The video is a candid, day‑long vlog of Victor Justin Rhodes hosting a celebration on his family farm with friends and relatives. The morning begins with Lily decorating a chocolate‑vanilla cake while Victor smokes a ham. They discuss the guest list and the size of a farm salad. The group harvests fresh vegetables—cauliflower, zucchini, onions, garlic—and prepares a farm‑to‑table stir‑fry. Victor demonstrates a calf castration procedure, explaining why the testicles are tied off to prevent early breeding, and later removes a cow’s milking collar. They tend to a chick nursery, moving three‑week‑old meat and layer chicks into a temporary pen. The vlog captures playful moments: a soccer game between adults and kids, a firework setup with a skybox, and a chaotic turkey‑net escape. Throughout, Victor narrates cooking steps for pork, discusses burnt rub, adds vinegar, salt, and butter, and shares jokes about the cake and gluten‑free options. The day ends with fireworks, reflections on the effort spent, and a sense of family togetherness, turning the vlog into a home‑movie style memory of the farm celebration.
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What are you doing up so early?
I'm decorating the cake.
You got up at 5 o'clock to do that?
What kind of cake you making?
Chocolate with vanilla frosting, but this is— I spread it really thin on top and I'm gonna put like, um, strawberry in the vanilla frosting and I'm gonna make swirls on the top.
I'm prepping the ham for smoking.
Looks good.
Yeah, well, I'm not done yet.
Come on, our friends are here from Florida. Jonah, we gotta fix this today. It's just getting worse and worse. We're having a Lombardi time. Oh, I know. First time climbing a fence.
Uh, actually I have—
not his first time.
You've done it?
He's broken the wall many times.
That's nuts.
Caitlin, you poor feeding this. Quite a bit of material. You good with her? Thank you. How many people can we fit in this salad? 9. We got 9 people in here.
Is that a new record?
We put 20 in there before.
20?
Oh look, let's harvest these, uh, cauliflower.
It's gonna be—
look at that, free food for the chicken.
Oh, good job, bro.
Plenty of greens for today. Hey, we're done with this thing, I think. He's walking away. He's out of here. Oh, that is disgusting. Hey, we got a zucchini coming on. Hey, we got lunch. We're gonna make stir fry today. Pick this one, that one, anything that big or bigger.
Cucumbers, right?
Okay, look who we got! Yeah, we had to separate the calf last night. Calf was over there. All right, we're gonna cut off the circulation to his testicles, and so they'll dry up and be no use anymore. Because if we don't, when he gets 6 months old, he'll want to breed everybody, including his mom. That's okay in the animal kingdom, but We'd rather that bull over there breed the moms. So there's a rubber band, we put it on this tool here. These testicles are going to sit down in there like this, and I'm going to let that go and finagle that out. Okay, and in 2 weeks it's, it's just— if I did that to my fingers, I'd lose my fingers as well. It's over time, just because it cuts off the blood supply. You got to make sure they descend. Sometimes they way up there in the body. They are So I'm trying to make sure they come down.
They probably know what's getting ready to happen. There's one.
They're hiding.
This is the hurtful part. Wait, wait, wait, we got to get his collar off. He'll grow so much. Okay, all right, we took his collar off because we're not milking her again. We're not really handling her again. He can grow down, this won't choke him. There you go. Oops, I'm sorry, I sprayed it all over me. It's all right, you squeeze up top and then squeeze The reason you squeeze up top first is you cut off the milk from going back up in there. Are you getting it? First time milking? Yeah, you won't hurt her.
There you go, there you go, um, 2014 as well.
There you go, first try.
Well, you can hear them, they're ready to go.
Let's get the layer chicks First, we're gonna take them to the tractor. Kendall's catching chicks.
Yeah, Kaden, come here, you can pick up a chick. These are country chicks too, got a little more meat on them.
Nice. Okay, put it in the back of Sally. You guys bring these feeders and bring the water. So meat chicken— oh, they're 3 weeks old today. A 3-week-old meat chicken and a 3-week-old layer. All right, drop it in. Surfy, get that old feed out of there. You got the chicks.
You wanted to help. You wanted to carry something.
You do like to help. This is a nursery for these little chicks till they can get a little bit bigger to go out in the field. Kendall getting with it. Hey, you want to pick some onions for lunch as well?
Yeah.
What in the world?
What?
Hey, they did good. Hey, maybe it's all the weed pressure. Maybe I planned that.
Look at this!
That's a big onion.
It's a good onion. Dang, we're gonna have a good honey onion harvest.
That's good.
That makes me feel good.
Is that enough for lunch? Good enough for lunch.
I don't want to catch it.
It ain't gonna bite you.
Kenzie will catch it. She's the first. She'll do it. What you do is just grab her by the neck so she can't bite you.
There it is.
Oh, you almost did it.
Yeah, just grab it.
There it is. Good job, good job. Now take your other hand and grab the neck. Now take your left hand and pick him up by his wings. There you go, there you go.
You'll be all right.
Just put sweep under him. There, look at this! Tube Man's up. And Adam. Okay, yeah, put the goose in there. Actually, we should have moved this first. You wrestling Tube Man already? They found a dust bath. Look at you moving that. You must want to go swimming. What, you want some garlic, Jody? He's going the other way. This is a garlic score that we've never experienced before. I was nervous.
