Everybody has a job on the Homestead

La la la la la, let me be free. Happy brisk Wednesday morning. These guys have run out of moving space inside their net. You gotta move this net. Probably just right there. These guys, I think, are ready. Rebecca thinks they're small, but I think they're ready to be harvested. We can look at their age, but really the only real way of knowing is weigh them minus 25%, and that's what you have in your freezer. We need to do that. What's wrong? Are you done milking? What happened? What, you're done milking? That gum— I gotta be a little faster. We gotta test Vanilla to see if she's pregnant. We've not seen any activity from He-Man. This is going to be— if she's not coming into heat, this is bad. That means she's open. That means hopefully they're just more discreet, which is possible. And hopefully she is pregnant tomorrow. Coordinate with me so that we can, uh, test. In other words, let me know when you're going milking, then we can test for pregnancy. Can you get the milk sled with them tomorrow?

They don't need it because there's trees, and they'll have it tomorrow.

Tomorrow. Okay, let's milk them in it tomorrow. Is that okay, Josiah? No, I need to stick a shot in her tail. If the stanchion's gonna be in here tomorrow and they're coming here anyway, why not? What are you doing now?

I'm taking out all the mamas and putting all the babies in this corner.

Okay, so gotta get the babies away because the little females could get bred by Ike. It's breeding season and, uh, we don't want them to get bred since we're just gonna kill them in November. Good job, look at that. Okay, there you go. I think I let one pass. I think I let one pass. Goodness. Okay, this is too big of a gate. They all— oh, you got them! How'd that happen? How'd that happen? There's one little one. Where is it? Where do you want the little one? Where do you want the little one? 6 little lambs right here. One made it back over. Are we going to worry about that one tomorrow? Maybe. And then there's one over there with Harriet. So 8 out of 13 mamas. We could have done better. The goal is to have 12 lambs in our freezer a year. That's 5 pounds of lamb a week, which is 1 meal. Tomorrow, milk sled gets over there. They won't have any shade tomorrow. I'm asking the boys, let's milk in it tomorrow and we can put Vanilla in that stanchion. We got a pregnancy test, we'll find out. Tomorrow if she's pregnant. You boys think she's pregnant? Yes.

Yeah, I think she's pregnant, but I don't think the pregnancy test is gonna take it.

You haven't seen any, uh, action, have you? Oh, you did?

Yeah, 2 days ago.

Oh no, he was after her 2 days ago. Vanilla? Yeah, yeah, she should have been pregnant a long time ago. They normally come back in the heat 3-6 weeks after the calf's born. We'd like to keep them going. So you saw some action?

Yes, but look at her body. She isn't ready for another cat.

Like He-Man wouldn't leave her alone? Yeah. Hmm, yeah, maybe she wasn't ready. Well, Beck, I missed the beat on the pregnancy test. Gotta do it tomorrow. Shell Boy coming with us today. Kenny, we gotta move turkeys in the front yard. Can you go get me a, a string trimmer? I'll just label in our blueberries. Did they all seal? No, one didn't seal. I got it in the fridge. We'll eat that this week. Boys, you got blueberry jam for your yogurt. Let's Last night we remembered to put our turkeys up because they were just camping out right there. They're a little more wild than chickens. Good morning. All right, Gideon, they're out of a paddock. Let's, let's get them another paddock. Put a new line where I about think it goes. Problem is you don't know where that turn's gonna be, so we just do one line at a time. Giving more freedom. Let them out during the day. Let's just hope they'll go back in tonight. Good work, Gideon. Let's go get the hook and weigh these turkeys. Scale on a hook. Hooking the birds.

Oh, fortunately you can't help it.

It's working. 5 pounds. All right, catching a ride with Jonah. He says he cleaned up the shop. Let's do the turkeys first and we'll look at the shop because I'm gonna go to the shop after the turkeys. Where's the biggest one? Like right there? I think that's right. It's saying only 7 pounds. It's saying 7 and a— 7.4, so almost 7 and a half. Our first year doing turkeys, we had this big beautiful bird. Rebecca was fantasizing the Thanksgiving plate. And it was so large, wouldn't even fit in our bags. We had to cut the thing in half. It wasn't our Thanksgiving bird that year. That's just funny. I was just wondering with him today, how are we going to deal with our power tools?

Everything with a handle fits in there.

Wow, I like this. You just put it with L-brackets. All you did is do notches. We saved this. I think they sell these for like $60.

