Day: July 7, 2018

I’m excited to see Abrah Grigg’s latest rough sketch today for a new banner for bedlamfarm.com as we proceed with our redesign.

I love this direction, I think I most like either the belly dancing sheep on the letter “D” or the donkey straddling the letter “M.”  But the more i look at it, the more I like them all.

I also love the donkey lounging around on “B.”

Abrah Griggs, the gifted artist and graphic designer working on my new blog banner, has a special gift for capturing the personalities of bugs and spiders and other inanimate objects. Animals too.

The sketch is growing on me the more I look at it. I’m not sure about four animals, but I like the ones I see. I love the feeling of the animals not taking the blog seriously, using it to perch on or dance on or just hang out on. That’s the true nature of animals, and the feeling of the blog.

Serious, but never too serious, and never to be taken too seriously. The yin and yang of the place.

I like the tone of irreverence and the sense of the animals themselves, this is one of the things Abrah is a genius at, capturing the personalities of animals. I’m very happy with this.

This is pretty close to it for me. Let me know what you think. Abrah is quite wonderful. Her sensibility is my sensibility, I’m just not as talented.

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It will be fascinating to imagine Bud, and then meet him. What do you see in this face?

I see a dog who is sweet and quiet.

I see a dog who is tired and looking for a safe and peaceful landing.

I see a dog who isn’t feeling all hat well.

I see a dog who is in search of the quiet life.

I see a dog who has seen a bit too much of life.

I don’t see the devil in  Bud’s eyes the way I saw them in Gus, but you never know.

I don’t think this will be King Bud, he will be his own kind of unique dog.

Whatever he is, we will love him and care for him  well.

When I look into these eyes, I see a dog who will soon reflect joy

as well as sadness.

Bud is coming in six weeks.

Skirting the wool – cleaning it in preparation for going to the mill – is one of the sweetest of our farm tasks, especially on a  crisp and beautiful summer day, a relief from the scorching heat wave. .Maria sells the wool for yarn, and when it’s cleaned, we take it to Vermont for processing into skeins of wool and roving.

Maria is dying the yarn this year, all sorts of engaging colors. Fate supervises. It is one of our favorite chores.