Yeah, I know, we've never had garlic this good. I think it was that thick layer of hay.
Look at this garlic!
I was nervous.
This is like an onion.
Oh, you can— when it's really deep, it's hard to pull it without doing that. You, you can get it, but you have— it won't have a stem.
Kendall, you like this job?
Yeah.
Turkey nets. Getting sore? You ready to swim? Is that what's up? Look at this, you let somebody take you. Now he's fishing it out to you. That's smart, Henry. Let's have a brunch because they're hungry.
Oh yeah, good job.
Let's see if two men can get us 100% success again. 97 now. We'll have 97 at the end. Onions from the farm, zucchini from the farm, cauliflower, chicken. It's that time of the year, babe. Pretty much everything for lunch is going to be from the farm. You cutting up the cauliflower? You just love little jobs. He loves any little jobs you give him.
He watched me and then he says, help, help!
At this stage, they love to help. We killed this. It's so good, is it not? How should I do this, Lily?
So cut it in half, cut it in half, cut it— so cut it in half, then cut here, cut here, and cut here.
It turned out nice.
Yeah, 6 slices for each half.
They're watching old vlogs.
Oh, they're alive!
Where were they together a long time ago? That's a bonus of these vlogs. Sometimes they turn into family home movies. Rain. So we're gonna wrap it. This has been cooking for 12 hours. Jody, are you ready for the best pork you've ever had?
Oh yeah, you got the— yeah, you got to grab with that puppy.
It's gonna be, uh, she's gonna be a little warm. Oh, oh, there it is! She's burning the fat on that. Oh wow.
Oh, we're gonna get that off there. Right? Yeah, because you're gonna start burning that paper. I would grab it, but—
okay, note to self, not to have the parchment paper out. Uh-oh, burn it up cooking show. The bottom of that burned. Did the bottom of this one burn? No, thanks. That parchment paper Yeah, it may have stuck too. Put on fire under there. Unfortunately, we lost all our rub because we burnt the outer edge. It's dry. We've added some vinegar, that's helping a little bit. We've added some salt. Now we've added some butter. Oh, we haven't done this in a while. Soccer. We did mow the hayfield for it, so it better be worth it. Jody and I, we get one goalie against all the kids. How you feeling?
Awesome.
How you feeling?
Good.
Your dad scored on you. How's it feel?
Terrible.
He's still old. How's it feel, old man?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're just getting warmed up.
Oh, handball, handball, handball! Free kick!
How's it feel to be scored on by your dad? The old man?
Uh, he's twice your age. Good block, Lily. You all right? You want to play? Okay, come on.
Boy, his diaper's loaded back.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Hey, hey, hey, boogie bang, boogie bang, baby. Come on, Caleb. Throw it hard! Throw it hard! Wreck it, baby!
Wreck the camera! What is this?
It's pie!
2 desserts in one day?
It's a cake!
Just continue going. Yeah, doing that at a party or what?
Yeah, I do.
Okay, you can eat more cake. Yeah, yeah, that's good. You don't like cake.
Well, this cake, right?
You don't like it? Yeah, no, I was kidding. You don't like it? It's gluten-free.
That's good for gluten-free. I did not know.
You wouldn't have known. Who won the soccer game?
Well, you were 2-0.
We did.
I was 1-1.
We were a team. And then we were— you a team? We were a team.
The first game? No, I wasn't even in the second game.
The second game. Team Justin Rhodes. You trying to get out of here before the fireworks? No, shoot them off right after this.
Oh yeah, yeah, he was standing there shooting off at 9:30.
Yes, it's gonna be 9:30.
It's 9:54. Okay, okay, he's like, shoot them off after this so that they'll think, what time is it?
Oh, about 9:30.
We spent big money for these fireworks and we had to cancel our party. So I know the rule is if you stay, you got to get up early tomorrow though.
Okay, yeah, we're running.
You gotta think about us at 6:30 AM when we're out there working.
I dream about you all.
Really? Yeah, you'll dream about us. How long is he gonna sleep tomorrow? Oh, he's on vacation.
He's gonna sleep till 11 if we didn't wake him up.
Uh-oh. You killed it.
You killed it.
You want more?
Good job on the desserts today. It's dark enough for a farmer. Wow, honey.
I'm glad Jody went down there.
Hopefully it doesn't explode.
Wow, that was anticlimactic.
Who wants to Do it.
I'm going to do it.
There you go.
You're lit.
Now point it up high, high. Put your head behind that shield.
He's good.
Point it way up.
Hopefully the turkeys don't fly the net. The turkeys escaped. Time out. I guess we watch them and make—
don't let that poor one out with its friends.
Going to be a— and then we'll herd them back in when we're done.
Wow, I told you it was big.
Turkeys go bolting. We're not putting them in until the show's over, but it's funny they keep wanting to come back.
What's wrong?
Let me hold you. Yeah, you can come to me. Breaking open the box.
There's nothing big in this box.
Those don't shoot up in the air. No, this is called Skybox. Are the turkeys— they staying in? They're staying in. We went and got the turkeys.
