We got up early to get the farm ready…check gates, put the sheep in the side pasture, haul out chairs from the barn, put up the donation box, the banners, the chalkboard listing events. Today, shearing at 1 p.m., poetry readings at 2, sheepherding on and off all day.

Bud will get his debut as a working dog, sort of, Maria put up her fiber representation of the White Cliffs in New Mexico where George O’Keefe lived and worked, and she also hung the crochet gun she carried during the women’s march in January,