The sheep are in the pasture, ready to work with Red and Fate. This is the gallery where people can see the dogs work up close, it is the North pasture on one side of the house. Red is waiting his turn, Fate is doing her wonderful outruns around the sheep (they pay no attention to this,). I’ll do three or four herding demos a day this weekend, we have fresh water out for them.
We got a “welcome” banner last month, the dogs are the official welcoming committee, they love to see everyone. But we wanted to know people are welcome here, the farm is open to them. The house is looking good, the art is wonderful and varied, the artists exceptional people. Eager to get started and see what the day brings.
We got up before dawn today, 100 things to do. First, manure removal from the pasture, Maria has set new trains for farm chore fashion design – the artistic way. There was mowing, moving chairs around, getting water out to the side pasture, getting the barn ready for shearing and hoof trimming, rushing into town for food for helpers, moving the cars, getting out the signs and chalkboard – and about 100 other things. People still aren’t due for an hour, there is still an hour’s worth of work to do.
