The Good Neighbor He Didn't Need To Be

 

Zane White – Moffat County, CO A decent human being

Although we share the same last name, we are not related. He owns the property giving access to the White Family Cemetery. This past week a wild fire swept the 320 acre homestead. Before it got close, he sprayed the cemetery area with fire retardant!

40°24’31.05”N    108°23’19.09”W

Over the years, revisions to US Highway 40 removed direct access to the homestead. Not only has Zane allowed access through his property, he has graded the road into the cemetery and has loaned his backhoe to dig graves.

Zane lost some dry land wheat fields. His house and buildings were spared because he sprayed them with fire retardant.

All of Western Colorado is dry with many fires burning. Always looking for a bright spot, a decent winter will make for great grass next year on the homestead.

 This fire started near Elk Springs. There was a report of an 18 wheeler dragging a chain producing sparks that may be the cause.

 Wolves

Again, radical judges and environazis are trying to force what voters will surely reject, should it make the ballot.

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DIA + Nuclear Power Uproar

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 In-N-Out Burgers

A few have opened in Colorado inclsing one eight miles from me. While I rarely do fast food, yesterday I stopped there. Long lines but a short wait. That place has it together. Price is about $2.00 less than the competitors and, IMO, a better tasting burger.

As always, YMMV

 

 

Family Funeral

 Fair warning. This post is for my extended family. You are welcome to read it and may enjoy some of the photos. Aunt Nancy succumbed to cancer a few weeks ago. Her children decided to inter her cremation ashes in the family cemetery over the Labor Day weekend.

 A little history. Around 1912 Leonard and Frank White filed homestead claims about 20 miles West of Maybell, CO. The land has remained in the hands of some of the descendents. Jayne Hoth, nee White, ended up owning the property and her two surviving children still own it. Aunt Jane established a portion to become a private family cemetery.

40° 24’ 19.08”N  108° 28’ 20.02” W

 As an extended family we gather at the Maybell, CO Community Center. A very rough head count Sunday morning was fifty souls.

Organizing anything with our tribe is like herding cats but eventually thirty or so vehicles convoyed West on US 40.

The only plan for the cemetery is for the graves to be between a dirt track and the West property line. Graves are scattered here and there.

Her children chose a spot near her oldest son’s and first husband’s spot. At our cemetery we bury our own.

The various folks gathered for pictures then, a prayer by the family matriarch, and “I’ll Fly Away” was sung. It is an understatement to say our services are not scripted.

I like the way her spot was dressed out.

 In this picture the old lady on the left is the last survivor of twelve children. Second and third generations are in the picture. The young lady on the far right in the purple dress is “with child”. So, four generations. 

Visiting my father’s grave, you can see the ten year long fight with badgers is still being fought. My father would have found it highly amusing that his grave would become a badger den.

The last time I was there velvet scraped from a deer antler was in the tree. Now, on the upper left is a “shed” horn. Since my father was a lifelong subsistence hunter and poacher, it is fitting deer now trample his grave. He would have approved.

Going to and back I took my time and will post some pictures in a future blog. I made it a point to stop in Walden, CO Cemetery to pay respects to some of my maternal relatives.

Fear not, pointless inflammatory  rants and raves will soon appear in this space.