In this informal family vlog, Victor Justin Rhodes (Speaker A) walks viewers through a busy day on the homestead as they prepare for an alfalfa delivery, reorganize the garage, and tackle a French drain project. The family coordinates moving pallets against the back wall to free up space, lays weed fabric, and plans a PVC pipe run to the creek to protect the drainage line. Alongside the farm work, they prep a short‑rib dinner, discuss seasoning, and share cooking updates. The vlog also includes brief mentions of a chiropractor appointment, the kids’ chores on gravel and feed, and the upcoming New Year’s Eve party where the family will showcase their new show “Divergence.” Throughout, the dialogue is conversational, peppered with humor and family banter, highlighting the collaborative, hands‑on lifestyle of the homestead.
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Short ribs in our near future. Big day, getting ready to vacation. Azure Standard is coming today. We're gonna have a load of alfalfa. We need to make room. Rebecca has had the idea to get rid of this stuff, line feed pallets along the back wall so you don't have to walk through them here. Which is kind of tight and kind of disorganized and unruly. If they were all against the back wall, you could just walk up to the one you needed. What is that? I mean, I have to get more rabbit food. That's your rabbit food? You have a lid for that? No. You got one more rabbit. This is not a blower. That's a blower.
That looks much better, Beck.
Beats cans all over the floor. Good job. She's been wanting to put those gas cans on that shelf anyway, so it's all working out. Hey, every day in every way we're getting better.
Oh, we got better today.
Let's stay focused. Mom's got to go prep some lunch in a bit, and I want to see us through this. But we're pretty much there, right? We did it! That looks like 10 times better, don't you think? And we have room for one more pallet, and we could still do another pallet there and still get this both side by sides in. We want the farm sitter to basically go away saying, this farm is so organized, I'll come back and work here anytime. Grandma cream separating. What is this?
This is salt, pepper, garlic, and onion. It's called Paula Deen's House Season.
Nice. She's going to sear it Then put it in the Dutch oven with all the fixings. Yes, along with some beef broth, I imagine, or gelatin.
It's beef broth.
Come on, Gideon, let's go. Well, we found out Azure is not coming, but our garage is nice and ready for another pallet and organized for our farm sitter. All right, Jonah, we've done cleaned it up. Why don't you bring alley in. Hey, hey, lots of room all the way in. Much— lots of room. Still, still gather feed. And lots of room for Willie over here. I like it. Now to get the trash out of Willie. We got a chiropractor appointment, but I really want to see— we got about an hour until we have to leave— how long is it going to take us? We're going to get this in the tractor bucket. Put it in wheelie, and then we'll burrow it in. Let's just see how it's going to go. First, we've got to get the forks off.
Let's put a weed fabric down.
Here, hold this, Gideon. Hold this on that end, or Mom, you come supervise that. All right, I got the bottom base of my burrito up. We're basically making— oh, just 2 inches, guys. Showing that's more like 4 inches right there, but you can put a pile in and spread it out. We kind of just want to see how this is going to go. What do we got, Rebecca? 10 minutes till we gotta leave. We just got back from the chiropractor. How'd it do, Rebecca? Great.
Just say my ears are already, uh, chiropractor.
No, I wasn't asking about the chiropractor, but you can Go on about it if you want. I was asking about the meal. Oh, it's going good. Jonah cooked the rice.
He did, and the kids made the veggies.
And look at the veggies.
I'm going to—
And this cooked while we were gone. Grandma is back. She went and got our supplies for the French drain. Let's check the kids' job on the gravel. They had to finish it. Okay, good job. I think they did a good job. We're gonna put a little more so that we can have a slope from there to here, so we'll put a little more on that end.
That's good.
We got all the stuff. I just went through it all. It looks like it's enough. We got our corrugated perforated pipe that's going to go in along here. I got friends coming tomorrow for a New Year's Eve party and a showing of our new show that we're producing called Divergence. New show is premiering tomorrow and they're coming to help me with that before the showing. What comes next is we have a— we'll have a turn and then we go to PVC Why are we going to PVC? We're going to PVC from there to the creek so that we're doing PVC so we can, I don't know, drive the tractor or side-by-side or truck and the line won't get crushed. This is bad to crush. Jonah, Grandma said that they're out of water, man. Come on. Thanks, Ben. Ben is here. Holler Homestead. How's Lilliana? She's good. She needs a nap. Okay, you didn't nap on the way here? Nope. You didn't take advantage of that 1-hour drive? She, uh, she jabbered the whole time. She fights it, doesn't she? She does. She's not a— she's not a good napper. Lunch is ready. Look at the walking baby in the house.
She's all over the place.
Maggie came on a good day. We have short ribs. It smells so good. Oh my word, I'm pretty excited about it. Did it get tender?
It did. The ones in the juice did. The ones that were like up didn't.
Hey, you gonna take after Lilliana and start walking? Yeah. Any week now. He's furniture surfing.
