Lots of news and decisions in my life and in Maria’s. Our offer to purchase the New Bedlam Farm has been accepted and we have signed a contract for our new home. We hope to move in the next several months. I will offer more details when I can. It is a wonderful place, also in Washington County. It is good for us, the animals, our life together. With it has come some other decisions:

– We are going to get sheep again, and lamb. Maria wants to sell Bedlam Farm wool.

– I am going to get another border collie. The time without Rose has reminded me how much I want and need a working dog to help manage and protect the farm, alert us to problems, and handle the sheep we are going to get. I loved lambing and with Maria, it will be a manageable joy. I’ve begun searching for a border collie breeder. I have some ideas. I am eager to work with a border collie again, a breed I love.

– Bedlam Farm has not sold yet, but we are quite confident about that, imagining the good people who want a home in the country with animals. We’ve taken out some classified ads in the New York Times Real Estate Section and may take out some other ads as well in the New York area. Ad runs this Sunday.