On the eve of the Bedlam Farm Open House, we got an unexpected surprise, I took a group of people from the Creative Group At Bedlam Farm out into the rear pasture to watch Red herd sheep and Lisa Dingle, a member of the group and friend, said she heard a meow coming from a bush in the pasture by the deep woods. We went to explore, and a beautiful white kitten, abot four months old, came running out of the bushes. She seemed friendly, and was starving. I was hoping a member of the group – mostly animal lovers – would rush out and demand to take her home, but nobody did. “I’ll bring her to Maria,” said Lisa, and I thought, “whoops,” here’s trouble. Maria put the kitten into a crate and fed her – she was ravenous – and members of the group rushed out to buy litter, toys, food.

We aren’t sure what to do with her – we  have enough animals – but when I last looked, Maria was calling her Alice and talking to her. She is in a crate in the Schoolhouse Studio while we figure it out. Hard to imagine how she got into the woods, white cats do not last long in the woods around here, they are a ripe target for hawks, coyotes and foxes. It is a remote place for her to have been abandoned, and she showed herself right in front of Red, 30 people, and a bunch of sheep. She is affectionate, clever and active. Animals appear for a reason, and I think she is an omen of some kind. Don’t know what kind.