STYLISH DONKEYS

 I assume that eagle eyed donkeys are having to go under bushes and getting fly masks hung up to get to some of the beans.  

Can't explain how the masks are ending up around their necks.  Usually that happens when the boys are playing and the fly mask becomes a toy with strong enough Velcro that it won't come loose and the offending donkey won't let go.  

I can't remember any of the girls having a problem with masks around the neck before.  This is Frijolita and obviously there's a problem.  

Tula's is a little risque, rather than around the neck.  In the many years she's been here she has never lost a fly mask, let alone damaged one.  She gets a new one in the spring and all it needs in the fall is washed and put away.  Obviously she's having to work a little harder to get to some of the beans.

Boaz is not a big surprise, he is pretty hard on fly masks anyway.

Justice usually isn't too hard on his masks.  At least when they are around the neck we don't have to go look for them........LOL  We can't figure out how they get that way.  You would think if they get caught on the fence, the donkey would pull back the the mask would probably stay on the fence.  

John and I were gone to California over the week-end to Barona Speedway to watch 2 nights of short track dirt racing.  Had a great time and got to see some good "bull ring" racing.  They race my kind of car there, but it's too far for 2 old people to drag a race car, not sure we'd survive the experience.......LOL   It's about 400 miles one way.  

It seems like whenever we take off, something always happens.  This time Suzanne turned on the faucet in the back yard, it broke and  shot water clear across the yard.  She's real handy and actually knew where to turn the water off.  Mike, one of our volunteers that has been putting the electricity in the new office/store building also does plumbing..........!!  Of course you can't have just one crisis at a time, what fun would that be?  Cisco choked and Suzanne had to call Dr. Jeremy, Cisco was pretty much in distress and she said it took quite awhile for him to get cleared.  His teeth, the ones he still has don't match up, so he has areas where the teeth are grinding on his gums.  Dr. Jeremy said not to feed him hay, but besides his daily pumpkin, chewing hay and spitting it out is one of his little pleasures in life.  John is going to run it thru the shredder and get it as short as he can, so hopefully Cisco can play with the hay and not choke.  

We just had a rain storm go thru and our big wash actually ran for the first time this season.  It wasn't bank to bank but it's fun to see it run.  

When we drove in from California Sunday afternoon we had to stop at the 1st of 8 washes we have to drive thru to get home.  When we got to it it was high enough that 3 big pickups and a couple of cars were already there..........waiting.  

Years ago especially before the road was paved we use to get to sit and wait 2 or 3 times a year.  It was always a good time to visit with the neighbors and to catch up on what was going on in the valley.  Sometimes people would throw their car keys back and forth if someone had to get home or get to work, they'd just trade vehicles till the next day.

The pickups could have probably made it easy enough although they didn't try until the water started going down.  But the little VW across the wash and John's little Subaru set way too low, besides John's car has what they call a cool box down really low to suck in air............not water........ that wouldn't be a good idea....!!!  LOL

Finally one of the pickups got brave and went thru.  Pretty soon it was just us and the VW.  We watched the VW go thru and it wasn't any higher than the bottom of the rim on his hub caps, so we went ahead and had no problem.  The next 7 washes weren't running, it depends on where the rain fell, so we made it home in time for chores.