Tombstone*Treasures

03/02/2022

In case you are wondering -

https://www.joincake.com/blog/how-to-start-a-cemetery/ #:~:text=According%20to%20Law%20Insider%2C%20a,member%20of%20the%20same%20family.

Learn about what a family cemetery is and the steps you need to take to start a cemetery.

01/09/2022

Here's some humor....yes, I am strange and unusual

07/30/2021

Why? Why do people do this? I hope he gets fined, jail time AND has to go back to the cemetery and FIX the headstones he damaged (all supervised ofcourse).
Crystal Park Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in the county. I've been there and it is beautiful, peaceful and nestled right up against the mountains. Most of the headstones are very old, and when in need of repair, family must be contacted to do that. More often what happens is, there is no family left to contact and the headstones lay in a heap, just the way they fell or were pushed over. The sad truth is that the city and county are not going to spend any money to fix these loving memorials, period. Perpetual care means "we water and mow the grass" in the cemetery.
Unfortunately, one must have the necessary skills and equipment to put these symbols of history back to their former glory. Marble, sandstone, granite, bronze, white bronze/zinc, slate and gabbro must be cleaned and put back together in different ways. I'm not even sure if white bronze can be put back together or repairs made....anyway, I digress.
I really hope this delinquint gets more that a slap on the wrist!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/suspect-captured-in-cemetery-vandalism-case-out-of-monument/ar-AAKq0Zf?ocid=msedgntp

50 monuments and grave sites were damaged in May

02/14/2021

With the high cost of traditional burials, not to mention the pollutants put into the eatch from concrete, caskets and chemicals, and filling up quickly, this is pretty interesting. I wonder if one could have half of their body cremated by aquamation (so the family could have cremains) and the other half made into compost....interesting idea

Recompose, located outside of Seattle, has turned its first customers into soil after years of development.

01/31/2021

We've lost so many awesome people in the past month! Hank Aaron, Cloris Leachman, Jon Arnett, Cicely Tyson, JoAnn Rogers (Fred Roger's wife), the infamous Phil Spector, Tommy Lasorda, Marion Ramsey (Officer Hooks in Police Academy), Tanya Roberts, Larry King...to name a few. RIP to them all.....

01/23/2021

RIP
LARRY
KING
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/larry-king-dead-obit-828733/

Award-winning TV and radio host who became a household name on CNN show Larry King Live

01/21/2021

Here's food for thought....oh, sorry for the pun....

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/national-news/humans-now-being-legally-composted-in-washington/?fbclid=IwAR1ojvYGAC4-Dudhd9_e-65ka3tefwp2QYWEB3yI5BEcyBOVVdElTaleXm4

Walt Patrick slowly rolls a giant wooden spool-shaped cradle back and forth. Inside, a human body is gradually being turned into compost, one of the first licensed “natural organic reductions…

12/31/2020

RIP Joe....

Joe Louis Clark, the baseball bat and bullhorn-wielding principal whose unwavering commitment to his students and uncompromising disciplinary methods inspired the 1989 film “Lean on Me,” died at his Florida home on Tuesday after a long battle with an unspecified illness, his family said. At crim...

12/30/2020

RIP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dawn Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann among a misfit band of shipwrecked castaways on the 1960s sitcom "Gilligan's Island," died Wednesday of causes related to COVID-19, her publicist said. She was 82. Wells died peacefully at a residential facility in Los Angeles, p...

12/23/2020

Hi everyone. As you know, I haven't been on very much this year. It's been the worst year ever. So many deaths that have touched me. Even my sweet kitty I had for 20 years passed on Saturday! I had to take her to the crematory today. This year has been scary, causing much anxiety and grief. It makes one wonder if things will ever get back to normalcy, or if what we are experiencing is the new "normal."
I have to say the only thing that keeps me going is the thought and hope that things will get better eventually. I am a healthcare worker and have been for the past 14 years. Take what is said on the news about vaccinations for Covid with a grain of salt, as I have yet to receive it, nor has it been offered or mentioned. Not every healthcare worker has been vaccinated. So keep up wearing a mask, stay 6 feet apart, don't gather in a crowd, use common sense and know that when you follow the rules you are protecting yourselves AND others. Staying 6 feet apart is better than 6 feet under. With that, as hard as it is to say, Happy Holidays to you, no matter what race, religion, orientation, etc....be kind, be aware, be concerned and most of all, be caring. Let's get 2020 gone already!😔

12/17/2020

Bulloch first wore Boba’s weathered green-and-white helmet and armor in 1980′s “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” and returned as the character for 1983′s “Return of the Jedi.”

10/24/2020

Here's something you don't see everyday

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

05/25/2020

Stay safe everyone. Remember our vets!

05/09/2020

I never got to see the famed duo perform live, but the tv shows were fascinating!

RIP Roy Horn

Roy Horn: Remembering the Illusionist's One-of-a-Kind Life and Career in Photos