Overcoming Fear to Shop for a DOG Online

You're not gonna believe this. Rebecca's calling about a dog. She's motivated. Usually I'm the one who has to call. Oh my gosh, is that the one? Aww.

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That was an hour.

Weird. You already emailed them?

I already filled out that form.

Hmm. And you contacted customer care? Could try a different extension.

They have really good reviews, which is why I was like, well, maybe we'll go with them. Yeah, because the reviews are really good.

5 stars out of 77. What are you gonna do? You can't leave a voicemail. We've tried emailing. Um, they're not making it terribly easy. 2 hours away, so that's not terribly far away. So I don't know, what are you gonna do?

Um, maybe gonna try the thing again.

The email?

Here we go. Okay, there's more. Maybe I'll get my questions answered.

Okay, there's a baby too.

There's two of them.

It might be a buck and a doe. Oh wow, I see three, Jonah. Let's go out. It's right there, kitty. Guys, let's go out. Or else I'll do— we'll go make—

do chores. What's our hold up, Mr. Brown?

Uh, 22 minutes.

Come on, we're early. We could actually do something before we milk. Where'd your sweater go? Put it right here. Okay, here.

I don't want to put on a sweater.

Okay, then you don't want to go?

Sweater for the year.

Okay, I'm putting on a coat, but you can do what you want. You It can be sweater weather. It's really not that cold.

Sweater? I thought Mama said sweater weather.

I'm just a, um, I don't know if I'm not a morning person or what, but I'm extra weak.

Can we go outside now?

Wait, you have boots. Oh, there's your other— okay, there's two play shoes right there. You want pink boots? There's some pink boots.

I want Lily's boots.

All right, well, you find them. Because I found your snowshoes. I did not find your pink boots. My jacket has aired out nicely. Come on, I'm ready to go. Hey, you think you could start making a pact? Come here, come here, buddy. Do you think you could start making a pact to take your boots when you take them off, to bring them up to the house? Do you think you could do that? You think you're big enough, boy?

My boots, I keep them.

He's denying that he doesn't bring them back. Isn't the first sign of a problem? Denial?

Too tight!

Okay, well then let's use those to go find your pink shoes. Hey, why don't me and you be the boot buddies? Dude, your pink shoes are right there. I know you didn't do that though. Did you?

What?

You didn't do that.

No.

Okay, while you're changing, I'm gonna go get the food scrap buckets for the pig feed. Okay, I'm gonna be right back. There's one food scrap bucket. That's for the pigs today. Two. Ooh, bonus, some grain. How's Penguin this morning? Oh, she's coming out of the coop. She's trying to come through the cage of the chicken tractor.

Come on, girl.

Does that work? Oh, look, Donald's guarding his flock. Penguin got there. Oh, looky here. Good job, guys. I got a sweater and a coat on. It's really not that cold. I think it's because I'm a grump in the morning and just need the extra support. So we had that scrap from, I don't know, yesterday, I guess, and more scraps. So when that happens, we have more than the pigs can eat. You wonder what's in that? Well, that's the leftovers from a a broth. That's the cooked carrots and the chicken neck and the chicken bones. They love that. It's already cooked, it's easy for them to digest. Outer cabbage leaves, some apple— oh, some pulp from fruit, some apple cores, some banana peels, uh, pineapple. They'll eat that. Chicken won't eat all that, pig will. Same thing with a banana peel, folks. You want to get points with the spouse, wash out the trap. Look at that. Now how do I know that gets the points with the spouse? It's not because of Rebecca complaining. It's actually not Rebecca at all. Oops, I left the light on. Actually Rebecca's mom. She, uh, Ben, uh, farm set for us one time, and Rebecca's mom, grandma, was here watching the kids. She sent us a picture of the washed bucket and said, look at this, saying he was doing a good job. And it must have made a really nice impression. What you doing?

Well, Mr. Brown requested let her come back inside to help him.

Well, where is he?

He's in the bathroom.

Oh, when he's done.

