Welcome to Homemaker's Shake Podcast, where we are rescuing the art of homemaking.

From the daily grind, we're doing it in red lips on a fabulous Monday.

Absolutely no from Piedendom Jumpers are allowed.

I am your host, Angela Reed, with Parisian Farm Girl.

So happy to be here and I am joined by my best girlfriend, 2,000 miles away, Shay Elliott,

at Homestead. Good morning.

Good morning. It is a soggy, soggy, soggy Monday morning here in the Midwest.

Wow, that's not, not my problem this morning.

No, I know what this, no, no, no, no.

You haven't had any sense, like, there's no melted, correct?

Basically, yeah, that's amazing to me.

It's just a swamp. In front of my barn is an abomination and I went out this morning to

roast coffee beans really early and it's just dank. I mean, we had another thunderstorm last night,

which I don't mind, above the thunderstorms. And we had more of those when we lived for their

south. So we do celebrate when the storms roll in because we like a good, cozy thunderstorm,

but my goodness, my seedlings are happy. But yeah, I'm in a state of arrested

gardening. I can't garden. It's just too nasty.

Too wet, too soggy.

Oh, you have another cat on the window. So I know, we have like a cat.

No, this is a different cat. We have like all these cats right now. And

this is May. This was my birthday present to myself last year.

My name is May. May. This is our first May episode. So

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