The vlog captures a day on a family farm, blending routine homestead chores with a personal health update. Speaker A begins by discussing his recent dental implant surgery, describing lingering pain, gum recession, and an upcoming check‑up in Wilmington, expressing nervousness about healing. The family then moves through various farm tasks: installing a shade‑giving honey locust tree, repairing a fence that was burning the grass, moving sheep, milking on a steep slope, and catching chickens. Leah (presumably Rebekah) works in the greenhouse, tending tomatoes and planning further garden work. The vlog shifts to kitchen activities where Leah prepares homemade granola, hibiscus tea, and fried green tomatoes, while also reheating leftover lasagna. Throughout, there are casual family interactions, jokes about roosters, and reflections on fasting while traveling. The segment ends with Speaker A reporting the outcome of the Wilmington check‑up: the specialist noted slow healing but no infection, offering reassurance. The overall tone is conversational, informal, and documentary, providing insight into farm life, family dynamics, and personal health concerns.
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Good morning. What you need? What's your pain level? 3 or 4? He only had to do pain meds once last night, and it's getting later and later before he needs them. It was like 3:30 last night. I'm flying to Wilmington today for a tooth checkup. I had surgery on my implants to build up my jaw about 2 weeks ago. Chicks don't care. They still gotta move. First, let's get her stuff over.
Now let's get the net up. Trying to make their way to the tree.
These sharks are definitely going to be the— Planted a tree in here. Failed to string trim. I hope it's alive. Oh yeah, pretty sure that's it. What we want here is that? Look, isn't that perfect? Just a little shade tree in the middle of the pasture. Yeah, imagine 4 or 5 of those. Something just feels rad about that, right? This tree, on the other hand, this locust, honey locust, well, they want to grow here. It's doing great. No trees in this pasture over here. All right, let's get this shawl over. My morning view milking. You think we can pull that by hand without the machine? Maybe, because we're on such a steep grade.
Stop!
Notice any differences? Look at that strip of brown. That's where the fence was. It was grounding out and burning the grass. That's a powerful fence. I halfway moved these guys yesterday, then I looked up and the sheep were out and There went our evening. It got dark on us. 2 years ago I got implant surgery. Probably starting 2 years before that, or maybe quite a bit before that. Basically a bad root canal, and then I lost the 2 other teeth. I don't know if it's because infection, Lyme disease, or it was related to the one root canal. Anyway, I lost my ability to chew on my left side. Anyway, I wouldn't afford right away to put the implants in. I wished I would have because I didn't think about receding jawline. When I decided to afford it, my jaw was so thin and low to begin with. Implants 2 years ago. Now my gum, my gum jaw continues to recede. Hence Wilmington, the specialist. I'm pretty nervous about today because that last surgery definitely been the most painful. It's 2 weeks later and I'm still in pain, and I'm just hoping that it's not infected. See my mowed strip? That's why you don't mow beforehand. I way overjudged that. So my grass is tall here, but it's only on 1 of 4 sides, so I don't think it'll ground out enough. I think we'll still keep the chickens in. What you doing?
Catching a chicken.
Why?
To make the rooster mad.
I'll show you guys.
Hey children, do not provoke your rooster. Specialist in Wilmington built up the bone. It must have been some surgery. He did say if you keep 25% of it, he's going to be happy. And just like that, the sunroom happens. Hey babe. Hey.
What you making?
I am making me.
I did potatoes from the garden, onions, and then I had a pepper because we don't have pepper plants, um, and bacon.
What? This is something you take for granted.
I know, right?
Wait, so you weren't able to do that?
No, no.
Which is— says, Dad, you couldn't have stuck there. Wow. How's that feel, man? Good. Are we 3 days out?
Yeah. Well, I mean, he could do that immediately. Okay, I told him to pray for me.
Adios, amigo.
I'm here all alone with all the kids.
You get the short end of the stick today in some regards. I don't know, you get to eat. Some regards, I'm not gonna eat. I just fast when I travel. It's just one less thing to think about. Probably better for my health too.
I'm just— I'm just tired.
He is back. Yay!
I'm actually hoping to get down in the greenhouse.
And tomorrow though—
We're gonna work on that.
At 9 AM.
