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Aug 24
Mowing Schedule 2025
We are working on lining out the tentative mowing schedule for next year. We don’t mind the mowing–my brother described it as kind of a pilgrimage, and I see it as a way to honor our ancestors and to love our neighbors. However, we live two and a half to three hours away, and mowing …
Aug 24
Update August 2024
Back in May my brother and I went down and started work to install a new gate post, and then he went back in June and finished it up. Two weeks ago we went down to do the monthly mowing. The grass was thick, wet, and tall, and the bugs swarmed our eyes as we …
Apr 15
Update April 2024
Apologies for the shameful two-year gap in updates. Not much new to mention, though; we go down and do monthly maintenance pretty much every month from March or April to October every year. This month we went down and mowed the cemetery and sprayed the tombstones that had prominent mold/algae on them.
Jan 29
Update January 2022
Sep 02
Update: September 2021
It’s been quite some time since I last posted an update. There isn’t really much that’s new; most of maintaining the cemetery is just keeping up on the mowing. And one of the guys at my job retired in July, so I have had to pick up an on-call rotation every other week, which severely …
Jul 02
Update: July 2020
My brother and I went down early last month and mowed and trimmed, and I will be heading down this weekend for the same. It’s been 4-5 weeks, so unless someone else has gone down to mow, I expect it will be a jungle. Other than that, nothing new. If you know someone in the …
Apr 22
Update: April 2020
My brother and I both recently stopped at the cemetery separate weekends to check on the cemetery. He noticed that it looked like someone straightened up the north fence. We are going down this coming weekend to do the regular mowing. I have finally purchased cemetery management software (Cemeteriat) that integrates into WordPress (the CMS …
Nov 09
Maintenance Update: November 2019
This year was just a lot of general maintenance–mowing, weedeating, chainsawing, hauling out brush. We are still trying to find a solution to keep the weeds down next to the headstones (and that won’t be harmful since we are just 100 feet uphill from a river). Next spring we have some more work to do …
Jun 15
Maintenance 2019/04/27 and 2019/06/01
I apologize for the lack of updates. Nothing much new to report, really. I went down in late April and early June to do the regular mowing and also chainsawed out some old trees and branches. When i went down in June, it looked like someone had already been down and mowed in time for …