Help with my PRE DIABETES

Get the kid occupied. Instead of eliminating all carbs, this takes a measurement and helps you realize how many carbs you can take in.

Hold your breath. Goof enough. Exhale in 3, 2, 1.

You exhaled for less than— I didn't know I stopped. All right, just gonna start again.

Well, did you watch it?

I did, I watched it, and I did all the practice. What? You inhaled for less than 4 seconds. Start with a normal breath, then inhale through the tip of the mouthpiece.

Hold your breath.

Exhale slower while keeping track of the timer. Okay.

Exhale in 3, 2, 1.

Did it, Becky! I did it! Lumen level. Oh, I'm at a 3. I'm burning fat and carbs. Expect this level after eating a well-balanced meal and when your body is on the way to serious carb or fat burn. Cool. Oh, look, Becky, after just one measurement 60 grams of carbs, which isn't a whole lot. That's like a piece of fruit, uh, scoop of honey, and maybe a little chocolate and yogurt, and that's about it. Wants me to have 151 grams of protein and almost as much fat— 145 grams of fat. That's why I crave that really fatty burger, like the 25%.

Yeah.

I set one out today and I was like, I can't wait.

How do we know how much fat is in that?

Yeah, and how much is in butter? You just have to ask Mr. Google Pants. Probably you put in what you had and it counts it for you. So eggs, I had 3 eggs, which is how much? That's about my protein to fat ratio in egg.

Oh really?

It's 18 grams protein and 14 grams fat.

Cool.

So eggs, perfect. And then add some butter on that and brings that fat up. Let me be free. Work on Pig Point 2.0. 2.0 continues today. Lord willing and the creek don't rise, Randolph's coming with the metal skids. It might rain, so our Chick Shaw is serving as our tool shed.

You ready to milk?

Just come get me when you're ready. Hey, why is it wet right there? Um, tell me you poured out water.

No, the I think it was on. The cows turned it on.

Mom says Henry's ready for me. Taking this with you, okay? Do you want to ride the four-wheeler?

Yeah.

Isn't as convenient as a side-by-side, but Sally, our main side-by-side, is in the shop with some major repair. Do you want to sit on Salmon, drink your tea while we do the milk?

No, we're not going to do that.

No, it's hard to vlog when they can't figure things out between themselves. Y'all worked it out? It's been a week since we treated honey for mastitis, kept the calf on her, treated her with Animal Synergy product. It either worked or it didn't. We're about to find out. What's this calf doing in here? Just fine. What? Oh, I didn't know that. She's not gonna have any milk. No, I can't get anything out. No, look at that. It's the wrong one anyway. Whoops. Calf was left in with her again. Yeah, she's drank all the milk. At least the teat's not so bad the calf doesn't drink it. Let's go ahead and let's let her have her alfalfa. New experience— experience— experiment. Look, the new $3 mat ain't working. It ain't even in there. There it sits, collecting evil chicken poo. Holy chicken squat when it falls through and adds fertility to this land. Ew, we need to do it. We don't. I don't know why. Please, I don't have to cut these. That would be amazing. This is like— what is this? How do you describe this? They ain't pulling this out. These fit. Oh, that would be so cool if it fit. Be a bit of a roll away, but we're gonna— it's gonna be okay. I have about 1 hour until it's supposed to rain. Y'all, it's been so long. Longest I've ever seen in a drought here in Western North Carolina. I will do the rain dance in the rain if it rains. For now, I'm going to work on the pork we're growing and the garden. Pig pork. We'll both grow our pork and compost for the garden. Wait a minute, do I hear rain hitting the Tarp. You guys hear that? Oh my word, look at this, it's raining! Need to install these two posts plus see that cross beam on that one, you do the cross beam on that one for the roof, and then I'll be on a standstill until Randolph comes with the metal skids. And get it out of the way.

Okay, there we go. It's working, it's working.

Do you have two end clamps?

Yes.

