More Tales from the Crypt

I was in Cedar Hill, TX this week visiting the Luster's. During one of our errands Raymond asked if I'd like to go check out the pet cemetery. I'm not kidding, the minute the possibility was out there I new it was going to be the HIGHLIGHT of our vacation. I can't explain it, but once we got inside the Pet Memorial Park we ran around "like kids in a candy store".

We marveled and the age of some of the tombstones,

the oldest one being Ginger 1933-1947.

It looks like from her picture, Ginger was Jo and Sam Donosky's Boston Terrier. I wonder if Jo and Sam are still alive?

In the back of the cemetery we found a bunch of tombstones belonging to the pets of Janis Fisher. She put a scripture on every headstone.

A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal,

But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

Proverbs 12:10

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Both Raymond and I decided our adventure was blog worthy, so we returned the next day - kids, camera, and Kleenex in hand. I also grabbed my bible so Raymond could read the scriptures on Ms. Fisher's tombstones.

You guys don't have to be told again how much I love scripture (or pets), but reading them in a pet cemetery was so funny. I laughed so much I wondered for a minute if I was being disrespectful. It was so much fun...and endearing.

Laughing or crying? You decided.

Oh yes, and I wanted to mention that another thing we marveled at was all the names. You could find the stock pet names like Skippy, Buster, and Happy. But there were also some high brows in amongst the muts, like the Duchess of Bordeaux Hill and Lambchop Von Hertz (Lamby the Loyal).

And of course, there were A LOT of Gingers!

Please click on Cat's Photo Album at the right hand side of this post and then look at ALL the Pet Cemetery pictures. I took lots of pictures of tombstones knowing that each one represents tons of happy memories.

Deer Me

When you look out my kitchen window you see this pretty little table and chairs. I was inspired to put a pot of Impatients on the table so when I do dishes there would be something lovely to look at. The Impatients were a perfect fro of green foliage with a crown of delicate pedal pink flowers all over the top. And then one morning......


I looked out and notice half of the plant was gone. At first I thought in a panick: CUT ANTS! I ran out to investigate and immediately realized that it wasn't cut ants because there were three flowers left, (cut ants would have striped it bare). That's when it hit me......deer!

And then they returned for seconds.