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It’s A Balance

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  It’s A Balance  The last week and a half has been busy! Connor and I celebrated our 2-year wedding anniversary on September 8. How has it been 2 years?! It is pretty amazing to think about all that has happened between then and now. But truly what better way to celebrate our love than getting to travel the world with your best friend?! Cheesy, I know. But true. We are getting to spend a LOT of time together which has been amazing, and also comes with some growing pains of figuring out our new rhythm and flow. But so far, spending 24/7 together, we still aren’t tired of each other.  There have been many projects around the farm that we have started, including a water reservoir that our host will use to store water for the garden. It has been a lot of digging and removing dirt, but it will be cool to see how this project progresses. Hoping we can finish it before the sheep undo all our hard work. We have also extended the garden to add more planter beds for the upcoming s...
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Mate, Fernet, y Dulce de Leche

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  Mate, Fernet, y Dulce de Leche  We have been enjoying our last 2 weeks in San Juan, Argentina and learning a ton! We are living with an Argentinian woman our age along with an Italian guy that joined us this past week. She lives on about 5 acres with a lot of  alfalfa, a garden, many chickens/roosters, two sheep, and one cat. We have been enjoying getting to know each other and it just feels like just a group of friends hanging out and working together. We have been learning a ton from her about all things Argentinian. We have really fallen in love with the culture and people here. From our perspective, there are three main things that make up Argentinian culture: mate, dulce de leche, and Fernet. We have been consistent with our mate drinking, pretty much since day one in Chile. Here, dulce de leche has been more consistent and we are learning that it can really be put on anything - toast, fruit, an ice cream flavor. It is pretty much the Argentinian version of peanut ...
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