Monday, March 31, 2008

My web site

Is up. My first website, done all by myself! I absolutely love technology!!!

What a long way we have come from Space Invaders and Kaypro computers.

I’m speaking Greek to all but a couple of you, aren’t I? Oh well. Believe it or not, it was exciting back then.

When I look at some of the older headstones in the cemeteries I wonder what the people buried there would think if suddenly they could rise up and come back to life.....But most of all, I am sad to think of what I will miss after I am gone. I hope I have time to own a flying car like George Jetson.


www.gravegardens.com

Saturday, March 29, 2008

I love cemeteries

Always have. When I was a little kid, my parents would take me along to help decorate our families gravesites. They really didn't let me help much, so I spent most of the time wandering around, reading headstones and wondering how they died. Back then no one worried about perverts kidnapping their kids so I had free range of the cemeteries, some two or three blocks long. From the very old, unreadable limestone headstones to the beautiful massive granite life story tributes, I loved them all. Now, as an adult, my fascination continues.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not a morbid person. I am, however, an extremely curious person who finds the whole life/death experience a pretty interesting subject.

For instance, the whole tradition of burying your loved ones in cemeteries, next to strangers. I know that there are now laws about how and where people can be buried, but cemeteries go way, way, back. Way before laws. Even before Christ, people were buried in areas set aside for just that purpose. In some cases, I have heard that the areas were considered sacred so people wanted to be buried there, so as to be closer to their God or heaven. But what about all the other areas? A somewhat modern example - Boothill cemetery in Arizona. In a small town, surrounded by thousands of acres of empty land, people would deliver their deceased family members or friends to this cemetery and others like it. Why not a private place? Why not pick a spot in a beautiful meadow next to a bubbling brook or even their backyard? Some did, but why not the majority?

Oh, to have a time machine. Buts that's another story.

Friday, March 28, 2008

My virgin post

My very first post of my very first blog. It is a rare day that I even read someones blog, so what am I doing here?

Well, It all started when I decided to turn my hobby (grave tending) into a business. Everyone knows that you can't have a business without a website, right? Rather than pay someone to make one for me, I decided to try it on my own. What was I thinking? The only thing I knew how to code in HTML was b and br. So, off to college I go. First I took an online class for website building. I spent the next few weeks trying to create my first website using only HTML. That was a little too challenging for a site that needed to look professional so I sprang for Adobe Dreamweaver, a WYSIWYG website creating software. Wow, great software but again, quite the learning curve! A few weeks later I decided that Adobe Photoshop was going to make everything so much easier. I found it to be only partially true. Overwhelmed, overwhelmed, overwhelmed. But, as someone who loves a challenge, I also found it so much fun.

I finished my site last night and will have it up and running in the next day or two.

So, tonight I sat in front of my computer thinking "now what"? Hmmmm...Maybe I'll try a blog to tie in with my website/business....