The Open House begins Saturday and runs through Sunday, but on Friday, we invited the members of the Creative Group At Bedlam Farm to come to the farm in the afternoon and hang out with us. It was wonderful to meet some people I had come to know well online. We went out sheepherding in small groups, Red took the sheep out into the back pasture. It was great to go herding with a group of people. Alice the kitten popped out of that bush in front of Red, I am sorry she is leaving, but it makes good sense.

Tomorrow, breakfast at the Round House with people in town for the Open House, then the Open House begins at ll a.m. I am tired, but it is a good tired. A neighbor has given us permission to use his moved pasture for parking, we have two portable toilets on hand. Maria is swamped with requests to buy the art she has been posting on her website, she is saving it for the Open House visitors. George Forss will be her to take portraits of visitors, Scott Carrino may come by to play some music, I will be giving a talk about “Saving Simon,”  Kate Rantilla will be reading some of Mary Kellogg’s poems in her absence, she has Lyme Disease. We are ready and excited.

People can see Red herd sheep and meet the donkeys.