Archive for June, 2007
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007It’s Sunday, and shortly after daybreak in Signal Hill. Bargain hunters sift through boxes containing all that is left of a few lives.
Dozens of oil paintings and hundreds of pieces of pottery, polyester shirts with winged collars, campy 50’s lamps, and Navy footlockers that have never been opened.
It’s the stuff of a retired Navy commander [...]
Pimp My Blog
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007We rely on the I.S. department for a lot of the technical support for our business. When we started Life in the Garden, the help desk set it up and christened it cremationblog. Not the name I would have picked, but it’s done and we’re grateful for the help.
When you sell the product that no [...]
Symbolism in Engagement Pictures
Sunday, June 10th, 2007At the risk of being a total b, I’d like to do a 10 year study of these couples after the engagement pictures appear on the society page and see what their current marital status is. The pictures are early indicators.
I’m tired, I’m needy and I can’t do anything for myself.
He’ll stifle and crush [...]
For Those About To Rock
Saturday, June 9th, 2007Three Beautiful Things:
Lighting Bugs
No Car Payments
Pulling out of a funk
Things are a little brighter in the garden. We’ve been flat, fat and unmotivated.
Apologies to the blogs I hit with regularity. Someday I’ll get the feed, so I don’t corrupt your stats with my obsessive search for updates. Please excuse, just means I love [...]
Godfather of Fitness
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Greetings from the garden! It’s been a nutty week and I’d like to focus on warm bodies. Let’s study a couple of fine specimens.
Today we salute the Godfather of Fitness, Jack LaLanne. Only a real man wears a jumpsuit AND ballerina slippers!
Mother’s work out centered around Jack, Elaine and their white German [...]
Cast Away
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007As cremation has overtaken burial in California — about 52 percent of the dead are cremated, according to the National Funeral Directors Association — scatterings of remains have become a daily occurrence. Without anybody really noticing, San Francisco Bay has become an enormous burial ground.
Scatterings are done [...]
You CAN Take It With You
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007Today we bring you a list of items that families have placed in the casket of their loved ones compiled by an Ohio funeral director :
fishing rods
bow and arrow
golf clubs
golf balls
basketballs
autographed baseballs
baseball gloves
baseball, football and basketball uniforms
unloaded handguns, rifles and shotguns
decks of cards
bingo cards
lucky pennies
room keys from Las Vegas
cigarettes
marijuana joints
pet rocks
favorite books
a tape recorder
a glass [...]
Saturday in the Hood
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Saturday morning at the Cutter. Just need a few things, I get in the short line and wait. When asked if she found everything she needed, the customer ahead of me starts to tick off all the items she couldn’t locate. “Where’s the Little Debby coffee cakes? Can you draw me a map? [...]
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