Don Bacho & Bedina Daagdo ... -

"Bedina!" Bacho hollered. "Bring your donkey and your pride. We have work."

Bedina looked at the tumbling wooden mountain, looked at his blackberries, and then looked at the steep 200-foot drop to the river below. He calmly stepped aside. "Bacho!" Bedina yelled. (Drop it/Let it go!) DON BACHO & BEDINA daagdo ...

Bacho looked down at the wreckage, then at his muddy hands, and finally at Bedina. He started to laugh—a deep, booming mountain laugh. "You’re right, Bedina. It was getting heavy anyway." "Bedina

Bedina arrived, leaning lazily against his donkey, Gogi. "Bacho, that wardrobe is larger than my house. Why not just burn it and tell people it was stolen by a ghost?" "It’s an heirloom," Bacho insisted. "We carry it." He calmly stepped aside

Bedina, who had spotted a wild blackberry bush and was currently occupied with a handful of fruit, replied with his mouth full, "It’s fine, Bacho! I’ve got it!"

The sun was barely kissing the peaks of the Caucasus when Don Bacho stood outside his stone hut, scratching his chin. He had a problem: a giant, ancient wooden wardrobe that had belonged to his grandmother. It was heavy, smelled of mothballs and history, and needed to go to the village at the bottom of the valley.

Don Bacho and Bedina are legendary, lighthearted figures often featured in rural Georgian folk humor and local anecdotes. Their stories usually revolve around their cleverness, stubbornness, or comical misunderstandings of modern life. In Georgian dialects, (