The type of work I do at the camp generally depends on the particular need for that day. I made this video the following morning which sums up day 5:
So as I said in the video, After the ritual horse tracking and goat sorting in the early morning, we left the Ger on horseback towards the area where some of the livestock were grazing. Durukh headed in one direction to herd cattle and asked me to meet him at the well after performing the following mission (my best video of the trip):
I felt accomplished, as I had done a productive morning’s work independently on horseback.
After lunch, I rode with Durukh to where his flock or sheep and goats were grazing. He asked me to “pasture” them which basically means keep an eye on them and not to let them get too spread out. If you read my associated facebook post, I wrote “It’s kind of like managing a wrestling practice” (FYI I used to be a wrestling coach).
For some reason, the children’s story “The boy who cried wolf” and this 1960’s oldie song “Little Red Riding Hood” (American Graffiti soundtrack) by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs kept going through my mind 😛
There are wolves in the area, but they usually attack at night and target the newborns. Maybe that is what the dogs at the camp were supposed to be guarding against, since they certainly weren’t helping with the herding.
So, with that, and the evening goat sorting we finished up a typical day of work at the camp.
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