In this informal family vlog, Victor Justin Rhodes walks viewers through a busy farm day marked by an early morning thunderstorm and the imminent arrival of a 1,600‑lb Cummins generator. The crew—Jonah, Ben, Arun, Josiah, Rebecca, Gideon, and others—first secures the animals, moving ducks, hens, sheep, and cows, and feeds them despite the rain. They discuss the generator’s role in protecting freezers during power outages. The vlog then shifts to a cooking segment where they smoke a New York strip steak in the rain, make yogurt, and prepare a stir‑fry with zucchini, onions, cabbage, and tomatoes. Food preservation is demonstrated by braiding and curing onions for long‑term storage. Throughout, family members share personal motivations for farm life, and the video ends with a check on a pregnant cow, Aunt Phyllis, who may give birth soon. The narrative blends practical farm management, culinary experimentation, and family education.
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Do you hear that? Still going. Thunder at 7 AM. I don't know if I ever remember that happening. Nighttime, it thunders. Yeah. All right, are you going with? Can you go get dressed and come with us? No. What do you think, Jonah? We're gonna beat that storm? Yeah, I don't think it's coming this way. All right, you coming with? Come on, please. Come on, PJs and all. Hey, you don't even have to get out of Sally. All right, they're all getting feed ready. I'm gonna move the luchadors real quick, do the ducks. Ah, shoot. All right, we never got to that yesterday. I think we can put that high up on the list today, but there's something that's got to go even higher on our list. Gotta wait for it to stop rumbling so I can finish what I was going to say to you guys. Okay, higher on that list, Gotta make sure we're ready for the Cummins generator tomorrow. Tomorrow. 1,600-pound generator tomorrow. Judging on the popularity of the video that just came out, it would be a couple days ago now, you guys are gonna be excited to see this. More thunder. Okay, how appropriate, because that's, that's mostly what takes our power out. Probably one of the most popular questions I get when I show our freezers: what are you going to do when the power goes out? Till now, we relied on one dinky donk generator that we would maybe switch the fridges and freezers out. Fortunately, there's no lightning in this storm, so I think it's still really far away, but trying to get it done before it comes. This is crazy storm. Okay, let's move the ducks from where they are over one. Haroon, good morning! Good morning! How you doing, buddy? I'm doing good. Oh shoot, we've already lost, we've already lost. So we started right— everybody ready to get wet? Yeah, because the animals still need fed and moved. Oh, we gotta get the fat hens out too. I almost forgot, on today's episode of Burn It Up Cooking Show, smoked New York strip steak. Also, let's check this weather. We could maybe do move the animals in the afternoon if it's going to stop raining. It's going to rain all day, 90%, so we're going to get this done now. Oh, this is going to be kind of fun. I've never smoked in the rain. Burn It Up Cooking Show rainy edition. Come on, G, let's go. It'll be fun. It smells bad. We have an umbrella? Yeah. Okay, let's go. Duck there. Two more, three more umbrellas. And I'm so glad we got the cows out of the mud hole yesterday. Look at them just standing in it because it's gonna rain every day this week. All right, you guys ready? Yes. Yes. All right, waiting on you. Do it. Benjamin asked me yesterday if they would bite you. If you don't feed them fast enough, they'll bite. Thing is, Ben, I wondered if they would eat all those carrots we fed them yesterday. Hey, every single carrot, it's gone. That's good because I like pork better than carrots. Well, we have a break in the weather. Arun's picking up nets, Ben's picking up nets. It's dream team today. Josiah, let's get this up the hill. Somehow there's a chicken out. All right, well, we gotta catch it. All right, there's no catching that chicken, so we think— just— I had the idea Let's try to get in the next paddock. So open that up real good, Josiah. We got Jonah string trimming, uh, laying for the sheep, the sheep fence. We got our cows grazing. They moved up. We're gonna put our sheep fence here. We'll likely go right through here, but have Jonah clear it a little bit before before. I can still smell the little manure pit down there, but it's already much less. Water's holding up nice. It's still nice around here. They only have this area one more day and then this will be moved, so this won't get tracked up too much. I kind of like that we got the string trimmer out because we were going into the woods, but I kind of like that we've trimmed it down here. Less, less pressure on this fence. It's gonna be more powerful. A little crooked. It's hard to string trim in a straight line. Oh yeah, I can see that, but that's okay. If you guys left the cross fence up for me, it would have been perfectly straight. You know what Josiah said? And what Josiah said? We can see there. You can see it's hard, straight line. But you know what, that's okay because there's no straight lines in nature. That's true. Let's get the sheep through over there then too. They have to come too, yeah? Yeah, they can come through. Look, they're already ready. They're pickier, you know, they, they, they need more high quality. So they know. Look. he's already found something right there. Sheep. Sheep. Sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep. Look at him. Good job, Arun. It's milking time, this thing. She knows the drill. It's gonna be a little trickier because I'm not gonna take her