Seriously Prepping for Total Power Outage

I think it's time again. We've been getting up on the fence because they're growing. They're also growing their wings. We'll have to do that tomorrow because, well, I already let them out. Be impossible to catch all these guys in a reasonable amount of time. Shower mode. Yeah, let's try that. All right, it's gonna be so much faster. It's not tearing it up, see, but it's going so much faster. We don't want to wash away seedlings or destroy little starts, but these are old enough and the blocks are holding together nicely. We don't want to wash away blocks. They've got enough roots now to hang in there. The luchadors have knocked off their mineral feeder again. That means, you know, that feeder's been working out great, but we are going to have to build a frame around it. Not today. Today's zero day. It's our rest. No projects today. This is not an emergency, but it should probably get done tomorrow. We've been thinking about moving this whole net system for these ducks. Every single day. We already move their shelter every day, but they're eating so much grass, it's like, hey, wait, should we just move them every day? They get so much grass. They're not going to get as much grain, but they won't gain as much weight either. So I'll maybe want to talk to the family about that, and we'll just keep moving their meat shaw once a day. See, this is my first time doing ducks. Maybe they would gain just as well eating all that grass. Experience from sea monsters is they won't. It may be about finding that perfect mix of how much fresh grass you're going to give them versus how much feed. But right now, this is my first run and we've already scheduled the butchering. We've already scheduled an instructor. I've never butchered ducks before. We got to make sure they get to weight by actually 7 weeks old. It's good to see Papaw's tree thriving. We planted that in memory of him. It's nice to walk by it and just see that and just think and remember. The hardest part is yet to come. Still got to pick up nets and put up new nets and move the sheep. If you're ever wondering how long that takes, that took about 20 minutes, and I think it will probably actually take a little bit longer to put it back up. Look, You don't. You don't like bandy.

You don't like bandy. What about belle?

You like belle and dick?

What about belle? You like belle? Look, you don't—

you don't like Bandy? You don't like Bandy? What about Belle? You like Belle? And Dick, what about Belle? You like Belle? That's on. I don't hear it, or do I hear it? I'll make sure the water's kicking in. Just turn it on. I'm pretty sure I hear it up there. You do not want to run out of water on a hot day like today. Found one of the child— another child. How was it sleeping in, guys?

Good. Good.

How was it? Jamming. How was it sleeping in?

We didn't really sleep in.

And that's the problem. They're jumping up onto the banister. All right, Lily, let's clip their wings tomorrow. She gaffed. Come on. Come on. Come on. For those of you wondering, where's Aunt Phyllis? Well, we dried her off, what was it, a month, two-ish, before she gives birth to her calf. She's actually due any day now, so pretty soon you're gonna see a lot of Aunt Phyllis and her baby calf.

Yeah, we're trying to milk and she's pooping all over the road.

Oh shoot, I thought that we were out of clean cloths. We'll get her more in a minute. Let's just go get some cloths. Question of the day: what happens is— and actually, this is one of the most popular questions I ever get. What happens, Justin, if you lose power and you have about 10 freezers/fridges full of homegrown food that you've worked really hard to preserve? This is what happens. We've put this project on hold, but it's kicking back in. Definitely want to get this done before winter. We've got a Cummins generator coming. I said, guys, do you want a proper table? They're happy with the Chickshaw table. Multi-purpose everything. Dave, what do we got to do to get this ready for the generator?

Uh, just what we're, what we're doing right now. I'm just trying to figure the footprint. Yeah, and not having to cut concrete for this to move it. So I think we can just— basically, your red dots are the footprint. So it's a little bit off than what we had it, but so basically, you know, you still have a good reveal around it, which is good. Even this, like, we should get this raked up along through here and clean it out eventually.

Okay.

And because what's going to happen is this is going to continue to get up and encroach in here.

Okay.

And then you're going to get— it'll still be fine, it's pretty, pretty up there, but, um, and it's just maybe my personal preference.

So maybe come out, make it look more level.

Oh, that would be probably helpful.

