BUSY MONTH JUST ABOUT OVER....

 If I was taking bets, I'd bet we have had more visitors this month than ever before.  Almost every day, one day we had 4 or 5 tours, which kept us busy.  We love it when people want to see the donkeys and the donkeys REALLY love to have tours, when they see the Solo red cups come out they know it's going to be a good day......!!! LOL  Solo cups mean animal crackers in the hands of people that think they are cute and don't know one cookie works as well as a handful.  Many of the donkeys have learned tricks to get people's attention.  

                                                    Jasper's trick is showing his tongue

Boaz wiggles his nose and shows his teeth and actually has quite a list of tricks, if one doesn't work, he'll try another one.  

Justice is trying to learn from Boaz, their pens are next to each other.  Justice sees Boaz getting more cookies, so he's trying to work the people too.

 Mamacita usually sings when the people get to her pen, she's a soprano.......LOL   Rosie  does her thing by fleman.

Of  course LaRoy is still working on his rope technique.  On December 12th I put a video on the blog  when Suzanne took some donkeys out to Empire Ranch for a week-end celebration of LaRoy trying to get some of the other donkeys to play with him.  He actually has one purple rope that he uses to get people on a tour interested.

I have just wasted a lot of time, probably not as much as it seems like, trying to find on my "NEW" hated computer the still pictures I took that day of him with his rope to put on the blog today.  But can't find them, Win10 obviously thinks I am much smarter than I am.........LOL  So no pictures to share of the little guy and his rope.......Grrrrr!!!

YIPPEE....  FOUND IT.........  The people on tours are a lot more interested than the other donkeys were that day it looks like...!! 

His technique is still a work in progress, most of the time he waits until we've already visited with him and Jackson and have moved on to pick up his rope, which doesn't work really well for getting the expected cookie.  He'll figure it out, hopefully.........!!

Our local bank usually has a corner set up for local artists to display their work, and this month they had an artist named Larry Scott showing some of his digital artwork.  

Letter from Home

This one of Mike Benjamin and Zeke caught my eye and I got in touch with Larry.  Mike and Zeke were dear friends for years along with Mike's wife Teresa.  They did a couple of walks to raise money for our rescue, one from Ft. Huachuca to Tombstone, one up north that ended with them being in a parade in Kingman, AZ.  Mike passed away a few years ago, Zeke recently and Teresa this month.  I'm glad we got a chance to know them all, good memories and I love looking at this picture.