Today my opinion obviously isn't worth much, the wind is really gusting and blowing. I had a tour this morning and it's hard to talk and keep your mouth shut so you don't get it filled up with dirt and dust.
At least the nights are warming up. We had to drag Cisco's blanket out of storage. We thought winter was over and spring was on the way. But a couple of mornings at 18-19 degrees sent John digging for the blanket. Cisco has to stay in the pens overnight if he has a blanket on, which he doesn't like, although he likes being warm and seems to appreciate the blanket. Days are sunny and in the 70s, so no complaints there.
Lynn and Linda got back from their race last week-end. Lynn finished a hundred k/62 mile race in 8th place for his age group. I think he said 87 people dropped out so it was a pretty grueling experience for some of the people. He said he enjoyed it.......!!! YIKES, I can't imagine running that far and they had to come in under a certain time, so they couldn't just take their time, moseying around the countryside.
Linda's been sharing some more pictures and videos, I've tried to get a picture of LaRoy playing with his ropes, but if he sees you getting ready to take a picture he usually drops the rope and looks at you like, "what are you looking at?" They all seem to have a 6th sense when it comes to people taking pictures.
This is Lynn making Cooper's world go round. Donkeys have 2 places that they LOVE to have scratched. One is their ears, they love to have you run your thumb or hand down in their ear as far as they will go, and rub, rub, rub. It makes their lower lip almost fall off.....!!! LOL
The
other area of interest is their bum. Most of them will stand as long
as you will rub. I've never rubbed this energetic, but Cooper seems to
be enjoying it immensely....!!!
How to make a donkey happy...!!
Some of you know we have quite a few cats, 6 to be exact. Four of them are in the house 34/7. Julius has been an indoor/outdoor cat since his Mom disappeared years ago, she was feral. Smokey showed up a few weeks ago, gets along with all the other cats, and Julius when they are out. So we took him to the vet for corrective surgery of his reproduction tract.....!! He was grown, which meant he was spraying, don't like that so we had it fixed. Then we started encouraging him to come inside. He's still not really comfortable in the house and can't figure out why all of a sudden we yell, when he gets high enough to be able to see things he can't see from the floor. But he's learning. Both of the indoor/outdoor cats are not tame by most standards, so the relationship is on their terms.
Julius came in a couple of days ago with bloody diarrhea. He's the only long haired cat we've ever had and long hair and diarrhea doesn't make a good mix. Linda is training to be a vet tech and has learned lots of tricks of the trade and his posterior is a mess. So we came up with a plan, he sleeps in my chair and was there this morning. The plan was throw a big towel over him, make him into a burrito, preferably with his feet and claws inside the towel. John was involved to. We all sneaked up on the chair, threw the towel over him and started trying to roll him up. Needless to say he wasn't the least bit interested in playing the game. Linda was trying to grab him by the scruff of the neck, John was trying to get his legs and feet covered, I was guarding the rear end with scissors at the ready. Julius was fighting like a tiger.
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