Robert Mickley
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- New Springfield OH
That is the interesting thing about farms. You can have a business hauling gravel or wood, but when its all said and done, when the trucks and equipment are all gone you have nothing. A farm though...and kids...yep when you are retired, or long since dead...you still got something very special.
I can show you several truck outfits within a few miles of here that are 3rd and 4th generation.. One claims 7generations since they started out hauling stuff with horse's and wagons. A farm can be gone just as easy, many have disappeared over the years. and many are only two or three generations.
Kids or no kids, There still wouldn't be a funeral. I talk to dead relatives all the time. My brother in law being one. During the renovation work, his son and law and I are where asking him out loud what he was up to when he built my sisters house.
The whole idea of putting flowers out on a grave,, Far as I'm concerned thats for the person doing it. If I wanted to plant flowers to honor a family member, I can do that in the front yard. I don't need to do it in a cemetery to show everyone else. IF theres a life after death The old man knows I remember and miss him. I don't need a funeral or a grave stone to prove that to him. IF he's there, he knows, if he's not. It doesn't matter.
If your happy with it Brother,, I'm happy for you
But I'm still not coming to your funeral