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<\/a>This is in the weird little cul-de-sac side yard of our house, next to the dining room. For a while I was trying to grow herbs in planters over here, but we never really used them quickly enough, so it’s just been dead space for a while. So it seemed like a good spot for something decorative in memory of the Best Emmy Ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n The shrub is a tall arbor vitae of the same type as the one at the edge of the patio\/deck that was one of her favorite places to lie in the shade. You can see their relative placements in this wider shot:<\/p>\n I dug down a bit before adding dirt to the planter, and mixed her ashes down in the bottom level of soil. Which was a suggestion from one of the dead-pet books SteelyKid’s second-grade teacher sent home (which helped her, but man, that was a rough bedtime-story night…). So in a very distant way, some bit of her will get incorporated into the new tree, which seems like a very fitting memorial.<\/p>\n (I had thought of maybe burying the ashes in her usual spot by the original arbor vitae, but we’re looking at extending the back of the house out a bit, which will probably mean removing that tree, so this seemed more permanent…)<\/p>\n And now I need to stop blogging for a bit, as the house is suddenly full of smoke, judging from the way my eyes are watering…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a discontinuous jump here, if you’re paying attention to photo-a-day numbering, but I’m skipping ahead of the cruise-centered backlog to write a more difficult entry. Back in December, when we lost the Queen of Niskayuna, I had her cremated, and said I’d do something nice as a memorial, once the weather got nicer. We… Continue reading 250\/366: Final Resting Place<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,20,2,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-dog","category-personal","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2016\/05\/sm_arbor_vitae_wide.jpg\")
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