Nugget's opinion of snow

 

This is so funny and probably many people in Colorado thought the same thing when they got up the morning of June 1, 2022.  

Nugget's opinion of snow

Mamacita, who now has a wonderful home in California with her BFF Sasha, is Nugget's mom. We were told she had 5 babies in her life, he was the last one about 3 years ago.  

        

Mama and Nugget got a chance to see each other at the race in Tombstone a few weeks ago.  Don't know if they knew each other or not, but they were friendly to each other.  I put this picture on the blog at the time it's the only one I have of them together.  

We're now officially closed for tours until the end of August.  Sure is quiet around here and our mornings aren't quite as hectic.  After a couple of days the donkeys are going to wonder where the people with the red solo cups are.  In other words the animal crackers are going to be few and far between for the next few weeks.  

They'll have to be satisfied with mesquite beans.  We've been watching the trees and although it's really dry, they are setting clusters of beans.  They are still green and not filled out, but I'm sure the donkeys will be ready when they ripen and start falling........!!!  Hopefully we won't have a heavy crop of beans and we can monitor their time out enough to control their eating without having to keep them in the pens all the time.  

Willie the new boy, is a people donkey.  He's not been with donkeys since he was young.  He hangs in the general area of donkeys, but isn't real excited about them.  

This is the fly mask type he's wearing these days.  The 1st 5 days he was out and about, he lost 3 regular masks.  Unfortunately he's a big enough boy, my normal donkey masks are too small.  I only had 3 masks his size, so in desperation I dug this fringe mask out, we got for John Henry last fall.  So far it is staying on him. Went on the internet to buy back up and no one has them and don't know when they'll have them in stock again.  Bummer........!!!   

I guess he is going to take Big Gus' place as amb"ASS"ador.  He comes running when we go outside.  He also watches the gate, hasn't quite figured out the process yet, but I'm sure it won't take long.......!!!