Finally, our House Gets Shelter from the Rain (House Remodel)

Let's see what we're gonna go get into today. I'm finding myself constantly in this same scenario. I want it to rain, but I don't want it to rain. Very happy to wake up to this. It was supposed to rain. These are the roofers. They're still here. They're not scared. That's good. Who you got here helping you?

Lois.

Lois.

I'm gonna start coming now.

All right.

As long as Sam puts a cold ice cube to my cheek every morning like he said he would.

Is that how he woke you up? That did it? You didn't get mad at him?

I didn't wake up today that way. I just woke up by myself.

Okay, good. Did you get mad at him when he did that?

Well, I wanted him to so I could come help Lily.

All right, you guys want to take this back to the farmhouse for me?

Sure.

Thank you. Not just one, but two workers. Oh wait, just two? Three. Do you understand what we did here? Oh yeah. You told me this was going to be metal and you're going to build a deck. That's right, there'll be a deck here. And then we've marked where the sunroofs— they put screws in the lower left. That's fine. And they painted where the sunroof's going so you don't step on those screws. Yep, good deal. That make sense? Yep, that's perfect. Okay. I mean, if it ain't pouring down rain, I told him he could lay that little porch out there. Okay. You know, that ain't going to hurt nothing if— okay. But I ain't going to penetrate no holes today. Okay, good idea. I'll be over here tomorrow. We'll, we'll cut— oh, you come— you work on Saturday? Oh yeah. Okay. Actually, I was going to ask you I got one guy who works Sunday. You got a problem with it? No, you ain't got no problem with it? Yeah, no problem. He'll be here laying shingles Sunday then. When do you do the skylights then? Well, yeah, but do you do that before or after shingles? Oh yeah, they'll be before. Okay, that's— but not today because it's going to rain, right? You don't want to cut the holes in the roof. Yeah. I'm wondering how he's going to get these off. Normally these guys come with these like 3-wheeled forks. Hey, look who figured out how to get along this morning. As opposed to yesterday having to do chores all together until 11 o'clock. Hey, are y'all done? 8:15? Yeah, goes a lot better when they're in a good mood. Hey, we never let the chickens out, huh? That's you. Come on, let's see what's going on here. I needed to get the Chickshaw 3.0 out and I wanted to mark all the chickens. They've already gotten mixed. Shoot, somehow they got out of this one. Oh, I see. Pulled the nest box out. Okay, yep, these are not the old ladies. I was hoping the old ladies were still hanging out in this one. Maybe it's a good bit of them. Whoa, whoa, there's too many youngins in there. I should have marked them before I mixed this flock. Now how am I gonna know who to cull and who not to cull? I have blended all three of our flocks into one for the ease going into the winter. Yeah, they all look young. Maybe they are segregating themselves. Okay, I think those are all young So I do think most the old ladies going in there or there. The problem is old ladies' production can drop in half, like 2.5 years. We need to cull them, get new chicks in the spring for their replacement. The only way we're going to know who's who, identify them and mark them. In this case, probably with just a zip tie on their ankle. Let's go see how they're unloading these shingles. I captivated everybody last night so that I could catch them and mark them. There's too much going on with this. I'm gonna have to do that on another day. That is on a remote control crane fork. Hey, y'all want to stack that hay before it rains? No, I put it in the shed, the stuff that we dried out yesterday. It is. I think I know where he's putting that. He's putting it on the roof. I think he's going to the upper level now. Who's in the kitchen? What are you making, Mr. Brown? What, you're gonna clean it all up? Yes, let's get it on tape. Look in the camera and say, I'm gonna clean it all up.

I'm gonna clean it all up.

Strawberry and pineapple. I've set aside some cream. To come to room temperature for butter making later. Later Friday, we slow down a little bit. There's a little bit of vision trying to discover what we're gonna do today. You were gonna clear. Now you're gonna clear access road. Now maybe looks like you're gonna do some with airsoft. I don't know. Henry, is that a real water balloon? Here's the last of our yogurt. I really do need to make some more. I'm gonna make some more of that today too. Lily, you gonna make ice cream today?

