Last weekend a group of us met at the cemetery for our fall work day. It was a beautiful day for being outside and we had a great turnout!
We cleaned out some overgrown saplings just west of the Dinkins plots, trimmed a lot of undergrowth on the yaupons and crepe myrtles, picked up limbs and started cleaning the tombstones with the cleaning solution, as we discussed at the annual meeting.
A special thanks to Bruce Attaway and Bruce Attaway, Jr for taking the lead on the tombstone cleaning, to Ed Ferdon for hauling off all the debris (and for letting us use your burnpile) and Kaye Ferdon for making us brownies, to Gene Stallings and Linda Gordon for sprucing up plots, Tanya Copenhaver, Stuart Copenhaver, Micheal McCoy, Sabin Copenhaver and Logan Copenhaver for trimming and thinning out the small trees and bushes (and for being wise enough to bring a weed eater)!
Finally, thank you to everyone for digging up those saplings! That little patch of trees required a team effort. What a great accomplishment!
I left the cemetery on Saturday feeling good about the work we did and happy to be surrounded by such a wonderful community of people. Thank you all for your continued involvement. I know time is a valuable commodity and I appreciate you giving us your Saturday. It was a great day!
In other news, I will be sending out an email at the beginning of next month about finding volunteers to serve on the barbecue committee. If you’re interested please be on the lookout for more details in the email!
Joni Buck
President
Macedonia Cemetery Association
Wow, I am very impressed, Joni!! Yes, a great community of folks!!! I am not able physically to do that labor work, but will gladly send some $$s. I might even be able to entice my two able bodied grandsons 14 and 17 YO to do some physical work…Let me know when the next work day is.. and I’ll ck with their schedules….
Lane Mabray
Audrey Schultz Ueckert and Mel Schultz and Freeman Ueckert’s daughter
Lane, we would happily receive donations (as always) and we would love some extra hands. There’s something that kiddos bring to the work day that make it a little more fun so we’d love to have your grandsons out. Our next work day will be in the spring on April 30. I’ll send out an email prior to the event with more information. Thank you!
Joni, I have sent a contribution, but let me know if more is needed. PLUS I am asking my son and 2 grandsons to put in their calendars the April 30th work day….Just pls send me the details when decided.
Sounds like the day was wonderful. Thanks to all of you for working so hard. I had planned to come but AT@t had to work on my phone., The upkeep of the Cemetery means a lot to me. I can not do a lot of work but but want to do all that I can. Thanks again and I love all of you
Grace
We missed you but I’m glad you got your phone fixed! It was a great day!
Charles, we used a solution called D-2 and it works in a similar way. The instructions called for two different cleaning methods. The first was similar to what you describe, just spray it on and wait for it to work but there was another method which called for spraying it on then waiting 15 minutes and then scrubbing and rinsing. We were only doing a few headstones as a test to see if it would work so we chose the immediate results option. It took about 15 minutes per headstone so scrubbing all of them isn’t very realistic.
Where do you get your “Spray & Forget”? The D-2 is expensive – $65 a gallon so a cheaper alternative would certainly be good!
Joni