Well, a farmer up the hill drove by and waved and saw that Simon and I were in our first standoff and he yelled, “Hey, two asses in the road!”

True. Simon and I are both willful, and if you’ve ever tried to get either of us to do something we don’t want to do, we response in much the same way. We just go quiet and still. Simon likes to walk to grass and apples, not necessarily up the driveway or the road.He dug in here, and so did I. I held the halter rope and stood there and folded my arms. We spent 20 minutes like that and he looked this way and that, and would not budge. After awhile, he took a few steps and stopped again.

I gave him a tug on the halter, and he sighed and  walked behind me. After that, he was good. I think “Two Asses On The Road” might make a good book title. It is hard to make a donkey or a writer do things they don’t want to do.