Barn House Kitchen Reno (almost) Complete

Good morning, buddy. Did you find your shoes? I see you found your bike though. Well, the boots are supposed to be right there. You want to wear Lily's?

Sure.

Sure? Would she get upset? No, she— but we better not wear Lily's.

For what? For what? Because they're pink boots.

Hmm. I found you some socks. Albeit they don't match.

Oh, okay.

Come on. Is this them? You need your rubber boots because it's raining. Randolph's coming back today. Hopefully this kitchen— hopefully he thinks 2 days, 2 days until that kitchen's done. It's kind of hard to find anything with a kitchen reno going on. Oh, you could wear your cowboy boots. Will you wear your cowboy boots? Yes. He wants to go with the boys. Sam and John are here. The boys wanted to do the chores.

Wow, how do you like your new rain jacket? Brand new, $200. John, I need 2. They're gonna knock that bucket over. Hold it, hold it.

Here. Okay. Oh, wait, hey, where's your socks? I gave you socks.

Oh, they're left in the car.

Oh my gosh. Okay, it's good that the boys did the chores for me. I'm hustling to get you guys my— the free— I'm launching a free online crash course, Do It Yourself Abundance. Crash course.

I'm trying to, uh, I told you to wake me up and you didn't wake me up.

Okay, I'm sorry. I'm trying to get that video ready. I'm trying to get an email out to my email list. By the way, if you want to be the first to get that kind of stuff, you want to join my email list. And all you got to do that to do that— hang on, buddy. What'd you say? Okay, and all you got to do to do that is sign up for this this crash course. Link in the description. Today I'm promoting the webinar replay. We had a blast on our web— our premium webinar last night, and I just want to share it with you guys so you can go in and watch the replay when you sign up for this. And there's other videos in there. I love your house. Okay, can I talk? Can I share with the people about what's going on?

Yeah.

Yeah. Okay, you let me. I think I'm done though.

Okay. But they couldn't.

I think that you did a beautiful job on this house. That was one of the questions in the webinar: how are you so patient with the kids?

Whoa, there's some inside too!

I'm no perfect parent. I'm not always patient with the kids, but I did give the secrets that I do have when I do succeed with that in that webinar. So we don't just talk farm. We talk mostly farm, but then we also talk a lot of encouragement and inspiration and self-help type of things. A lot of business questions last night. Okay, can you go?

Yeah.

Wait, what's the matter? Okay, we'll find them. Let's see how big Randolph's coffee is. Not too bad, just a medium. You're pretty hopeful? Yeah, you're pretty hopeful this bead board's gonna be nice to you? Yeah, I'm thinking we'll— we might get— might get most of it done today. Good. Maybe go in tomorrow. Yeah, I'm hoping by tomorrow we may be on the move outside. Is that all we lack from you, is, uh, just the beadboard, or just got more projects for you? I think that, and, uh, I gotta run the water line over to the refrigerator. Okay, I got it figured out. It just ain't— yeah, we'll have our kitchen back though, won't we? Yeah. Oh man, you'll have it back. Oh man, all right, we'll be so excited to get our kitchen back. Boys are done with their chores. They're gonna play now. I'm gonna get back to getting this, this, uh, course out. All right, getting that webinar replay up on the crash course. Gotta go milk. Rebecca's calling me on here though. What did you ask?

Oh, Jonah wanted a truck.

We're going to Virginia to a pig farm to finish— well, do a bit for the permaculture pigs. Yeah. Um, a grass-based day-raised piglets.

What is that sound?

So it's my phone. Do CMT—

so CMT test.

Oh, the mastitis test. We don't need to do that today. We know what's going on. We're gonna strip her out. Okay, but now every Monday, every Monday that's gonna ring. Okay, good. We're going on a special trip and he said, yes, can we take it? Can we rent a truck? Because we are going to rent a vehicle because you'll need our vehicle, right? So yeah, if they're affordable— it looks like they are— so we'll just get a truck, get the coolest truck they got. All right, he'll enjoy that.

