Especially when the donkeys help. The donkeys have now been in their pens a month. They are bored and pretty sure they aren't being treated fairly. I'm really surprised none of them have figured out how to escape, so far they haven't.
Rosie has always had an affinity for chewing wood, she doesn't crib wood, she eats it. Recently we had noticed she was gnawing on Link and Turbo's shelter. She can't chew on hers, it was replaced with metal siding.......because she had eaten most of the old one.
At least they are reasonably tidy in their work. You will notice there isn't a bunch of pieces laying around. That's because they are eating what they chew off. The reason there is metal sheeting on the bottom of the wall is because of earlier chewing.
John didn't have any pipe laying around and with the 4x4 chewed in to, the roof on the shelter started sagging. So this morning Suzanne and John scabbed in a 4x4 to keep the roof from collasping, until he can get some more pipe. They covered the 4x4 with chicken wire to deter the girls, otherwise they would have probably started chewing on the new wood immediately.
One of the planned winter projects is to replace all the uprights in the shelters that are still wood. A few of them have already been replaced with pipe, because of Rosie and a few of the others practicing beaver behavior.
Got a little bit of rain yesterday, but still not enough to get rid of the tasty beans. There was a spot water had ran in an area where there were a lot of beans and pushed them into a low place, where water obviously stood long enough to soak the beans. I noticed this morning they were already starting to turn black. But that is just one little low spot, they need to get wet and stay wet for a day or two.
Don't know if it is fall yet or not, but there is a noticeable difference in the amount of flies we have, and the cooler temperatures are really nice. I raced Saturday night, I finished 5th in my heat and main event and it came home in one piece which is a good thing. It's only got 2 more races hopefully it will stay together for them. It's really tired, and certainly isn't going to have a good finish, unless all the other cars don't finish...........LOL Actually our son won a race one time that way, everyone blew their motors, including Rod.......but.....his motor blew last, so he won.
It got really cold and windy at the track, miserably cold. I had my racing uniform which usually I complain about how hot it is...........not Saturday night. Poor John, hadn't planned on such a weather change, so he dug thru the truck and found one of my jackets. It was small on him, but he managed to squeeze into it......!! LOL There were still people roaming around in shorts and t-shirts I know they had to be miserable.
Trip starts tomorrow, should be fun, I always enjoy road trips..............!!
New post after less than 12 hours, busy little helpers aren't they? Quite frankly I didn't realize they could reach that high.........LOL John and Suzanne cut some limbs after we got done with evening chores to see if that will keep them busy. My guess is...........NO...........!! Suzanne said she will probably put up the chicken wire, they ran out of time today and didn't realize just how important the wire is.........!!
Rosie has always had an affinity for chewing wood, she doesn't crib wood, she eats it. Recently we had noticed she was gnawing on Link and Turbo's shelter. She can't chew on hers, it was replaced with metal siding.......because she had eaten most of the old one.
Gigi has learned from the master and she is now helping to destroy the shelters.
At least they are reasonably tidy in their work. You will notice there isn't a bunch of pieces laying around. That's because they are eating what they chew off. The reason there is metal sheeting on the bottom of the wall is because of earlier chewing.
John didn't have any pipe laying around and with the 4x4 chewed in to, the roof on the shelter started sagging. So this morning Suzanne and John scabbed in a 4x4 to keep the roof from collasping, until he can get some more pipe. They covered the 4x4 with chicken wire to deter the girls, otherwise they would have probably started chewing on the new wood immediately.
One of the planned winter projects is to replace all the uprights in the shelters that are still wood. A few of them have already been replaced with pipe, because of Rosie and a few of the others practicing beaver behavior.
Got a little bit of rain yesterday, but still not enough to get rid of the tasty beans. There was a spot water had ran in an area where there were a lot of beans and pushed them into a low place, where water obviously stood long enough to soak the beans. I noticed this morning they were already starting to turn black. But that is just one little low spot, they need to get wet and stay wet for a day or two.
Don't know if it is fall yet or not, but there is a noticeable difference in the amount of flies we have, and the cooler temperatures are really nice. I raced Saturday night, I finished 5th in my heat and main event and it came home in one piece which is a good thing. It's only got 2 more races hopefully it will stay together for them. It's really tired, and certainly isn't going to have a good finish, unless all the other cars don't finish...........LOL Actually our son won a race one time that way, everyone blew their motors, including Rod.......but.....his motor blew last, so he won.
It got really cold and windy at the track, miserably cold. I had my racing uniform which usually I complain about how hot it is...........not Saturday night. Poor John, hadn't planned on such a weather change, so he dug thru the truck and found one of my jackets. It was small on him, but he managed to squeeze into it......!! LOL There were still people roaming around in shorts and t-shirts I know they had to be miserable.
Trip starts tomorrow, should be fun, I always enjoy road trips..............!!
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