Christmas was always a big deal to Richard. So we put out a Christmas tree at his grave and one at my mom’s grave which is located right behind Richard’s. We used live trees, intending to plant them somewhere later.
They were in pots. We just dug into the ground and buried them up to the rim of the pot.
I made a trip to the cemetery today. Where once there were Christmas trees there are now holes in the ground. The picture above is where our tree once stood.
Our cemetery has a rule against artificial decorations. They allow an exception during the Christmas season. During Christmas we are allowed to place wreathes and other artificial decorations. At the end of January the artificial decorations must be removed.
I never thought a real live tree would fall under this rule.
But it seems my definition of artificial is much different than the staff of the cemetery.
Very aggravating.
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I’m very sorry they did that…I’m not impressed with the whole process of the burial and cemetaries. It seems that at the funeral home, everything is closed up and claustrophobic feeling and the people working there speak in hushed tones as if the grieving people need to be accommodating to them instead of the other way around. Unfortunately when my son died two years ago my in-laws came with us. They were trying to help…I know…I told the funeral director basically that I didn’t want the song and dance, and he being a cowboy from Texas was just what I needed, he didn’t seem to want to do all that either, so we kept it business, and are still friendly to this day.
God Bless,
Tonya
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