Overwhelming Abundance

It's not gonna work. Hey, have y'all milked yet? Yeah. Hey, we got milk! We missed the last few days. Calf's been getting to the milk lately, but I think we've solved our problem. I believe the sheep are getting out. Unless somebody's down there moving them. They're going across the road. They are supposed to be over there, right? Do you see how that's working? You guys can barely even see it. Sheep can see it. I saw it myself. See them down there? They came out and they wanted to go down in here, right here at this path, and they didn't. We successfully protected the garden. In the event that sheep get out. Go through. Go ahead, get in. I want to beat that sun and I want to get some work done before the folks come working on the house. Heck yes! We need to get up this garlic. We got potatoes on the harvest list. We got cabbage on the harvest list. We got green beans on the harvest list. Lily, hold on, boys. Hey, hey, where do we turn this fence off? Up at the house, up at the shed. Johnny, you could have helped her. I saw you drive by. Wait, no, not yet. Yeah, go ahead. It's off. Distraction number 1. Distraction number 2. Distraction number 3. I'll probably stop counting at this point. Hey, come on. Yeah, let's bring your toys around this way. Get in. There's just as much dirt over here on the other side where I'm gonna be. Come on, please don't dig a hole in the grain feed unless you plan on covering it back up. Y'all come around here where I can see. Y'all want to help me pick beans? Yeah, come on, get in. Be an example. Just help me pick. No, play here. The dirt over here where I— come help pick. Come help me get beans. Get in and be the example. How's our ailing plant? Is it reviving a little bit? Might it make it? All right, that's the excitement I'm talking about. Look in here, there's so many beans. So you get over here and you open this up and look, there's beans. Look at all those beans. Yeah, if you guys want to, or you could pick beans with us. I think we'll pick a row of potatoes. Okay, leave them out. Get the potato fork. I'll show you how to— how we're going to harvest them this time. Then I lose all my help in the beans. Here, y'all could grab this garlic too. Grab the garlic up, try to keep the stem on it. You might have to wiggle it. John, where you been? Camp. Haven't seen you on chores in a while. Yep. Good to have you back, Mom. Wants us not to pierce any potatoes. You know, we've been going like this to harvest. We gotta show you. Look at this, Papa. Wait there, that's good. What do I do with all these? Yeah, go from the side. You better throw it to the pigs, get rid of the evidence. The one vlog she watches. Look at this potato. What you have to do— can I show you? There it goes in. Wait, Papa, there's so many right here. You missed— can be pulled up too. Pull up, pull up these weeds too. Did we? That's a lot of taters. Look how much that one plant just gave. Wow, that's a bag of potatoes. That sun is rising fast. It's fixing to get real hot in here. Let's harvest these green beans before it's too crazy. Made short work of these beans. Probably got 2, 2 more sessions, 2 more harvesting sessions, maybe 3. This all the garlic? I mean, don't get me wrong, that's plenty. I just want to make sure we all have it in this cart. Look at this potato. Oh, that's a weird one, huh? Yeah. How easy it's gonna be to clean up behind these? That's not too bad. I gotta make more room on our produce drying rack. How's that? That's better. Hey, I didn't catch it. The beautiful one came down, planted some cucumbers, got dressed, it's feeling a little better, and then she almost fainted. What happened? You got dressed? I did. I came out, I tried to do some stuff. It was too much. Yeah, I don't know if it's because of the heat. Hey, just try your best. I know I have some other things I wanted to do. So I was walking out there with baby in one hand, went down a bank, fell. My stab wound from that glass got dirt in it, caked in it. The problem is when I fell, shoved my Band-Aid up and dirt got all up in that. I'm supposed to do this horse thing with Lily. They're on their way, probably gonna be about 20 minutes. Can you bring that over here, Josiah? That's some salt bath. That should help loosen up the grass. We're gonna soak it and then I'm gonna scrub it out. Problem is I was hoping the soaking would take the dirt out. It didn't. If I'm gonna prevent infection, I really gotta get this dirt out. That means girding up my loins. Look at that, I'm all bandaged up. Lily's Horse Club will be here Any minute. Where are you guys going with the potatoes? After we get these potatoes done, we're going swimming. Okay, but why are you putting them in the wheelbarrow? Take them over there. Where? Over there. Look how many potatoes you already have stored over there. Oh, I thought we were gonna let them lay in the sun a little bit to dry. They're very dry. Dry, dry, dry, dry. All right, do you eat these weird potatoes? Is this your collection of weirdos? John, you can take one home for your family. Well, I'm proud of you guys. I didn't half expect to see you here. All right, Lily's people are here. That was a bonus. I was not expecting them to pick up all the potatoes. Who's that stranger in this house? There's no trespassing. He's back. I'm back. And your knee's all right? It's good. They're gonna take it easy. Uh, I don't know yet, so I'll just try it. All right, is this your first job? Yeah, you looking around to see what to do? Yeah. Look at this, we got all the horse riders here today. Yeah, we do. Don't fall down yet. How old is Blaze today? 