When you have donkeys, you learn that everything has to be their idea, or they won’t do it. You learn that their passion is  not doing what you want, or doing what you don’t want.

You also learn that everything is their business. Yesterday, Maria was putting a chicken wire on the bottom of the gate to keep the Irish Terror Bud from finishing his tunnel to the outer world.

They love to be a part of everything, without committing themselves to anything.

The donkeys came over to check it out, perhaps to offer Maria company and support as she did her work. The donkeys love to hang out with Maria, they all gossip and yak and commiserate about the complexity of life together.