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Smile, well as promised, a Mule Update. My son-n-law and daughter Michelle L made the trip over to Fredrick today and after an hour or more managed to get the 2 miniature mules loaded in to his livestock trailer. Poor Ronny, my son-n-law picked them up as a favor to his old daddy-n-law. Today was another in a long line of hot day’s, it was about 105 degrees when he arrived to load 2 {not well mannered} mules.
I have no history on these mules, but, it is obvious that they have not been handled. Most likely running semi-wild in a large pasture with horses or cattle. {New names are Bonny and Clyde} one is a Molly the other is a John, Both are in good condition, well fed and both have very nice slick coats, just wild as a march hare. I haven’t had a chance to put a tape on them but when they are standing next to a 4 foot livestock panel, they look to be 39 to 40 inches tall at their shoulders.
We penned then in a 16 foot by 10 foot pen that attaches to a lean-to type shed. Ronny got them a bit of fresh hay and a trough of fresh cool water. Starting in the morning I will get in their pen, start spend time with them, talking to them. In a week or two, hopefully I will be able to get them calm enough to get a halter on them to start lead rope training. 
Two mules is one too many mules. I will select the one I like best and sell the other or trade for a few bails of good quality hay. Besides, one mule does not act nearly as stupid when she has to depend on a human to be her best friend. If things go as planed {and they never do} Bonny will be saddle ready for my great grand son by next spring. He {My Great Grand Son} will turn 3 next spring. He should be able to ride Bonny for 5 – 7 years before he gets to heavy for Bonny to carry. In 5 or so years, Bonny will, Smile, become my yard ornament and self propelled lawn mower.
Duck, Goose and turkey news. I revamped a small fence and have turned them out into my abandoned garden plot. Sad to say, but, the whole bunch is so fat and lazy they won’t even catch and eat a grasshopper unless it accidentally fly into their mouth. I guess I need to re-do my chicken pen fence and turn the chickens out onto the garden plot. Maybe they can and will catch and eat a few of this grasshopper horde attacking anything that’s still she slightest bit green.
Michelle L and Ronny’s longhorn bull, even with this intense heat wave, {the black bull with the largest horns} and their red and black heifers are are putting on weight and have slicked up well and really looking good. #108 {the Holstein steer} looks to be about 900 pounds now, I can’t hardly wait to get another 1 or 2 hundred pounds on him. That will place him in the 1,000 to 1,100 pound class. I told Ronny that his steer was getting hot and we need to send him to Indiahoma’s butcher shop and let them remove his fur coat and he can ‘hang’ around in the cooler for 3 week’s. Grin… 
My Tiny House is still ground zero. A high pressure cell is setting directly on top of my Tiny Garden and the long range (14 day) weather forecast is 101 to 107 degrees everyday. Not only does a high pressure dome keep the temperatures from falling it also prevents formation of anything that resembles a rain cloud.
Why is common sense So Uncommon?
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Can’t wait to see you mule training. Monster will be a cowboy yet.
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It’s not the first time we have a hot dry spell, I think I just like to hear myself whining about the heat and dry weather.
PS I have posted a few pictures on my new mules and Ronny’s cows if they weren’t there on your last visit.
Happy {wet} I hope gardening.
I sure was hoping you’d get some rain from T.S. Don. Too bad that high pressure system is so stubborn when you need the moisture so badly. Good luck with the mule training!