2, 3 feet.

Yeah, that'd probably be helpful.

Yeah, we can do that.

Then, um, I mean, you don't have to, you know what I mean? But if, like, a lot of Some people put their generators almost right on the dirt or on the— yeah, and then what happens is has more of a tendency to get dirt in there, mice in there, believe it or not, varmints. And so if you have it up, yeah, and you have it clean, then you won't have as much.

I like it. That is a— let's see if I can get that out. That is a stainless steel mason jar lid. I'm trying to make an egg I'm trying to make a biscuit from egg. Hey, my first round was a little more successful. Oh no, it's all right. Now we're gonna crust it up. Like, how are you gonna crust it up nice? You can only use animal product cheese. Just— how did you get me more cheese? Okay, can you come shred some for me real quick? See how that's puffed up almost like a biscuit? Look, look, looky here. Mmm. Oh, that's firm. That's firm, like a big biscuit texture. Two of those. It's gonna put some sausage in that. Hmm, it's done. Let's check it out. Oh, oh, delish! Let's keep it warm, let it solidify, let it harden up a little bit. Look at these eggs. Oh my gosh, this is gonna be incredible. Let's do one sausage biscuit. Flip it to the— oh, look at that! Oh, I'm excited about this because I'm pretty sure I invented that. If it's out there, I didn't know about it. I think to perfect it more, we're going to start mixing cream in with that egg. Oh, but we didn't have any cream. I'm gonna have a beef brisket biscuit and a sausage biscuit. 100% animal. So what do you think? What do you think about this concept, Beck? Well, it's great for you. You ain't gonna do it, are you? That's really good.

Make you feel like you have a bun?

Yeah, nice flavor. But I think that— I don't know what you want to call that— that egg biscuit. I think it's one of those things that would maybe be appreciated by carnivores. I've actually been on the carnivore diet for the last, well, 31 days. I did Just Meat July. I didn't just eat meat, I mean, I ate animal product. I ate our dairy, so our milk, yogurt, cream. The only non-animal thing I ate was salt. I mean, I think there was— yeah, there was a cheat on the weekend for ice cream. I had a little bit of maple syrup, but that was it. I did that for, I don't know, an experiment in the fight against my Lyme disease. There have been people with some success on that. I documented the whole thing. And hope to make a special movie for you guys soon. Cat's out of the bag, I'm eating, uh, mostly animal nowadays. The kids didn't do it, Mama definitely didn't do it, but that should say something. Today I'm off of it. I make a sausage biscuit and a beef brisket biscuit, the biscuit being egg and cheese. I liked it. I'm gonna alter it a bit going forward. I'm going to introduce spices, uh, probably eventually onions and garlic, and maybe an occasional berry. Is that right, Rebecca? Is that what you read? It's good for your gut. Even some coffee. I had Bulletproof coffee this morning. Oh, it wasn't, but we'll take it. It's the only thing that kind of, I feel like, mixes up my week is Saturday, we have a rest. And for me, that means a little bit of a Bulletproof coffee, which this morning I just did, uh, butter and collagen peptides, a little bit of coffee, and a third of the honey I would have normally used. So all these delicious biscuits and veggies I've been making for the family this past month, I haven't had it. I haven't had it. And I don't feel too deprived. It's absolutely— I've never had a diet that did that. I'm going to tell you guys more about what happened on that day. It had its ups and downs. It has its pros and cons. More on that in a future video. Let's end this vlog on a very happy note. Jonah and I, we want to show you our builds. Well, basically I'm the supervisor, Jonah's the doer. These are his brainchilds, his doings. I'm just supervising. Tell them what you made.

I just made a bunch of ninja stuff for the kids to play with.

So go ahead and show me the various stuff.

Yep, I made a bow and arrow. I made the arrow attached to it so it doesn't get lost. Here's like a, um, it's like a merman spear. You can use this to climb with something. I think these are called nunchucks. You can throw this then.

Nice.

Another one of those, uh, spheres, and then a sword.

I like it. Good job.