Okay, so he's on you this morning, huh? I'm gonna go get your mineral— that's what I was wanting, your mineral shaw. Good morning, Royal. How are you? How are you, my man? Did you get your snack out of the pig bucket? Did you get your snack out of the pig bucket? We flipped this back over yesterday. Fedmuffin uses this mineral straw as a rub. I think the idea would be to kind of stick with me, I'm trying to explain you something. So anyway, he's getting on this mineral straw and rubbing his neck and flipping it. I think I'm gonna run a T-post, mount a T-post down in here, one for him to have a rub But two, if he goes to flip it— see, if he flips it, the T-post will catch on this. We're gonna get this back down filled up with minerals, and we ain't gonna put it back out without some sort of change. Because isn't the definition of insanity trying to do the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? Mom just filled that up. What are you playing?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Okay, ready?

And Jonah's switching my cows. Philosophy gave us a good 2 gallons. Wait, wait, wait, what's wrong?

Don't do anything. I want to show you that I can do it.

Oh, okay. Good job. Did it all by yourself.

That's hard, Papa. I have a question.

Yeah.

How old will I be in 4 years?

Well, you're 8 now.

Yeah. Am I gonna be 12?

Yep, that's right.

Yeah, Jonah's gonna be 16.

That's gonna be crazy. I'll have a 16-year-old in 4 years. Well, we're gonna get stuff done then, aren't we?

Well—

Y'all be 16 and 14, y'all be taking over the farm. You're almost to take over the farm now.

You're sipping tea, Papa. When I turn 9, can you teach me how to drive? Maybe.

Round 1 milking Phyllis complete. Got the calf on to get some more. That's why you be holding back on us, huh? Why you hold back? So that's what she gave us. Almost a half a pail. Lily, can you hold the camera while I get him off? Let's give Moose a little bit of this just to thank him for, you know, getting a little bit of milk. And then not just— let's give her a scoop. How much easier is it to milk the second time, Lily?

No, really good. Really easy.

All right, what do we got there? That's what she gave before the calf. This is what she gave after. Maybe half a gallon. Can you grab my camera? Can you grab my camera and blue screen? Sure. And come get me at the feed.

Sure. Where are the blue screens? Where'd you cut your hair, man?

Oh, there they are. There you go. Look at that shedding, Josiah. Whoa, are you shedding? Are you guys shedding? Let's go that way. Here, we got some, uh, waffles. Lily's making a map. We got yogurt. We're gonna eat yogurt. Just keeping it simple. Blueberry jam, cherry jam, cultured cream, peanut butter. What you got there, honey? Is that a treasure map? Yeah.

No, it's not a treasure map. It's an exploring map.

Exploring map.

I've already went this trail up here and this trail. I need another piece of paper.

Okay.

To go to the road for me.

See if it's ready. A little more, I guess. While that's heating up, I'm gonna put up the footage for today. Trying to get a move on the edit. If there's any worse appointment in dentistry, you guys know what it is.

It's the tax.

You got news already?

Yes, so I called again.

Huh?

And they were like, because I was like, I'm really concerned about picking a dog from a picture like that.

Uh-huh.

It's scary to me.

Okay.

I'm like so nervous.

Why are you so nervous?

Because it's like having another baby.

Yeah.

They're like so cute.

It's a gamble.

I know, it is such a gamble.

Dogs or cats. Last year we got some great cats and the dog didn't work out so well for us.

Yeah, I know, but that's one thing we are gonna get that trainer that I found.

Did you? Yes.

I have her number.

Now—

In my cell phone.

But, and see, these aren't Our trainer for Laurel said you can't get that out of her, right?

No, no, we're gonna train— training is for like yappiness, and that's like the worst case.

This, this little dog, we're gonna do like— not gonna bite a kid socialization.

I mean, I don't think so, I—

but dogs can't like a dangerous way. Yeah, because it's little.

It is very little.

A mouse like that big.

He said, can't we just get a little dog where—

not an 80-pound dog—

where are they, um where the mouth's not big enough to bite somebody. I was like, bless you, child, I love you. Um, so yeah, I mean, obviously we have a little bit of fear from what happened with our last dog, but I don't think— I think that this dog is just a different— it's like a, it's like a family dog. It's gonna be an inside dog.

It's not been bred or trained to nip at things, right?

His—

he's—

yeah, because like the Australian Shepherd, what is That's like how they get—

She's just kind of doing her job. I know.

