Jonah's HIP REPLACEMENT Recovery

How's it going this morning? Good. What's your pain scale?

3, 4.

That wake you up in the morning? Popsicle?

Apple!

Apple? Oh yeah, those are onions. They don't like onions.

Nice!

Oh my gosh, the cows are way out. All of them. Sheep too. My guess is Flossie's out. Studs knocked her out of the fence. Let's take them back up the mountain board course. Shouldn't we take them that way?

No, take them to the road.

Okay. Afraid if I go up here they're gonna go down behind the barn. They didn't, that's good. Yay! Don't go down that driveway, which they're gonna. Don't run them on the tarp. Don't run them on the tarp. Come on. My gosh. Hey. Hey. I don't care about the asparagus patch anymore. We'll just take him up the tree Trail, go wide. I'm going back up the trail, which is good. Hopefully they don't cut to the left. We want to go to the right, that's where their paddock is. They're making the right turn. Good job. This is why I don't want the cows to step on the tarp. Watch this. Yeah, see, look, look, it's this little This little tiny hole, all that. Good morning, sleepyhead. We let her sleep in. She's been working so hard last couple of days with us being gone. She was up at 7. That's sleeping in for a farmer. You rested?

Yeah.

Doing good? Just taking it easy, huh? Got your egg elevated. It's a little more intense than we thought, wasn't it?

What surgery?

I thought he's gonna be walking after.

He would be walking if he could, um, put weight on it. That's the thing.

You weeding the path? These pumpkins? Yes sir. A bunch of different varieties. Check on this guy. How you doing, my man?

Good.

You know, this is a thing— take naps outside. You like running shorts? They're okay.

They're very little.

Pain scale 1 to 10? 1, 2. Nice. Come on, Henry, let's go. Don't be too excited, okay? Just say Okay, like gardening as much as Jonah? I like it less than you. We're going to do your favorite chore. You've already been down here.

I have been working, pulling garlic.

Higgy, howdy! I'm back. Thank you. Let's weed for sure this row since we're going to be lifting that up and planting pumpkins right there. Harvesting garlic. Oh, that's so beautiful. All right, hold that Next to your head. I didn't know garlic could get that big.

Yeah, I need to look up and see what I planted. It's not elephant because I've done elephant, and elephant is such large individual cloves. Yeah, and not that I'm opposed to that, but there are smaller cloves in this. There's one— this didn't paper for whatever reason, but it grew.

That makes it easier to process. And, uh, can't we order them like that?

These roots, man.

Yeah.

It's insane.

There's like worms in there.

I've been doing this by myself, so I did the whole thing.

You should probably get a potato.

I couldn't find the potato fork.

You have? Well, thank you. You got a yellow squash. You're weeding? What is this? That—

I'm weeding it.

Well, thank you, Lily. The corn has got to be the funnest crop for children. Hey! Holy moly, that's gigantic! That's too long. We've already let it go too long. Here, that's a good one. That one's perfect. Help getting in.

I got it.

You did pretty good, huh? You can put— you can put toe weight on it. Practice putting toe weight on it because I would think you want to start moving it as soon as you can. Put those back. No, that's the only sunglasses I've got left. I don't want to see you using that toe when you get in the house. Can you get upstairs by yourself? Nice. Looks like Shawn brought us some goodies. Hey Josiah, you gonna have another 2-pound cucumber eating day? Except now you're twice as big, you need a 4-pound. Remember eating that zucchini in one day? It was a cucumber. Um, cucumber, yes. Cucumber. This is a cucumber. All right Josiah, put your cucumber up there. Holy mackerel! 2 pounds and 3 ounces. You think you can really eat that today?

Yeah.

You got an appetite, Jonah? Why am I so tired? I even took a nap earlier. Are you butt tired? Yeah. Lily, can you stay up here because Henry fell asleep?

Sure.

Hey, you gonna be all right? Was falling fast. Somebody's mounted a hammer rack right here.

Like, what in the world?

What? No, when you're old, which is not gonna be long from now, like 10 years, you're gonna walk by the residue of something like that. You're gonna be like, oh, I don't know about that.

I'll be like, I remember when I told them not to do that and they still—

now we're still living with the consequences. And where are they? You're gonna have enough rack?

Yeah, so I'm just, you know, I'm overlapping them.

Cure this for a couple weeks and then harvest the onions, or you have room for the onions on that too.

If I am more diligent about my stacking, like making sure that they're just like— do they have good airflow? I mean, because they're cut, the airflow is coming in from the bottom as well. I can kind of stack them.

And you gotta do this for 2 weeks, hardens them.

Yeah, until they dry.

Are they going to be stored in the root cellar?

Yeah, I'm wanting to braid them. So what we can't do— what we have to do is in 2 weeks I need to braid them.

