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Donkeys Arrive at Rain Creek Farm - July 7, 2002


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Stomp has been watching all the activity behind the house during the last week.  (07.07.02)


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Linda brought David breakfast out behind the pen where he was clearing old wood, buried barbed wire, and dead tree limbs.  (07.07.02)


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David moved the burn barrel behind the pen so that scrap lumber and limbs can be burned without hauling them around the farm.  (07.07.02)


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Looks like the Stalls are having a party!  David's work car, the farm truck, Megan's car, Trey's truck and the Jeep.  (07.07.02)


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Fayetteville

We enjoy knowing that driving from the farm to the store is possible without seeing one other vehicle on the road getting there.  And this is what the roadside view looks like.  (07.07.02)


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David and Linda borrow David's parent's horse trailer to go get the donkeys.  (07.07.02)


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Fayetteville

Stopping for lunch David took this photograph of the recently restored precinct courthouse.  (07.07.02)


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Fayetteville

The donkeys were already in the loading pen when we arrived.  Here we see the seller enter the pen to move the donkeys into the loading chute as David watches.  (07.07.02)


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Fayetteville

Here they are at the chute gate.  The trailer is backed into place at the gate, but it would be more than two hours before these stubborn guys would enter the trailer.  (07.07.02)


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Fayetteville

Linda poses with a trailer full of donkeys during another stop in Fayetteville.  (07.07.02)


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Fayetteville

Meanwhile, inside the trailer, the donkeys wait for the short trip to Rain Creek Farm.  (07.07.02)


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Linda opens the gate of the new pen and Chancy shows up to supervise while David backs the trailer up to the opening.  (07.07.02)


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Linda is ready for the donkeys to be unloaded.  (07.07.02)


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The jennet is the first out.  (07.07.02)


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Here's the jennet in her new home.  (07.07.02)


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The donkeys check out their new surroundings.  (07.07.02)


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Our miniature donkey, a gray dun jennet.  (07.07.02)


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Our miniature donkey, a spotted jack.  (07.07.02)


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David pulled the trailer away and Linda shut the gate.  (07.07.02)


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Rusty says, "Hey, who are these new guys?"  (07.07.02)


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Even the kittens came out to see what's going on.  (07.07.02)


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Chancy shows off for the donkeys by rolling around next to the pen fence.  (07.07.02)

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