#excurator

I added to my crocheted menagerie today.

Image by Oleksandr Pidvalnyi from Pixabay

It was a dark, gloomy week and I didn’t have my car so I spent a lot of time at home. I did all the usual chores, got a lot of lap time with the cat, and decorated for Christmas. I did get out for a couple walks down by the river. I even got some sunshine this morning before the clouds rolled in again.

Remember typewriters? I got to use an old electric one today to update some cemetery lot cards.

I had several requests for grave locations today (a regular daily occurrence) so I thought I’d show off our filling system. In the upper row of filing cabinets there are 6 1/2 double drawers filled with 3”x5” interment cards of all the people who have been buried here. In the lower rows are 9 drawers with 9”x11” cards of every lot in the cemetery. We have a volunteer steadily entering all the information into a digital database but there’s still a lot to go. And I personally like the physical cards.

I learned today that there is a newspaper for the funeral home and cemetery industry.

My life has not been particularly exciting or even that interesting lately, so I’m switching to weekly updates. This week, I walked at Sperr Park, wrote at the Elmira Tea and Coffee House, edited at home, and hiked at Tanglewood Nature Center.

The training wheels came off today. Because of unplanned but somewhat foreseeable circumstances, I was on my own in the office (and will likely be for the rest of the week). I feel like I know enough to keep things running smoothly and am comfortable telling people if I don’t know something. Today went well enough, so we’ll see how the rest of the week goes.