Author: the bayou gypsy

Welcome! I am the bayou gypsy, born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Although I have spread my wings in the great cities of Austin, Seattle and Delray Beach, the bayou state kept calling me back home in 2007. Thank goodness for the pull back home because that is where I met and married my husband, Andrew. We relocated to 7 acres in Zachary, LA and have started life on a farm. It's the land of bayous, fishing, hunting, four wheelers, trucks, nutria, deer, cows, three rescue pups named Abby James, Dixie and Gypsy, two rescue horses named Sparkle and Freedom, 20 chickens, 2 turkeys named Leroy & Luann and everything else southern. I have started this personal blog to chronicle our new found farm life, the battles and blessings of our ongoing infertility, our recent adoption and the exciting adventures this bayou gypsy and her cowboy get into on the regular. I dabble in a little bit of everything and will share it all with you one wild ride at a time. Come wander with me...y'all!

Look Beyond.

June 21, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

I woke up this morning feeling my faith falling to the floor as I thought about the house projects that lay before us and the money that is currently flying out the window. The questions kept flooding my mind… will the repairs ever be done? are we doing enough to protect against termites in the […]

Weekend Cricut Creations

June 6, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

That face, her spots, those ears – too much cuteness all rolled into one little pooch! But the point of this post is really to share the personalized dog food containers she is proudly standing next to in our utility room.

Let there be white!

May 27, 2016.Reading time 11 minutes.

White windows that is. The day finally arrived and our new windows were installed on Tuesday. You should see me doing a little dance right now – lots of tapping and hand waving! Two days after we closed on our home back in March, a very large storm moved through the state lasting almost 2 days. […]

Stronger Still.

May 13, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

Many of you have asked how Sparkle has improved since we first rescued her over a month ago. And here’s our girl now, in all her beauty: She doesn’t even look like the same horse! She lost most of her thick, curly winter coat which has now been replaced with a sleek, slightly darker, summer coat. Since […]

Nibbles & Dixie.

April 28, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

The word is out. Cypress Bayou Farm is the place to live if you’re an animal. Well, it’s great for us humans too but our four legged friends are living the good life on the farm these days. We have two new residents at the farm – a wild piglet named Nibbles and a country […]