Enjoy the day of caching around the Fairplay area. Drop in for an ice cream break between 11:20AM and 12:20PM then back to caching the area. Talk of your adventures of the day so far, and what ahead. Dustyriver is just going to enjoy ice cream all day. Check Fairplay Doin's for more info on the area. Check Fairplay Caching for cache information in the area.
Prunes (Prunes Bio) and Shorty were beloved burros, studies in contrast in life as they now are in death.
Fairplay's memorial to Prunes is a self-supporting stucco wall, into which is cemented a brass plaque, charting Prunes' 60+ years of service to miner Rupe Sherwood, who stood beside the monument when it was unveiled on April 30, 1930. Also embedded in the wall is Prunes' collar, which is protected under glass. Sherwood cried at the dedication, and said, "Lord I hate to see him go. I would trust him ahead of any man."
Shorty's memorial is less ostentatious, a tiny pink marble tombstone on the courthouse lawn. Shorty was the town mooch (the exact opposite of industrious Prunes) but he was beloved all the same. In fact his dog pal Bum died of a broken heart after Shorty passed, and was interred alongside him.