I am.

You want to make a video for your channel?

Sure, I can make it short.

We could make a long and then a short version of it. You got a clunk here. You need to run a spoon on that or something. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness, hold me up. I'm gonna faint. I'm gonna faint. Do you have an emergency? I need a Band-Aid. He's cleaning up even before he served it. Wow, what a guy. We probably shouldn't leave water balloons in the house. It's Henry's doll. How is it? You gonna eat the whole thing? Okay, pass the test, good job. Look at him, he's finishing up even before he eats his.

What a guy.

Wait a minute, you were supposed to start cleaning the kitchen. Yeah, not cooking in the kitchen. Well, I'll clean.

Are we good with the concrete cost?

Yeah, there's nothing we can do about it. Cost of concrete is cost of concrete. Concrete is like $200 a yard. It was $100 a yard. 2 years ago, right? And that was a lot. I know, I know. I remember that was a lot. We did the pole barn and it was ridiculous.

The thing— what happens if— I mean, concrete could come down next year, but it might not.

No, it's— yeah, it might just keep going up. It could be $400 in 2 years. The house remodel, which has turned into a rebuild, uh, if anybody's doing any construction right now, you know things are way more expensive. Than maybe what we're used to in the past. It's no different with our remodel. Highest price hike in 50 years. Construction costs going up over 17%. We're likely gonna go over the budget that we mortgaged for. Should I let that continue? I don't think I should. I don't think we want— hey, Royal, I don't like to do this. You're a good cat. You are a good cat. But I don't think we want cat hair all over our clothes. I think the roofers are gonna risk it, not raining, and are working today. Rain's holding off a little bit. My take on it is we gotta do the right things. Now, we couldn't cut some corners, like we wanted stand and seam. We ended up going with shingles. That's what's happening today. Stand and seam is a metal, it's double. So shingles is like $25,000, stand and seam is $50,000. They're playing soccer. I'm kind of happy they're doing that. They were gonna go clear some with the machines, but I guess they choose to play. You know, Friday afternoon, we don't normally film, we don't normally do a project. We kind of prepare our hearts for our rest day, which is on Saturday. Getting out of here. They're just gonna do this right here. Do a rib edge on and finish popping lines. Just stuff that's got to be done. Sometime, but they'll be here all day or half a day? I don't know. Probably. I don't know. I think— I had to drive out to Johnston on the phone before. Yeah, we just been lucky out here. Yeah, I mean Black Mountain that way, they've been getting it the whole time we've been here, and Greenville, Spartanburg. We've just sort of been in between. Need to go there and do something about all this milk we've got. I need to say hi to the boys. Should I kick one with the boys for a little bit? Hey, I thought y'all were gonna grade. You guess not. You saw the soccer goals. Pump this one up too. Yeah, you two versus me. Half court for the old man. Oh my gosh. Uh, well, they already scored one point, and what I'm saying is, uh, if they lose, you have to go help me deal with this milk, and if you win, you get to keep playing, I guess. All right, ready? Oh, 1 to 1. Oh no. Okay, 2 to 1. Oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. 3 to 2. I've come up on top now. Let's start moving around fast. Oh, good shot! Now they're getting the idea. Put the pressure on me. Keep somebody in the goal. Uh-oh, you gotta take it out, you gotta take it out in half court. Uh-oh. Oh, now you gotta let me take it up top. Boom! 4-3, they've tied it up. It's my possession now. I gotta score this, the game's over. They're helping me now. I wish you could have seen it. The ball came just like this. Pretend y'all are the ball. Back in the net. All right, y'all can come play after you help me. I really didn't think they'd win. I didn't think I'd win. What happened? Lucky for y'all, there's not a whole lot of cream separated. Well, Lily cream separated a lot. John, you want to bring that bucket in that's outside? I need 2 gallons for, for yogurt. So put the old ones— wait, let's get the oldest ones for yogurt. Put 2 gallons in here. We are done cream separating. I think the rain has finally come. Side porch there is the only thing they can do without having the skylights in, which is gonna happen tomorrow because they don't want to poke a hole in our roof and the insides be exposed to rain. I'm very excited. By the end of this weekend, the end of this video, our house is going to be looking more like a home, isn't it? It's gonna have a roof. It's gonna be looking more legit. It's finally come. Oh, and what a beautiful rain for a farm. Oh wow, it's not so misty. It's a bit of a blowing. I wouldn't say pouring. They're gone. He almost finished what they wanted to finish today with a little triangle there.

