Adventures of a mutton buster - October 28, 2016

Yesterday's adventures of a mutton buster concluded with more sheep absconding to the forbidden pasture, and the hapless shepherd trying to move them in the dark. During the course of evening chores hapless learned the following valuable life lessons:

1. 5 border collies is overkill 
2. Sketcher gowalks are super comfortable but entirely unsuitable for traversing mud in the dark
3. After retrieval from mud, shoving mud covered feet into them feels disgusting and makes it harder to keep them on
4. Walking along the gate, using said gate as a crutch sounds like a good idea to avoid being sucked into the quicksand masquerading as mud... Until you puncture your hand on a jagged piece of gate.
5. This is even more problematic when the gate is very very rusty
6. The web between thumb and forefinger bleeds lots and hurts like a damn when punctured
7. Just when you think it can't get any worse, life will humiliate you in front of gleeful border collies when you slip in the mud and go flying.... Flat onto your back.
8. After that much drama, you are almost guaranteed to send a quasi-irreverent text about stabbings and tetanus to the wrong frigging person.

Hapless had a bad day. On the schedule today: tetanus and antibiotics. Because red. Swollen. Bloody painful. Murphy loves the hapless shepherd.

Border collies are positive that this is proof that they should be running this shit show, cause the human is obviously incompetent.

Sometimes. You just have to find the humour in the situation.

Ps: mud is hard to get out of shoes once it is in there.