What do you do when you encounter sheep?
I once helped a stray ewe back into her stall.
We were at Ross Farm - one of those jazzy little historical reenactment farms with coopers and a stone mill and oxen and the like.
Hippie shit.
The ewe had slipped from her pen and was in great distress. I wanted to help.
To do this? I found the opening then made the ewe experience even more distress by running around and waving my hands and shouting. I would have put on Paranoid by Black Sabbath but I didn’t have a ghetto blaster.
She bucked and bolted, ran and bleated until finally she found the hole and was safe with her flock.
Then, I closed the door behind her.
That was satisfying.
Sheep are very satisfying.
This wasn’t my only encounter with sheep.
No, it’s not what you think.
I’ve never been a lonely Scotsman, slipping the sheep’s back legs into my wellies to keep them still and vulnerable.
I’ve never been to Scotland you dirty perverts.
I just really like sheep.
Not like a Scot likes sheep though.
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