John and I are headed for California tomorrow morning to watch some dirt racing this weekend at Lakeside. Not sure where that is, but I've got a map......!! LOL They have 6 classes of race cars, mostly stock cars of one kind or another. They also have a class called Sport Compacts, which is a 4 cylinder class, like the Hornets, but they are allowed to do work on the motors and suspension that the Hornets can't do. It's not suppose to rain out there, as of a couple of hours ago, it's suppose to rain all night tonight here, so the wash may run again. Hope the weather settles down, so Suzanne doesn't have a "wild" week-end while we're gone....!!
We sure enjoyed seeing the wash run twice last week, unfortunately the 70 feet of fence across the wash between the 10 acres where the house and pens are and the 20 acres of Burroland is still down. One thing about living out in the boonies, it takes time to gather up all the stuff needed to fix things. Just got the tractor up and running, thanks to our neighbor Jorja, John has been so busy the last couple of days he wasn't getting to it. It turned out the rock hit the filter, knocked it loose and of course all the fluid leaked out. New filter, fill up with hydraulic fluid and good to go. While we're gone to California Jorja is going to use the tractor to clean up monsoon damage at her place.
We've still got people coming out to visit with the donkeys and it makes it a little more difficult to do tours with the donkeys having access to 30 acres. No one in their right mind would want to tramp over 30 acres of rocks and brush to find donkeys. But it's more interesting to have the donkeys out loose rather than in their pens. So we've been letting them out right about the time the people are suppose to be here for their tour. That way most of the donkeys are still in the house/pen area.
John Henry, the mammoth that joined our herd recently is really getting into this "tour" business. He seems to end up where the people are when there is a tour. We don't have to find him, he finds us. Then he presents himself for petting and will stand there as long as someone will pet. Most of the donkeys have learned to milk people for attention. They know we don't give treats when they are out of the pens. Buddy Brat has been known to walk into an empty pen and stand there waiting for a cookie, because he knows they get cookies when they are inside a pen. Anyone that thinks a donkey isn't smart hasn't spent enough time with them. We're still trying to figure out how Jasper can open a chained gate with a clip on it, that usually takes us mere humans 2 hands to open.......LOL
This is called sheet flooding. When it rains really hard the rain ends up running a couple of inches deep all over the property. The land naturally runs downhill towards the San Pedro River about 1/2 mile west of our property.
Our neighbors to the north lost their road literally, there was nothing left where the wash that runs across our property was rushing towards the river. Another neighbor has a D9 Cat, actually he couldn't get into his property either, so he reworked the road. If the wash runs again it will take the road out again. It's amazing the damage a little rain can do.
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I am happy to hear you have a trip to do. Have fun.
We did, had no idea what to expect, but it was our kind of racing, what they call Saturday Night Bullring. Quarter mile dirt track, lots of cars, lots of spectators, everybody having a good time.
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