Getting It Done: One Fuel Tank at a Time

Victor Justin Rhodes and Billie work through farm chores: clearing pasture for dairy and meat animals, fixing a mineral feeder sled, and troubleshooting a Mini-X tractor that's running low on diesel. Between tasks they prep Mexican food and trade family banter.
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La la la la la, let me be free. Happy day, my buddy.
Will you do the luchadors? I don't have a machine to do it. Sure.
Happy day, Henry. Yep, you better do as the boss lady says. You're gonna carry the water?
It can hold it.
That's impressive, Henry.
Turn around.
How long was I? About 3 minutes. Bad news, we got to do the luchadors once they get started clearing. We got an early start. I threw our trash bag off. We've got the luchadors all the way to the corner. We're out of space over there, so let's move them over there. Okay, I guess we moved it right here. I'm excited. We have a pretty early start on clearing pasture for our dairy and meat this morning. It needs finish, we should also have some time to work on the mineral feeder as well, which I'm excited about. I like a mixed day. I said, Jonah, we're almost done. Do you think we can get done today? You know, all this can be quite intimidating, but I just think about it like one step at a time, one fuel tank at a time. 45 minutes to an hour, that's all I gotta do. Let's focus on that. That's a tank. I'm well aware that it'd be more efficient just to keep on this project. Why aren't you finishing? There's so much you can pile brush. There's so many little twigs in there you can get out. They're impossible to rip out. They're intertwined in those gigantic rocks. You got to get them out. You're just over it. No, there really isn't. You stayed up too late. What are you gonna do, just go lounge till lunch? No, I'll find something to do. It's something, you know, to transition. That's some time away, you know. Why don't you keep going for an hour? Come back. Oh, you want to come help me? Let's go do the mineral sled. The draw wallers are here, but is it the mudders? So far, this mineral container sled slash hopefully could be a Mineral Shaw is a lot lighter. I can move it just like that. Josiah just radioed. You guys play here nice. We gotta go get Josiah. He's in the Mini-X or something without diesel. If they're all empty, bring one. I think once you run out of diesel though, it doesn't just start. Hey, goober! Well, hopefully it's not Too much. If it runs out, out, it's hard to start. 5 gallons in it. Let's see what you got. I don't know how to bleed it. You could do the emergency door if you had to. You can't run out on the diesel. Start easy. All right, try it one more time. If that doesn't work, we'll go get a— it comes with a tractor. We can spray a little diesel. Okay, good. He would have been stuck in there. I mean, we could have done the emergency exit, but it's a pain to put it back. —window back. Let's go and eat. [MUSIC] Billie, what you got planned for us tonight?
I'm going to make Mexican for my YouTube channel. Mmm. I made this Mexican pork and beef.
I got a little bit of liver in there. We have the chicken rice with tomato paste.
Salad. Our cheese chips.
Looks wonderful. Sour cream, guacamole, and—
Um, sometimes.
Do you think people like it on your channel?
You've been baking. Um, I don't— maybe. I think so.
You never know until we try, do we?
It might be more handy. Do you think anybody like used my baking for a recipe? Probably.
At least inspiration. Look at this guy with his little haircut. Come here, let me see it. He got gum in his hair. That was the problem with us going to vote. We go vote and we come back and you got gum in your hair. You're a meat and lettuce kind of guy tonight? You know, Rebecca and I had a surreal moment today. We went and voted. We went and voted. Vermin Supreme. Free ponies for all Americans. That is what I promise you. My name is Vermin Supreme. Wasn't it surreal? Because was that the first, or at least the first time we recognized, hey, we didn't have to bring all our kids with us to vote? Yeah, we didn't bring anybody. We didn't bring anybody. Well, a lot of times we'll go run errands after we vote, which is why people come. But when we—
when they were little and we had to go vote, we would just pack them them all in the car.
Y'all remember voting? Can everybody say Vermin Supreme? Let's just take it as a joke, okay? Because I don't know, but it was hilarious.
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