Tag: donkeys

Remtana – patience

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I did it! And it was easy; took just a few minutes to move this video from Facebook to Youtube so I could share it here on WordPress. There was an extra step I never would have thought of or known how to do without good ole trusty Google to answer my question. Technology is amazing, isn’t it?

This is part 10 of the Remembering Montana series and is just a brief and incomplete recap of a day. I thought of leaving it out, but I love the video that accompanies it and this post is the first mention of the 3-day side trip to Helena that the boy and I are leaving behind the other half of the family for…

Day 11, September 30, 2018:

Patience. This video is not in slow motion. Joe moves slowly. Isn’t this the sweetest?

We went into Missoula again and the boys watched football at Tamarack Brewery. They had a make it yourself Bloody Mary bar!

Hubby and I reconnected with a friend that we worked with over 15 years ago that lives in the area. (He saw my posts on Facebook and realized we were in ZooTown.) He invited us to dinner at his house so we purchased a raspberry-rhubarb pie from Bernice’s Bakery to take for dessert. So fun to meet his family (he has two boys so ours had similarly aged playmates for the evening,) eat delicious homemade chili, and learn how likely we were to meet a bear. They just texted to let us know their dog treed a baby black bear shortly after we left.

It was a very busy Sunday, but this post is short. The boy and I leave at 6:30 in the morning to drive to Helena where we will spend the next few days visiting Cottonwood ALC. The founders of the learning center have insisted we stay with them while in town. I know that I often struggle to post regularly when couch-surfing, so this may be it for a few days…

Remtana: Stinkers

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This is part two of the Remembering Montana series. Feel free to read the intro from yesterday to see how we found ourselves ranch-sitting in Montana for three weeks last fall (2018).

Day 5, (September 24, 2018):

Uh oh! The electric fence that keeps the horses from roaming freely does not contain the donkeys and they have free reign over the property. Wish I’d gotten a picture of these “stinkers” yesterday. I keep laughing when I remember the image.

So, Jane keeps these apple snacks for her horses in her gooseneck trailer next to the fenced area where we feed the horses. She said we could give each of the horses up to one apple snack a day, so yesterday after the boy and I fed them their grain, we got out a snack for each and treated the horses. We then went about our day…

Hours later, the girl and I were out petting the horses and I looked around and realized I couldn’t see the donkeys anywhere. I knew they might be on the other side of the barn or the gooseneck out of my view. I ran around the barn to go find them, and I saw asses. Actual donkey butts as their heads were inside the gooseneck, buried in the bag of apple snacks. My email conversation with Jane:

Me: A little incident that I hope isn’t too serious. Adam and I gave the horses each a treat this morning and must not have made sure the door was engaged. We caught Joe and Eddy in the apple snacks. It’s actually been quite windy and the door had blown open. I can’t remember how full the bag was but it looks to be a little over half full now. If they ate too many will it make them sick?

Jane: No worries. It was a brand new 20 lb. bag, so if you weigh the remains, we’ll know how much the stinkers got!