NO WATER (4 Days Until The Hurricane)

Quick update before the vlog. I've given this footage to Austin. It's September 29th. Actually, Austin was here during the hurricane. We got hit really hard. We're okay, we're okay. It just came within feet of the house. Much is destroyed on the lower farm. We're documenting, of course, and those videos will start coming out Friday. The vlogs are a week behind. So, uh, the storm hit us really hard Friday. You can see the container— our container got washed away. It's like 100 feet up the, up the way. Behind me is the soccer field. Water was up past the soccer field. Uh, blew our— totally blew our turkeys away. They're gone. They're— one, one survived. We put it in with the chickens. Um, washed away our bees. It's been a total disaster down here. We're thankful though it didn't get us or the house. We're all okay. Thank you for your prayers and well wishes. Uh, do try to enjoy this vlog and just stay tuned for, uh, the live action vlogs, uh, Friday when the hurricane hit us. Our last day working together. Yeah, at least for a week. Are you sad? No. You out here waiting on baby Waylon? You want to go with me until he wakes up? What have you learned during this week of chores without Jonah? I don't know, nothing. Really? You didn't learn one thing? No. Today marks one week of doing chores with Josiah. Milk chores. Let's go turn the fence off. Just turned off the electric. You think they're smart enough to know when they come out in the morning the fence is off? Yeah, you do? Yeah. We got to get water from the mountain today, okay? Yeah, look at this clover in this. Is that why we're getting so much cream, Josiah? I've never seen so much cream, like almost half. Probably need to go even one more time. Do stockpile, don't mow it. Josiah, you rascal, fix the fence post. I've been working a week with Josiah, and one thing I've learned is just because he's quiet doesn't mean he's— doesn't mean he wants to be bossed around. He's still got his own ideas. You'll notice we don't say a lot when we get out here and work together. We just kind of quietly gird up our loins and get it done. No one really telling the other one what to do, just somebody always doing something. The cow to move, just pet them. Our cows anyway. See, I moved her over and Josiah just automatically goes start shutting the fence. How do you move Blaze? You don't. What? You get on his back, ride him. Yeah, hey, hop on him and ride him over. Hey, uh, this calf's gonna get crazy. You know what, he can have the alfalfa. If she wants to do all that, she can come out. Come on. Boom! Blaze missed out on fresh grass all day long because he stayed back for a little alfalfa. No delayed gratification. I like to just do the work and even wait and listen for him to tell me something to do so he can have that extra sense of responsibility. If I get paranoid about always having to be the boss, always telling the kid what to do, we miss out on that opportunity. You guys hear that mowing in the background? That's Jonah mowing on his own accord. I wish I could tell you I planned this, this was my parental scheme all along, but, uh, what I found was we have a mandatory set of hours that we're out and about doing projects, and when they're little, they just come along on my projects. And somewhere along the line, I had the luck or the sense— I wouldn't even say sense, it sort of happened, I don't know— kind of let them. They just, well, they probably just started venturing on without me, and it was hard to resist. And so I said, I went with it, and now it's more or less, this is the time we all have to do our chores. And then project time, more or less, you get to pick what you want to do so long as it forwards the farm. And there's him. He's mowing. I didn't even ask him. And he would rather mow than come follow me fixing this water line. Just wants to do his own thing. Okay, what now, Josiah? We got to step in that. All right. Where do you think I should go? All the way to that tree? Yeah, the purpose of this, this week and next week doing this with Jonah, is to figure out what's going wrong with Josiah. They just getting too many strifes when they are at the, uh, when they're doing this. So I'm thinking I'm seeing how Josiah does it, and then I'm going to see how Jonah does it. But for Josiah, I'm going to try to encourage Jonah, just let him do, just let him find his own thing to do, because it's probably upsetting him to be hurtly told what to do. We put Jonah on what we call the little animal chores, everything but the cows. And that's been kind of neat because it's not as long, and so it does sort of give them a break, you know, from having to do this every 7 days a week, Christmas and Easter too. And they get done and then they can work on their project. They get a ton of autonomy that day. Well, we're going through this thing where now not only are we working separate like this, we're even starting to play separate. We've kind of entered into this new friend group. And for example, the boys and Lily— the teenagers of our family— the boys and Lily went and played soccer yesterday at 4 o'clock with the friend group, and I was pooped because I had went to the Culture Fest even just for a night, you know, even I'll be there only an hour, I was burnt. Then Rebecca sends me this meme. At this age, I can do a day event or an evening event, but under no circumstances am I going to do both. Is this our 50-footer over there? I got 30 feet, so I'm looking for a 50-foot net. And by the way, by definition of evening It's 4 to 8. Yay, it is a short one. Only one time did Josiah get upset at me this week. He said I was going slow yesterday. If I, if I do too many extras, I get in trouble with the boys. Where are you going? To get the four-wheeler. They've been keep on adding hoses to a line to go from the well. They've gone too far, really. We need to start getting it off the mountain. Cross our fingers. We got our gravity-fed water coming through. That's on. Okay, it may just be shut off to this line. Let's go look. He's beat me to it, that rascal. That's what he was doing. Is it working? The line's broken. This is coming nicely. Wow, especially down there, it's real lush. Okay, let's see if water's coming up the mountain. That's a good sign. Pretty soon we're going to be able to drive to the very top of this if we have problems. Josiah's gone to get supplies to fix this. See the leaves change already? Look at that. Nice, it's coming off the mountain. Yeah. Okay, you want to try it? Sure. I wonder if that'll hold them. All right, you want to try it, Josie? Here it comes. It's coming. Working. Let me see if this is on up here. Shoot, it's on! Maybe it takes a minute to fill up. I don't think it takes this long. Water's right up there, 150 feet. There's nothing here. Old school now. Sally in the shop, Annie using Salma. We're taking the wagon. So that's a lot of pressure. First came out here, it really spit out. It's unlikely that it would crush from here to there. All right, I've got our new line attached. What we're doing is bypassing this line under the ground that's supposedly crushed. We're gonna drain the mountain. Okay, I got it bypassed. Went under the ground right there. Now it's going over the ground way down there to our cart. Let's go see if we got water coming off the mountain. Fingers crossed. Whoa, are you serious? Oh my gosh. La la la la, let me be free.