One Percent Change Every Day

Gideon, come, let's go. Right wrist starting to feel a little bit better, but certainly still not able to grab a bucket. Will you grab that bucket, Gideon? You carry that one because I'm gonna need to carry this. We've got these old garlics and we've got this old pineapple.

Look what Jonah's making out of a train.

He's whittling on a train. That's neat. Some bulk garlic we bought has gone bad. Go ahead and pour those garlics into that food scrap bucket. Arun, will you get us a bucket of alfalfa in the back? That alfalfa we need to get rid of that has grain in it for the pig. Lily, did anybody do the chicks this morning? We got a new batch of Cornish Cross yesterday. It's our third and final batch. It's hard to believe it's already that time. Did a good job getting the, the grit and the feed. I wonder why they didn't put them in this one that has a little more room for more bedding. Anyway, put the— take that feed, that water out. It's nasty. We gotta, we gotta replenish it. Well, we had all this alfalfa that got mixed with grain, so we can't use it on the cows, so we're feeding it to the pigs. They seem to love it. Well, love's a strong word. Now get in. Do you want to throw this stuff in there? Yeah, give them the rest. Gives them something to do hunting that grain down. One pineapple. You giving that to the big guys? All right. Oh, look, are they getting it? That'll deworm you if you got any worms. Okay, there's our sacrifice garden. You see the pathetic attempt to try to— girl, let me show you what those things should look like. Shoot, did this ever get turned off? No, it's been dripping all day and all night.

Okay, and they're fine because there's no holes.

Yeah, for the most part they're fine. Probably a little— yep, the beans are gonna be flat. Okay, we gotta turn it off, Gideon. Okay, I've got to have a new rule for myself. If I turn that on, I have to turn on some sort of timer. To tell me to turn that off. This is what squash is supposed to look like. See how it would just kind of have taken over that area? And this is even younger. Wow. Okay, onions. The dill has gone crazy. All right, see what we got. Get in. These onions might be ready too. I found 2 big onions. All right, we'll pick one. Pick the biggest one. Whoa, that is big! Good job! Look at Gideon's! Wow, wow, we grew some onions! Yay! Go put it on the curing rack over there in the shed. But what we really want to do today is this garlic. The garlic's not going to get any bigger with the leaves dying like that. It's done. I mean, it's not gonna— it's not gonna get any bigger.

So can I pick one?

So there it is. That's not bad, that's great. Josiah is gonna go get us Henry. Kids, can you guys start? Look what I got! I'm just piling it right here. You guys can do it, I'll help you in a second.

Oh, it's hard.

No, come on, you can do it. Just, just, uh, here, just wiggle. So just get it and just kind of pull it around there. Yeah, I know it's hard, but you can do it. Nothing good comes easy.

Onions come easy.

That's true, that's true. Touche, you got me on that one. Uh, but onions, I guess their difficulty is keeping them weeded and stuff. Garlic's pretty easy. You just in October put down a bunch of straw, plant them and put down a bunch of straw and pretty much walk away. Wow, there you go. You guys are got on it. I can't help but notice in here We already need to— we already need to re-clamp. This could be re-clamped right there. It's already growing. It's already growing above our clips. It's only been a couple of days. Yeah, look at this one. Look how much bigger that one got. Wow. All right, Arun's here. We're gonna get it done now. I'm coming back to that. Hey, can you guys see? I'm walking around. A lot more. Like, just being motivated to go from the sacrifice garden to show you guys the other garden— that's big. That's big to be able to walk that. Arun had an idea to get a potato fork. Let me show you. If we're going to use a potato fork, we don't want to turn the soil, so go down beside it and just do like that. Okay. And just pull it a little. If anything, that'll just aerate it. I don't know if it helps you or not. Maybe that'd be a job I could do because I can stand up. Last year all we had was volunteer garlic. We've grown garlic for years, but I'm gonna say this is some of the best stuff we've ever grown. Look how big that is!

This would be great.

Holy moly, it's a doll arrow. Yeah, I love that you guys see that in that. Let's take it over to the curing rack. Who's got it? A good example of every day in every way we're getting better. 1% change. Last year we had a janky, uh, drying rack that we just slapped together the year before, and the year before we had nothing. And so last year we built this. It wasn't that hard, but we got around to it. And here it is. And now this year we have it, a nice drying rack.

Look at these.

So let's try to get them all on one, but just try to get them to where they're not touching each other. You understand what I mean? Keep the leaves out, then you have more. Yeah, there you go. There it is. Isn't that lovely? That will be easily almost a year's worth of garlic. I say almost a year because I don't think we've really gotten it to be able to last a year. But a good 10 months. Wow, we have a little time to spare. Let's hang up these tomatoes. Look, Josiah, already they're just going for it. I'm just excited about this. It feels like just 2 days ago we clipped these and we can already do it again. Well, I'm excited about that garden space. Just over the winter, there were pigs and chickens in there. Nice sticker, Jonah. Hey, you look nice today.

This morning.

Wow. I was about to tell you I'm doing pretty good walking around out there, really coherent thoughts.

You are doing good.

Thank you.

Clearly he is getting up. He's getting better.

Yeah.

I estimate if his wrist is anything like his hip, I think by next Thursday you should be feeling really good. Yeah, like, if that is if nothing else flares up.

