Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to the patron podcast. I'm here once again with Virginia.

Hello, everyone. And I'm so sorry these have been very delayed and just not

happening the last few weeks, but if you've been following us on social media or if you saw the

update here on Patreon or Seed and Spark, I had COVID. I finally got it after about three years of managing to avoid getting sick.

You really had a good streak there. And we are also putting this episode out on our public

feeds because we want to just offer an update to everybody who follows us, whether on

social media or not. So welcome, new listeners.

If this is your first time hearing a patron podcast intro, this is what we do.

Yeah, it's a combination patron podcast and a bit of a state of the homestead update now that we are halfway through the year.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the chaos.

So, yeah, I had COVID for, you know, it had it really bad for about a week.

And, or no, about two weeks, sorry.

Yeah, it's sort of stretched on there.

Yeah, this is the third week of radio silence, basically, from us.

So we apologize for that.

We've been trying to keep people updated on social media, but we didn't put anything out on our feeds.

So this is, you know, us letting you know what's going on.

Yes.

But I'm okay now.

I'm doing a lot better.

It was rough.

I tried getting work done in bed for a couple of days,

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