Or whatever you could call it.
Anyway, I was platying Yoshi's Woolly World when I heard comotion coming from our back yard thru open window.
I started listening and heard my fathewr mother and 2 sisters talking:
- "Yeah they were just there"
- "I think they went that way"
This got me interested and then I realized they must be talking about neighbor's 4 sheep that they just got for the summer.
I was right.
Neighbors were not home but my father was on the phone with the father of the house.
So I joined the chase.
My sisters went to check the lake shore towards which the sheep were last seen going.
No luck, but while walking back on of my sisters saw 2 of them over a field and thru the woods about ½km away on the road running, so we started running that way, but he sheep were running so fast that they were long gone when we got there.
Altough the road is sand it was so hard that the sheep did not leave tracks, and there was 3-way crossroad ahead.
My father went to get the car and while he was doing that I stopped passing car and asked had they spotted the sheep, they hadn't, so we could tell that the sheep had either taken 1 of the 2 small roads or wandered off-road soon after the crossroad.
At this point my father arrives with the car and he and 2 of my sisters start driving slowly along the road, I take the left small road and my mother the right one.
Then as neighbor's daughter arrives I hear my sisters yell that they spotted the sheep going to near by sandpit few hundred metres away.
I hop in to neighbor's daughter's car and drive there.
My sister have managed to isolate the sheep on to a ridge, one coming from one end the other from other end.
Just as my sisters get close the sheep decide to jump of the ridge's low side and walk in the woods.
I start following them and lead the sheep towards the neighbor's house while my sisters and neighbor's daughter flank one side and my parents are on the road blocking that direction.
All seems to go well and sheep are heading towards the neighbor's house.
Then just before they reach the yard the sheep decide to take early turn and head towards the lake shore.
My parents and my one sister stay at the neighbor's house and one of my sister and neighbor's daughter follow the sheep and I follow 100 metres behind.
They manage to get the sheep to turn back and I block the return way.
Just as we about to catch the leader of the sheep, the sheep decide to leap over the ditch on the right.
I do mad run and leap and almost catch on of the sheep but barely miss.
The sheep start jogging over the field, but neighbor's daughter and my sister manage to run cut them off and turn them bit towards the house.
Luckily the sheep start to follow the road back to the house.
I yell to my other sister to come towards us and try to catch the leader, she does even more mad tackling leap than I and almosrt catches the leader.
My first sister and neighbor's daughter are flnking the sheep from the field side so only direction is towards the house.
We phone my father and mother to be ready and they manage to scare the sheep in to the yard where they can't get away unless they do 180 turn, but we catch up and block the sheep in with wire fence.
As the sheep are now some what stuck, neighbor's daughter goes to fix the pen.
We then start herding the sheep thru narrow opening we did to the fence so the sheep can get to the pen.
2 sheep go in nicely but the leader and 4th sheep try to do 180 and escape, but at this point I, my sister and my father jump towards the leader and grab by the wool and herd it in the pen and the 4th sheep follows nicely.
So 3 km of tracking and running is benefit exercising enough for my obese body today.
