Just a few days to the Bedlam Farm Open House, June 27-28. It’s our first Open  House in a few years without Simon, and people will miss  him, he loved attention. It seems we have another equine who loves attention, Chloe loves bits of apple and carrots. I think she will touch a lot of hearts, as she has touched ours.

She will be here, and I’m excited about sharing Red’s wonderful work and Fate’s herding education. Maria and Chloe, not surprisingly are very connected to one another, she loves having a pony again and the two of them share a lot of moments together. We have some great things at the Open House this weekend – six wonderful artists sharing and selling their work, four wonderful poets. Joshua Rockwood is planning to come from Glenville to talk, Ken Norman our farrier is coming by. We are getting excited. We are thinking of adding three or four additional workshops – art, blogging, writing, drawing, creativity – at  Pompanuck Farm later on this year.

We are getting fired up again over our initial plans to be a place for encouragement and creativity. We went to see Mary Kellogg today and pick up some of her books. Her newest book, “How To Dance,” will be on sale Saturday at the Open House. She will come by about 1:30 to read from this new work, her 32d. We will have two outdoor portable toilets on hand, Tyler, our friend and neighbor will be helping with traffic and crowd control, Deb Foster will be helping with donkey and pony tours, Kim McMillan will be helping Maria keep track of art sales and selling her great purses. We are ready.