Minnie knows how to relax. She has essentially adopted Maria’s fiber chair, Minnie spends most of her days and nights sleeping on it. Minnie and I get along, I have not really bonded with her in the ways I have bonded with the dogs and donkeys.

But we have known each other a long time, and I grow fonder of her all the time. We are getting there. Today, she even let me put the big camera on her butt and rest it there as I took her photo. That takes trust and connection.