SPRING RAINS IN THE DESERT FOR MOTHER'S DAY

Seems weird to get rain this time of year, but we've had 2 or 3 days of clouds, wind and yes rain.  Last night was race night for me, it had been cloudy all day, but the show must go on and away we went. We got home at 3am, which means today we just try to sit up and walk.........  It usually takes about 3 days to recuperate a race night, since this one was hours long, it may take longer.  We don't bounce back like we use to.

They had a big K&N NASCAR race actually 2 of them 100 laps each and us local racers were suppose to be fillers.  That’s fine, except the races were suppose to start at 7pm and the rain started at 7:04......  The big huge logistics problem was their races were being televised at 9:00.  We had already been told if it got to 9:00 and one of our races were on the track we’d get thrown off the track, so the big boys could do their thing..........!!  With asphalt another big problem is we can’t race on a damp let alone wet track.  So they spent lots of time drying the track and managed to get it dry, sacrificed the Bomber class to dry it further, got the K&N guys on at 9pm and they race 100 laps by 10pm.  Ran another local class, and ran the 2nd K&N 100 lap race.  Then they started racing the local classes  that started after midnight..........    I finished 3rd, passed 2 cars at the finish, couldn’t tell who did what, until I got paid.  Bet those guys are mad..........!!!!  LOL

Suzanne is going to visit family for a few days, and Lynn and Linda are getting ready to head for Colorado.  They will probably leave a few days before Suzanne gets back, so it will just be John and I for a little while.  There will only be about half the donkeys that are here now, so it shouldn't be a problem.  They'll actually be taking most of the feisty ones........!!!  

Suzanne took this picture of Lynn and her son Justin for Mother's Day.  They both look rather silly, especially the ears.  Justin has begging down to a science and learned quickly how to get people to do his bidding.

Mariah the new jenny has already settled in, and has joined the A team part of the herd.  We tried to get her feet done a few days ago and she said no thank you.  Rather surprising, since she is so easy and gentle to work with. She was definite about her opposition and held no grudge when we decided to figure out a plan B.  Still working on that aspect.

This was the day she got here, she's pretty good with everything except leading and doing her feet.  It only took letting her out and putting in her pen once, for her to get the idea that was where she should be at feeding time.  She's in the pen, in the morning when it is time for roundup.  Most of them just wait until they feel like going in, or make someone look for them, I think it's some sort of donkey game.

She was suppose to possibly be pregnant...........well I don't think so.  The first day she was out of her pen, Linda said it was like Woodstock, free love all over the place........!!  LOL  Things have settled down to normalcy now.  But if she was pregnant that wouldn't have happened, at least I don't think so.  That's a good thing she is only about 2 years old too young to be a momma, although we had one here that was 26 months old when her baby was born.  We were afraid she would reject the baby, but she turned out to be a wonderful mother, and they got to go to a home to grow up together, which was great.