Archive for donkeys
Remembering
Remembering I’ve finished my book, Along the Back Roads of Yesterday. It will be in the hands of the printer by week’s end. Now that it has been put to bed, I am starting another one. This morning I’ve been sitting in front of this monitor listing notes for the new book. I’ve been remembering. [...]
Two boys clip a donkey
Spring isn’t far away. With spring out comes the clippers to clip horse, mules and donkeys. My memory kicked in: A muggy Tuesday morning in the summer of 1943 , the year I was nine years old, Dad had four large black mules tied to the hitchrack in front of the barn. He roached their [...]
A day with Jon and Tanya
Thursday I drove up to Penrose, Colorado to help Jon and Tanya start their donkeys driving. I see that Tany has already commented about my trip. There are a number of things she left out but I’ll not go into details as I don’t want to detract from her excellent purple prose. All kidding aside. It [...]
Henry, A Donkey, and A Girl
Henry and I were twelve years old and the best of friends. We got along because we enjoyed the same ignorance on many subjects — one of which was girls. It was a hot June Saturday in the summer of 1946 when Henry had his first lesson about how not to impress a girl. At [...]
Back Roads – Nostalgia for Today’s World
When Oris George first contacted me (Charger) about creating a website for his donkeys and mules, I was a bit taken back. I do high-tech stuff and this guy wants me to work with donkey poop and mule dung? I’m better than that, but then I visited with him a bit and we talked about [...]
Yee Haw! Oris made the Coffee Clatter
In case you didn’t know it… Ole Oris is famous! After all, not everybody makes it into the Coffee Clatter! But… Thanks to Danielle Simone, a writer in southeastern Colorado (known to most of you as Mrs. Barn Builder) Oris landed his backside at the Coffee Clatter with a press release kind of story that [...]
Honored Guests – Betty’s Boys
Last night I (Jan Verhoeff) received an email from Oris, telling me that he was going to have some honored guests at his house, and he probably wouldn’t be on the Internet much. So, today, I get an email from Betty, telling me who these boys are. Betty says: Those two boys did not tell [...]
Mountain Lion – A note from Tanya
Hey Oris, Last night, a mountain lion came in to Kelley’s place, she has the little red mule baby by Idaho named Henry?? She’s the one who was working with Molly Sitala. She lives on the end of K, right before 115 on the north end of Penrose. The mountain lion, came in I think [...]
Teaching an old Donkey New Tricks
Oris can explain this later, and I hope somebody asks him why this one’s posted! I’m trying to teach him how to run and operate his blog – so this is the post for teaching old Donkey’s (or mules) new tricks. Jan
