COLORADO OR BUST.......!!!

Looks like Leddy is bored already...!!

Well that might be a little drastic, but the 2 humans, 4 dogs, one mammoth, 4 standards and 2 mini donkeys are on the road, as of noon today.  

When their motor home went in the hay barn, we were pretty sure it was a go......!!!  They are still planning on spending the night about half way.  I hope the donkeys will be more cooperative than they were this morning with loading.  Not all of them, but some of them, hadn't planned on going in a trailer today.....!!  LOL  And once they did load they weren't necessarily in the spot they wanted to be.  So running over some of the others to get there, seemed to be the answer to the problem.  It's amazing, all the noise and banging and the trailer rocking and once they all get where they want to be, it was peaceful.   Usually as long as the trailer is moving things are quiet, they are too busy keeping their balance. 

Buddy checking to see if the new arrangement, made the hay close enough he could reach it..............it didn't...!!

They could have gotten an earlier start but we were suppose to have a tour at 11am of children from a non-profit organization that works with children with issues and Lynn wanted to stay in case we needed them to help with the kids.   The woman called this morning to verify time and  said they would be here around 11am.  It is now almost 2pm and we haven't heard a word from them.  I hope nothing bad has happened, Doug went ahead and let the remaining donkeys out of their pens at 1pm. 

It's not unusual for people to make an appointment ahead of time, and then not show up, but since she called this morning, this is a little unusual.  They are suppose to bring another group out tomorrow, at the same time.  I'm curious to see if they show up then.  

Roxy is still in the feed room resting in the air conditioning.  It's gotten hot enough we've been turning the a/c on the last few days.  We planned on keeping her in the pen until they had time to be out of the area, so she wouldn't try to follow them.  She's going to really be unhappy when she can't find her "pack".  Still don't know if she will go home with them gone or not. 

Here is a picture Linda took of Roxy and Saddik a couple of days ago in one of the golf carts waiting for a ride. 

Lynn and John put up the new camo shade cloth over Gus' afternoon resting spot.  Actually Gus has been off medication and walking good for weeks, and seems to lay down more from habit than anything else.  He's really been doing good.  Lynn had some ideas on making it better and it came out looking like they had a plan.  Last year we threw it up in a hurry, and had to keep "fixing" it. 

Gus and a few of his friends checking it out, looks like they approve

Saw my first "desert" rose today and John said the mesquite are getting ready to bloom.  We are hoping for a crop failure for the mesquite bean season this year.  Last year was bountiful and it's taken this long to get all the donkeys looking pretty good.  Pepsi was in the trailer to Colorado and there isn't any mesquite up there, so hopefully Linda can get some of his extra weight off.