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That cemetary sounds delightful..and it sounds like 'Cuffys Cove' in California, where my son is buried, and where I will go...its just a little Catholic cemetary, and its not one of those well trimmed and manicured cemetaries...they do have a small group of people who maintain it, but they usually just let the natural plants and ground cover grow, and only trim them back, when it gets to looking too tacky...

And that is what I like about this cemetary, its small, its wild, its natural...

Now there are not many Catholics in this stretch of California...so there are only burials once in a while...my son died in 1985, and I think since that time, maybe only five other people have been buried there...

But this cemetary has been there since the beginning of the century, when the area, was a big lumbering area...and many of the lumber workers of that time were Irish and Italian, and most wound up buried in Cuffeys Cove...so there are tons are very old graves, and one can tell by the names, almost all are either Irish, or Italian...

And there are so many children buried there as well, being as childbirth in that remote area at the time period, and childhood diseases of the time, made for many small children buried there....somehow that is also of comfort to me, that my son is with so many other children...

The other thing I like about this cemetary, is its setting...it sits on the top of a cliff, overlooking the Pacific Ocean...its just beautiful...and in Sept. when we buried my son, you could hear and see the sea lions down below, playing on the cliffs in the ocean...a lovlier spot, I cannot think of, in which to be buried...

But what makes it lovelier still, is that I will be buried with family, and that is what is most important, as you also feel, having your own place ready for you, when you are ready for it...

This cemetery has been there a long time too... it was the churchyard cemetery for the little church which was there in 1900. Mostly Scandinavian community moved the church to a bigger site long ago... but the cemetery remains. There are still burials there... from the same old families that started there (About 12 big family names among the stones) I was happy to see a lot of young people (like myself hehehe) and kids still taking part in the tradition. Many of the cleanup helpers are over 80, but about half were young. I can have faith that someone will be around to plant grass over me.