We loved this one night stay at Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue, northwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. When we arrived, we received a wonderful lesson about donkeys. Did you know that donkeys do best with a dry diet of hay, and if they eat too much fresh grass they get fat necks that flop over? Also, burros and donkeys are the same animal. Donkeys were the workhorses of the railroad-building of the west, and when the work was over. the donkeys were released. These donkeys were the ancestors of modern-day wild burros.
After our lesson, we had permission to go into donkey pasture and spend as much time petting and hugging them as we desired. What curious, docile, lovable creatures!
I wonder if we’ll have donkeys one day?
And lest you think it’s all fun and games, Matt discovered flat tire #1 the following morning. Lev makes putting a new one on look fun. Matt got the spare on just in time to be 10 minutes late for church. At the end of the service, the pastor and his wife sent us off to a mechanic friend who patched our tire and sent us off while refusing to accept payment. We’ve actually accumulated quite a list of things that have broken or fallen off and been fixed or replaced, many of them by Mateo Hernick, the fixer. He’s a handy one to have along on this adventure.
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