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February 14, 2007 urngarden.com

Greetings and Happy Valentine’s Day!

Here’s a couple of items we’ve learned this week:

Naps can save your life.

When you look into someone’s eyes (the pupils) you can see their brain.

Red, truly is a power color, symbolizing good, evil, and wealth. In China, brides wear red because white is the color of death and mourning. Red is the color of the Catholic church. Satan is known to appear in red. The Spanish Empire had the monopoly on the color red, creating the dye from the a small red producing insect found in South America.

We study color in the garden. Aristotle declared that the colors of the world were created where darkness and light met, and that the simple colors are the colors of the elements: fire, air, water, and earth.

Regarding urns, our research indicates that blue is still America’s favorite color. Many women are fond of purple. And for the naturalists, Wood is Good.

We are happy to report that we were able to assist a family in California and save them several hundred dollars on their urn selection. Same urn at the funeral home was $675.00. Makes me question my prices.

The mortuary actually had this urn in stock. Many of the funeral homes we deal with stock samples or work from catalogs and carry a very limited supply of expensive urns. When asked the question, do your cremation families make an urn purchase at the funeral home? Guess what the answer is.

Today’s tip for better living: Go deep.

Filed Under: Advertising, art, Confessions, cremation, urns Tagged With: blue urn, Eagle cremation urn, purple urn, red urn

Let’s Roll

February 6, 2007 urngarden.com

Good Day! We’re back and bring greetings from the garden! This blog is a commentary on the full cycle of Life, coming to you LIVE from one of red states in the Midwest. Dirtsister here, trying to establish communications to the outside world. Can you read me?

We’ve attempted to blog infrequently before on another network, so little in fact, I’ve carried those two postings over. We are purveyors of fine funeral goods and have other projects in development, this essay is dedicated to the urngarden.com site

Urngarden.com was stated to bring families alternatives to cremation urn choices. We’ll be talking to families who are dealing with difficult choices and their experiences as well as observations on how the funeral homes are being affected by cremation families. It’s not all death and destruction here, it’s also daily observations.
Don’t be afraid.

And don’t mock my writing style, I’ve left the world of editors and English majors, and live in a self imposed world of isolation. I write like I talk, and I’m developing a new language called “High Class Hillbilly”.

From the mailbox: one of our clients sent this picture of her urn display and I must say I love her style.

Christina says: “My Mom loved the Ocean. I put sand, seashells and a small plastic bottle of ocean water from Florida in the urn.”
Thanks for sharing, Christina.

A heart felt thank you to our client families who patiently endured our struggle during the ice storm that hit our community in Jan. 12, Ten or twelve days without power tested our resolve. Thanks also to the Asplundh service crew that descended on this area and helped to restore our power. Asplundh bills itself as a Vegetation Management Service, I say they are a world class outfit, and I was impressed by the professional handling of their titanium blades. To wake up to the sound of chainsaws at 3 AM (on a school night!) was one thing, but to see these guys hanging from a bucket truck, skillfully sawing and blazing the way in darkness was an awesome sight. Hats off to the City for contracting this service. Hope Florida has them on retainer for their latest disaster.

We’ll close with a tip for one more thing to do before you die: LIVE.

Filed Under: Advertising, Confessions, cremation, urns

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