Grave digging

[selenite0]

I got some more use out of a gift from jfoxdavis yesterday.

It's a shovel he gave us to celebrate Maggie Rose's birth. The joke was she's so cute I'd need to warn every teenage boy in the region "I have a gun and a shovel." But now I had to dig a real, if small, grave. Our cat Pouncequick died yesterday. Her brother Pixel had died in December. His grave has flowers on it. They've already passed their first bloom and are looking a little droopy. Pouncequick's grave went on the south side of his. By the time I got home and had a bite to eat the rain had stopped, so I got to do the work without excessive Young Frankenstein references. Her personality didn't really suit flowers, so the plan for her grave is to put knotwork garden tile on it. I gave her a few words as I laid her down. She was always crotchety, hopefully she'll be happier in the next place. Or at least I hope she'll find plenty of things to complain about if that's what she wants.

I guess this makes the shovel even better for the original purpose--I can say it's already dug two graves.

Comments

[technomom]

How about planting catmint on her grave? Or something prickly?

*hugs*

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the hugs, we can use them.

We're already having trouble keeping the prickly plants under control in the back yard. We want Maggie and Jamie to play there without tears. Catmint sounds like it could be good. We actually have some wild mint in the yard, that might be a start.

[marymont.livejournal.com]

Make sure you contain it, or it will spread everywhere, like all mints.

I've lost a lot of cats over the years. It never gets easier.

*still more hugs*

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Make sure you contain it, or it will spread everywhere, like all mints.

This would be bad?

[marymont.livejournal.com]

You like having a lawn?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Lawn as in evenly manicured expanse of grass of all one species, resembling a golf course - that's not part of our life!

Lawn as in expanse of green stuff, avoiding anything poisonous or prickly that would endanger the kids, and is mostly surviving on whenever it rains around here, that's what we've got. Good sized chunks of it are from last year's birdseed, I think. Lots is dandelions.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

Well, no, actually, just enough flat space for the kids to play. Mowing the rest is a hassle.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nymphette_/]

:(

Oh guys, I am so sorry. I hope Pouncequick is happier now too. I had a crotchety kitten I loved once too!

[archangelbeth]

*scritchies*

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Hugs and sympathies to you both. {{{{sad}}}}

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

My condolences on your loss.

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

May Pouncequick be happier on her journey, and may you be able to hold on to the happy memories.

As for the shovel: Well, it'll be a few years before Maggie's going to have candidates for the, um, larger projects. We hope. I'm glad it's proving useful, if slightly regretful for the reasons.