Last Saturday we bought a sheep for Ksh1000 - about $13.
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Today, we had mutton stir fry for lunch.
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How did we get from the first picture to the second?
Well.
We bought Sheepy from our friend/old night guard Obeyle's herd of adi (Rendille for a herd of sheep and goats). Obeyle slaughtered Sheepy (we named him for the 15 minutes we owned him before he became our lunch) in our backyard with a panga - or handheld machete. I'll spare you the details, but it was morbidly fascinating to see how it's done. He handed us a bucket (literally) full of raw sheep meat (including the liver!) about an hour later, and after carefully washing each piece, we now we have a deep freezer full of various parts of Sheepy.
Just another day in the deserts of Africa.
thanks to your title, "the circle of life" played softly in the background of my mind while I read this. And then had that dramatic end when I finished. :)
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