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 …
Category: Maintenance
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 …
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 …
Nov 30
Maintenance 2018/11/22 and 2018/11/24
DAY 1, 11/22 Today marks one year since I rediscovered Corkery Cemetery and we began regular maintenance to keep the cemetery up. Yesterday my daughter and I went down to do what I thought we be a fairly simple and straightforward task: divide the cemetery up into a grid and map each and every grave. …
Oct 19
Maintenance 2018/10/13
This past weekend Josh, I, and my daughter Elsa headed down to do the monthly maintenance. We chainsawed out the lowest-hanging branches, and Josh and his kids hauled off the brush. Elsa personally tackled thinning out all of the dead and overgrown branches from the tree in the downhill corner of the cemetery: Here is …
Oct 05
Maintenance 2018/09/22
I finally got the headstone for Preston Bradshaw repaired. I scrubbed out all of the moss that was growing in where the stone had cracked, and then epoxied the stone together and ratchet strapped it while it cured. Unfortunately while the stone is glued back together, there is still a large crack that could allow moisture …
Aug 28
Maintenance 2018/08/25
It’s been a while. Saturday me, my brother Josh, and our friend Dave went down to do the monthly maintenance. I wasn’t able to make it down in July, but Josh had gone down and took care of it, as well as placing a cross in the cemetery . When we showed up Saturday we …
Jun 24
Maintenance 2018/06/16
Just a short update. Me, my brother, and his friend went down last week and mowed again. Fortunately, the weeds were only a foot tall this time and we were done in just under an hour. Sometime you wonder if your labor really benefits anyone else, so it was nice to see that a member …
May 26
Maintenance 2018/05/19
I went down last weekend with the intent of doing some light trimming, trying to get the cemetery spiffed up in time for Memorial Day. However, the weeds grew pretty quickly since my previous visit: My great grandparents’ grave right inside the cemetery was barely visible, as were the tallest tombstones. Here are a …
Mar 30
Maintenance: 2018/03/24
I went down last weekend and did some weedeating, cleaned up a little brush, and righted Alfred and Florence’s tombstone. I also found another 1-2 graves that were buried under some of the dead grass. Next visit will be more mowing, which should be easier now that we have (hopefully) all the hard-to-see graves marked …
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