Formal introduction...

So, the hot topic around the farm yesterday was the new baby donkey.  We have determined that it is a... HE!  Which we figured since we had a cute girl name already picked out and no boy name, tee-hee.  We have such a love for the 'mom and dad' donkeys.  They are such a sweet couple.  Bart is gorgeously marked, very timid, and needs Jenne.  If we ever have to separate them, Bart is so very pained and stands at the fence calling to her until they are reunited. When we first rescued them, we always knew if Jenne was struggling because Bart would call out repeatedly to let us know she had collapsed.  He helped us save her that first winter.   Jenne is just down right lovable, affectionate, and devoted to Bart.  This photo is so 'them'.  Bart in the background, painfully shy, but ever close to Jenne... who quite enjoys her photo ops!  They both have a forever home with us, we are quite smitten with them!

We tend to labor over perfect names, we can be silly like that.  We had several angles to come from for a name... his gray color, tiger striped legs, his ears ;)  Grayson, JB (initals of Jenne and Bart), Ash (which we laughed at because originally I thought of the color of Ash... but as we tossed it around it sounded more and more like the 'biblical' name for donkey... a**).  We liked them all... but then I took a new spin on the 'love' theme of Jenne and Bart.  I tossed out a name... and it stuck!

Since he looks so much like his dad.  Since he already is so tender to us and is so very loving like his mom.  Since his dad has always been such a sweet partner for Jenne... we decided to name him...

Romeo.

Now we return you to your regularly scheduled lives as I am sure you have been waiting, breathless, for this very important matter to be decided.