Not much interesting going on around here. We are having quite a few tours since the 1st of the year suppose to have 16 people later this afternoon.
Suzanne is still in cold country, she is hoping to be back by the end of the month. John and I are holding down the fort, with the help of some volunteers that really make a difference. John and I could do it by ourselves but it would probably take us all day without their help. The donkeys have really been good about being cooperative, I guess we've gotten into a routine that works for them. Most of them still won't go into their pen until a human is standing there with a piece of carrot. In their mind they seem to think they get a treat for going into the pen, not for being in the pen. If per chance they do go into their pen, if the human doesn't show up very quickly, most of them will go out of the pen and wait until the human sees them go into the pen. One of the things that makes life interesting........!!! LOL
Although Suzanne isn't here yesterday Koshare and Siggy, got to go on an adventure up Apache Junction. They had a big 100 year celebration and invited the BRAY club to bring burros for a fun run to let the public see how much fun donkeys are. It was by invitation only, they didn't want to have too many teams and wanted to keep the number of teams manageable. The race at Superior in Oct had about 80 runners with burros, which makes for an "exciting" start in the middle of town in the street. The start yesterday at Apache Junction had a few malfunctions even though there were only about 20 teams. Fun to watch.......!! Some burros haven't figured out that the idea of a race is to hear a loud noise and start running straight forward, so it takes a little while for everyone to settle down and all head the same direction.
Kelly and Jeff from Yuma came in Friday late afternoon, hooked up our trailer, the 2 boys hopped in and away they went to Apache Junction. Renee brought little Siggy out of his pen to the trailer, he ran and jumped into the trailer, like he had somewhere to go and a short time to get there. He didn't care where he was going I guess, he just knew it would be an adventure.
I'm not sure who took all the pictures, but thank you for making them available to be enjoyed by all.
3 comments:
Some great pictures, thank you to someone. I think the donkeys like going somewhere and enjoy the race and all the attention and probably treats with it. Hope John is holding up ok with the extra work. I know Suzanne must miss her babies.
She's hoping to be back by the end of the month. Stay tuned, we have a new boy coming in tomorrow.........!!
I will be here. I usually check every few days and look at the pictures a number of times.
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