now that I’m home I’m gonna start a thread of things I’ve noticed while taking care of this small, hundreds year old cemetery out in the woods over several years

about once a year there are exactly 3 marlboro cigarette butts on the ground next to a specific grave

every few months there are a ton of empty beer bottles on the ground next to another grave. One is always left unopened. I leave it and it eventually disappears.

Another grave usually has an unopened can of Jim Beam bourbon and cola sitting on it. Sometimes it disappears, but it’s usually replaced within a month or two.

there’s a man who really goes all out with the decorations on and around his wife’s grave. hanging plants and wind chimes and little stone statues. There’s always something new.

one time he told us it might be “too much” but he knows she would love it

i could talk about this one all day. it’s nice that with a small graveyard we don’t have any rules on where things can be placed. the guy who volunteers to mow just carefully weed eats around the decorations, so he can put as many things out as he wants

there are three graves in a row with handmade gravestones. my grandma knew them and said each one was handmade... by the person. the whole family made their own gravestones out of iron.

my favorite: there’s a gravestone with a picture of a can of Diet Coke engraved in it. There is no death date and no grave. She’s still alive.

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