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| Sheep. I love sheep. Sheep are great animals. Stupid, stinky, but ever so cute. In Europe there are a lot of sheep. Sheep along the countryside. I enjoyed seeing the sheep. How can you not enjoy sheep? I mean they are puffs of fluff eating grass. With cute little paws. And cute little faces. My friend Ashley used to be a shepherdess. She had her little herd of sheep that she took care of. I think that's pretty cute. She said they were pretty stupid, very much followers. I read somewhere that if you put an electric fence sheep will go and test it out, get shocked and then teach their young not to go near the fence. After that the young teach their young not to go through the fence and you can replace the wire with string and the sheep will never go near it. Pretty crazy eh? Anyway, back to the sheep in Europe. We visited several war cemeteries, memorials and battlefields whilst in France. At the battlefields, specifically those of Vimy and the Somme, there are tons of unexploded weapons burried in the ground. Vimy in fact has the highest number of unexploded weapons per square mile of anywhere- I think in the world, but I am not sure. So, there are tons and tons of places people aren't allowed to walk, lest they get blown up. Hence they can't put lawn mowers through to trim the grass. So they have sheep. Flocks of sheep just hanging out in all the shell craters, chowin down on the grass. The one guide said, "they are pretty nimble, able to get in all around the hills and stuff". I thought it was funny that he referred to the sheep as nimble. Nimble sheep. We asked if a sheep has ever blown up. He said that he asked and they said that a sheep hasn't ever blown up, but occasionally they will get injured, get their foot caught in a trap or something. I was like, "awww, poor little sheep getting their feet caught." Yeah. I thought it was sad. But sheep exploding would be worse. Definitely. Definitely not a cool thing. |
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