They do.

You just made one. Yeah, this is cool. We're getting our batteries charged. Heck yeah. Just did brackets and just— how'd you cut those notches out with this tool? Hey, what's the deal with your boat?

I need some pulleys and then it'll be finished.

Oh, so you need to go to Lowe's?

Does the steering work? Because the steering works, it's just super tight because it has to go through some metal brackets. Okay, something a little looser.

Pulleys will make it easier to leverage. Yeah, we're getting somewhere on this shop. Super overwhelmed by this project. Jonah consolidating his— you know though, let's go through those, uh, sockets.

No, I want every single one of them.

Yeah, I know, but then— but let's organize them. Here's our socket set. Wait, those, those sockets you have in there fill out any missing space. This is a zone 1 tool, but Where do you store something like this? All right, I think we have some sort of vision. We can go through— Jonah likes to keep just random junk, metal stuff, junk. Okay, I wasn't gonna say junk. All right, I was gonna be nice. Then go through this. Anything that's not a tool but you want to keep, you need to put in there. Like, that's the tool. All right, that needs to— but it has to— well, put it— put in that. What's that?

See, blades. But just get rid of that.

Hog feeder parts. Give us an electric bike. 35 miles an hour. I feel like I'm starting to form a plan. Maybe move this to one side. We'll have a pegboard, a pegboard behind that. Zone 2 pegboard, maybe zone— maybe zone 1 pegboard. Zone 2 since it's behind the machine. Fill in a zone 1 pegboard here, maybe right here next to the power tools. Definitely a zone 1 pegboard right there. It's quitting time. I want a better sense of accomplishment. We just kind of sorted through things today. I'll be honest, it's intimidating to me. This is not my strong point. Do a little bit every day, even if it's just 1%. Compounding interest, I've doubled in 72 days, not just— not 100. Lift our spirits. Pretty huge pile. Jonah's at Lowe's. He'll get us a dustpan for down here. Dedicated dustpan, dedicated broom. Make those readily available everywhere to make cleaning easier. Uh, it flooded again. We haven't fixed it. I think the kids must have had some fun with the hose. Yeah, there's evidence of chiddlers. I think we're gonna fix this today though. Randolph has an idea. Hopefully this is the last time I ever have to do this. Guys, I'm feeling down with this cold. I'm just hungry. I just want to get I'm done adulting. Let's go eat some lunch. You're playing house? All right, good. Let me see your house. You guys got to see this wild house. All right, show me this Lost Boys house right here. You would never know.

Oh, me, I'd be good to live in this house.

What?

Wow.

Oh, look who's in here. Winnie, look at this. Can you blame her? No, it's such cold air. Fresh air. It's a cool fort. All right, lunch will be ready soon, guys. I hear Josiah. He's pretty far on that trail up there. Our access, our new access road to the top of the mountain. I got this kid shucking tomatillos. Perfect job for wee little ones. That's the cool thing about a homestead, there's a job for everyone, no matter how big or how small. Josiah says he's made it all the way up to the top of the mountain. It's only been 3 mornings. Let's see. Dang it, that track loader's in the way. This is so nice. Oh, I know where we are. Holy moly. This is so good. Yes! And he connected us in down there. Look at this. This was not easy. That little old logging road goes up to the top. Those machines make all the difference for us utilizing our entire farm. It just feels just so fresh. This would be a good walk, you know, you get away from the farm, you get away from this, you know, you're not looking around seeing everything that needs to be done. This is an on-farm escape. Can you see the haze? It's a burning up cooking show full effect. Salsa verde, toasted some gluten-free buns. 4. You guys gotta see this Philly cheesesteak from the land. Peppers to go on it, onions to go on it, all from the land.

Henry, there's just nowhere to make your plate.

Countdown, babe. Do we have an official goal? This would be a tight goal. Labor Day weekend, because painters have to finish this week, and then next week the floor guy and the cleaning guy. I mean, and needs to inspection. Cucumber salad from the land. Pigs are gonna be happy. That's a big bucket. Mom found a local score. Tell us about your local score, babe. When he gets done crying. Mom got these from a local farm. What was it? Less desirable tomatoes, $20? You're gonna make salsa since we didn't have quite enough for us to make salsa. These were going for like, what, $3 a tomato? Well, between $1 and $3. $1 and $3, so that's a good deal.