I have been thinking a lot lately about becoming a sheep herder. I would have two border collies and say, about 50 sheep. I’d have enough land for the sheep to graze on, and a winter enclosure and heated barn for the sheep to hang out in.

I might have a few milking sheep. I’d hire someone to clean the barn. I’d also hire someone to shear the sheep. And I’d have extra help during lambing season, which would be in the spring. This is sounding like a lot of work, and like a subject that I know little about. The part I like the most here is moving the sheep with the dogs. Of course, I’d herd the sheep on horseback.

Ryder herding sheep

Maybe I should first go to Iceland and go on a sheep herding trek. I will have to get in shape for this. If I look into this now, and know I’d be going there in September, I could prepare for this, by starting to exercise now.

I have not ridden the horses for some time. I am going to do this tomorrow. Maybe also on Monday. Less time inside and more time outside.

Sastrugi is seemingly fat. I think she is going to have two goat babies. I am going to have to figure out what sort of feeding schedule to put them on, after they’re born.

Yes, I would like a third dog, a border collie. My number one concern is that it would get enough exercise. A medium energy dog would be good. A high energy dog would not be good.

And I have not discounted the idea of getting a donkey. It would have to come with a cart and harness.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

Another long day in the former banquet room of the historic Eagle Hotel. There has been a lull on books coming in, so I have gotten the place more organized. I also have weeded out the not so profitable books from the more profitable eBay books. And today, Pete and Robert got more books ready to go to villages.

I dealt nicely with a crazy woman, who Robert says is manic, maybe bipolar. And I found myself thinking, I wonder if she is the mirror image of myself. Maybe everyone is a mirror image of ourselves, and what we see odd in them is really odd in ourselves.

We started the BLBP funding campaign today, and so we all have people, donors, to contact. Now there was a time when I would not have done this. I am now almost (but not quite) eager to do this. Actually, I am not dreading this.

Why is it that I am now learning the important things of life, which are things I should have been learning in my 20s? If I’d learned what I am learning then, I would have had many years in which to put what I learned to practice. This does not seem fair to me. But then, fairness wasn’t built into the life equation.

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