Today we took a ride to Greenfield to see if my grandparents' graves in the Green River Cemetery was affected by the mud slide that they had on March 7th. There was an article about it on the front page of our local paper. I know that my grandparents are buried on the edge of a cliff but I really didn't think that their section of the cemetery was affected. In another part of the cemetery, along that same cliff but quite a ways away, they had moved some graves that were too close to the edge a couple of years ago. We took a ride up there a week after it happened, but the road in to the cemetery was blocked off and it was too cold to walk all the way in. Today the road was open. There was caution tape near their grave stone but it was down so we drove up to it. The mudslide was near the back side of their graves but hopefully far enough away that they will never have to be moved.
While we were looking around the mud slide area in the cemetery, I noticed that down below was the playground where we had taken Marley in April 2004 when she slipped on the playscape and had to have stitches. (The cemetery is at the top of the hill behind the playscape).
It was Patriot's Day, 2004 and Paul and I were babysitting. We took Marley to Yankee Candle. After we left YC we took a ride to Greenfield and had lunch at McDonald's. Since it was such a beautiful day we decided that we would look for a playground. We found one at the Green River School. She was having such a good time, when all of a sudden she slipped on the steps and cut her face right above the eyebrow. These are the steps that she fell on.
I knew immediately that she was going to need stitches. We called Kris at work and she and Toby met us at Baystate Medical Center. We hadn't been back to that playground since.
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