Gonna get this nose hopefully straightened out.
Bye-bye.
You guys kind of get a day off of projects. Bye-bye.
Okay. Bye, Papa.
Bye-bye.
Papa.
You're in good hands with Leah.
I'm down here at the greenhouse. It's like a really cool day. Like, this has been a very cool summer, so I'm going to work. I'll be able to work in the greenhouse and be all right. Preston planted a row of tomatoes. I actually never even came down here, and I want it to look better. I want to, I want to try to salvage I got right here done. I got this little thing. Henry is needing me, so I'm gonna go. And it's really hot all of a sudden as well. The Q made his way out to the, to the rock out here. How are you doing? Good. Not a lot of pain?
Yeah.
I am going to make some granola right now because one of our favorites right now is this like piña colada bowl, which is like pineapple and I put yogurt and coconut cream in it. Anyways, it's so very delicious, so delicious. There's the oats. It is such a mess in here, all the stuff that I have in here that's junk. This is my favorite oats that I use. It is gluten-free and they're sprouted, which means better digestibility. I'm also going to make some hibiscus because it's warm outside and it's a nice refreshing drink for us. I've got my butter melting on the stove, and then I'm just gonna start my— putting my oats in here. This recipe is super simple. It is 8 cups of oats, a cup and a half of maple syrup, a half a cup of butter, and that's it. I have my butter melted. I'm going to pour it in here. Got my maple syrup here, pour that in. I've got my hot water boiled. It was boiling, I just turned it off. I've got my hibiscus tea. I don't measure, I just put a bunch in there. Seep for at least 15 minutes, if not an hour or two when I come back to it. It just depends. Parchment paper on my baking sheet, and I will put oats on it. Pretty—
you don't want to do a thick layer, you want it to be thin.
I set the timer for 20 minutes. The oven is at 250, and then what I'll do is just Stir it and then put them back in for 20 minutes. Stir it, 20 minutes, you know, until they're the right golden brown crispiness. The granola has been in the oven for 20 minutes. I actually remembered that I raised the temp. 250 is not near enough. Stir it up, put it back in, set the timer for 20 minutes again. I've got one out because of the way our oven is. The top, the top oven goes a lot faster. But this is what it looks like, and it's nice and hot, and as it cools it will crisp up. I've got the hibiscus tea still seeping. It'll just seep until I get to it. I pulled out both trays of granola. This one is cooling and it's already crunching, sticking to each other. I'm just going to keep that um, going, and I'm going to finish the hibiscus tea because Henry is going to wake up at some point. I then get a cup and a half of honey, put that in there, stir it, and then I'll put it in half-gallon jars. And so that's kind of like a concentrate. Our bucket of honey is crystallized. It's not a big issue. Stir it in, let it melt. I buy our 5-gallon bucket of honey from Azure Standard. You can decrystallize it by putting it in a jar and then putting it in hot water, and then I put 1 lemon in that. I was gonna do the lemon and the camera died, so I haven't done it yet. I'm gonna actually do 2 smaller lemons as opposed to 1 large just because they're so small. Here are my 3, um, containers. Tonight I'm also going to be making fried green tomatoes. I have corn flour and cornmeal. I'll probably just use the corn flour. Cornmeal is kind of like chunky, and the corn flour is a little less. So I'm just going to slice those really thin and drench them in egg, put them in the cornmeal flour and then fry them in lard. Oh, don't forget your salt in the corn flour. I have a leftover lasagna in the oven, and now I have prepped my fried green— my green tomatoes. So I've sliced them somewhat thin, they're not like super, super thin, and then I'm gonna put my lard in here and fry it up so we can have a nice dinner together. We are done with the fried green tomatoes. I hope you enjoyed that. Um, we're done with the hibiscus tea. We're done with the granola. The granola is up there where I keep it.
Just did the checkup. Kind of surreal to fly over here, fly back, and it's a 5-minute checkup. He said I'm slow to heal. He wasn't alarmed by anything, so I'm imagining I'm not infected, or they can't tell, or it's just gonna take a long time to heal.
All right, we've got Jonah. He's eating Lily. His plate looks pretty good if you ask me. Opened up a can of Grandma's green beans and then the hibiscus tea.
