This morning the phone rang & I learned from a neighbor that Boaz was "out & about", headed down the road towards the driveway gate.  Well at least he was hanging around the neighborhood.  

John was already outside, so I yelled at him hopefully so he could get out to the gate & open it before Boaz came by. 

He got out there & when he opened the gate, Boaz literally picked up the pace to get thru it, so I guess being out wasn't as much fun as he thought it would be.  I thought he'd come to me for security, but when I called him, he picked up the pace even more, made a wide berth around me, & went to find the other donkeys.  Hmmmm........guess I know where I rate now.  LOL

Yesterday Jewel the black horse visiting with her new friends went to a new home.  Patti had been trying to find a good home for her for quite sometime & one finally showed up.  It was a day trip away, so she asked if Joyce, another friend & I wanted to go.  Of course we did, so I left John with chores & off we went.  

After we delivered Jewel we wandered all over Cochise County, Douglas, lunch at the Gadsden Hotel, Bisbee to look at the Lavender Pit, & Tombstone, just for a "drive-thru",  Did stop for ice cream in Benson, of course by this time, I was pretty sure John was already doing evening chores, so why hurry, right?  LOL  He wasn't done when I got home, so I didn't completely escape.  

We got an inch of rain last night.  When Jenny came in this morning she was limping on her bandaged foot.  My assumption was it got wet & maybe the front piece had came off.  After everyone was fed we took her up to the garage, i.e. bandage changing room to look.  The piece hadn't come off, & it was not WET, but was very dampish.  The 3rd layer of bandaging is a baby diaper, which can probably hole a gallon of water.  Well maybe not quite that much, but they do hold a lot.  Her foot was definitely damp & "gooey".   So we set up a fan to blow on it & left it open for about an hour.  We had taken her breakfast hay up, so she could munch while we changed the bandage.  We found out that in the garage she only eats animal crackers, preferably after every move we make, hay wasn't an option..............!!!

I stayed with her while John cleaned pens.  Usually Lysa is here on Wednesday mornings to clean pens.  She lives on the other side of the San Pedro river & when she called this morning she said the river was running about 4 feet deep.  I told her just to put on her bathing suit & swim, but she didn't seem to think she wanted to do that........!!! LOL  

Do you think Jenny would stand still?  Of course not, she couldn't understand why nothing was going on, usually we take the bandage off, & put the new one on, we don't waste her valuable time standing around doing nothing.  

I found something I don't like.  The coronet is very soft & is loose in a place about 2 inches long.  She acted like it might be sore.  I haven't been putting anything on her foot, but decided since it was soft & smelled like stinky feet, after I cleaned it up I put some powdered zinc oxide on it.  She's good to go until Monday unless we get some more rain.  Hopefully it will be nice & dry then.  

Benson cancelled their fireworks for tonight because of no rain.  Thought the rain might change their minds, so I called the fire department & they said still a no go.  So we might go over to Willcox, they said their program is still on.  Benson is a bunch of wooses I think..............!!!