Just like clockwork, the boys line up next to the barn for a stand up siesta every afternoon. Oddly enough, most of the time they’re in the same order and same direction. Ellsworth on the left facing north. Bernard to Ellsworth’s south, facing south. Fergus to Bernard’s south, facing north. Nigel to Fergus’s south, facing north.
Remember to click on the photo to embiggen if you’d like to see more detail. Thank you, Vicki in Michigan for the fabulous word embiggen. ♥
Morning Bray Farm 
October 14, 2010 at 5:32 am
Ah the solar powered donkey phenomenon, lining up for sweet feed! So nice to see the boys first thing in the morning… 🙂
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October 14, 2010 at 8:24 am
Deb,
We thought you’d like this one. 😀
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October 14, 2010 at 5:35 am
Creatures of habit, I guess. 🙂
They’ll all change direction, except Bernard, once the wind starts blowing out of the north.
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October 14, 2010 at 8:24 am
CeeCee,
Absolute creatures of habit… just like me. 🙂
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October 14, 2010 at 5:40 am
They could do a police line-up: “All right, look at these donkeys. Do you recognise the one who stole the carrot out of your pocket? We can look at their other profile if you want.” “It was the one on four legs, I’m positive!”
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October 14, 2010 at 8:23 am
Sigrid,
Definitely. Or I was thinking a military formation, but poor Bernard would always be facing the wrong direction. 😉
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October 14, 2010 at 6:01 am
Nap time with Nigel on gard duty. How cute!
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October 14, 2010 at 8:22 am
Mel,
Yes, I think Nigel still sleeps with one eye open half the time. 🙂
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October 14, 2010 at 6:28 am
Years ago we went to Mackinaw Island where they only have horses, no motorized vehicles of any kind. The horses were used for taxis, garbage trucks, wagons, etc., and the funny part was when the teams were put away, they always lined up next to their pulling partner! We went by a corral and every horse was standing next to another side by side, in line, with their team mate, sleeping in the sun! So cute to see.
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October 14, 2010 at 8:22 am
C,
Awesome. Thank you for sharing this… it must’ve been quite a sight (definitely cute!) to see.
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October 14, 2010 at 7:07 am
Leave it to Bernard to go his own direction. I love this shot and those beautifully crisp shadows.
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October 14, 2010 at 8:21 am
Carson,
If Bernard was in a marching band, he’d think everyone was out of step except him. 😀
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October 14, 2010 at 7:32 am
DUDES!!! Baggin’ some rays, man… Totally rad…
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October 14, 2010 at 8:20 am
Cathy,
Stokin’!
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October 14, 2010 at 7:39 am
This photo has me giggling this morning. Love the line-up!
Di
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October 14, 2010 at 8:19 am
Di,
Your vampire photos had me giggling as well… especially the last one.
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October 14, 2010 at 7:50 am
Love it! And, I learned a new word today…embiggen!
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October 14, 2010 at 8:18 am
Lilla,
Cool, isn’t it?
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October 14, 2010 at 8:03 am
Bernard just dares to be different! I’m worried he’s going to get a complex if we keep calling him “Goober, Dopey, etc…”
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October 14, 2010 at 8:17 am
Nancy,
I definitely don’t think he’ll get a complex. He lives for it. 😀
Plus, Dopey was the youngest, sweetest and silliest of the seven dwarfs. 🙂
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October 14, 2010 at 8:12 am
Very cute! Careful though, there are still dwarf names left unclaimed just waiting for more donkeys:-)
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October 14, 2010 at 8:18 am
Denise,
My thought exactly as I was typing the post last night. 😉
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October 14, 2010 at 8:57 am
I’m thinking you should paint those nicknames on the barn wall, for real. How funny would that be?
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October 14, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Carolynn,
Very. 😀
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October 14, 2010 at 9:22 am
I was thinking this morning while driving to work (weird, I know)how “accident prone” Ellsworth never had an accident again once he was removed from the junkyard, and how much happier he must be. (Well it LOOKED like a junkyard!) If only all animals could get TLC!
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October 14, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Sigrid,
How Ellsworth’s been able to overcome his accident-proneness amazes us every day.
It was a junkyard if we ever saw one…
I have no doubt he’s happy now, if I do say so myself.
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October 14, 2010 at 11:18 am
Oh, those darling boys…! Isn’t it funny what creatures of habit they truly are? Embiggen… best word I’ve heard in awhile. I may have to borrow that one too 🙂
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October 14, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Tammy,
We shared for you to borrow! 🙂
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October 14, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Now you’ve done it. I’m going to spend the rest of the day trying to remember the names of the other three Dwarves … Sneezy, Grumpy and ????????????
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October 14, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Gayle,
Doc! 😀
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October 14, 2010 at 2:35 pm
I can’t take credit — I stole it from the Yarn Harlot. 🙂
That Barnyard — marching to his own drummer, for sure…… 🙂
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October 14, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Vicki,
I must give you credit… if not for your lovely blog, I most likely would never have become aquainted with the word. 🙂
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October 19, 2010 at 7:02 am
Blush. 🙂
I do like it better than the other words I have seen which are intended to mean the same thing….
🙂
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October 14, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Ok, where is Snow White? Or dare I say that s word….
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October 14, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Shirley,
We don’t have to worry as much about that s word as you do… but, I think Snow White was hanging out with the other three dwarfs somewhere. 🙂
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October 15, 2010 at 9:44 am
Really? They stand in the same place? I wonder what each spot means in donkey language.
What a lovely little herd. Toss in some extra carrots from Auntie Winter.
And yes, I think I will see Carson – she’s going to the same clinic!!
I’ll toss you an email, dinner on Friday will be in Alburquerque, if I can figure out a place.
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