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<blockquote data-quote="Rafter S" data-source="post: 1703003" data-attributes="member: 21194"><p>I'll always remember my father and others of his generation talking about sitting up with bodies all night long, and digging the graves and filling them in by hand. Our church is on blackland, and there's never a time when that dirt is easy to dig. When it's dry you can't hardly dent it with an axe, and when it's wet it's so sticky you can't get it off the shovel.</p><p></p><p>Speaking of our church on the blackland prairie, when I was about 12 we got a new pastor, who promptly planted a line of pine trees beside the road going from the church to the cemetery. I was awful young, but I was old enough to know pine trees won't grow in blackland. Most, if not all, are still there and still alive, and that was almost 50 years ago, so I guess I was wrong. I've always said that if they'd been planted anywhere else, and by anyone else, they wouldn't have made it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rafter S, post: 1703003, member: 21194"] I'll always remember my father and others of his generation talking about sitting up with bodies all night long, and digging the graves and filling them in by hand. Our church is on blackland, and there's never a time when that dirt is easy to dig. When it's dry you can't hardly dent it with an axe, and when it's wet it's so sticky you can't get it off the shovel. Speaking of our church on the blackland prairie, when I was about 12 we got a new pastor, who promptly planted a line of pine trees beside the road going from the church to the cemetery. I was awful young, but I was old enough to know pine trees won't grow in blackland. Most, if not all, are still there and still alive, and that was almost 50 years ago, so I guess I was wrong. I've always said that if they'd been planted anywhere else, and by anyone else, they wouldn't have made it. [/QUOTE]
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