He will. He's excited.

Yeah, he's looking for the time together with me. And incidentally, Josiah will be going with me to Missouri when we go get our sheep. So Virginia, and what is it, just a couple of weeks or a week? It's not this weekend, it's next weekend. So, and then Missouri at the end of the month. So it's been—

it's less than 2 weeks away.

Okay, if y'all are new here, this is not normally how we live. This is a kitchen run-up. This is our kitchen cabinets right now because we're going in the middle of the kitchen. You like that? I said that Does that make you feel a little bit less shame?

I'm saying that because I feel— gross.

This is not normally how we run an office. No, this is not normally how we run our lives. No, actually this is usually the cleanest room in our house.

Plus, the children have come and rummaged through literally everything.

What?! You're telling me the little children, those sweet little children, came in here and touched stuff?

Oh. I'm always like, get out of there! Why are you in there?

Oh, there's one here! Good morning. All right, good morning, little bird.

What you doing?

Hey John, Sam, y'all are back for some more?

Yep.

Okay, I'm having them harvest this volunteer squashes here for the pigs. Looks like they survived big rain event last night. We totally forgot to put this under the shed, but it actually looks like they did okay. They're not in plastic, so I was a little worried the soil would wash away, but maybe the plants are tall enough now that they didn't. So that was a big rain event. So I think we're gonna be okay. Incidentally, we ordered a transparent sun-reflectant shade cloth for this greenhouse, like, uh, 40% shade reflects the sun, so that we can start putting these in there and it won't get too hot. We've got about a gallon and a half this morning from Flossie. She's doing better by way of her— oh, let me put some, uh, buttercream on her. She's just about kicked this. I think we'll be milking that quarter for us tomorrow. It's not dangerous to drink mastitis milk, it's just maybe salty. We're gonna put the udder cream on her, guys, and then you can take her out. All right, you guys gonna get her out?

Yeah.

All right, get in. Let's stand over here. Are you done? Oh good, you shut it off and everything. All right, good job. The key to getting kids to work on the farm is to actually let them when they're a young age. It's hard. It's not— it's not any faster. Hey, before we go in, I just want to check if Beauty's seeds survived the storm— transplant survived the storm last night. There they are, they're still there. Thank goodness we covered the carrots with row cover. Those seeds, since we direct seeded and didn't transplant, would have washed away. Those little lettuces and whatnot are transplants, so they're rooted in blocks in the soil. Yogurt, eggs, kale, Well, hey, we're in the last stretch of the 100 days of growing food.

I know, it's over this week.

We're gonna top it off, guys, with the 24-hour challenge. I'm gonna live with the chickens for 24 hours starting Thursday morning.

Sleeping with your chickens.

So we'll cover the, the 99 days is on Thursday, the 100th day is on Friday. So I'm going to be actually be filming both those days, so it'll be the last 2 days of the 100 days will be— will come out on Friday. Yeah, and it'll cover Thursday and Friday, so It will not be in two different videos.

Right.

I'm gonna sleep with the chickens. Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna live with the chickens for 24 hours. Did you get that cot?

I did.

I am gonna sleep in the cot out there with the automatic tent on, right?

Yeah.

So the chickens don't get on my cot and poop.

And I got your Airbnb for your trip to Virginia.

Okay, cool.

It's a cute little, it's a cute little, it's called the Hayloft.

Oh.

Yeah, so I think that, um, it's a farm, so I figured that would be better than staying in a hotel.

Stay in the hayloft, that would be fun. John and I would be fine with that.

Hey Jason!

Oh, look who's here! Back at the CoolBot, huh? Yes. Okay, good. He's getting done today, Beck. We can put, uh, we can put, uh, the beets and all this squash in there. I'm just teasing.

The door is coming today.

Jason is crushing it, man. He's doing a great job on it.

Longer ones in these, Jonah might.

I'll take a look, but I need like 12-inch of these. All right, I bet you Jonah does. Is that for wood? Yes. Josiah said he knew where they were. Did he get you one?

