I am fortunate in my life to have found some remarkable working women. Maria does more things than I can list. She is a gifted artist. She is a curator. She shovels manure out of the barn, feeds chickens and brushes donkeys, tends gardens and fixes gutters. She runs a successful website, and makes quilts, potholders, streaming art works, takes videos. She drove me around for hours on the first day of the book tour.

Rose’s work ethic is quite famous, and well known. Yesterday, the two strong working women on the farm – there is Frieda too – teamed up in a new job for Rose.