15. It's his birthday party. She's doing a special for him and for her channel. How do you think that went, Lily? Good. Yeah, what was the wildest thing? Probably swimming and a rocket flipping the table. He flipped the table. Now Big Daddy and Grandma will be back with our steers. We've got to get in here and get some room in our freezers. It's locked. You go get the key. Never mind, Gideon, they're here. 3, 4, 5, 6 coolers plus more. Plus in here. Oh boy, unless you're getting 10 boxes out of here. Yeah, and oh my gosh, and 2 more. You may have a problem. Uh, this is This chest freezer is getting full. Put the rest of the stuff— I'll shift some of Stud Muffin over here more. Pulled out some pork for Winnie, just some like ham hocks. We're gonna have to make room. This is all new stuff from today. This is a good problem to have, running out of freezer space for all your homegrown meats. We are jamming. We put bones in there. We have some more Stud Muffin for that. We're just slammed. We haven't even got Well, I unloaded one cooler and there's like 5 more coolers. Oh boy. Okay, hold on, hold on. There's bones, 3 more boxes. It's not even the coolers. No way we were getting all that into Big Daddy's. I have maneuvered this freezer out to here. We are in the basement of our dream house, yet to be occupied. This though is where this will go. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 2, 3, the ice maker goes there, maybe 4. Chest freezer out here. We're running a drop cord to the RV outlet. No, don't be dumping out that alfalfa. No, no, we just picked all that up yesterday. Now we got to get all that off the ground. Keep going, go all the way to that freezer. Take it over to the freezer right there. Here, let's rerun it, let's rerun it. Draw this stuff. We got a light to it. Get in. All right, let's hope, one, that this freezer turns on. Stop! Yeah, is it on? Two, there's no mold in here. There's no— still cold. Oh my word. Hey, why don't you put that energy to putting the meat in the freezer? I'm gonna do this. What, are you gonna put that all that dirt back? Yeah. Last cooler. Really, it'd be cooler. Got so much burger. That's okay, we like tacos, we like spaghetti, and we like burgers. It's actually good that we're loading it with a bunch of frozen stuff because it'll bring the temperature down. and this freezer won't have to work so hard to get to temp. You can't keep a good woman down. You're gonna do all the beans I did this morning? The beans. We got a really cool hack we're gonna try out on those beans in a little bit. Hopefully I'll remember. Meanwhile, we're celebrating. Jonah's making— is that blackberry? Wild blackberry cobbler. We got fresh ingredients. This is chicken from the land we're parking up. This is what we're celebrating. We got New York steaks. From the land. We're gonna make Japanese steak and chicken. Beautiful one already made a yum yum sauce. Frying some onions and diced up carrots. Now I've added a bunch of rice that we cooked earlier. Let me see what you got. You wanted to show me these beans? Wow, you did all the beans! Yeah, good job! Looks like there's still some more beans. Get in, Henry. Lily, to cut this— okay, well, first of all, let's get Let's get the skin off all this. It's easier to get the skin off while it's whole. Okay, then you go like this. Look, you don't cut down because you might cut into the night— to the bone. You, you go alongside of it like that. Frying up the leftover chicken. Don't eat it all now, Lily. The best for last. We have everything keeping warm. Cooking up that New York strip. This is a good meal. Is that what you said, Beck? Yeah, everybody did their part. Well, what was your part? Mom made the yum yum, you're be cute, gonna help pick up, and I watch the baby. Oh, you ain't got the onion, right? This is great. What a great way to end the day. Happy— It's the next day. I forgot to do the beans until late last night. I'm going to show you this hack. We got a 100% cotton pillowcase. So it can breathe. Here, let's see if it worked. Put the beans in here. I didn't wash them, just cut them ready to go. All right, that's gonna work. We just rinse them and cook them. Oh my word, that's cool. We just twisted the bag and we can add more, we can take out easy. Our neighbor told us about this, this hack. 19 years homesteading, still learning every day. Happy day.