The video captures a day on a family homestead as they juggle multiple tasks while a pregnant family member, Rebecca, experiences early labor signs. The adult host (Speaker A) coordinates a search for missing snowshoes, organizes a painting project for the chicken coop, cleans algae‑filled water buckets, and prepares a raised‑bed garden for spring planting. The family tends to livestock: they manage pigs, discuss the health and breeding decisions for their cow Phyllis, and handle chickens. Throughout, they discuss food preparation (sweet potatoes, pork tenderloin) and plan future meals. The narrative interweaves practical DIY work (building shims, setting up a paint‑ready platform) with observations about animal health (teat condition, scab healing) and the impending home birth, including monitoring Rebecca’s contractions and offering her spicy Mexican food. The tone is informal, collaborative, and task‑focused, reflecting a self‑sufficient, family‑centered lifestyle.
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All right, what about those? Could you wear the snowshoes?
No, those are not deep.
We might have to. I'm not kidding you, I was about to say Mr. Brown hasn't lost his shoes in a while. Where are your shoes?
I know where they are, but I don't— I want to get them.
Where are they? I'll get them.
I think in the greenhouse.
Okay, that makes sense. We're playing there yesterday. I'm gonna go around, not crawl under.
It's open.
On this other end. Oh, that was a good guess, but it wasn't there. Hey, they weren't in the greenhouse.
No, but I guess I can't go.
No, we're gonna find a way. You're gonna go. Do you know where else they might be? Maybe. You haven't seen any, uh, shoes, have you? Shoes over at your house? Some Mr. Brown size shoes. Oh, I didn't know this actually. Okay, he thought they might be at Azariah's. Well, Not here.
I'm gonna paint this.
That's the plan. You want to paint the pretty shaw today? Yeah, let's get mom's chicken coop ready for the spring. It's a good day to do it. It's raining outside, we can't do our outside project. We should, uh, make headway on this paint job. $2 cash money, anybody find, uh, Gideon's shoes. Uh-oh, maybe they act like they know. They were playing here also. Maybe somebody left inside. Look at this cardboard. That's all you got to get a kid, a bunch of cardboard. I don't see it. Nothing. Did you find them? Oh my, did you go to Azariah's porch? Oh, oh boy. Well, those aren't the ones we're looking for. Where did you find those?
Inside.
We'll see if he'll go for them. We have another problem. I was afraid of this. I left all my paint stuff in here and this was half out. Only one brush. Oh, I know there was a lot more than this. I wonder what happened. I think probably the same thing that happened to my drill bit, my Sawzall, cardboard boxes, pig panel. Hey! In other news, in other good news, he found the shoes, but they're soaking wet. Yeah. What do you guys guess what happened to all those, all the brushes and stuff?
Kids got in there and played with them.
Yeah, that's, that's, that's— I would say so. I will welcome obstacles, for they are my struggle. Because when I thought we were going to be painting today, we're going to be setting up and coming up with a list that needs to be got at Lowe's. Maybe we can mess around with the axles a little bit. You know, we could clean up in here, we could put the— we could get this on blocks, we could, we could make some progress. But it's a rainy day, it's been perfect for that. Ah, just that— where were those shoes?
That down at the pretty place.
All right, Gideon. Hey, are they drying there? Nope. Okay, I think I hear him answering me downstairs. Gideon! Lily said she put his snowshoes up here, but I don't see him. Maybe he took them. There he is! Hey, you got your snow boots on! We found you! No, they're wet, they're soaking wet. We found them down at the pretty place. Maybe we'll dry them out by tomorrow. One more move, one more raised bed job. 1, 2, 3. Oh snap, I forgot to catch him. Whoops. I just lifted him right up. Okay, keep them cornered there. Good catch. Wow, that was kind of lucky. Sorry about that, guys. That actually ended up being clear though. I don't think I would take that chance again. What's amazing is they go after the greens and start scratching even before the feed in this new situation. That's how you know they're happy. We'll level that out and cover it. We do need to come up with an 8-foot shim. That makes me a little happier. That's a little bit of a project, uh, that we can do and finish today, unlike the painting. Got that covered. Prepping for spring planting. These guys are already hard at work, working hard as a chicken. Okay, let's join them. Let's keep moving.
Look!
Oh, what's wrong with that? Just called me over here to look at this water. That's crazy. Why is that black? Let's check Beefcakes. Oh, his is weird too, and almost out. This is the only way I know of, one bucket at a time. Well, it's not that bad, it just looks weird. Got this cleaned. Look at the water. This is what I pulled out of there— algae. Look at this after I've scrubbed it down. Look how green. Getting it off the sides. That's crazy. When they were in the forest and we moved these and emptied these once a week, never had the problem. When the pigs were in the pig port, didn't have this problem either, but we did have them covered. So I wonder if that makes a difference. I'm a little worried that once you have algae, you're always going to have algae. It's hard to get it all. We'll see. Uh, I'm gonna now soap this one. Intensive management, guys. Gotta keep them in clean water. That's the priority. That's the priority. Clean water, good food, sanitary living area. So I think what we'll do is try a lid on that and see if it doesn't slow down the algae. Hey, what are we doing? Shaking coals. You got those from the wood? Oh, you just sprayed me. Sorry.
