Abby, not in attire for dressage, but she is on Fay who was in the Rose Bowl Parade.
When you come to the Hoffman’s farm located at the corner of Lamos and Skeels roads, the first thing you don’t see is the eight mules and two mammoth donkeys. One donkey, named Hank, stands over 14 hands.
What you do see is their modern counterparts: an extensive collection of enormous towering machinery that sets the tone of modern farming.
But that other part of the Laurie Hoffman story can be seen further on past these parked industrial and mechanical monsters. The working predecessors are frisking about in a large field: well-groomed, healthy, inquisitive mules and donkeys of various heights and shades, mostly of light brown and gray, an occasional black.
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