Our Friday adventure actually began a couple of weeks ago when my friend asked, " Do you ever go to Lovelock? How far away is it anyway?". She has been writing an online history of a little Northern California town. In her investigations she discovered that one of the past residents was buried in Lovelock, Nevada. She needed a picture of the gravesite for her history. "Why not?" I thought. "This could be fun!" My son had a day off and my husband was away on a hunting trip. I recruited my son and a date was made. Our journey began with a stop at the Empire Distributing Store to buy a bouquet for our new "friend". We chose fall flowers in a horseshoe rocking chair made especially for us by Gay! Perfect! Our trip took us up Jenny Creek and over Limbo, the backway to Lovelock. We were in no hurry so we followed C-punch cowboys with their horse trailers who graciously opened all the gates for us! It was a perfect day. Blue sky, lots of sunshine, t-shirt weather and no time frame to put a damper on our day! It had been such a long time since either of us had been this way that we tried several of the "roads not(usually)taken". Our first landmark "Adobe Flat". Too far south so we headed north. Gray, white, and spotted desert burros curiously watched as we made our way along the narrow road. A shiny, silver windmill stood sentry in the middle of the expanse. Another band of burros wandered our way as we stopped to play at the water tank. Thinking I might get a picture of them I climbed up into a cattle chute. Ahh... but to no avail! They were not to come that close. The only thing I got there was covered with creosote from the fences I had climbed! On to Lovelock we went. It seemed like we were there in two flicks of a burro's tail. With the help of our GPS we easily found the pretty little cemetary; Big Meadow Cemetary, 3 miles south of Lovelock, between I-80 and the railroad tracks. The contest was on! Who could find Mr.Sovy's resting spot first? I did! Right away! We took our pictures, one of the cemetary sign and one of the grave site. We were on our way...successful mission complete! Wonderful memories made!
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