You can’t help but love looking at these little donkeys. Those shaggy eye brows hang over their eyes, and nothing is cuter than those fuzzy ears.
We found this donkey in a corral east of Centerville on Christmas Day. Robert was talking to him, and you can tell, he’s taking in every word!
Donna
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The Silly Filly is kind of flirty and coy. She’s exceptionally cute. Thought I’d share some of my photos of her today.
As it turns out, we took Daisy donkey back to the rescue where we got her from. She hasn’t quite worked out for us. She’s mean to Pedro and today she walked right through the fence to escape onto the road. Thank goodness she didn’t head for the highway. After the accident a while back, we didn’t want to be the cause of another one, so Daisy went back home.
Pedro leaves the fences alone and he minds his manners so well, it was hard to put up with Daisy’s antics for much longer. He doesn’t seem to miss Daisy, I think he was relieved to have the place to himself again.
Good thing is, Daisy returns to a place she’s well loved and we’ll probably visit her now and then.
The Silly Filly is one of Daisy’s old friends, so they’re united again.
Donna
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Miniature Donkey, oils
To see more equine art go to http://www.suesteiner.com This is part of an ongoing daily painting project.©Copyright 2008 by Sue Steiner. See original post here.
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Went in to the dentist the other day to get our teeth cleaned. You know the drill. While they have you tipped upside down in this chair, with their two hands and about four instruments in your mouth, they start to tell you their life’s history or if you’re lucky, you get one who tells you jokes and crazy stories.
Either way, it isn’t easy for here’s this person who’s hands are in your mouth, scratching away on your teeth, and she’s talking away. Common courtesy tells you not to ignore them, right? So you try to answer them, and you end up spitting all over them…what do you do?
They say in a bad situation to try to come away with something constructive. So what I learned from the dental hygenist is how important it is to have clean teeth. Same message they all have, so what?
Well my fertile brain took a big leap from my own (now very clean teeth) to how dirty Daisy’s teeth are! Now I wouldn’t try this on Pedro, he’s dignified. He’d immediately take one look at that toothbrush and say “Ain’t no way, Jose!”
Not Daisy, she’s such a dork, she’ll try anything once! So I proceeded to brush her teeth…. Salt and soda, like they did it in the old days.
Daisy was such a willing participant! And notice how Pedro snuck up there, a little bit at a time so he could watch…
A donkey can be more fun than a whole barrel of monkeys.
Donna
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Big day for Daisy, not only did she get her teeth brushed, she had to help Robert work on the Bobcat. She can’t stand to let him work alone.
When she grabbed the hammer out of his hand, she didn’t quite know what to do with it as it was heavy on one end and about tipped her head over. She dropped it in a hurry. That was to much work!
There’s never a time he’s doing work, she isn’t right there with him. She has to see everything he does. Daisy is very interactive!
Every time Daisy moves from one side of Robert to the other, she trips over his feet. It’s enough to get you rolling on the ground laughing. She never steps on him, she just trips over him.
Everyone should have a donkey or two, there’s no doubt about it!
Donna Ridgway
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If you own donkeys, you have to spend a lot of time taking photos of them, Right? This is Pedro’s muzzle. He’s got the softest nose in the world, and it’s covered with whiskers. One of those whiskers is suspiciously green. You’re right it’s grass….
I liked the way the red on the side of the photo counterbalanced that little blade of green grass that hangs from the side of his mouth. What do you think of it? That little arch in the middle of his nose was interesting to me also.
If you want to see this photo larger, you can click on it and see more detail. The green will show up better. Let me know what you think when you look at this photo…
Donna
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The wires going to the pump in our well burned out. It’s taken us a while to decide how big a pump to put in the well, as we decided right off we’d replace the old one. Luckily, our neighbor has let us hook a hose to his system so we have water until we solve our dilemma.
Robert is out by the back porch, hooking the new pump to it’s wires and hoses so we can, at last, drop it down the hole and have our own water again.
I was in here, posting on my myspace blog, while he was working. All of a sudden I hear him yelling, “Donna get out here!”
I thought something was wrong so I ran as fast as I could. But nothing was wrong, he was laughing. And Daisy was standing beside him with an empty feed sack in her mouth, trying to get her head way inside it to see if it contained a few left over pellets. She’d gone into the back porch through the open door and grabbed the sack, hoping to help herself since we’re so stingy with what she wants.
It only took me a second to grab the camera and some pellets. I put the pellets into the empty sack, to see if she’d stick her head all the way in to get them.
