Before it’s too late

What do y'all need?

I need your help taking earbuds out.

So take your earbuds out there and work together. Another rainy day. Another day of 120 mile an hour countless water bombs onto the bear pasture. You want to film this rainy move for me? Sure. Hold it here. Mama's not going camping, just the boys. Still gonna go?

You think Mama's going?

Boys camping trip. Trip this weekend. The question is, do you go? He says he wants to go, but does he really want to be away from Mom? Animals! Hey, Jenna's milking in the grass! Woo! That's just all right right there. Oh, you just milked honey right here? Yeah. Is this not right?

I don't think we need to cover pasture today.

What?

Too slippery to cover pasture to get the hay off of these shanks.

What I'm saying we're gonna do, because we don't have enough hay to cover the whole thing, Let's just take all that we have and put it up off the trail and then spread it by hand.

Still, the roads are so slippery.

Are they? Yes. We got 120-mile-an-hour water bombs. Can we try it? Oh, that's what we'll do. Can we just try it? And then maybe it is, and then maybe we pack in the rain and tomorrow we do that. I don't know, we just don't do that anyway because of these 120-mile-an-hour water bombs on bare earth. It's very—

it's a mist.

Nature, Mother Nature is modest. She's she's gonna cover herself or run away. Can we just try it?

Sure, go try it.

How'd you do, Vanilla? Huh? You can start giving us yellow. Did they give us more milk today? Uh, it takes a few days to set in. They will give creamier milk. You already done? Yeah. All right, so now we let the little calf over. No, you're not coming. You boys want to help spot me here? They will soon be trained, and not anybody but the little calf will be showing up here. But this is first day back, y'all don't know the routine. Let's go. Hey, you guys want to spot me? Hey! Oh, that one about got through. Come here. No, don't you do. We're weaning that one. We're weaning, uh, Harriet. So she badly wants to get back to her mom. Let's keep Harriet separate from He-Man because she's going to be coming in heat pretty soon. We don't want her to get bred. It's too young. So He-Man's running with the ladies. Yeah, that one can go, that one can go. Just don't let Harriet go, that's all. Turn around, little guy. Good catch, Josiah. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! That's the one we don't want over. That's gonna be hard. No, the bull might breed her. She might be in heat, we don't know. I'm gonna have to stay over here, spot this. There you go. This is gonna be very hard. You're gonna have to get mom, probably. Let mom go, let mom go. It'll be easier to cut mom out. All right, all right, now. Okay, there you go. Okay, we still got to get the baby, right? Yeah. No, she just caught on. Move them out. Get in. There it goes. Okay, Gideon, come up, come up, come up. Why won't he look towards— if she looked towards the fence.

I'll go up there.

There it is. She's getting it, boys. The reason I'm thinking it might be worth it, cover it. Even though it's raining and it's going to be slippery, is the 120 mile an hour— it's getting rained on right now.

But look at me, I walk through the rain. It's not even rain, it's mist.

Why do you guys want to put it off?

You try walking up that hill.

Okay, but do you think it raining all day and then just sitting overnight is going to make it better?

I don't even know if we're gonna be able to get this because deer over there.

I was gonna cover— oh, you don't think so? We can't go up the access road?

I guess we could, but like, it's been really annoying.

Let's see what the weather is. Supposed to stop raining by 12 PM. Okay, my thought, if it is gonna stop raining by noon, there is some time for it to dry out.

Let's just go do it.

Why?

Because we can get over there.

We just concluded. I just, I just submitted. Well, some people got to eat, and then we're gonna get back at it. You normal people have to eat, don't you? 3 meals a day, man. If everybody could get on board with this 1 holiday thing. Let's go to the container pack. Yeah. Oh, we should go feed this to the. Yeah. Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big. How are the piglets doing, Mama? Here, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig. Here, pig, pig, pig, pig. You don't want to mess around with a mama pig. As tame as you may think they are, I'm not taking any chances. This is crazy. I stopped literally for five minutes. I got 3 chiddlers in the rafters. You are lacking focus. Let's go, Patch. It's like they swarm. There's one. Lily stayed. We're in need of mulch covering the earth more than we actually need hay for eating. So this is what I'm talking about. Hey boys, this has all got to get spread tomorrow then. All right, I'm going. Y'all can just walk. That's horse lessons.

Um, it's, uh, 11.

Okay, well, no, we have to leave at 10:45. That gives us an hour and 20 minutes. Peaches has been, been a little, been ornery. Lately, giving a little buck, and we're gonna see what— lots of them. That's concerning. We're gonna see what Miss Lisa has to say about that. Okay, that's today. I got the checklist. What are you, E.T., hiding in all the junk? Who's E.T.? How we looking? Good.