So we're bringing back an old idea for weighing down these silage tarps that keep on getting lifted off. These sandbags, you got to deal with them individually, and they're a bit of a pain in the butt. Got your end cap too?

Yeah.

All right, put the end cap on, clamp, fill it up with water, clamp the other side. Okay. Okay. Hey, it's starting to be enough rain that it's actually going to be a pain. I need to hurry up. Look who's here! Randolph's here with the plate. Uh, I'm gonna have to put you guys up. Join me here on the waterproof camera. Good morning. I'll tell you what I'm not gonna do— complain about this rain. You didn't use bolts? No, I just used them for example. All right, I got some bigger ones for Okay, all right. This right, I thought we put this side down so that we could screw that on and not have screws sliding. Yeah, it don't really— Okay, all right. This side says this blue hose is leaking. Let me see it. Up it does. Oh my word.

Okay, all right.

And we've already cut it too. Dang. All right, so let's just cut it there and it'll just be a little shorter. Oh yeah, it looks like a rat has gotten into this. Where it's still— what, we only have to— or maybe 3 feet short of the end. Yeah, don't fill it up too tight because we don't want it to break if it freezes. But put your cap on it and we have a nice weight on this tarp. Is that useful too, having that longer? Yeah, yeah, it is. I'll get used to it.

Yeah, it's gonna be for the pigs.

This is gonna be for the pigs. Yeah, it's not gonna move much. It's not gonna move far or much often. All right, we'll see you, Randolph. All right, I'm gonna see if I can get a check from you. Okay. All right, they're calling it at a great stopping point. I can do the rest of this on my own. Erect these walls up, connect them across. We can build our roof structure, and then finally our restraining material for keeping in the deep bedding, the wood chips, which will eventually be the compost for the garden. We got our weight in place. Ideally, we'll have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 5 or 6 in between each raised bed. Gideon, we forgot to do the rain dance.

I'll do anything.

So excited about this rain. Yeah, the forest fire, even though they have contained it, definitely going to be contained— put out now. That deserves another dance, doesn't it? There are no rules, just try to do something. Morning, JD. Good morning. Morning, morning. You guys don't mind the rain, huh? I do, but you know, I'm on her time. She don't mind the rain. And well, speaking of sugar, buy the honey by the gallon, don't we?

5 gallons.

5 gallons. All right, this is gonna be a little tricky to design. We get bees, we'll get 5 gallons of honey a year.

We actually need 10 gallons, don't we?

Yeah, we do.

I think eventually we will. I don't know if in the beginning we will.

Okay, ready?

Whoa!

One jar down. There's 4 gallons. Uh-huh. And we have 19 to go.

19 to go. That was supposed to do that. This is so amazing. I'm just so happy because like we're gonna have this all taken care of and we can not have a bucket of honey sitting in our kitchen.

Yeah. And this is what we do to quit the grocery store when we don't grow 5 gallons of honey. Buy in bulk. Where'd you buy it, Dar?

I think it's called Seasonally Bee.

Seasonally Bee? Is that where you got the maple syrup too?

No, I got the maple syrup at Maple Valley Syrup Co-op.

Taking a break for lunch. Don't worry, it's a butter knife. You're doing it! You're cutting up the fries. What are you guys making?

French fries. I think this must be a tradition.

With JD now. And this time you brought your own guns. A couple, yeah. We drove. This is a long distance comp. You think that gun will make it all the way to that target way over there?

It barely will.

You got the aim up, Jonah.

This is you.

Oh look, the old man's cheating up. Of course you do have a pistol. What are you shooting today? Uh, 9mm. Okay, who's wearing a helmet? I had to borrow this because I forgot my ear protection. Okay, so it might look a little dorky, but hey, the gun makes up for it. A little louder than the.22. Keep yours covered.

Not—

oh, JD, do you want to beat you? That's just all over the place. You got one shot in. One for 16. Keep your day job. How is that diplomatic?