I've watched them, they can do it super fast.

Yeah, they're fast. But the 2 gallons of yogurt going 24 hours at 105, and that's raw Yogurt. This is our starter, store-bought, probably the best you can get. Grass-fed, A2-A2, organic. Still not raw. They had to bring it up to temp. Max temp there is 105, so it's still raw and has the benefit of that. You can't buy it. You can't buy it in the store. Leftover enchiladas looking a little, eh. How do we freshen it up and make it something new? More cheese. Some Taco Tuesday turned into Nacho Friday. Nacho! Along with the enchiladas. I can go measure some things. What are we measuring? You're gonna carry me. I'll carry you? Because why? Because why? Because Mr. Brown ran off with all my shoes and left them in the rain. I mean, you can wear my shoes if you want.

I think I can wear these. Oh, I'll wear his. I think these shoes will fit me. I think I'm gonna start wearing these. I like them.

I thought I was gonna carry you.

You can't carry this.

It would have made for a better video.

No, carry me. When we move in, you have to simulate— simulate—

oh really?

Carrying me in again.

Carrying you across the threshold?

Our new house.

Okay.

Because you did that when we got married.

All right.

You carried me across.

And now this house is our own. I know, we've made it our own.

We had done made it our own.

There's no doubt about that.

Just a little bit. And now it's on.

It's perfect. It's perfect amount of rain.

Can't come back.

The farmer in me really enjoys that because our little streams around here that I've never seen dry in my whole life are dry. You want to see if this lettuce is bitter? It's not. Don't buy any lettuce next week. You don't need any lettuce.

Do the roofers just throw all their crap off and we have to pick it up?

No, he does it. He's already done it.

Oh well, that's what I'm talking about.

That you can come confront him.

No, I'm not.

So is this gonna be an easy job or is this gonna be like, oh my goodness, where's Randolph's job? Okay, what are we measuring for?

For tile.

Does it have to be precise? Feels like we've gotten so much done on the remodel this week. We had about an 11-week slowdown, just hang up getting our permit, but That behind us, we're back into the big motion. We hit the ground running, brought in 1,100 hay bales, dealt with the roofer, the siding, the garage, the wood stove guy.

This is not even.

You mean this sticks— this island sticks out a little further than that counter?

Yeah.

Did you want it to be the same?

No, I don't necessarily have to, but Jenna thought it was. But see, then this is not lined up with that.

It's not.

And then is this— now this might shift down. This might be able to shift down.

Then she's saying our counter, our island, and our other counter are not— you can see they're not even. I don't know if anyone would ever notice. Are you going to even it up or you're going to live with it?

Oh, I don't know. This is a 10-foot table. Could you pass the salt?

Sure. Where are we getting this 10-foot table? Online. What?

Online. They have a table. It's normally 8 feet, but you can, um, make it go to 10 feet. But I'm trying to decide what I want because what I need to do is know where to put the electrical. And if I'm gonna have one like a long light or if I'm gonna have two small lights. I was telling Dave the plumber yesterday that I think that— I mean, I know this is a custom home basically, but I can't believe homes sell for so cheap.

This is a lot of freaking work for somebody to avoid the problem of GCing it themselves. Well, organizing it themselves.

I realize that like cookie cutter houses probably aren't built well.

