He might see it shuffling along the hallway, a small, grey, slightly lumpish-looking critter, about knee-high on him, dragging something flat and soft and red, holding it in its mouth. The thing might pause, wiping its brow with a forepaw. Or forehoof. The thing has a brush-like tail and a short, spiky mane. It looks for all the world like a donkey ( Read more... )

It's autumn at last, a time when the summer heat yields to the cool of the approaching season, when the earth starts to settle down for her winter sleep. Part of that involves the trees turning into a paintbox of colors, which never fails to amaze Eeyore. It was autumn when he arrived at the Mansion, and while he still wonders if he'll ever Find A ( Read more... )

Someone likes poems about donkeys. Nice to know. Thought I'd share

Originally posted by simone_remy at The Donkey by G K Chesterton

When fishes flew and forests walked ( Read more... )

Nice poem. And it's about a donkey. Not often you read poems about donkeys.

Originally posted by simone_remy at Nicholas Nye. by Walter de la Mare
Thistle and Darnel and dock grew there ( Read more... )

( Cut for big pic and kyoootness )

It's been unseasonably warm, not extraordinarily so, but enough that one hasn't needed a winter coat to go out, during the past few days. But the leaves have fallen off the majority of the trees, even a good number of the oaks which are always the last to drop their leaves ( Read more... )

The old grey donkey Eeyore has had Something Unusual happen to him: he wished to be Tall, and on speaking to a mysterious and magical young man, Just That Happened to him. He's roaming about the Mansion at about the size of a horse, surprised to be looking *down* on things he usually looks *UP* at. And he's likely to be Very Surprised to be looking ( Read more... )

In one tag, I described Eeyore chewing on some bark on the logs in a basket by the fireplace in the main room. I was just taking a flying leap, but come to find out, real donkeys do just that: http://www.lavasurfer.com/pooh-faq13.html#127Read more... )