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Quarantine Day 59

It was announced today that the quarantine on our island will be lifted on May 16th because we live in what has been deemed to be a low risk area. The quarantine will remain in place for high risk places like the country capital. We don’t know exactly what this means as the specific parameters […]

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Back to Basics: Beekeeping

Bee and I have been getting back to basics lately: raising chickens, farming food and keeping bees. Our goal is to grow most of our own food within a year or so, and hopefully even sooner – since we are trying to feed all of our live-in staff during this pandemic. Some live-out staff is […]

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Keeping Chickens with Children

Keeping a backyard flock of chickens is becoming more and more mainstream with each passing year. I’m reading about folks who have them everywhere from subdivisions to New York City backyards. You’ve probably heardĀ of the massive Avian Flu outbreak earlier in 2015, where over 50 million birds were “depopulated” due to the illness, causing a […]

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Letting Go

One of the hardest parts about transitioning to a single mom has been learning how to let go. And not just the big heavy emotional things, like the life I had envisioned or the family I pictured in my future. The daily things. I have to balance what gets clean in my house, how long […]

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