In this vlog excerpt, Victor Justin Rhodes and his family members coordinate a busy day on their homestead. The conversation covers multiple tasks: planning and executing milking in two locations, locating and using farm tools such as a pitchfork and manure fork, assembling a greenhouse frame, clearing a dense patch of trees with a chainsaw while discussing safety escape routes, handling a stubborn animal (likely a goat or cow) by manipulating its head and horns, and finally preparing a Taco Tuesday meal using a crock‑pot and Instant Pot after Lily’s horse‑lesson schedule. Throughout, the speakers exchange practical instructions, troubleshoot problems, and share brief moments of humor, illustrating the collaborative, hands‑on nature of daily homestead life.
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Hey, what's your idea for getting this clearing by 8? So 10 till 7.
Do all the chores as fast as you can.
Okay, if you get done with your chores, which aren't very much, can you help me with mine? Because it looks like I'm gonna be milking, and I'm gonna be milking in 2 different spots.
Where's Lily?
She's coming.
Where all the buckets, the fish, the size fish?
Uh, they're in the garage.
No, they're not. I looked.
Come on, Flossie. Hey, come on, come on. There you go, there you go. Oh, that's pitchfork. That's a classic pitchfork. Do you like it?
Yeah, I love it.
What do you love about it? It's got the handle, it's short, nice enough. It's good all around. I don't know if it's good for mulch though. You need a manure fork like what Lily's got. The tongs are too little wide.
Yeah, we are today.
You kind of have to tilt it because it's running low, but without spilling it. All right, tilt it. She actually takes this better than Honey does. Surprisingly, you got to get her head.
I see that she got it loose.
You got to get it right off. No, no, no, no, got to do like this. You'll never— there you go. Use the leverage of the board. Got it. Hey y'. All.
Come train vanilla, please. Josiah, thank you for putting the greenhouse down. Can yes, please continue to put the greenhouse down. Please continue to put the greenhouse down. Is that what you're doing?
Yeah.
Put the greenhouse sides down.
No, no, no, no.
Jonah. Jonah. Jonna, You gotta unwind it yourself. You'll tear it up just letting it fall like that. Unwind it by hand. Don't let it drop. Jonah, unwind it by hand. Don't let it drop. Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth? Okay. Also, those chickens are out.
Somebody left the door open this morning. Wow, I like this.
And look, you can get behind the blinds.
Hold on, you need an escape plan better than this way. So cut it from the other side and look, if the notch is right here, straight back, see, you need to escape at a 45-degree angle. You understand? Your escape plan is over that brush. As soon as it starts falling, run. We've set our eyes upon this patch right here. Jonah's chainsaw, he hit the— he hit something metal in this hut. And he hit the ground, so he's gone to sharpen it. Josiah, let's see if we can't start tearing apart this hut. Wow, that's pretty easy. Propile it in the middle, and this doesn't get burned because we're gonna put the ashes on the field. And this has so many—
look at this—
so many screws. We don't want our animals picking up on that. Hey, break! Okay, your escape plan is down through there. He's knocking it this way. This guy, clear out! All right, clear out! Escape! Wow, just missed Sally. Good shot. Branches first, then we'll have something to do.
They're all stuck with the rings.
We need to broke up. They're still attached. Last tree, and it's only just 10 o'clock. I told the boys we could quit if they got done with this patch, even though we could go to 11, but we're pretty tired and hungry. Hey, where'd you get your escape plan?
Behind the tree.
Okay. Wow, got that dead limb over there. How's that feel, guys? Our goal accomplished. I guess it wasn't big enough because we accomplished it in mucho time. Okay, let's look. We were about right here. Now that's the after. Do you see where we are? There's the Northville way over there. Our house would be right there through the woods. This is nice. This afternoon we have an interesting predicament.
Hope we don't have to cut her head out.
No, we don't have to cut her head out. Well, like, yeah, like cut the gate. I think you have a smart idea by getting her in the head. I was thinking I could grab her by the horns. Turn her. You tried that already?
Yeah, no move. We need to test out—
whoa, okay, here. Wow, she won't let me turn her head. Here. Interesting. If we turn her nose— there we go.
We can do this, but then she won't turn her head.
There. Interesting.
Watch out, guys.
Back up, back up in case she breaks this thing open. She really does not want to put her nose back through there, but okay, here's how she—
you have to put her horn through.
Here's how she did it.
Yeah, look, as soon as she goes back, it should even—
I know, you just need to go back, honey.
Just tip her tail. I mean, what's he gonna do?
You're gonna try to pull her tail. Be careful, get kicked pulling back.
Yeah, I'm not doing that. Okay, I do not want to be ran over today.
Okay, then turn your head that way like this. Now she's stuck.
Now she's even madder.
There it is. Okay, okay, just let her go. Close. All right, we got you out.
She's figuring this one out.
Hey!
Oh my God!
I just don't want to get poop on it. Crazy. There you go, got it, gotcha. All right, Taco Tuesday. Rebecca had to take Lily to horse lessons, so she got the meat in one crock pot, Instant Pot, and the rice in another. How is it, Josiah?
Good.
How'd it turn out, Mom? I think it turned out pretty good.
