My wife keeps telling me she wasn't a city kid although you can see the cities water tower across the corn field across the road from her child hood home on 2 acres. When we met and married she lived in a subdivision with homes so close together I could spit two ways from the front porch and hit one on each side. She had been married be fore and I really got tired of hearing me and ex hubby were going to do this or that when I mentioned planting a garden building a garage or what ever.
After listening to that crap for 4 months I told her it was time to get
our home.
Took us 9 month of B/S once we found the place but now it is ours. First thing she loved was the wild life that come to our front door to feed on shrubs planted there.
Deer in the back yard even bucks.
Wild turkeys pass thru along the creek in flocks and all alone.
They bring their babies to show them off to us too.
Even the Great Blue Heron comes up out of the creek to preen near the house.
What that has did is get her to want to go for walks thru the woods and vacant field next door to see what critters are about and what they are doing. Got her wanting to plant flowers and shrubs where she spends a whole bunch of time fiddling around. She has 3800 sq.ft. of perennial flower beds and I don't know how many shrubs.
She isn't interested in chickens, goats, sheep, cows or horses.
Her passion is honey bees to the point we were over 100 colonies in 2 counties in out yards. She like us raising queen bees likes the honey and is a fanatic with the stuff we sell to the point it drives me crazy with her wants on straining it cause there is a air bubble in it.
She makes the syrup to feed them in the spring and fall. she makes the pollen patties we give them.
With a little baby it is hard to spend much time outdoors doing chores. There are enough to do inside fixing meals caring for the baby doing laundry and keeping the house clean and tidy. Allow the child to grow and start walking before pushing too hard.
Al
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