ACTIVITY LOG May 2024

Written By Kathy Ann Reid, June 14, 2024

May 1, 2024

Tree limbs still in cemetery.  BAS, GW and KAR did more clean-up and (although BAS carried off a large trailer full and passers-by have scattered) the wood pile grew.

May 11, 2024

On the Second Saturday Volunteer Day BAS, GW, TD and son JD, and KAR came with tools and a hand pushed motorized lawn mower.  This lawn mower is always used to very carefully mow around the tombstones so they won’t be touched.  Then we hand pull vegetation nearer the stones.  This early in the year the grass is still tender and the cemetery has had so much rain that roots and all can be pulled up.  Only areas to access the tombstones and a few walking paths are being mowed.  The neighborhood man (JR), true to his word came with his trailer loaded with his riding lawn mower.  Vegetation in the area where the tree fell, that had been “no mow” was so damaged that JR suggested that he would mow it.  KAR waded though the grass feeling for dead tree wood still hiding there and flagged a couple of stumps ahead of his mowing.  The wood pile made by the tree trimmers (May 15) in advance of the Pioneer Picnic got bigger.

May 14, 2024

BAS worked alone this morning to extend a mulched area to include two yuccas that GW had planted and adding a cedar log border.  He said it was a surprise and would not say what he’d done, but finally sent a picture.

May 17, 2024

BAS, GW, KAR mowed, cleaned around graves. Master Naturalist, JE came to visit with us and found several plants that we had not noticed.  Later he helped with our iNaturalist, W. W. Glover Cemetery Project by setting the location and documenting many plants. 

Note: With 7.8 inches of rainfall this month we still had to water some new plantings that dried out.  Here’s some rainfall history from  National Weather Service:

2024 May 7.80

2023  “ 2.35

2022  “ 3.00

2021  “ 7.77