through that muddy lane. She knows what I want, but she's doing it. Ben's down there blocking her from going back up to the pasture below the sheep net. There you go. Wow, smooth. Prime grass here, Flossie. But this is tomorrow, actually. Tomorrow. Perfect. Now we're in familiar territory. Ben is amazed that Flossie just walked down here. She just walked across the road by herself. She walked down there, made a turn. There's no lane set up, uh, now. She may not put herself in there If the alfalfa is out, she would have just walked all the way down here and go in. That's crazy. Oh no, we just got the cow in. Had Rebecca ask Mr. Google Pants how hot we supposed to get this steak. It's already too hot because I checked it a little earlier and it was ready and I didn't pull it out. They're not fried to a crisp, but they actually look pretty delicious. So I just cleaned her. Look. You can barely even see any dirt on that. And look, her hooves are clean. Big difference, big difference. All right, Benjamin, you gonna give it a go? Yeah. Is this your first time? This is like second time. Okay. Oh man, well, can you keep up with Lily? Good. Oh man, okay, not bad, not bad. All right, but I don't want to pull on her too bad, you know. You won't hurt her. You don't have to pull, you squeeze. Wait, are you standing on that? Yeah. How are you balancing that? I'm just balancing. Dude's got balance. So we introduced you yesterday, Ben, but yeah, why are you here? Oh man, tell the people why you're here. He's here to milk. Working on this farm. Oh man, I'm here because for one, I love gardening and just being outside and animals and just the whole farm seen. But, uh, I was just telling Justin that one day I want to have a family of my own and have kids that I get to grow up around real life, not just city life. And kids that are— I get to be with them, you know. I don't want to have to go to work all the time and not be able to get to know my kids. Yeah, so I'm still— I don't know, I don't even know any girls right now, but, but hey, first step is trying to pave the way for being able to provide for them. Wow. I'm learning from Justin and, uh, see where— we'll see where it takes me. Nice. Yep. Ben's been a friend of the family for a very long time, since he was younger than Jonah, and he can remember me carrying Jonah. As a wee little lad, just like you guys see me carry Gideon. Hang on with my— onto my shoulders, not my neck. There you go. And he wanted the same. He wanted the same for himself. He can remember thinking that then. And I reminded him just now that, yes, farming is everyday bring your kid to work day. It's great for that. Today we're going to make yogurt. Super easy. The Wilks— the milk's warm. It comes out at 100 degrees. That's where we want it to make yogurt. All you do is 1/3 cup of yogurt to 1/2 gallon of milk. Ben is on it making a stir fry. What you gonna put in the stir fry, buddy? Got zucchini and onions, got cabbage here, and got some tomatoes I gotta pick. And what else we got? Maybe some garlic. I'll see what I think about garlic when I smell it. Nice. Look at that, got some Tomatoes going on. Looking good, bro. I've not heard of tomato in a stir-fry. Hey, I do it all the time. All right, you do it later so that it doesn't just turn into nothing. Yeah, you can still see the tomato. What up? Gonna eat really good this week, that's for sure. Oh my goodness, real deal. Try some of that, uh, smoked steak, man, dipped in a little bit of butter. You ever had smoked food? No, actually, maybe some smoked salmon, but not smoked steak. I need to tell my family about this. It's like, Mom, you're a really good cook, but I can add to your repertoire. Yes, it makes it taste totally different, doesn't it? I've always had Angus, and this is definitely different than Angus. It's so much more tender. Hey, look, I'm glad we're not— I'm glad we got it all done this morning. You're gonna braid our onions. We've cured these, they're ready to get stored. Look at you guys. I think I just did the last one. Jamming! Oh, you got the last one? Yeah. And that's not all of them. Rebecca's already bringing some out here. I put up some screws. Nice. I think that'll hold. I mean, if they fall, we'll put the screws out a little further. You were wondering? Yeah. All we got to do is just unscrew it a little bit. Like, they might be a little close together. Are they supposed to air? Yeah, this one could move. How many moved over. Look what Jonah found. Okay, are you gonna get Mama her bed? It's $1,000 for the start. And I bet buying like the whole thing together instead of buying different parts would have been crazy. Yeah, which even— oh my gosh, what the heck? He didn't even do it to her. She was behind him. Didn't see that coming. Boom! Look what these guys have done. Hung these all over the place, not touching each other, right outside our cool room. That's nice. We've had a big day inside preserving those onions, working in the office. I guess I still haven't worked on this— fortifying this mineral. Tomorrow the Cummins generator is coming. So excited. 9 AM. But before we close out this vlog, We're gonna go check on Aunt Phyllis. It's that time. We're gonna be checking on her twice a day. She's gonna have a calf any day. I can't wait to have a baby. She's had— has she had it? You know what's gonna be ironic? Tomorrow she's gonna be over here in this pasture the day after that, and the day after that, and that's where Moose was born. That could be kind of crazy. She gives birth where Moose was born. Hey, you're gonna be a big brother, guy. Well, you're swollen. We got any mucus? Not really. Her udder though. Gosh, no baby yet. Maybe tomorrow, huh, Phyllis? Maybe tomorrow.
