It must be the dog days of summer, or is it sleep deprivation with roofers by day at my chateau and the Susanville Main Street reconstruction project at night?
For a respite, I have been working in the Susanville Cemetery in the afternoons. It is quiet there and the inhabitants are quite pleasant. There are lots of interesting headstones to be found there. However, there are several that leave me puzzled. They basically consist of chunks of unfinished stone. The one above has a hole drilled through it.
In the past, I have had a good luck in seeking an interpreter on an unusual headstone since the headstone’s inscription is in Japanese. A Japanese Lassen College student came to my aid to translate. As to the other stone monoliths, I let you draw your own conclusion.