At least we assume so. John had an appointment in Tucson today, so we said our good-byes this morning and took off. When we came home this afternoon, the trucks, trailers, 15 donkeys, 3 dogs and Lynn and Linda weren't here.
It's about 5 hours to their spot they like to stop at in New Mexico, and I would imagine they are there and have been for a couple of hours, BUT, setting up their traveling circus doesn't allow much time for idle chit chat. I would imagine Linda will send an e-mail. when she gets a moment.
The paperwork came thru early this morning, up until then they didn't know if they would get to leave today or not. We've all been watching the weather in Colorado and a lot of the areas are getting quite a bit of snow, the town they are going to is suppose to have snow showers tonight, but just cloudy tomorrow. Hopefully the weather will hold until they get there tomorrow afternoon.
When we got home, no dogs, and only 13 donkeys. We had decided to put all the donkeys in the east side pens, so they would all be together. At the last minute we decided to leave Tula and Mariah in their pens until tomorrow. I doubt that Mariah would be a problem to move, but Tula has been using her pen for over 10 years and she isn't much more cooperative today than she was the day she got here. We have learned her limits and she has learned we won't push her, so we all get along.
We left them in adjoining pens, if we had moved Mariah, Tula would have been by herself, and as it is, she lost Frijolita her best friend to Colorado. There's always tomorrow when we have more time, we'll see what happens.
Everyone else moved pretty easy, although Casper the mini mule moved into Loki's pen and he seemed to think we had lost our mind until the hay came. That seemed to make things OK.....LOL
Yesterday Lynn decided they needed a couple more corral panels for the trip. Poor Jasper, he use to have a nice big pen, until they decided earlier they needed a few more panels, and his pen got smaller. Yesterday's panel gathering left him with no panels on one side, he still had the back, other side, and front with gate. Last night when it was time for him to go in he wouldn't go in until Linda opened the gate for him, even though the one side was completely open. Sometime after we fed he figured it out, because when they went out to let the donkeys out at bedtime he wasn't there.......LOL This morning he started out in there, but I guess he decided it was taking too long, so he came up to the feed room, to hurry things along. It's so much fun to watch them figure things out.
Suzanne and her granddaughters got in before dark, so the girls got to see the donkeys. I hope they have a good time, I'm sure a lot of what goes on out here will be a lot different than what they are use to. Somewhat like an adventure...!! The donkeys generally love children and young people, so I would imagine they will make the girls feel welcome.
UPDATE
I finished the blog and about 10 minutes later the phone rang and it was Linda. They got a later start than they had planned, so they got to their stopping spot in New Mexico late. But she said no problems and they stopped more than they usually do to check on Quilla. He's not getting any younger, but he loves going in the parades and Linda said he is a favorite of the people. She said they almost stand in line to pet him, which of course he thoroughly enjoys. We didn't want him to miss the adventure if at all possible, so they are making the trip easy on him.
While Linda was talking, Sugar and Jacque, Georgette's 2 donkeys were hopping in the trailer, guess they didn't get enough traveling today..........LOL
Linda said a lot of their friends have been calling to find out where they are. I guess some of the passes are closed because of snow, hopefully not the ones they will be going thru tomorrow.
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