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When we harvest our honey, just being in the room

When we harvest our honey, just being in the room feels as if you are actually standing inside a jar of honey. ⁣
The smell is heady and powerful and I am surprised by it every year. ⁣
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We only have a few more weeks until we start spinning this golden honey from the frames. In a year that sometimes feels like one long day, I’m grateful for this appointment that the bees keep, no matter what’s going on with the other “outside” world. ⁣
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Who’s ready for this year’s batch of honey?? 🙋🏼‍♀️⁣
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📸 perfection, courtesy of @sonyakammes

Today we worked together like a well-oiled machine

Today we worked together like a well-oiled machine. ⁣
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It doesn’t always happen like that - in fact it’s often the opposite. We both have VERY different ideas about how to do things around here. And we both feel strongly about why our way is the right way. That’s why you may hear me yelling passionately about why we need to give the cows more hay. Or why you will hear Anthony tell me things like - “uhhh no, we are never converting the old barn into our house.” You know, the standard marital bickering. ⁣
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But sometimes things work as they should and it. is. magic. And it’s fun and we laugh and say things like “ we are such a great team” and “that wasn’t that horrible, was it?” ⁣
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Today was one of those days and I think we both really needed it. We can be really good teammates and it’s important to be reminded of it. ⁣
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📸 by the incredibly amazing and lovely @kristina.lorraine

Tonight we said goodbye to Baby Red. ⁣ ⁣ She w

Tonight we said goodbye to Baby Red. ⁣
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She wasn’t able to walk anymore, couldn’t eat on her own and didn’t have much quality of life left. ⁣
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I know she was *just* a chicken, but I have 33 other chickens and NONE of them ever acted like her. She had quite a personality. She responded when I talked to her. She hopped over to me every morning when I greeted her and she was not afraid of a THING. ⁣
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Gigi and Walter ran the other way when they saw her because they were afraid. She was a tough bitch and had no problem pecking either one of them in the face. ⁣
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Once she kept surviving, I kept trying to save her. Because an animal that’s tough enough to make it through daily peckings and harassment for a YEAR is a survivor and deserves a chance or two. ⁣
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And then, when do you stop trying to save her? When do you decide, “oh, it’s just a chicken” and give up? Having a sick animal weighed very heavily on me and I wasn’t sure if or when to stop or keep going. But today I knew. ⁣
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I’m glad I decided to keep going with her care initially - she made it for a good bit. She loved rides on the lawnmower and sometimes I carried her around with me just so she wasn’t always living out her life in a cage in a basement.⁣
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Baby Red gave me a GREAT education on chickens - how to care for them and what to look for in a sick chicken - for that I am so grateful. ⁣
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As Anthony said to me earlier today, “I never thought I could love a chicken.” Me neither, but I’m so glad she gave us that opportunity.

⁣ Looking forward to a “catastic” Sunday. Ho

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Looking forward to a “catastic” Sunday. Hope your plans involve little more than lying around and keeping cool, a la Walter. ⁣
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It’s that time of year where you can get drunk o

It’s that time of year where you can get drunk on the sunsets alone. I love you Wisconsin.

Alrighty my friends, it’s time again for another

Alrighty my friends, it’s time again for another Lucky Break Weekend Pop Up shop! ⁣
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Here’s the deets: ⁣
WHAT:⁣
•Cheerful Summer Bouquets• (the very same one ☝🏼 pictured)⁣
•Sunflower bunches•⁣
•Mason jar bouquets•⁣
•Strawberry Heat Wave•⁣
•Honey•⁣
•Melrose peppers•⁣
•Jalapeños•⁣
•Mint bunches•⁣
•Basil bunches•⁣
•Anthony’s Watercolor Notecards•⁣
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WHEN: ⁣
Friday, July 24th 3-7⁣
Saturday, July 25th 10-2⁣
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WHERE:⁣
Lucky Break Acres⁣
W6022 County Road A Elkhorn⁣
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Cow sitings and picturesque views included free of charge 🐄⁣
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See you soon!

I’m getting ready to work on this week’s bouqu

I’m getting ready to work on this week’s bouquets, wondering how I’ll be able to top last week’s Lilies that were as big as your head. ⁣
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The amount of flowers blooming, rain not falling and sunshine beaming has equaled complete flower magic this Summer. It truly is dreamy. ⁣
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This time of year I’m always trying to figure how to get it all done - the weeding, the beekeeping, loving on Gigi, the harvesting, the canning, feeding the chickens extra treats, hosing the cows down, brushing the cats, giving Baby Red enough outside time, power washing, keeping the pool sparkly AND having enough time left over to just hang out. ⁣
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I don’t know why I haven’t learned that it’s IMPOSSIBLE. It would be impossible for 𝟰 people to keep all of that together. ⁣
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It’s the greatest lesson and one that I still haven’t fully learned; take one step at a time, do one thing at a time and learn to be ok with the fact that all of it will NEVER be done. ⁣
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I have mixed feelings about this, but I’m getting better at letting some of it go. Im especially good at letting go of the weeding.⁣
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What do you let go of first?⁣
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Gigi and I spent our entire Sunday together, and i

Gigi and I spent our entire Sunday together, and it felt SO delicious to slow down a bit. At least for today. ⁣
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This sweet girl loves to be with us every single second of every day, and now with more and more people driving onto the farm, we aren’t able to have her out quite as much. The heat and long walking distances aren’t that great for her senior citizen status either. So I’m taking advantage of how quiet is it today, and she has been my little shadow. ⁣
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Hope your Sunday was as quiet as you needed it to be.

I’m on my way outside this morning for my daily

I’m on my way outside this morning for my daily ritual of dumping all of the Japanese beetles off of my plants into a water bucket. ⁣
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Our girls have been dining on Japanese beetles nonstop and I know it is sadistic, but I take great pleasure in watching them get gobbled up. ⁣
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Japanese beetles destroy my Hops and Willows, Fruit trees and Zinnia plants. I could list at least 15 more things that they feast on. I have been so frustrated by them, until I got some chickens. Now I’m happy that I at least have a use for them - as free protein and entertainment for my girls! ⁣
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What about you - do any of your morning rituals include bug murder? #selfcare #morningrituals 🤣

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