Put it on your phone calendar. Pulled off the remaining silage tarp for those 2 rows, letting it sit in the sun. You don't want to let it sit too long though. Just letting it dry just a couple of minutes. Otherwise it just starts killing your sod right away. He's getting the measuring tape. John, let's flip this to the black side. Maybe grab on that end over there and we'll flip it. It doesn't take long to kill the grass and it doesn't take long to dry. What you eating, Dara? It's a pleasure weeding in that compost garden, isn't it?

Took some of that compost in the, uh, base in the, uh, pole barn. We took that, put it, you know, kind of in a pile, put a greenhouse tarp over it, greenhouse plastic, like wetted it real down real good. Kyle has got it hot. Do you think we could use that as our own compost as opposed to buying compost? Because I hate buying it. Not because I want to spend the money, it's because I have no idea. Like, that compost smelled funny.

Well, you have to put that compost down, then you have to put the clear plastic over it to bring up all the seeds, right? Because it's not a seed-free compost problem, right? And then, uh, then you flame weed it. Or silage tarpet.

Let's take some of the, um, cow patties and put them somewhere and let them break down, and that will be our compost.

Let's, uh, let's experiment with some of it.

Okay, because I would like to make it before we go.

Yeah, yeah, well, that's what the pig port's gonna do.

Homesteading is having 37 projects going all at one time. Yes, nothing finished.

You want to string this out the whole way so we keep it straight? No, okay. Dirty and then ruins the tape. All right, you want to go get along? I entirely understand that. Thanks to Higgy for keeping us accountable on this garden, keeping us in plant. 1,200 square feet here, half of that over there. We did pretty good, considering, given, given that and Jonah's ailments this summer. Doing your trainings? Yes. That's all you got to do? Check. I had to do something to start Remember my meds. I'm the worst for remembering to take my medicine. So I said, I'm gonna do an Excel spreadsheet with a checklist. I'm gonna check off something, and then I look and see what's next. So I know I can chill until dinner. It's kind of a reminder, but it's a lot. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 9 medicine sessions. Lyme disease. This is actually to help get metals out of my body. IMD, help me clear mercury out of my body. If you have Lyme disease, you're gonna want to get tested for metal and mold. Not that they're related, but you probably have it, and it's just an extra stressor. And you can't handle those extra stressors and Lyme. Where's your clothes, little boy? Where's your clothes? Hey, you working up some of Higgy's produce? Yeah. What is that?

It's a cucumber.

What are you making?

Um, I'm gonna make tomato cucumber salad.

Getting sensitive with a cucumber?

You're fun.

Oh, you do have an onion there. Piggy beans. And then this is from our garden, roast zucchini.

Just adding a little bit of edge to the roast chicken too.

Roast cauliflower, onion, and garlic. Dinner coming together nicely. Eggs from the farm too. It's that season.

I know, it's the best season.

June, July, August, and then like not hard to eat from the land. Oh yeah, so good. Cucumber and little salad turned out nice. Very eggy rice, how we like it. That's how I like it.

That's how you like it, it's all right.

She ends up getting a lot more protein because of me, don't you? Look at that, look at the ratio of chicken to veggies. That's all right, I don't mind that. It's like two-thirds chicken. Hey, what's going on? You're the only one getting those tomato cucumber salad.

It's delicious.

Ready? Your appetite coming back? Not really. Lily's appetite's here.

Yep.

Hey, is anybody sad we're not milking Flossy anymore? Nope.

No.

Is anybody sad when we harvest her in about 2 months? I've had many a time with my head on her belly, you know.

You know, we're gonna die. You're broken now.

Yeah, I mean, if you think about it, I'm As Jodi would say, I'm yanking on some teats. It's a wonder she hadn't kicked me till now.

Doesn't it hurt when you pull on its teat?

No, it doesn't hurt. They put up with a lot more when they're a calf. Help to put your head back? Yeah, it does. Gets it back for the back of your tongue. You get it all to yourself, babe.

I'm gonna get some.

What have you been working on all day? I've been trying to melt metal, but it hasn't really worked. You're trying to make liquid metal? Yeah, well, I've got it coming out. Oh, what are you gonna do with the liquid metal? Look at this! Don't look at this, cover your eyes. It's a jungle. Oh, you got some tomatoes! You found one, my man! Well then, do you want us to get this under control? Yeah, I do.

I want to start working in here in the mornings.

And look at this lettuce she got. Turkeys are so easy. See how easy that was? Tell you how I did that in a second, but first, look, look at what they did. They wore that area out. That's step number 1, let them wear the area out. That's where they're going. Now, wouldn't you walk over there too? Let's put them up before these turkeys make liars of me. I'm about to tell you how easy these turkeys are. Hold on, Henry, you want to come block them from getting out? Come block them. Come on, put your hands out. Then notice how we move their familiarities Next, we moved the turkey shawl, the water, the feed, and they're attracted to that. That's home for them. And then we were just able to put up the net. Same one. There's only one 100-foot net. And then we have a turkey for every month of the year. Nice. Okay. Oh, pretty.