Ah, my favorite time of the year. Nope, it's not that it is Dixon Apple time, after all they were sold out in three days and we didn't get any. Nor is it the beautiful Balloon Fiesta, even though we rarely go. Most years many of the balloons come right over our house in Corrales - even land in the corn fields right next to our house. This year no balloon came even close! And it isn't even the beautiful Sandhill Cranes and Canadian Geese that fly over our house by the hundreds every morning, squaking and honking before then land to graze in the cornfields.
Nope - it is my favorite time because it is Fall and the hot weather has left the scene. Wonderfully cool mornings mean one thing - the Tombstone 'bees' will be returning to the cemetery grounds. HOORAY!!
All of us love getting back out into the field, so to speak, and completing another cemetery. It is kind of strange the joy that it brings to all of us to get all those names down. But we all understand the wonderful history we have created in documenting a particular cemetery. After it is uploaded to the internet, the information is there forever. For anyone in the whole world to find their friends and relatives.
Yes, that is why this is my favorite time of year, why everyone is happy to go back outside, and why we do this job. Year after year, happily creating history. Thank you, all you 'bees'.
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