Bedlam Farm has been for sale for three weeks now, and having your house for sale does change perspective. We often think of ourselves in the new farm we are hoping to buy about 15 minutes away. It is smaller, with great funky barns for the donkeys and for Maria and her studio and art gallery. As soon as Bedlam Farm sells, we’ll go after it.

The visible changes are people cruising by slowly. People often cruise by the farm after they’ve read some of my books, but potential home buyers are different. They come by slowly, stick cameras out of their car windows and look carefully at the barns, house, fences and pastures. Everyone we’ve talked to says the farm will sell because it’s infrastructure is good and the barns have all been restored. I think that is right. We picture people who love animals and want to live with some, probably from New York or some other city. They might want to make some goat cheese or do some kind of organic farming.

We picture them with small children, and I definitely see them riding their horse down the path into the woods. We think more about the new house than the old one now, and having your home for sale transports you to an in between place, not quite here, not quite there. Bedlam Farm is a magical place, and I can’t wait to meet the people who decide to live here. We thought about leaving them the barn cats, but it seems clear they would like to be with us. So they are coming, too. I love this farm, and my blood is literally in it. I sometimes get nostalgic about leaving the farm, and Rose here too, but it time.  I am eager to see someone else love it as well.