Yep.

Okay, good. Leave it up to the Rhodes boys to hook you up. Let's see what we got. Jason's got the wall up out here. Sorry, you just can't quite see that. It's a really nice plywood there. Oh, oh my, look! Hey, you got some light in here, bro. Yeah, for a little bit. Look at that view though. Don't turn it back now. Nice. Don't turn it back, that's for the AC. Yes, the AC. The trick here is the AC cools this Right. The CoolBot technology tricks it. Yes. So that it will actually go like super cold, like 40 degrees. Yes. Okay. Lunch looking good. It's good. It looks, it looks great. The broccoli's from your farm? No. Oh, okay. Everything but the broccoli.

That's the one thing we struggle with.

The garlic, the tomatoes. The chicken, the broth.

Lily and I have come out to the garden. Oh my goodness, look at these tomatoes, Lily. We need to pick up some tomatoes. But we've come out to the garden. We're gonna get cucumbers to make some pickles. We were asked by Justin if we could drop off these scraps from yesterday. At the chickens and the pigs. So that is what we're doing. You give some to the chickens. I can't. And then I'll give the rest of that to the pigs. It was mid-June I planted these plots, and now it's the beginning of August, we're beginning to see the harvest. Of the cucumbers, and I still have some dill. I don't have a whole lot of dill heads left, so I figured I better get on making some cucumbers— or I better get on making some pickles. I hope I can buy dill heads in the store. A pickle soon enough. All right, Lily and I have picked in the cucumber patch, and we got quite the score. I think that, that we'll probably be able to make a gallon. You think a gallon? I think we can make a gallon of cucumbers out of this, or a half a gallon for sure. So we'll go pick all the other things too that go in it. I was just walking by the green beans and the green beans are in, Lily. That means we're gonna have a lot of picking to do. Look at that beauty. I'm getting my FoodSaver back from my friend. I'm going to be saving some green beans probably this weekend, next week will be my job. Oh, those look nice. Thank you. This is definitely a really hard time of year because we're harvesting and preserving, and yet I still have one more row in that garden up there that I need to do. Plus then once this tarped garden is done, I'm gonna have to plant it too. So it's like, man, it is a hard time of year, but it's a wonderful time of year harvesting and like being super busy. So then when it's nice and cold outside, we can snuggle up by the fire and eat this yummy produce. So it's totally worth it.

Rebecca's going over my edit. We got the Inspector here, he's on the ladder. How we doing, Inspector Big Daddy? It's coming. Are you passing Randolph? Yeah, yeah, I got him on the clock now. We'll see how he does. Yeah, but this frame here should probably— about to eat. Look at all the blueberries from Sam and John, her grandfather. Man, delicious too. Delicious. What a blueberry score. It's gonna be a good little dessert after our homegrown bacon BLTs. Oh, I bet you— I guarantee by the looks of that, that's our tomato.

It is our tomato, our bacon, our potato or pickles, and our beets.

Yeah. Oh yeah, beets. And let's check on Jason. He's end of day. I want you guys to look at this insulation. You think we got enough insulation, Jason? Oh, it's starting to rain. Hope we don't get any blowing rain this way. Yeah, we're still putting in a half-inch insulation on top of this. Gosh, and then the boards, and then the boards, and then the 3/4-inch plywood. Okay, this evening, well, it was pouring rain, still raining right now, but we still got to milk out flossy. The boys didn't get the memo that we're moving the, the Icelandics every day. They didn't get moved, and that's totally on the ground, and everybody's still in. I think it was that guinea. I think it was the guinea. So we've been having this problem with the chicks getting out. Mega and we noticed that the guinea was chasing them. We harvested the guinea yesterday. Sure, a few got out after that, but we put them back in. Jonah, uh, fixed one area in the fence, and they've stayed in and they're happy. All right, you know the drill. Some storm. So I'm gonna declare her Help!

Do you want me to do an exciting face?

Yeah, give me your most exciting face.