Home Depot: Your One Stop Body Disposal Shop

Everyone knows that lime powder, sprinkled on a body, prevents the smell of putrefaction and discourages flies.  Its also wonderful for roses and is a commonly used soil additive for gardeners.  Its available at your local Home Depot.

Also available are small, portable sized, battery powered chain saws.  Small enough to fit into your trunk (with a bag of lime) and still leave room for other items, yet powerful enough to sever limbs (tree and otherwise).  They’re relatively inexpensive and come with a rechargeable battery.

Somewhere along the line you may need a drop cloth.  These are found in the paint section and come in a variety of types.  Roll-out, folded, canvas, plastic, clear, blue, black (I recommend blue or clear so that you can see whatever mess you are working with easily and not get it on yourself.  Vinyl and latex gloves can be found in the cleaning aisle and face masks are scattered throughout the store for when you sprinkle the lime.  Lime is an irritant to skin and is extremely dangerous to the eyes, causing permanent damage and even blindness.  No one wants that.

You will need a shovel as well.  They’re in the garden section, at the end of the cleaning aisle.  Point-tipped round spade would do. 

A nice shrub from outdoor garden could come in handy to give the appearance that the hole has some other purpose than disposal of…unwanted goods, and it is a good effort toward conservation and reforestation.  Not to mention it will discourage exploration of the site after some time.  You could sprinkle some grass seed or wildflower seed around the dig site also, to encourage re-growth of natural ground cover.

After all this preparation, it would seem that all you need now is a victim (who will provide exceptional fertilizer for the shrub and flowers). 

9-11 is what we remember it as.

Most of the country was doing today roughly what they were doing 11 years ago on 9/11; starting their day at work, driving to school, doing their general routine in the house, etc.

But 11 years ago on today's date, my family and I were doing something much different than our general routine. We had congregated at my parents' home in Indiana to bury my grandfather, a veteran.

Some of our family

was driving in from Canada, some from Ohio, the Carolinas and Virginias, some from further away. The Canadians were stuck at the border for the day, and the horrors of the Nation seemed to take place outside of our more immediate circumstances; postponing the arrival of family members, complicating the funeral process, delaying the burial until later in the week.

It was a surreal blessing to be literally surrounded by family, all staying in one house.

I remember that night, looking up in the night sky with several of my cousins on the patio and realizing that this would probably be the only day any of us would or ever had seen the night sky with no planes at all.
Only Stars.

I remember that when we did have the funeral, later that week, EVERY SINGLE CAR on both sides of the road pulled over for the funeral procession as we passed; the drivers' awareness having been heightened by the events of the week.

Most people remember the events that occurred in New York, PA, and the Pentagon today.

I mostly remember the blessings of my extended family...

And I thank God for each and every one of them.