NO TOURS THIS SUMMER..........!!!

We've always had tours in the summer, but will take a break this year.  I don't think we will be sitting around eating bon bons though.........LOL   Sometime in June we're suppose to get our new office/store delivered.  It's going to just be the exterior floor and roof, the inside will have to be finished.

This is what it will look like, except it will be quite a bit larger.  The back wall will have a storage room, hopefully so we can get all donkey "stuff" in one place.  Right now it makes my brain hurt trying to remember where stuff is, or if we even have stuff, between the house, feed room, garage, Cisco's room, hay barn etc.........!!!  

It will have a bathroom, the store and Suzanne will finally have an office, with all the office stuff in one place.  Right now it's somewhat like the other "stuff"..........everywhere.......!!!  Hopefully finishing the inside won't take too long.  Suzanne and I have been "shopping" floor and wall coverings, which is a lot of fun.

Suzanne has been living in a 22ft RV for about 4 years and her mom came out in Jan to live with her.  Needless to say it's crowded, so they are getting a mobile home to live in permanently.  It is to be delivered in June or July hopefully.  They won't know what to do with themselves with all that room........!!! 

It's so hot here in the summer here and the donkeys have their fly masks on,  people can't see their pretty faces, so it just seemed like a good time to step back, take a break and concentrate on getting things done.  

I'm sure the donkeys will be disappointed, they really enjoy tours especially the red solo cups with animals crackers in them.  I'm sure it won't take them long in September to get back into the groove.   

We  have 3 gate openers, Frijolita, Bonnie (so we've been told), and Jasper.  Jasper is really good at noticing his gate isn't double locked.  John had a tour today and the donkeys were suppose to be in their pens.  It didn't take long for John to notice that about half of them were out roaming around, and one of them was.....Jasper.  John said the boy on the tour followed Jasper around to watch him open the gates.  John said Jasper actually followed the tour for awhile, he has no shame........!!! LOL  At feeding time if someone forgot to double locked, he will open it and stand outside waiting for his hay.  He just does it to prove he can I think......!!!   

This is Jasper being a roadblock, he figures if he stands in front of the golf cart someone will give him a cookie.  I shared this picture in February, but he looks so cute and innocent I couldn't resist using it again........!! LOL

He's kinda lost without Rosie, they were an item even before Gigi died last year.  We've seen him with different donkeys, but nothing long term so far.  

This Sunday we have a new guy coming into sanctuary.  He's been living in Colorado all his life and  his owner wanted him out of the cold climate.  His name is Willie and we will probably put him in Rosie's pen, next to Jasper.  Hopefully they will get acquainted and become buds.