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New baby on the Homestead

It's been way too long since our last blog post.  Lately we've been busy with a newborn, yes getting no sleep or showers and just trying to make the little lady happy...that's the baby not wife.  We worked so hard, that's mostly a lie the hubby worked really hard getting in the garden because my big prego belly was in the way and now it's mostly a bust.  When we found out we were pregnant we should have just pressed the pause button on our big homestead projects but we thought we could do it all, boy were we wrong.

The only thing still going is our tomato plants, and what's left of our jalapeno plants.  We lost the battle with the wildlife this year, they've been enjoying all of our sweat and hard work we did of planting them a great buffet of vegetables.  We got a little victory last night when we went down to the garden.  There were three squirrels in the squirrelinator, we've had that darn trap for months now and it's finally starting to pay off.  Now before I start getting crap about trapping squirrels these aren't gray squirrels they are digging squirrels.  They are a nuisance and only destroy our property along with eating everything in our garden.  Our decision in getting bees was the only smart one we made this season.  We've just been making them bee food and added a super and queen extractor to their hives and haven't done much else besides inspect them a handful of times.

Our little lady has been keeping us pretty busy especially since she made her appearance a week early.  These days we are mostly walking around like dirty zombies and don't get much done except for maybe the dishes.  The wonderful joys of having a new baby in the house.  Papa has been pretty awesome at taking care of us all, since I had a c-section I was pretty useless for the first couple of weeks.  Once we get this new baby figured out we'll be getting outside more and be more productive, but for now our extra time is spent trying to get a nap in.

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