HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ELE SLYTER THE BEST DAMN SISTER IN LAW IN THE WORLD

 

Gary and Friends,       Each year, on the first Saturday in May,  we have the cemetery
cleanup day at Little Prairie Cemetery.  There are a bunch of dedicated
people who faithfully show up with rakes, shears, shovels, wheelbarrows,
and other equipment and go right to work getting the cemetery ready for
another season.  It’s just another attribute of the responsibility ethic
of people from this area.  There’s no ‘let someone else clean it up,
it’s not my job’ mindset anywhere in this bunch of folks.  They just
show up and dig in—get’r done.  When all the work is done,  another
typical Turtle Mountain tradition takes place.  The ladies head to their
cars and come back with some of the best picnic lunch anywhere.�
Although the cemetery sits on an open hilltop,  we have a grove of pine
trees in the center where the church sat years ago so we can always find
one side where we are protected from the wind to enjoy lunch and visit.�
I certainly want to thank all those who come each year to do their part
in keeping our cemetery in nice shape.  I’ll send along some pictures of
some of this years volunteers, although I didn’t get them all in the
pictures.  Thanks Gary!