When I arrived back in Los Gatos from Georgetown, I mentioned in a column (The Catholic Thing, April 15, 2013) that on this property we had five “jackasses.” They were denizens of the land. I recounted that they were in a field above the house and had followed me down a trail one afternoon to their feeding pen. This scene occasioned some learned comments from the brethren about the nature of Schall’s “following.”
Meantime, two of the jennies (female donkeys) had foals, cute little critters in fact. The Jack, not a practicing monogamist, and the two jennies, unlike mules, can be quite adept at reproducing their kind. The donkeys became a center of local curiosity. We have trails through the property with “No Trespassing” signs on the fences.
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