Where do you want me to put this?

Put that in shelter somewhere, bro. Gideon, don't do that. I don't want Play-Doh everywhere. Okay, a bundle of goodies. You want to grab that, Jesse? Glad I came over here. 20 pounds of food from cleaning out the fridge yesterday. I totally forgot. That would have stunk. Come on, aren't we done? Come on. No, we gotta feed your pigs. Gideon, get in the truck! He was about to climb on the roof. It's pouring rain. Of course he's not acting up for the instructor. There it is. Try, try, try, try, try, try, try.

All right, now next time he does that, sit down, wheel his nose in a one rein stop and go canter. Wheel right out, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn. Don't kick right leg.

Hm, is that a punishment, make him do a tight circle?

Well, the one rein stop is kind of one of those— what I want— what I don't want to do is have it be a situation where he does it and He doesn't have to listen.

Did find that round. She put a little device on him. Wow. What do you think?

About what?

Lisa helping you with Peaches?

Yeah, she said for me to clean his teeth.

Okay.

And she brought me home with some like pain medicine just in case like he had— he's like has an injury that we don't know of.

And let him out more. Do you You know what's entailed with cleaning a sheath?

Yeah.

I thought the sheath was the little blanket going to the saddle. It's the— you know how to do it?

No, but I can do it.

You have to look up a YouTube video, I reckon. Hey, can we get him better shoes before we go? Does that work?

Yeah.

Should I go get a floor scraper? Yeah. We've just been told we got to get this old grout glue for the floor guys. I just don't want to go get a floor scraper, come back, and y'all are done. Well, that was a big surprise after our task list— mulching, packing for the camping trip, and now getting up old flooring. Jonah, I hope that's not destroying anything. Hey, can you go unload the trailer? Did it have a wheel on the jack? Did it have a wheel on the jack, the trailer? Why not?

Uh, Mark asked you. I don't think this will ruin anything.

I mean, look, okay, can you go park the trailer? I'm gonna go look up what tool we need and Annie will cook and go get it. I'm running in real quick to look up this tool. Finally it stopped raining. Boy, I wish we would have covered that bare earth this morning.

We couldn't have covered it all.

4 o'clock, it was supposed to quit raining at noon. I looked it up. I'm having some regrets. Hey, good looking. What you got cooking?

I'm making marshmallows.

You're so kind. You're making the boys marshmallows. Yeah, she's made them marshmallows and made them granola. Where is that at? Granola bars are in there. Granola bars. Don't forget that, guys. Nice to have asparagus in season. Even you eating it, huh?

Are strawberries coming in season too, Mama?

Very soon. Josiah's got a good combo. Even I like asparagus every once in a while. I love asparagus. I can't wait till we get our asparagus patch back going. Let's go, buddy. It's the next day. I can't let it rest. Yesterday all the rain bombs on our field. Today it's going to be sunshine. We're packed for camping, but now the soil is going to bake. We're going to have to have priorities, even if we're a little late for camping. Last chance. You going to go camping with us or stay with Mama?

Last— oh, I'll go camping.

I want to go camping with you. Something's wrong with the water line going out to the cows. Scheduled to meet Annie right there, right now. Boys are up in the field starting to seed. And spread hay. I spread it for you.

The wind will take the hail over there.

Yeah. Smiley one.

Yeah, I need your help.

All right. The grinder?

Why didn't— that or a saw. Because the clamp, when you go to try to loosen it, it's like not threading. This is the guy that doesn't want to come off.

All right.

And yeah, because when you go to like— when it's not threading.

Okay, uh, are you trying to reuse that? We can't check. We have to cut it anyway to get this to redo. Okay, a quick fix. Where'd you find that barb?

Jonah found it.

Thanks for helping us, bud. Oh, we went right through the line. Shoot, you've got to be kidding me. Going under now. Just heated it up, pulled it off, put it back on. We are gonna spread this hay just as thin as we can, but to where we still think it'll work. Okay, so maybe not as thick as we did the pathways. Does that make sense? Said to Rebecca, we shouldn't, we shouldn't do this, right? We're going on a camping trip, we got to get ready. And she said, you gotta aim for the impossible. That's it. Does it feel good or what? Do you feel like you can rest easy at night?

I've been resting.

We've done— I am itchy. We touched a quarter of it with maybe 4 round bells, so we've got 8 more coming next week, so that might do it. All right, happy day.