If you don't notice, guys, I have a collared shirt on today. Yesterday I said forget about it. Because of my wrist, but I was able to kind of fumble and get my shirt on today. The IV's coming. The IV.

He calls it UV.

And we have to get it. We have to get it this time. Thanks. Thanks for adjusting the camera. I lack that ability right now. Check on the turkeys and the geese. Uh, somebody's left the door open. That's fine, actually. Want to go ahead and let them out? Oh yeah, no, the water's got to be clean. But, and then the feed looks like it's knocked over there, and I feel like it's pretty nasty in there, the grass. So let's move them forward, I think. You want to let them out? We are going to let them out, but let's just go ahead and push them forward first. Marina's filling up our geese food. Gideon's putting it in. Just put it in there, put it in there somewhere clean. Turkeys are mostly eating their feed. Let's see if the geese— go put it over there at the side, Gideon. It's okay if they don't come right at it. They have fresh grass. No, no, no, no, let's put it over there where you were going with it. There you go. Yeah, let's not cluster it up right here in the middle. There you go. Fresh grass, clean water. Full feeders. That's what I'm talking about. All right, get in. Turn back on. All right, it's on. We'll see if they come out, get some sunshine. Gotta change the gear with my right hand— I mean, left hand. All right, ready? The reason we pulled the shed up before milking is because They're spending a lot more time around it now because it's also a shade. There's a mobile milker, but it's also their mobile shade. There's no shade here. That's it. So they poop all up in it and we have to move it up a little bit. We got a clean slate. Sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep. Dixie, you look great. I think she's our champion sheep. It's interesting to see how people have have weathered out. Like Ryder, not, you know, thin. Everybody else has filled out nicely. So it's helping us give it— get, you know, get a better idea of who we really want to, you know, keep pursuing and who we don't. Now Ryder's kind of not fending for the alfalfa. You know, she was the first to have her babies, had twins, but She's not— she's not sustaining as well as these others. So it's good. It's good to see everybody and have comparison over time, and it gives us an idea of the different things we can think about. Okay, I'm able to do it. Thankfully there's probably less than a gallon in there. It should make some yogurt though. It's 9:15. Think we can do it? I think we can do it in 45 minutes. I see you guys have gotten, uh, more stickers out here. All right, all right, go ahead. Let's go. How many milks? Two. There's mucho. There's some over here too.

And there's some over there. And there's some over there.

Okay, that's good. Grab a couple of these. Can you grab a couple of those?

Two.

Come on. Can I hold you guys with my hand?

I will.

Oh no, you, you focus on holding that jar. All right, here we go. Sorry for the angle. That's as high as I can lift y'all. I can't twist you up. I can't pivot you up. All right, here we go. If I lift my arm, then you can see. Goes down in history. It's the most interesting vlogging week ever. This might be our hang up. Oh boy, I can't open my own jars right now. Whoa, whoa, put that back! Put that— hey! Put that back. What are you doing with that? Put that back. That's catching fruit flies, bro. It's got liquid in there. Okay, just leave that. Leave that. Come here, you got to help me with this. I need you. Come here. Oh, come on. Oh good.

All right, wait for this.

Not yet. Look at that cream line on that. Hey guys, just me being able to make this yogurt is something. Getting some work done in the domestics. There we go, we got it. Teamwork did it, buddy. Now get in. We can have you do— don't pour it in though, we have a measurer. 1/3 cup for every half gallon. So okay, there, let's not try to make a big spill out of it.

Can I do it?

Pour those. Whoa, try to do it a little, maybe a little side so it doesn't splash up. Yep, do it down close. There you go, that's better. It's at 86, so not too much longer to 105. This is how you get it out of here when you only have one hand. Do you see how I'm doing? Mm-hmm, thank you. Look, look, let me just show you a couple times. See how I'm letting it all drip off? Mm-hmm. Then I slowly go over and pour it in. Oh! There you go, I like that. You didn't fill it up too much. Pour it in. I don't know if it's gonna help to have two or not. You guys notice something?

Take a selfie.

Look where my arm is. It's not up here, it's more down there. Oh, 7/1, it's July 1st. Look who's here, Danielle. Hopefully I hydrated enough for you.

I hope so too.

I drank a lot yesterday, I drank almost a gallon today. Good. A gallon, that's amazing. Yeah, we're in there.

Wow, if it stays or not, it's gonna be our question again.

That was easy. Good job, Danielle, you did it! Or I did. I was able to hydrate this time. It's a lot easier, barely even hurts. Got some stretches from the therapist I'm gonna be doing to try to get some mobility back in my Back. I'm not flexible at all. Look who's getting to hold the baby. At least I can help in that way. He's happy to be sitting here watching the family. This is nice. We're eating lunch together. We're gonna eat it. I haven't actually been been feeling hungry at this time, but I'm actually starting to feel— That's good. A little appetite, so that's good. I am gonna keep OMADing because it's low inflammation. All right, I want to show you guys something. I'm watching baby Henry while they're cooking. Watch, this is new. You can grab something now. It's a struggle. You can do it. Come on, you can do it. Come on, don't get distracted on my hand here. There you go, you did it! Yay, good job! Look at this supper. Lent Greek, we love it on Thursday nights. Then you don't have to think about what you're gonna have Thursday night, it's Greek. We got meatballs, I got a pickle, a little bit of cucumber and some tzatziki. Grandma's got the baby. Is that for me? Thank you for this, Rebecca. You're welcome.