The Open House was sweet, touching, beautiful. I think six or seven hundred people came through the farm today from ll a.m. to 4 p.m. Red herded the sheep – he is popular, scores of people came to touch Simon and feed him carrots and apples, the poet Kate Rantilla read some of her poems, Maria sold a lot of art in the School House Studio, there was a great feeling of connection and warmth. We were very pleased to open up our farm to the people who love art, who follow our blogs, my writing and photography, our lives together. I did four herding demonstrations, we had a dozen donkey visits, two or three talks. Scott Carrino came to sing some songs, Ken Norman, our friend and farrier – one of the people who saved Simon – came to talk about his work. We will do it again tomorrow – noon to four p.m.

I’ll meet some of the visitors – especially the Creative Group At Bedlam Farm – at the Round House Cafe at 8 a.m. Lenore was run ragged by people tossing sticks, Simon just loved all of the attention. It was an affirmation of many things in many ways. I’m a bit too tired for once to write much about it a lot now. It was an amazing day.