Recap: I clear out overgrown graves at my local cemetery.
One very kind Olive fan spotted my disintegrating backpack in an earlier post, and sent me a NEW ONE!! Thank you for supporting this project.
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With my snazzy new backpack, I was able to clear out two graves today. A veteran husband and his wife, who were both buried inches beneath soil, and a large overgrown patch of grass dividing them. So, I got to work to reunite them!
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I was going to post more video footage with it, but I couldn’t really take video and clear the garden out with one hand. Next time I have an assistant I’ll post the full process!
This is just a reminder. I don’t do anything to restore the gravestones – only the garden around it.
Here’s why: Hanging out in an old graveyard
ALWAYS relocate earthworms! They are extremely good for the environment!!
Earthworms are awesome, but grubs are bad. They feed on the roots of the plants in a garden and basically kill them. I always place them in a plastic bag to kill when I get home.
This particular grub was the biggest that I had ever seen in my entire life.
There’s a fishing spot nearby. I love fishing, but I lack a rod (or even a fishing license). I decided to try to make my own out of one of the sticks I had left over from my DIY-archery set adventure. It failed lol.
This is why the cover image is a blurry picture of before I began to get the dirt/mud off of it. If I used the actual “after” photo, it would look like I ruined it.
It looks like I poured black paint all over it. When it dries, it looks great.
Hypothermia just means that your body temperature is abnormally low. This can happen in many ways.
It does not have to be freezing to get hypothermia. In fact, many people die of hypothermia in the summertime because they don’t prepare for it.
It can be 70°F, and you could still get hypothermia. If you are wet, the sun has set, and you have no dry clothes, you are at serious risk of getting hypothermia.
Always be prepared. Have a fresh pair of dry socks. Get somewhere warm indoors as soon as you can.