planted by. So Rayke is going to be very busy digging holes, and planting vegetation; glad he is very committed to the project. He really enjoys doing the labor, and though it is hard work he finds it rewarding.
Madeline Frasure who's family mowed the cemetery last week also notice several bases around the Carter Family stones that have no tombstone in them; Rayke had pointed these out to me also. So another mystery. I wonder if there is a honey hole in the cemetery somewhere, but this just gets filed away for later in this project. A project like this can have more questions than answers, and if we were impatient it might seem overwhelming; but in reality you take one stone at a time.
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