I realized, see, this is a homestead house with a big pantry, big mudroom, south-facing living area. A lot of those cookie-cutter houses, they're not considering at all where the placement is. 3 heat sources, big table, like a 10-foot table. Come on, are you gonna get a cookie-cutter house with a room for the 10-foot table? 3 ovens? How many ovens you getting? 4? What happens? That's a homestead house right there.

I'm special. No, because I'm over-the-top redonkulous.

It was indeed redonkulous.

All I know is if we ever sell this place, which I don't think we are, I'm, I'm paying. I am going to get paid for my time.

They're going to pay out the yang yang. Bury us here, folks. Been here, uh, 91 years. I don't plan on leaving. We are deeply rooted here. I don't think we'd be doing this if we had that Okay, this is a legacy house, so we can get an 8-foot one to a 10-foot table.

But do we just want to get a 10-foot table and just always have a 10-foot table?

Of course.

Is that enough room?

Then we can have guests.

We have enough room for—

our kids are growing up, we'll have friends, girlfriends, boyfriends.

That's what I'm thinking, like we're gonna have so many, um, spouses and grandkids and all the nine yards.

So that's how wide the table is. And how long? It may be a hair close to that wall, but you can bring it over this way.

I'm just trying to figure out—

table's not permanent.

Well, but the light fixture is above.

Oh, I see, I see.

Once you put the light fixture in the middle, I think I want to have two light fixtures.

If you have the light fixture in the middle, it makes sense. You could put the table here. No, I want to have two pictures. So, well, then center them. How do they go? Goodness, I know, take a nap already.

I feel like this is a good—

I think it's good.

Table's gonna come to here, right? This is the end of it. There'll be wall here because this is not the whole opening. Okay, this is— yeah, uh, sliding doors here.

Yep. You might look online or ask your dad how much space in this before. Well, let's see. So is that too little space and a table? There's your chair. What do you think? Nobody's gonna be able to get by. Does that matter? So they'll have to go around.

Well, that's if someone's sitting there.

Oh, that's true. I claim that spot. I think this is my spot. Head of the table. You can look, look at this. You can see, you can see the whole living area, and then you have this spectacular view of the farm and the road. You can see if anybody's coming.

It's gonna be like this, right?

Yeah.

So—

oh, I see. Yeah, all right, I see.

You're not gonna miss— not gonna be sitting out this far from the table and eating.

I see.

If the table is here, then you're gonna be here.

There should be plenty of shoving it in pretty good.

I'm good at it. And then down here, I want it to be on this line right here.

Surely they passed this on purpose. You can't miss it. Randolph! Randolph! Did he leave? Randolph, can you come help us unload these tubs?

I came up with a lot of numbers.

Now I need another half the price tag. Did you budget for tile?

I don't remember.

Hopefully we've thought of tile. Now there's some things that we're under.

Like what?

Like what, she says. The roof, surely. Yeah, surely we got under budget on that. We're having a little impromptu date off farm, not planned. We are in apple country. We live in apple country. We are on an impromptu date.

I know, it's exciting.

I don't know how we thought of it, but we're like Oh! Let's go to the one organic apple farm in the whole county.

I'm figuring it out for next year.

It's your protest. We're trying to get away from Whole Foods grocery store.

There's been some discussion amongst us crazy people about APEEL, and if you don't know—

A-P-E-E-L.

If you don't know what APEEL is, you can look it up, and everyone has varying opinions on it. My opinion is that I don't want it on my food.

So it's the grocery stores treating the produce.

Well, it's not—

it is even on organic.

I don't think it's the grocery stores, but grocery stores can choose to carry that produce and or not.

And Whole Foods carries it, and Whole Foods doesn't say a thing about it.

Well, hold on a second. Whole Foods is not being truthful. I don't know what Whole Foods is putting on it. They have admitted to something to me on the phone. Um, I've talked to the corporate office and I've talked to our local store and I've gotten like all sorts of crazy answers and it's all been all sorts of sideways trying to get around it. No, I don't, I don't know. And so I'm completely protesting.

