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I don't get too sentimental over Memorial Day... usually. But wifey's mother just passed last year and this was her first w/o having her mother close by. She was pretty choked up over the whole deal, which I quite well understand.

So we made the rounds, as the weather had the courtesy to not rain on us today for like the first time in a month. Not that it would've mattered, but it was still a soggy mess.

A few observations...

Going to visit a cemetery on Memorial Day is a lot like going to Walmart on Black Friday. I don't recommend it.

Unlike Walmart, there aren't many parking spots, but the customers are more courteous.

If you intend to place some plastic flowers on the headstone and you haven't been there in a year or more, it's probably a good idea to bring a long screwdriver along to pry up the vase. Or a crowbar. :brad:

RIP, mom and dad, your family has not forgotten you.

Memorial Day isn't one that gets to me when it comes to my dad. His birthday and the day he was murdered are a lot more difficult for me and the days I always try to make it to his headstone.

Props to you for "playing along" when your wife was having a hard time. I tend to use pliers to remove the old flowers from the plastic "vase". The sun and heat tend to fuse the plastic stems to the plastic vase.

Plastic vase? Try bronze.

They must do things differently in Texas.

And no, they'll remove the flowers and put the vase down next time they mow.... less than a week.

But I won't forget the pry bar ever again.

The bronze vase is in front of the headstone and can't be moved. That is where we put live flowers a few times a year. The plastic vase is attached to the headstone on the backside and is situated such that it looks like the flowers are laying across the top of the headstone.

I guess I don't understand the need for the crowbar? I am not familiar with the bronze vase being moveable.

I always take a bottle of water and fresh flowers to my dad and sister's headstone. The vase isn't plastic, so I'm assuming it's bronze or some metal painted in a copper gold and brown color. Not sure. They mow there, but don't edge or weed-eat, so I bring a weed-eater with me every time I go which isn't often.

Cemetery's are hard to come by here in So Cal. Lots of cremation going on. Land ain't cheap.

Wagon wrote:If you intend to place some plastic flowers on the headstone and you haven't been there in a year or more, it's probably a good idea to bring a long screwdriver along to pry up the vase. Or a crowbar

Glad you made it out alive, Wagon.




US man crushed to death by mother-in-law's headstone while
decorating grave

http://theoneboard.com/board/viewtopic. ... aw#p895138

poptart wrote:

Wagon wrote:If you intend to place some plastic flowers on the headstone and you haven't been there in a year or more, it's probably a good idea to bring a long screwdriver along to pry up the vase. Or a crowbar

Glad you made it out alive, Wagon.




US man crushed to death by mother-in-law's headstone while
decorating grave

http://theoneboard.com/board/viewtopic. ... aw#p895138

God hates gentiles... just a heads up.


I was throwing back some shots with Jesus that day... when he "accidentally" knocked over one of his shots.

I say, "accidentally"... because I have no idea how dude rolls on sabbath... since it's normally both our days off.

That being said... it wasn't more then a second later... that we looked up at the flat screen in the bar... and this news story appeared.


Coincidence ???


Yeah, right.

My final resting place at Roselawn Cemetery in Maitland, Ontario Canada. Minus the Spinal Tap ref of course.

I was t aware you mom in law was a war casualty. That is the whole idea of Memorial Day isn't it? Tell the OL to do her bawling in mom' s day and leave this day to its intended purpose of honoring war dead then eating too much and getting drunk in the backyard.

No idea where or even if I will get planted somewhere someday. Not too concerned about it. I am actually giving thought to donating myself to a med school. Cheaper and more useful that laying in a concrete box till the end of time.

Can't remember the last time I visited a cemetery.

I did honor a few dead soldiers yesterday...

Left Seater wrote:I am not familiar with the bronze vase being moveable.

On a ground level headstone, you can turn the vase upside down and it goes underground.... so they can mow over it.

Maybe that's just for the poor white trash section of the cemetery, though.

The rich people get stones that stand 6'3" high, that's probably the section you're used to being in.

smackaholic wrote:I was t aware you mom in law was a war casualty. That is the whole idea of Memorial Day isn't it? Tell the OL to do her bawling in mom' s day and leave this day to its intended purpose of honoring war dead...

One does not need a particular day or reason to honor their parents memory, no matter how or when they died.

As well, both my father and father in law were WWII vets, you pathetically inept and unaware cretin.