Buying our gravestone

Yesterday we visited a “monument” company in Summit Hill and purchased a gravestone.  It’s a granite stone quarried in Barre, Vermont.  We found out that the epitaphs are no longer billed by the letter–a computer program now automatically incises the words.

My epitaph will read “Never shopped at Walmart.”  Our salesman was amused by that.  We have a few weeks before we see the final design, and Linda is still mulling over her message.  Right now she is leaning toward “Died while saving her shipmates.”