WILLIE'S STILL GOT HIS FLY MASK ON...........!!!

 After losing 3 masks in the first 5 days he was here, I consider it being a miracle.  Actually it isn't a fly mask, it's a fringed fly bonnet.  For some reason it's staying on and seems to work just fine as a fly deterrent.

Back when Willie was still working for a living with his lifetime owner

I think this was in 2014, looks like fun playing Wagon Train, thanks for the pictures Sue

We had hoped with Rosie gone Willie and Jasper might bond, so Willie went in Rosie's pen.  Hmmm..... they could have been on different planets and basically ignored each other, so Willie is now in Big Gus' pen which is quite spacious compared to Rosie's.  

All in all he's settled in nicely.  Don't know if he's been around jennies, but he thinks Bonnie is his type of girl.  He's not as obnoxious as Beefy, but he does like to go down to her pen and escort her out when the pens are open.  Beefy is usually there also, one day John went to let her out and there were 5 donkeys in her pen and it isn't spacious.........!!   LOL  Poor little Casper the white mini mule was trying to squeeze into the pen also so John ran everyone out.

Actually Beefy's hormones have FINALLY leveled out to gelding status, thank goodness. They said it would take about 6 months, and that's about how long it took.   He's still attentive to the girls, but he's not so focused you can't get him to cooperate.  

Our monsoon season has started, we had a monsoon shower yesterday and also today.  Not much rain in it, but enough to get our hopes up.  Unfortunately it raises the humidity and the temperature is already over 100* and the nighttime temperatures don't cool off because of the cloud cover.  Makes living in the desert interesting.......!!!

The flies of course love the humidity and heat and the fly traps stay busy.  Boaz has to be doctored every summer because of fly damage especially to the side of his mouth.  He is so cooperative to doctor don't know if he appreciates getting rid of the flies or if it's the cookies he gets when I'm done.  I had a couple of fly masks made, that cover the corner of his mouth, so the flies don't have an open pathway directly to his mouth.  Hopefully they will give his mouth a chance to heal.

This is a picture one of John's cousins took of wild burros over by Lake Havasau in Arizona.  Arizona is suppose to have the most wild burros of any state.  There aren't any around us, mostly up north or over by California.