Maria staggered off to bed before dark tonight, she is wiped out. All of the artists have now brought their work, she has emptied out her studio and rebuilt it. The art is amazing, varied and interesting and inexpensive. She is a great curator. Ed Gulley sold his turtle minutes after I put it up on the blog. I am pretty tired too, I stained this Adirondack bench a friend dropped off yesterday, I had to scrape it thoroughly first.

Then I re-painted the smaller chair behind it, it need primer first. We were moving shelves and re-arranging art and chairs all day. Yesterday we finished mowing the lawn. Friday, Cathy Stewart arrives from the city (New York City) to help me organize my part of the weekend, Deborah Glessner, a cornerstone of the Creative Group At Bedlam Farm arrives to show her jewelry and help out in the studio, and Tyler Lindenholl will come to help get the parking area ready.

I have about a half-dozen errands to run. I’m getting Maria a small mirror so that people can see how those beautiful scarves look on them, and I ordered two pills (teal) for the Adirondack chair. I’m proud of it, Maria was too busy to help, I loved doing it.

I’m pretty wobbly myself and will lock up the chickens, take Fate and Red out for their final walk, check on the animals in the pasture, grab a book and head upstairs to join Maria. I think we both will be asleep soon. But we are both very excited about this Open House, it has a fine feeling about it.