So, it's sad.

So that's why you're nervous. So wait, don't I have jury duty possibly on the 18th?

No, the 19th.

19th, okay. Call her the 18th. Okay, all right, don't let me forget to call. Hopefully I'll get out of it.

Do we want to do that one? That one puppy that we keep looking at? Or there's like 3 other males. So we're gonna get a male, right? Yeah.

I've decided that we're getting a male. A lot easier to spay.

Or neuter. So yeah, because the nightmare that was neutering is easier than the spaying with—

with— we're not gonna breed.

Yeah, no, we are not. No, we're like, this is our family dog. Like, our kids want to sleep with him. Like, they want to love— like, we're— yeah.

What are the health benefits of holding an animal like that?

Oh, it's so—

that's okay. That's why I keep going back to it, is because there are so many health benefits. Like there's the, um, like the nervous system benefits where like being with an animal is very calming. Like, that's why there's therapy dogs and stuff. Um, but also just like, also there's microbiome benefits from having an animal in your home. Um, I can't believe I have like a rogue crow. I'm so afraid. I'm afraid. But what would I do if I wasn't afraid?

Oh! You'd get you a puppy.

I'd get me a puppy.

Be careful asking that question. You'd get you a puppy if you weren't afraid. I know. It's the only thing holding you back.

Yeah.

I mean, we'll drive to Charlotte. We ain't scared to drive.

I know. I mean, obviously like there's the care. The day-to-day care isn't too scary. I think like I fear about like the dog getting sick or something like that, but— Should we place our deposit?

Yeah, uh, right now. Wow, you are serious. Well, now when we talk about dollar bills, Justin starts getting nervous. Gotta count the money. Well, look at you. What's the occasion?

We're going out to the forest.

Okay, who?

Me and Joyful.

Okay, is this— what's that?

This is a my nap.

Okay, how soon you gonna be back?

Probably an hour or half an hour and a half.

Okay, what are you gonna do in the forest?

Explore.

Okay.

Or really, I'm hiking in the forest.

Okay, well, have fun. And Rebecca called. Yes, darling?

This guy is available right now.

Oh my word.

And he is gonna be— he's currently 6 pounds.

Oh my gosh.

And he's gonna be—

He's a teddy bear.

The most he'll be is 18, estimated.

Yeah. Very limited damage. 18 pounds.

His name's Melvin, but I mean, we can change it to whatever we want.

So that one's ready. You don't even have to wait till March 18th on that one.

No. I was just looking at their website.

You like the darker brown.

I do, I do. I like the, um— See, like this one will be like 25 to 35 pounds.

I don't want that. It's too big.

He's gonna be between 15 and 25, so he'll be a little bit big.

Okay. Boom! I got through the first edit. Just got to go back through and add music, maybe? I don't remember if it's very musical, but it's like a— it's good. A mega vlog, like 31 minutes at this point. Probably gonna be almost 30 minutes.

Very long vlog.

Every once in a while we go mega, don't we? You've made me a tea.

Yes.

And I'm gonna go to the tax man. Yeah, and what are you gonna do?

I'm gonna stay here. I'm actually gonna work on—

anything is better. You're gonna make a per-marijuana order?

I'm hoping to start adding things to the cart.

Yes, because let's get these cow pens mended and let's get these pigs in the forest.

I'm gonna do it out here.

Yeah, on that computer, which we've ordered 2 more pigs, guys. In 4 weeks we're trying our hand at Idaho pasture pigs. These guys will be harvested in a few months, and we want to always have pigs on farm. And these Idaho pasture pigs are a little bit closer. They're kind of like a mix between a fast grower and a slower growing, like a Kunekune. So it's kind of like the middle. We're gonna try those out as a homestead pig. All right, I'm— I've been back for a while. That was— it was like going to the dentist. Rough. Going to tracks now? No. Worse, I had to go to the tax man. We have a very kind accountant though, so that made it a lot easier. And I have a bookkeeper, uh, also my assistant Heather helps keep track of all that down here. Very thankful for them. What's the problem here?

Lily has called me out here.

