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This certainly is a more efficient use of space than some of the sprawling cemeteries we have here.
Do you know if there are any specific reasons a family would choose a pagoda/urn instead of scattering the ashes?
I was just saying to Ron the other day that large gong would look nice on the big wall @ New Chez Grumby .. but then it would drive me crazy to have a gong hanging in w place where I couldn't take it down and sound it regularly ..
4 years agoIt's like we have one brain! I was about to make a very similar comment.
So I'll just add that if Andrea can calm dogs, dinosaurs, and Bruces .. just think the effect she'll have on twin grandbabies. Peace and joy will abound!
I was calling this butterfly “Pinkie”, but it may have been your favorite little spirit too. There was a beautiful rooster that would come to the glass door of the breakfast room in Pyay every morning and watch us keenly. You never know who’s coming to visit and when.
4 years agoIt's as if this cow knew of the Hudson River School of painting and was waiting for someone to come along and do a portrait.
4 years ago1. That bird sounds exactly like my phone when I turn the volume up or down.
2. Butterflies often seem to come up to me when I'm riding my bike, I've decided they are my favorite little spirit coming to visit.
Yes, nice portrait!
4 years agoIt's a chicken drumstick.
4 years agoIt looks like the front end of a dead fish in there...
4 years agoYou guys look fantastic!!
4 years agoYeah, cycle tourists are hillbillies when it comes to clutter.
4 years agoYeah, a little too cute.
4 years agoThat's a handsome bovine.
4 years agoNo, we had been in the room exactly 30 seconds. The clutter occurred immediately upon opening our eight panniers and two other bags. It's like we open a pannier and it all comes out like the cloth snake on springs in one of those cans of fake peanuts.
4 years ago
This is very interesting! The little crematories seem so personal and approachable compared to the big corporate crematories I've seen here.
4 years agoI just looked up cremation stats for the US and rate was up to 50% in 2016 from just 5% in the 1970's.
A friend of ours said he's choosing alkaline hydrosis for disposal of his body when he dies, which was something I'd never heard of. According to a 2017 New York Times article, it's becoming a more common choice in the US.