You can see we posed this picture, but there she is, with her head all the way in the sack, I swear, she has no fear!
Donna
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We decided today, we’d do some campfire cooking and pretend we’re camping, even when we’re home. So we got out the dutch oven, thawed a big venison roast, and prepared some vegetables. I realized I’d left an onion out in the pickup camper so I went to get it.
Daisy, our donkey, spied me the minute I headed out the door, and came to see what I was doing. While I was in the camper, she pushed her head inside as far as she could possibly get. I think she was about to cut off her windpipe, but there was no thought of backing up in her mind.
The last time she came to the camper like that, I had a loaf of bread in my hands, and gave her some bread, which she adores! She was looking for more.
Since I’d brought the bread into the house yesterday, all I had in the camper to give her was the onion. She kept begging, and she pretty much refused to back up, to let me out, so I took a knife out of the drawer, and cut the onion in half. I offered it to her…and she gleefully ate it. She didn’t make a face, she didn’t pucker up, she didn’t shake her head, she just begged for the other half.
She’s so funny. She makes me laugh. I never would have imagined she’d eat an onion. Pedro won’t touch most of the things Daisy loves. He’s very sophisticated and doesn’t lower himself to the level of eating anything, just to be eating. She also ate broccoli and celery before this day was done.
Back to my roast. I marinated it in ginger sesame sauce for several hours. Popped it into the dutch oven. I had a sweet potato, so I put that in with the roast and the marinade sauce. I smothered that with the onions Daisy didn’t eat, layered in some carrots and some regular potatoes. After I had that in the pot, I sliced some bratwurst sausages and layered the pieces over the vegies. Next I stuffed garlic cloves into the mixture. Put lots of pepper on top….and put the lid on it.
Robert had a fire going…we put the dutch oven over the fire. An hour or so later, we had a meal fit for a king! Luckily, Daisy doesn’t eat much cooked food so we got to have all we wanted.
Donna Ridgway
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You might wonder what’s happening here, but we have to move my studio back 100 feet so we can put a foot of fill gravel under it. Where we live, we’re subject to flood control regulations. We had a year to get this project done, and the time is almost up.
We thought we could hire a local contractor to do the job for us, but we’ve waited 11 months for him to show up, and we haven’t seen hide nor hair of him, around here. We go to his house, and ask if he still wants this job, and he says, “Yes, I’ll get right on it.” But he doesn’t show up!
When we went to get a load of wood yesterday, we saw a gravel pit along the road, near our house. Drove into the pit, and talked to some of the people who were working there, and asked them which construction company owned the pit. Called them when we got home, and they said they could come to do the job in two days! So we hurried to get ready for them.
So the hardest part of the job, we thought, would be to move the studio off the spot. As it turns out, the bobcat did the job! We were a little amazed ourselves.
The photo above shows where the studio was, the photo below shows where the bobcat shoved the trailer!
I had Robert stand by the bobcat, so you can see what a small machine it really is!
You see these little holes in the ground? That’s the tire tracks where the trailer sat for so long. (Waiting for the contractor to bring the gravel!) The bobcat had a hard time getting the trailer backed off those holes, so we hooked the pickup on the back of the trailer and I helped pull it out of those holes. After that, the bobcat took off pushing the trailer. All I could do was to get the pickup out of the way, and run up to tell Robert to stop as the house was where we needed it to be!
You can see from the angle of the pickup, the bobcat put the trailer there by itself. I wasn’t even pulling, just trying to get out of the way!
Talk about a rush, I jumped out of the truck and ran to the bobcat, just in time to stop Robert before the studio hit that big power pole at the back of the trailer.
That bobcat is like the little engine that could…it doesn’t know it isn’t big enough to do things like this!
Here’s Pedro and Daisy, wondering what happened to the house that used to be in this spot! And I can see I need to paint the utility shed next summer…Always something to paint!
Tomorrow the semi’s will come with the gravel, two side dump loads, and one normal dump truck. When that is smoothed out, we can pull the trailer back into place. Once it’s there , we have to block it level, put skirting on it, insulate underneath it, make flower beds around it, fix the broken window, patch the holes in it’s sides, and do a little fixing up inside. It’s a real project to make a studio! But so worth it. Just the few art projects I’ve been doing lately have taken over the entire house.
We’re getting ready for the gun show in one living room, framing paintings on the dining room table, creating more paintings in the spare bedroom, and trying to live in the middle of it all! It’s fun, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
And neither would Daisy!
Donna Ridgway
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