Okay, geese go in later, but so you might have to start putting them up a hair later. Like after it's dark. I can run him in for right now. There you go. So when you, when you, when you try to herd him in, he won't, he won't go. All right, you want to check for eggs?

Yeah.

Which, by the way, Rebecca approved my idea of ducks. Come here, Lily, let's check eggs. We're gonna get, uh, 200 Cornish Cross over the year, uh, 24 ducks, and probably 4 meat geese, a Christmas goose. What do we got? We got 4. Okay, gosh, Donald, well, he's really doing a good job protecting the flock. He's so loud. Thanks for coming and getting me. Also, can you guys guess what's in this box? Super excited. It's gonna be one of the greatest launches ever. What, you want to guess?

Meat.

What do you think it is? No, not meat. Good guess. Nope, sell salts. What else?

Uh, a book.

A book? But what kind of book? You think that's funny? But what kind of book?

I don't know though, Mr. Brown.

Is this just terrible? No, it's not Mr. Brown. Joel's book. Whoa, good guess. Whoa, that door is also open. Okay, that was a good guess, Gideon. Oh, that light's better right there. It actually is. Will that work right here? Royal, can I use this for a second for my camera? Let's get that focused. It's dark out here. Oh, there. Is that good? Come on, it's wanting to focus over there. There, there we go. So Joel's number one selling book, You Can Farm: How to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise. Why do I like this book? Because it goes over all different kinds of aspects of farming.

The kitty's the way it looks like.

Yeah, I think he's okay. You're okay, aren't you, Royal?

So especially when it gets dark outside, and he has his eyes are really cute. They're like a stuffed animal toy.

So it goes over basic concepts of farming, but then also goes into, say, if you want to go pro. No wonder it's his number one best-selling book. He's coming to this farm end of the month. Uh, we're gonna get a lot of content for the vlog, but also for— what's he eating?

He wants to eat the egg.

Oh, don't eat the eggs. We're also going to get some content for the member area, mucho content, including at certain levels of membership this book, a physical book, a physical first time ever. We're going to include something physical. You excited? Are you, are you feeding off the energy? Are you excited about that too?

I don't know.

All right. You can farm. Okay, we got one more thing. Remember what we looked at earlier? We're gonna show the kids and talk about it. We're gonna talk to them about the dog. Shh. Okay, Mom wants to show you guys something. Does anybody want to guess what?

A dog! A dog! Like a Star Wars! No, I know it's better.

What? What?

Are you pregnant?

So we have a—

We're gonna get a dog!

Well, we're talking to you about it.

Okay, so—

Well, I guess we did put a deposit down, didn't we?

No, we didn't.

Okay.

Because we haven't decided which one we're going to do. So we're gonna get a boy dog.

Okay.

We decided.

And Melvin is gonna be small. He's gonna be between 13—

We're gonna get Melvin?

Well, he's gonna be between 13 and 18 pounds.

We're shopping, look.

We're looking. We're trying to decide what we want. Okay? So he's 9 weeks old and he's ready to come home right now. Oh, but that's not what— that's not important really because we're— so then there's Lennon, but I don't really like Lennon's coloring.

I like the first one. I like Melvin a lot.

Okay, so there's— then there's Leonard. Leonard. Leonardo.

Yeah, I think we like the lighter look. Look, look, look, pair of I think I want to name him Skywalker.

Yeah, Melvin. That's Melvin.

Everybody likes Melvin?

Yeah.

I saw your inquiry for your— for the mini golden doodle Melvin who's available for adoption with us. Melvin is a very sweet, petite, playful puppy. I'm attaching a video and a few pictures of him in action.

They've sent a video to Melvin, but it's not pulling up on Mom's computer. We're gonna go look at it on our computer. Come on, guys. So you get volume.

It's fine. He runs fast. Will he bite us?

No. This is the thing, guys. We have to take care of him. And it's a commitment. It's just like—

gotta take him out to pee and poo.

Gotta go to the bathroom.

Maybe we should get him one. Maybe we should make Probably like drill a hole in the wall and then make a cage there and a flat door.

Because this is going to be an indoor dog. That means he's always got to be let out to pee and poop.

Can we go outside? I can train him.

You can train him?

It's easy to train. Maybe our friends can help train him.