One of the things we always do when we’re in Pittsburgh is visit the graves of our parents and our paternal grandparents. We keep thinking we will look for the maternal grandparents, but we haven’t chased them down yet.
My father was, how should I put this…obsessed with grave maintenance. His father, and two of his older sisters died in a freak automobile accident in 1927. Their grave had a habit of sinking. So we would take dirt and sod and build the grave up so it was even with the surrounding graves. Accordingly, we tend to his grave in a similar manner.
This year, I finally remembered to bring a couple necessary items. I took a pair of grass clippers and a brush. We wanted to trim closer to the headstones than the mower can get, and we wanted to brush off and dead grass that has accumulated since last year. My father would recognize the brush–it was his when he operated a golf club repair business out of a pro shop at a local country club. The back of the brush once said, “Stolen from Pro Shop!” I sanded that off to avoid being embarrassed.
The grass clippers were handy as I was packing my car, but they are a pair we don’t us often. They were rusty, and I’m sure my dad would have noticed that. My brother and I joked about what he would say:
“You guys did a good job trimming around the stone, but take some steel wool to those clippers when you get home.”
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