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!

Santa Fe Skinny, Part 1

January 30, 2017.Reading time 10 minutes.

Taking a detour this week and this little spot of cyberspace I call home will turn into a travel blog. I’m already a year late anyhow. No, really. We traveled to Santa Fe, NM last winter, exactly a month before we bought the farm. We e-signed the counter offer and hopped on a plane. I was working on […]

Winter Wanderings, Part 2

January 26, 2017.Reading time 13 minutes.

Since purchasing the property last year, I have longed for raised garden beds in front of our barn bursting with fresh vegetables, organically grown on our little piece of land. In order for us to have a prosperous garden this Spring, work on the farm starts early, as early as January.

Winter Wanderings, Part 1

January 24, 2017.Reading time 11 minutes.

Winter on the farm this year hasn’t been much of a winter but it surely has left its mark. After wearing shorts on Christmas, the normal high has been around 75°, sometimes 80°. And don’t get me started on the humidity from all the rain falling from the sky. But, all of that disappeared when […]

In the Waiting.

January 17, 2017.Reading time 15 minutes.

When you are part of an infertility support group, it is only natural the women around you progress in their fertility journey, whether commencing fertility treatments, adopting a sweet little one or the ultimate gift of a pregnancy. Each success story gives me so much hope that one day it will be me. While I […]

New Year, New Horse.

January 6, 2017.Reading time 10 minutes.

No, we didn’t get another horse. We rang in the New Year with important equine procedures for our newest rescue, Freedom. He came to us as a stud and since we are not interested in breeding horses, we decided to move forward with gelding him. In other words, removing his testicles. I know, it made […]