At least it feels like it, it's been over 100 degrees every since the 1st day of 100 degrees. At least the weather people are happy.......!! LOL
When it's that hot not much goes on around here. Everyone gets fed, then they stand around in the shade until time for evening feeding. This morning we had a woman come out to take pictures. She had been out with her family before and wanted to photograph the donkeys.
When the donkeys wear fly masks 24/7 the hair on their faces gets all mashed down. Last night John took all the masks off when he let the donkeys out at bedtime. I took that opportunity to wash them and see how many needed to be replaced. We only had to replace 2 which is pretty good, I can usually salvage them, unless they have rubbed the eye area. Once there are holes over the eyes from scratching and rubbing they have to be replace. This morning early Suzanne and the girls, fluffed up everyone's facial hair, so they would look pretty. By the time they got done with that, the flies had woke up and were starting to be pests.
Suzanne is still giving vinegar in the feed buckets and it is helping, but I guess some flies are just more determined than others. So back on went the fly masks and when Natasha got here, they took them off again. The idea was to put them back on when she got done with picture taking. Good idea, but some of the donkeys see no reason to let you do things to them if they are out of their pen. So Tula, Gigi and the little white devil Casper are without fly masks this afternoon. I hope they put 2 and 2 together and figure out that fly masks are a good thing. But I doubt it, cooperating isn't a biggie with any of the three........!! LOL
John and Larry have been working on Larry's car most of this week. Once they got all the bent stuff off, it wasn't as bad as they thought race night. I don't know why guys look at the car in the dark and decide it's totaled. Sometimes it is, but most of the time it isn't. Another racer had the parts they needed, and they've got most of the heavy work done, so Larry can take the car home and finish it. He doesn't race until the 6th of July, so he's got time to get all the little stuff done. He says he's done with asphalt, but we'll see.
I will be racing the 6th of July on DIRT.......!!! At least I hope so. The dirt track isn't very big on advertising and letting everyone know what is happening so far. We have a schedule and hopefully it will go off as planned. They say next year they will have a full schedule for the Hornets, if they do that's where I'll be..........!!!
This is an in car video of my car getting side slammed. Having a camera in the car really changes your prospective. We all blamed #9 and granted he is a squirrel and needs to control his car. But his involvement was already over when #2 side slammed me because of #9. Two slowed down a little, just enough for #22 to get into the back of #2, who turned me and somewhere in the melee my spindle got destroyed and that was the end of my racing for the night.
Haven't heard much from Colorado this week, hopefully Lynn and Linda are getting caught up after last week-end. Their 10 mile race at Crede ended up 14 miles and it was a challenging hilly race in places. It will be interesting to see how they set it up next year. Will they stay with the 10 mile less challenging trail............or..............will they go for the killer run? About 20% of the racers did not finish the course, which is a pretty high DNF percentage. But changing the course and having it longer than anticipated probably had something to do with that.
Linda said all the donkeys that run a race, get leg massages afterwards. She said Loki especially enjoys them. He really is a love sponge and loves attention, so I can imagine him making sure he's getting as much massaging as he can.
Here's some more pictures from last week-ends 2 pack burro races..........
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