Legally, they don't have to tell you?

I don't think they do. I am, I guess, putting my foot down with the peel because I don't know what is on it. I don't know what has it and what doesn't have it. And so I'm just kind of like, I'm shopping at stores that have said 100% we're not sourcing anything with a peel on it.

This is supposed to be organic, right? Yeah, I mean, and they're definitely not going to have a peel on it. Well, what do we have to ask? I don't know. I don't know what the heck that is. Okay, all right, so far so good. Wouldn't this be cool? Local apple source. I mean, if it's clean, we're taking as many apples we can put in our cellar. Well, Twisted Apple did not disappoint. We are not allowed to film inside. Free apples, so we can't get footage, but apple cider vinegar— no, apple cider, apple cider, not vinegar— free, unsweetened.

It's delicious.

It's amazing. You got—

I got a gallon.

You got a gallon.

So I got a gallon now, and I figured we'll buy more later. Um, Three Rivers Homestead, Jessica, she, um, freezes it to use throughout the year.

Is that what you're gonna try? You don't need to do that. They'll drink it all.

Well, it's a special— it's a special treat. I might do it so that we can have a special treat throughout the year, and then we're not buying apple juice anywhere. This is fresh, and then it was frozen, and so it preserves the nutrients.

We're gonna order like 5 bushels of apples, put in the root cellar. This is a move to get away from, you know, more local food. Um, this is my certification stamp. There's a little bit of fungus or something on there. I don't know what it is. It's not perfect.

I was really impressed. I'm very excited for the relationship that I'm forging with this— yeah, man, it's a farmer. Yeah, with a farmer.

Yeah, uses organic practices.

That's the Ambrosia.

He said it's better than the Honeycrisp. I could see that. Kids are gonna love it. Very sweet, soft.

We got Arkansas Blacks and Pink Lady.

It's pretty good. It doesn't have the tartness that a Honeycrisp has. Arkansas Black, which happened to be my dad's favorite apple, which a lot of people do not like, including us, will last in your root cellar till February. Where then this— what's it called?

Oh yeah, he did say that. Ambrosia.

The other apples last 4 or 5 weeks. Yeah, so we're gonna stock up, put apples in our root cellar while they're in Harvest. Hey guys, got you cantaloupes. Apple cider. Should we try them on an Arkansas Black to see if they could come to love it? They were out of that new kind, but we're gonna get that like next week or so.

Bushels in the next week. Yeah, we'll have more if we just let them know.

Here, let's skin it.

Eat some. I just cut it up.

You like it?

Do you like them?

Have some apple. I can see why they would store well. They're very—

okay, I was like, they're hard. He's eating them.

They do have a bitter taste to them.

Try it. It's okay if you don't like them. I don't like them.

Really?

Henry likes it. You want more apple? Yeah, he's like his Papa.

Butter churner. We've got the cream let it— we've let it sit out all day. They tell me it's quicker to break the butter, it's more— I hope so, because last time it took me like 1 hour. Let's see what this thing's at. But I did it at like 40 degrees, so this is at 89— no, 68. Okay, there we go. Half a gallon per gallon jar, that'll get us what, 2 pounds of butter? The thing I like about this, although it's single purpose. I like multi-purpose as much as possible. I don't know if that's the right jar. Oops. We'll see if this will work anyway. Oh boy, it's spinning around. That's not gonna work. I think once that starts getting hard, this is— oops, I think we can tape it. Once that milk starts to solidify, it's probably going to start spinning this around if I don't tape it down. It's pretty jerry. The good thing about this this dedicated tool, you know, milk isn't splattering about with the mixer. Well, that became whipped cream in 6 minutes. We're on our way to butter fast. Good thing about this too is you can see through it. This is the Wiseman butter churner. Wow, it's about to do it. It's got yellow.

There it went.

