Huh

[botias]

Cremains in my back yard? I was driving wooden stakes into my new, improved footing trench and leveling their tops [not the most fun] when I noticed a pile of cat droppings in my soon-to-be flower bed. Next to the cat droppings was a circular metal tag. I was expecting it to be one of those aluminum tags they attach to official hybrid roses, but it turned out to be rather different: "Ocean View Crematory 3246"

Comments

[beanbeans.livejournal.com]

That would creep me out, big time. O.O
But I'm a wimp, so... :P

[botias.livejournal.com]

When you think about it, dead people are a lot safer than live ones.

[prophecygirrl.livejournal.com]

Well... isn't that special? And, I'm with beans on the creepy quotient.


Maybe we can all pretend it was something the cat dragged in????

[botias.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm find just as long as I don't find any teeth or glass eyes or anything. :|

[thundercat-13.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! My first thought was that "Well, your flowers should be successful there." But I'm morbid like that. I'd be off to investigate the circumstances and trying to find out who it was. But yeah, any teeth or glass eyes would up the creep factor tremendously.

There was a recent local news story about a woman who learned her entire 1/2 acre backyard was an un-excavated cemetery. Apparently the town developer was to have moved all the remains in his land purchase deal, but only discarded all the headstones and markers and left the coffins and all else in place. It was only discovered when the town was doing some road construction adjacent to her property and one of the construction guys told her, "Hey lady! You've got dead people!" They did an underground scan of her property and found like 30 graves. She's been there about 40 years and raised her kids and had many gardens through the years and never had a clue. Now she decorates a Christmas tree in her yard for them but says some of her old friends won't come over after dark anymore.

[botias.livejournal.com]

I would love to get a line on a piece of property like that. :) I'm a complete materialist so such things don't bother me at all--sounds like a great way to get a house for cheap! That and I actually kind of like the creep factor.

I am tempted to find out who it was. It's mostly time constraints that hold me back.