We free the small trees from choking grass, pull the stifling, sticky couch grass that has spread over the bank.
I just jab a garden trowel about four inches into the grass, pull back and drop in a bulb.
Alan adjusted a mat that had been lying on the edge of the grass, pulled out a small white ball (the jack), and rolled it to the other end of the green.
A June 1999 teacher's union memo states there is "visible mold" on the walls in the stairway, leaks that allow water to enter rooms and soak the walls and floor and grass pulled through the ventilation system into the building.
But unlike other historic New York cemeteries, like Green-Wood in Brooklyn and Woodlawn in the Bronx, the Old New Utrecht Cemetery has no professional groundskeepers to mow its grass, pull its weeds or maintain its crumbling gravestones.
Every time he goes to eat grass, pull his head up.
"When I was a kid, I remember grasping grass and pulling it up," Mr. Stankard said.
I looked around me at the rally and saw little kids running through the grass and pulling on their parents' legs.
The quarterback, even now in his mid-thirties, looked like he could be chewing on a blade of grass, or pulling a girl's pigtails, something boyishly mischievous in his eyes.
All the time she was talking, Daniel was doing something to her feet, which dangled from the rim of the wicker cone: tickling them with a grass seed head, pulling the grass backward and forward between her toes where they were calloused from the thong on her flip-flops.