Now it's gonna swirl around among liquid. Yeah, it broke. Maybe it's ready. Yeah, look at that, look at that. That was like 8 minutes. Wow. Okay, I can handle this. Yeah, this is nice. Boy, pigs get all kinds of byproduct, don't they? Skim, buttermilk. I should probably get a bowl. I think I like the bowl better than Our butter, let's put it into use right now. Fry some onions. I find it impossible to get all the milk out, so we're going to keep this in fridge to help it not go bad. It's the milk that would make it go bad. I imagine the store-bought butter, they have fancy machines to get all that out. Hey, new jeans! They're a line, so they're—

it's supposed to keep me warmer. They're— oh good, but he says that they're skinny, they're straight. They're not skinny.

What's wrong with skinny jeans? They're tight.

Kramer, they're painted on.

They're slim fit. Slim fit? Yeah, they're streamlined. You're walking like Frankenstein. It'll work. Okay. All right, get in. Dinner's coming up. Is that what he said? Skinny jeans?

They're straight. I got some 16s. I got another size.

They're gonna outgrow those fast. Taste, but maybe a winner.

Well, that's all you get out of a pair of big boys.

I know. Give us a chunk in that rice. I think we need more than that.

It's nice.

You're kidding.

I'm gonna get more.

We've used a quarter of that in one meal.

I'm so glad to have our own butter though. Yeah, so much better.

So that was fresh, a half a gallon gave us 2 sticks. It's fishy Friday and all we had left was whitefish. Well, one salmon for Rebecca. She has a hard enough time getting that down. Kids aren't big fans of whitefish, but that's what we got. I have to order some more salmon. What are you gonna do, Mr. Henry? You probably like the whitefish. We're not gonna—

we're not going to—

we're not going to push you too hard. He's having fun.

He's dressed.

Yeah, because 5 minutes ago he was naked. Day 2 of roofing. I've been feeling so exposed with just just the— I don't know, what is that, plastic? The plastic down. Today we're getting a solid roof. Shingles. It's quite gloomy outside. Wait, no, it's not. It's just windy. There's barely a cloud in the sky. That's promising. It's hard to roof in the rain. I'm so excited for here. Skylights. It's gonna be brighter in here by the end of the day. More skylights Skylight's going in here. One skylight way over there. Two in this living area. Oh dang, they already got the brooder skylight in. Skylight? Yes, you're talking so much. Skylight. They'll say anything I say. Say Oprah Winfrey. Look here, that's a skylight. See him? Yeah, that's a legit one. They got to do all the skylights first, I think, so then they can do the shingles around them. What do y'all need help with? Uh, I don't know, we're done. Okay, where's Lois and— they're up to play. Okay, we're about to go. Hey, nice new jacket. Yeah, looks sharp. Is it warm?

Yeah.

Good morning, John. Morning. Now what are y'all gonna do? We'll probably go play airsoft. Airsoft! Everybody takes it a little easier on Saturday. No school today, John? No. Oh my word, the, uh, the garden kitchen downstairs is getting not one but three skylights. I wish I would have caught this before they got that one skylight in. Huge difference already. But let's see what 2 more do. Where's a good angle for this? I'll help him. Actually, that's a bad angle. They're putting in the lights right here, so more lights are going towards the wall. Let's set this up over here in the corner. It is evening. We're already losing a lot of light, but it is so much brighter in here. I'm super excited about this garden kitchen downstairs, especially without— it's just on the north side, so we need as much light as possible. That's why we did 3 skylights. This is good. I was wondering, you know, but this is going to be a very pleasant environment. And that view of the garden— excuse the dump trailer— is going to be super nice upstairs. I think that was a good call on the roof skylight. Look how long it is.

They're really long ones. They're like taller than you.

They are. Look at all that light in the sunroom. This is where we're going to be spending our winters, are we not? End of day, and just look at that. It's starting to look like a, a real house, and we got real shelter now. Totally different. Totally different.