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I am a herder in the Chatkal Highlands. In summer we are on the zhayloo, high up. The generator runs two hours in the evening: one hour for the vaccine fridge, one hour for this. My nephew tied a phone to a pole on the ridge.

I read you all winter at the kyshtoo. Now I will write sometimes. I will not tell you my clan. I will tell you that I have not trusted a Talas politician since 2007, when we rode into Talas with the Front, and that same summer the city was taken from under us by men in suits. I will not start trusting them because of a forum.

But I trust the people in this forum a little. You argue like a Kurultai.

Welcome. Save fuel. Write long.

From the winter house this time. Stone walls, felt on the walls, snow to the window. The road is closed until spring and the diesel is rationed, so the generator runs one hour now, for the radio and for this.

The young ones want to know what is happening in Talas. The old ones want to know what is happening with the sheep in the next valley. Both are right. Only one of them is on IradOne.

The vaccine fridge hour comes first. Good. As a vet, I approve. As a reader, I wish the generator had a third hour.

The book library came up to our camp last week, on two pack horses with wooden boxes. My daughter borrowed Akyrky Ashuu and read it to her grandmother by the lamp. Her grandmother knew the 1916 parts already, from her own grandmother. She corrected the novel twice.

Bektur says the IAC will not "negotiate with a recording". Up here the old men said the same thing in the summer. They judge a man by how he sits, and they say the man on IradOne sits like a picture.
RUMOUR, I know. We are not tech monitors. We are horse monitors.

Horses do not lie. Television is another animal.

Last post from the zhayloo this year, the herds go down next week.
My nephew asked if we should register for the free coins. His grandmother asked what you can buy with them. He said: nothing yet. She said: then it is a promise, and we already have a drawer full of those.