Morning !!!! How are you? We’re having some wet really fall weather right now. Starting to miss those late summer days
.... We’re working hard to get
everything in tip top shape here at Rikki’s Refuge in time for the winter. Do you have any handy skills you’d like to
practice here? Fixing fences, painting,
weatherproofing ?? Drop me a note if
you’d like to help out around the farm, Vincent@RikkisRefuge.org
LAST
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Meet one
of our obscure residents
Herbivore
Tractorivoris
This resident, who’s been
with us for years, has ancient origins.
The last of the descendents of the herbaceous titanosaur crossbred with
mythical transformers and the family of herbivore tractorivoris was born. Our herbivore tractorivoris is called Blue. And sadly Blue is ill and needs some serious
surgery.
Blue joined us many years
ago.
When we found him sitting by
the side of the road, looking dejected, unloved and no longer wanted with a big
ugly FOR SALE sign plastered on his freshly painted body .... we said, “Oh, Blue, we’ll raise the money to
save you and you can come live at Rikki’s Refuge .... if ... you’ll help us out.”
Thanks to wonderful donors
who helped us help Blue, he came to live at Rikki’s .... about 12 years ago .... And you haven’t heard much of Blue since
then.
Though Blue is always busy
at work .... it seems someone else
always gets the credit. Blue
sympathizes with Candy, our horse who was a jumper and Blue Ribbon Winner. When she was injured winning ribbons for her
hooman, she was abandoned and left to die ... while the former owner carries
Candy’s ribbons about and basks in the glow of the Blue Ribbons ... Candy enjoys the love and home she's found at Rikki's Refuge.
Candy showing off the only Blue Ribbon she ever got
to keep.
Poor Blue is always hard at
work .... while the hooman riding along
seems to take all the credit. With over
100 acres of fields to keep in tip top shape .... you can often see Blue off in the distance chomping up grass and
weeds and thorns and thickets ......
Being multi-talented, at
night Blue transforms into a lovely sleeping platform.
Never a complaint, no matter
who wants to nest down for the night.
Blue has such a lovely calm disposition.
When the need arises, Blue
uses his transformer skills to convert into just the tool needed for the
job. Off with the bushhog and on with
the backhoe ... when ever diggin is needed.
Fixing water lines so all the animals get good clean
fresh water every day.
Planting trees that will one
day feed apples to everyone .... except
me, cuz I’m a cat and I don’t eat apples.
Need to pick up something?
You can count on Blue’s
transformer powers to scoop up what ever you’re looking for and cart ‘em off.
Way way back in ancient
times, when Rikki’s Refuge was just a fleeting dream, way before we knew how
many animals we’d end up being responsible for ....
way before Blue joined us ....
the goats and geese had the job of mowing
Seemed like the trees and
the flowers always tasted better then the grass ....
Even when we offered the
goats some help
The grass stayed long and
made the jobs of caring for all the animals harder.
It’s mighty hard to chase
down somebody who needs meds when the grass is high enough to hide in.
There’s an awful lot of
Rikki’s that needs to be taken care of.
... lots of fields that need
mowing, holes to make for fence posts, hauling gravel to smooth out the
driveway, digging up to fix broken water lines, planting trees ... and so much
more .... Blue is known to work all over
the great big refuge!
But now Blue has a terrible
obstacle
and we need your help to get
over it. Blue needs new shoes! After all these years of running thru the
fields of thickets, of scooping up spiky gravel, of hauling fallen trees, after
miles and miles ..... after dozens and
dozens of repairs, patches, new tubes .....
Blue can’t run any more
Not till he gets new tires.
Naw.... says Blue .... Nothing that fancy .....
And I don’t think these are
going to work.
YUP !!! I think it’s gotta be more like this !!
We’ve shopped for tires for
Blue ... and think we’ve found the best deal.
A good quality that should last for a while .... hopefully another 12 years .... but not the best or most expensive by a long
shot .... and the pair, mounted and filled with fluid (for weight and traction)
will be .... $970 ... Yikes -- this is the cost of major surgery
!!!
Will you please help us get
Blue out of the hospital and back to work?
Blue
Blue’s Great Great Great ... Great Great Grandfather, Brown, a
herbaceous titanosaur
You can see some of the
striking family resemblances.
Please don’t let our Blue
become extinct .... help us afford the
surgery for new tires that will give Blue many many more years of life and
service around the refuge !!
Thank you so much for your
donations to save Blue !!
socially ostracized kitties who have the fiv virus,
this group would have died in a Florida shelter if wonderful volunteers hadn’t
arranged for them to make it safely to Rikki’s where they are now living
happily ever after
THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME TO
SOLVE BLUE’S PROBLEM .....
... soon as I’ve raised the
money to get Blue back on his feet and mowing in the fields ... I’ll tell you
about my new book !!
It seems such a shame to
have to spend a whole pallet of cat food on shoes for Blue .... but it’s an absolute necessity to keep Rikki’s
Running.
Love you bunches,
Opie
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