We have a sick sheep, Socks, perhaps our gentlest sheep, has come up limping badly on one leg, and lying down rather than go out to pasture. We have been giving her daily penicillin shots – might be an infection in the foot – and confined her in the barn stall for a few days. She is getting better it seems, she can stand on the leg now.

Today, my writing class resumes at Pompanuck Farm, I’m excited. Got a nasty head cold. My portrait show reception is tomorrow, Sunday, 2 to 4 at the Round House Cafe, 1 Washington Street, Cambridge, 12816. There’s a front page story in our regional newspaper about the show.