All right, way more.
That's good, good charcoal source for the pigs, straight from our wood boiler. You're cooling it off and then they're storing it in this bucket. Now to get beefcakes. Josiah had the hose pinched for me. I went to put the hose in and I'm like, wait, he's just gonna tear up this, this line. So I said, okay, gotta pinch it, I gotta hang it. I don't know, somewhere in there he acted like he was gonna get me. I don't think you ever want to trust a pig that big, ever. So I'm just a little careful. Maybe I was a little too nervous. We'll see. Well, I draped it through the top of the greenhouse, uh, line and hung it over, and he can't get at it, and it's filling up. I was just about to milk Phyllis. I pulled the alfalfa out so she doesn't keep eating it up. They said the chickens are out. Sure enough. Whoa! They're out. Oh, Arun's already on it. Jonah's on it. They're herding chickens. Seems to be working. Oh, there's always one.
Two.
I would maybe open that door a little bit more. There you go. Good. Perfect. I was walking by, Arun, he said maybe you need to get Rebecca some spicy Mexican food. She's had a good bit more contractions, but nothing to call the inquirer about. With all our other children, she'd have contractions they start off far apart, they gradually get closer together and then grow in intensity and eventually have a baby. But this has been so up and down, it's crazy. Jonah, will you help me get Polly? Uh, news on Polly— this is Phyllis's cow. She's about 6 months old, which means it's— it would be time to wean her and sell her. But you know, we got to thinking, we need the beef more than the cash flow. She's A1, A2, which means her milk isn't as easy to digest if it was A2, A2. Uh, so she's not the perfect milk cow. She's a beautiful American Milking Devon and a Jersey cross. We do that cross, you know, Studs American Milking Devon. We do that cross because that's a heartier, beefier, beefier breed, and then the Jersey is a milky breed. And then every year they give us a calf, and you have the potential for beef or for a milk cow. We might be able to replace Phyllis with a new family cow this summer. If not, we could, uh, raise up Maple. Perhaps she's A2A2.
Holly, you don't hurt my dad.
You could be beef this fall. You're a good one. She's got good, uh, a good build. She would provide a lot of good, good food for us. And you know, with all the crazy stuff going around with, with beef or fake beef, I'm like, it just ups the value for us. And right now that's our decision. It might change, but I think I think we're doing the right thing. If our goal on this homestead is to grow as much nutrient-dense food as we can for our family, then it just— that makes total sense. Total sense. Do one thing if we didn't need beef, but we're actually— we actually could use it. We're out of our own steaks. Got lots of hamburger. Her teats are totally smooth. They're no longer dry. There was a scab on this one, wasn't there, Lily?
Yeah, really?
It's gone in like a week's time. We've just been putting this Synergy Animal Product Superior Cow Cream, which is an organic cream, on her once a day, not giving the calf to her for about an hour to let it soak in.
It's working.
Like, her teeth are smooth. The scab— I like that. I thought that scab was gonna take weeks. She stood still for me this morning, so hopefully we can milk her tomorrow in the pole barn, Lily. Good morning! I was gonna come make you something, but it looks like you figured it out. A big breakfast. Yeah, eggs, potatoes, toast. What's the deal?
I don't know.
You're getting charged up to have this baby?
Maybe.
I just was hungry.
Contractions?
Hungry? I had a couple today. I've had like 4 since I've been up since 7. Okay, it is 9:30, so yeah. Nothing to write home about.
We got our cardboard down. Lily got us another piece of cardboard. Let's let that dry out though. That can stay right there. Well, let's get it out of the walkway. Let's move the coop back, move the cardboard to the middle, and then put it back. All right, let's get 4 of these. My idea is to get this pretty shawl onto blocks so that we can work on the wheels and axles and so that we can paint it. We're not bending way over. Looks like we're a little crooked. Yeah, look, we're way over. We need to be over a foot or more. It looks good, guys. We have two brushes, we have a couple of little rollers. Grandma said she had some stuff. We did find some blue tape. We could go ahead and do that. What we want to do with this room is protect our trim. Boom! We have taped it. We lack this window and finishing that trim, and then we're ready for a white paint job. Hopefully— I called Grandma, she said she has everything, so hope that's the case. And hopefully we can start painting tomorrow or this afternoon. Oh boy, what's going on? Oh, they have painted their fort. You know, guys, I went through all this trouble to put down cardboard for a reason so we wouldn't get paint all over the floor. Okay, and y'all are getting paint all over your clothes. You're getting it all over your forehead. Look.
I hope this is good tonight. Yes, it is.
Okay. Don't ruin her bathroom now.
No, I'm going to our bathroom.
I know, the brand new bathroom. Oh my word. Pork tenderloin from the land. It's our last pork tenderloin. Is that Pop's sweet potatoes? Mm-hmm. Oh, Pop's sweet potatoes.
I like Pop's sweet potatoes. You do?
Good.
Sweet.
We've had good success with sweet potatoes here for sure.
