My Regret | Fixing Immediately

That's a Boston butt. That's our most celebratory piece of meat. It's Darcy's last day. Let's have a killer lunch. Trying a little something different today, working on my organization. You know, commonly this porch gets a little cluttered. We do have Darcy the minimalist here. Does she have some tips on, uh, just staying tidy, like keeping up with things on a day-to-day basis? What if I never left a room unclean? So like, I didn't leave this porch until all this was picked up. Yeah, part of the trick is going to be gathering the kids because this is not my arrow. Can you put this arrow where it goes? We're going to clean up this porch real quick. I like it. Okay, I'm just looking for picked up at this point. I'm not looking for necessarily minimalism, although That might be the key, because if you have minimal stuff, then you have minimal pickup, don't you? Calf's still separated. It worked, just giving them a little separation. Okay, Jonah put up a 50-foot net yesterday to keep them further away. Even if you put them in the sheep's paddock, Jonah, you could put them in a corner of a sheep's paddock. I did that with a 50-foot net. What is this, Becky?

What do you mean, what is this?

Well, no, you're not giving shot glass shots this thing first thing in the morning for the kids.

Supplements.

I know, what is it? It's, um, this is bee pollen. I know that.

Bee pollen. This is cod liver oil, fulvic humic, and then cod liver oil, emu oil, and then organs in applesauce. It's terrible.

Ellie's review. Go for it, G. You do it, my man. Is it good? Yeah, it is. We're breaking out the GIS map because we need to get— we, we need to identify where our water line is and where we want water line. Then we go out and measure with our wheel measure. So you guys are going to help me map. So right now we have a water source right here, and it comes down some— it comes more like this, and then it shoots down here to the pigs. Water source is here. Okay, about there. And then we have another— we have another one up here. Remember where we just went up there and got the down? We're gonna do another line here. I think what— where we come up right here. So maybe there'll be another water outlet there. So we need to measure from there to the spring.

Why aren't we just taking it from here, running a hose down, connecting it to the line that already is here?

We will do some of that. We're not going to connect to the line we have because it's not a 1-inch line. We're going to convert everything to 1 inch. If we have something there for 3 years or more, then we bury it into a frost-free zone and we start doing frost-free hydrants and stuff. Got my map. I labeled every line. Like, there's the mountain board court that I called it the mountain board. We have the north pasture, we have Violet's pasture, we have the great connector, we have the cabin run. I'm gonna now go measure those lines and— oh my goodness, does anybody want to guess? Does anybody want to guess? Josiah and Jonah are throwing out 3,000 feet. I'm gonna say 4,000 feet. Wait, what happened already? I guess Winnie doesn't like rabbit. We don't either. I think there's a bee's nest along through there. There is. Some folks got stung the other day, but I gotta measure. We're gonna go up to the spring and measure down. Well, we got that measured. I haven't— I don't have time to calculate the numbers. Jacob's here. We'll have to do that after Jacob. Okay, we're at 1:36. We got to get to 1:45. Will we do it, or do I need to put it in the oven? I think we'll do it in an hour. Training's done. I actually don't But looks good though. Wasn't quite ready. It's lunchtime, so we're gonna speed it up in the oven, put it up to 400. Rebecca made some coleslaw and some mac and cheese. Before minimalism, let's go really basic. How do I just stay more organized? How do you keep a room organized? Start like our porch. It just gets— this morning it was just cluttered. The garage, the kitchen. You can do a big day, but then how do you keep it?

Keep it organized?

Yeah.

I start small. So like for example, I'll start with my closet, work on that for about a week, 2 weeks, keep it organized, and then move on.

Now how do you keep it organized? That's what I wanna know. In 1 week, your closet is wrecked again. Okay, you clean it up.

Your phone has alarms, right?

Going off, going off.

You have an alarm for when to clean up the porch, you have an alarm to clean up the closet.

That's what you do at first?

Yeah, I have alarms going off all day.

Oh really? What are your alarms telling you to do?

Mainly prayers.

They don't have to tell you to clean up?

No, 'cause I do that. She just does that. I just do that. She's just a cleaner lady.

So are you cleaning all day long?

No. When you first start out, things will take you time. And as you do more and more of it, it'll go faster. Just like anything you do routinely. I feel like I'm so unorganized.

What about this rule? I can't leave a room unless it's clean. Is that a good rule?

Is that a rule you have? That's a rule.

Yeah, what if I make up a rule?

Okay, so I know there's a lot of people that'll say—

I kind of need a rule.

Hold on. A lot of people say if you don't make your bed, you won't be productive.

I don't make my bed.

I rarely make my bed and I get very productive. Exactly. I'll get a lot done in a day.

Do you ever leave a room untidy?

Yes, I'll have— but this is how it'll look. Unmade bed and a chair full of clean clothes that need to be folded. That's probably the extent of it. Wouldn't you agree, Stella? Oh yeah, your room is always clean. Yeah, it's always clean.

Is your room always clean? Tips from Darcy the Minimalist. RC Isabella.

But it's her new channel. Her name— her different channel name.

Oh yeah, well, thanks for the memo.

No, no, it's called A Little Way.

You changed the name? Yeah, same content.

We talked about it. Yeah, we talked about it in the podcast.

One Bunnett's Plus. Okay, look at this pinkness, Becky.

I'm not—

I'm not— oh my, wish you guys could smell that, taste that. Lunch. I don't know, this, this ring You see the smoke ring on this, Darcy?

So good.

Where's Joe? Come on, Joe would appreciate this. There's smoke ring on that pork butt. Hmm, it's juicy.

Very delicious.

I've done the calculations. How many feet of line do you think we need, Jonah?

4,000.

Darcy?

Wait, wait, wait, how much line? Feet of line.

Water line to get water to all our pastures, all our 10 acres.

Okay, I'll say 10,000.

10,000.

I'll say 11,000.

I have said—

I forgot what I said this morning.

I'm gonna say 4,000 feet, but I think I was way over. We actually only need 5,991 feet. So let's say 6,000 feet. That's over a mile.

I win!

Good job. I wonder how much that's gonna cost. I'll let you guys know that when that happens too, but probably not as much as you might imagine. Is this not the very first thing we should have done? I now have a regret on the homestead that I didn't tap our water And I didn't tap our access roads.

You know why we didn't?

Why?

Because our well is so extensive and plentiful.

That's true. I mean, we were out of pinch.

If we had had a well that had a small gallons per minute— our, our well is, I want to say, like 80 gallons.

We got an amazing well.

So we have such a well that we didn't— it wasn't like, oh, we have to do this. But I do understand that.

Yeah, but we didn't lay water lines and stuff. That's, that's really the first thing. I mean, I mean, get the animals on it and then get this water going. I mean, figure out how to get water out to them until you get this system down.