In this informal, vlog‑style episode, the host (Speaker A) walks viewers through a busy day on the family homestead. The video opens with personal reflections on morning anxiety, back pain, and stress, then moves to updates on various homestead projects: the chickens’ wood‑chip bedding, a newly finished deck, insulation and painting work, and gutter placement decisions. Garden challenges are discussed, including cat and human waste contaminating a garlic bed and watering issues with carrots. The core segment features Kaylee from Home Honey Homestead arriving to help set up the family’s first bee hives in 92 years. She explains hive stand construction, temperature considerations for opening hives, bee behavior, and basic honey‑harvesting tips, while the family debates equipment like bee nets and fiber tufts. Throughout, there is casual banter about cooking, “Super Cubes,” and family logistics, providing a snapshot of the day‑to‑day life and learning moments on a modern homestead.
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I love this shot. I don't have to get very far away to get this whole house in the frame. Henry woke up this morning, first thing he said, I'm no lie, he smiled and he said, "Mama, it's morning." So I'm gonna say that. Happy day, it's morning. I'll tell you what, if you're like me, you don't wake up saying, "It's morning." Something about the morning for me, it's like all my Fears and negative thoughts accumulate in the morning, catch me all at once in the morning. There we go. Although I don't know if that's gonna work being crooked like that. Yesterday just felt that, or stress, you know, moving the sheep, moving the, the pigs. When I would remember, I would just smile even though I didn't feel like smile. Try it right now. Try smile. Emotion follows motion. Goodness, what is the commotion about? Wow, the chickens have leveled out their wood chips we gave them yesterday. We got Kaylee from the Home Honey Homestead coming coming today. I believe we're going to see our bees today. Between today and tomorrow, we're installing bees for the first time ever in 92 years. Another reason for wood chips in the chicken run, besides keeping down the smell, making compost, giving the chickens a sanitary place to live— it looks really good. Make sure— see poop in there. I've not been turning the nest boxes like I should. They finished our deck. Yesterday. Wait, I noticed some caps missing, but they finished it. VIP deck done. I love it. Look how beautiful. Look at this generous step entrance to our yard, which we will be spending a lot of time on this deck in the summer. Painters have primed and done the ceilings, and boy, I do wish you could feel it in here. It is so much warmer with our insulation. And then Ashley has guests in the cabin. There's no kitchen cabinets over there or carpets, so we're not moving back. They usually stay in the farmhouse when they come to visit and shoot with us.
Now we traded.
Now we traded. Is that Bizarro World? Come on, bud, come on. He's having so much fun in life. It's morning, I get to ride my bike. Everything's fun. I'm thankful for the rain the other day to water our carrots. I neglected to water them when I planted them. Something got in that. No. Winnie! Let's mow a strip around it and put a fence up it. Did I just find the culprit? Get out of here! You're pooping in our garden! Disgusting! People and your cats. Poop in the garden. Are you serious? That's disgusting. Forgive my limping. I've hurt my back. Didn't I hurt it? My back hurts for no particular reason. Rebecca's like, this happened to you this time last year. At the cabin. I've moved once in my life. I moved from my childhood home, and now I've moved twice in one year. I think it's stress. I think it's stress because I don't think anything's really wrong with me. We've had all the tests. We've had the connective tissue tests. When I was in high school and got so stressed out about running track, you know, it's the little things when you're younger, we would have my back examined. Nothing. She's dug there, there, There, there, there, there, there. Winnie has dug like 7 holes in one garlic bed. She does seem to be kind of dodging the plant. You doing all right? You miss your lady? That's about a twice a week job right there, what I just did. Annie just told me that garlic mess wasn't Winnie. Mr. Chickens. On today's episode of Burn It Up Cooking Show, we have a guest cook. Have you ever cooked chuck roast? Chuck roast? I don't think I have. Okay, well, I heat all the time on the Burn It Up Cooking Show. Yep. Well, you told me not to be high. I wonder why. Burn It Up Cooking Show has lived up to its name. Yeah, Lily, you took the Burn It Up Cooking Show to the top level. It was our plan all along. Yeah, see, he was on board with you. Yeah. Because he's seen how all the screw-ups this house has gotten. Y'all don't know, that's the editor. You can blame him for all the fast edits. Oh, I'm just kidding. I approve every shot. He approves everything. And I say cut it down. Summon your inner youth and enjoy the chaos. Put one of these Super Cubes— that's a 2-cupper— freeze them into 1 cup, 2 cups. It's handy with you right here because you can put the link to the Super Cubes video note, put the link to Super Cubes. Thank you, Cole. Hey, everybody grab a towel. There you go, Austin. They're a little heavy, aren't they? They are. This one's a little lopsided too for some reason. Drive slower than you've ever gone before. Here, put it in neutral. We'll just push it.
Okay.
It could be our cart. They're not broken.
They're not broken. I promise.
Okay. Yeah, just open them all and expand them like that and put them right over here. Are they?
Yeah.
And you said they weren't. Well, I didn't know. Okay, see, aren't you glad we're looking?
These are broken. 1, 2. So not all of them are broken.
Some of them are broken. I'll do it. I don't want you to get cut.
I've opened most of these boxes.
Just trying to be a gentleman. We'll put the broken— the ones that have any broken ones— okay, in a pile. And they're gonna have to tell you, do they want like super itemized or just broken box?
I went with this company because they— everyone had great reviews, like it was packaged really well and all the things.
Rebecca's got to make a decision here about where guttering is going. You can run a gutter spout down that wall or Which wall?
The white wall?
Yep.
And where would it go?
For this gutter. See the gutter?
Yeah, I see that. Where would it go?
Down to the floor. He could come off of here, but he's gonna have to first of all come back up column, and then he has to finagle through this. Or you do a chain gutter.
You don't think the kids will bother this gutter?
Well, that gutter will be secure against the wall. This is gonna be— have you seen these chain things?
Honey, this whole house is gonna be bothered.
We're gonna have to have Randall on retainer. You like that? I do. The chain? Okay.
Get out of here!
Well, let's just get the chain then. Most people, he said, do not put gutters down the side of the house. They like to go on the corners, or— We're not normal. That's true.
Hopefully they can withstand the test of our children. Oh my God, we should vacuum all this dust up.
Okay.
Where's the shop vac at?
Oh, like right now?
Uh, by Monday.
All right, you gonna vacuum it up?
Yeah, you want to do it?
No. Let's try it. You said they did not paint these.
Look, strip it right there.
Oh, and then come out here.
Oh no. For all that— seemed like we were gathering up so much, it's just a little pile. Why do I overestimate everything? Right in time for the bee lady to get here. What are we gonna do?
You want to see your girls?
Yeah, that's what they are.
Yeah.
Oh, we're gonna learn.
Yeah, you're gonna learn.
Okay.
Oh wow, happy with this cold weather though.
Yeah, today what we're gonna do is we'll place them and we'll get them set up, but I'll open up, um, but we won't open up because it's a little too cold. This is your guys's hive stand. We milled, uh, milled the oak. It's oak, so it's solid. And then my husband and son were like, let's brand it for the road.
I mean, that's awesome. Our last name's Richardson. Okay.
I don't typically like to get into the hives so it's around 60, close to 60 degrees. Tomorrow I think it's going to be like 58, I saw, and then sunnier.
First up, we're gonna talk about where to put these hives. We think we got our locale. Austin's documenting this for putting up a course. You learn anything? Not yet, not yet. I'm sure it's very basic so far. Yep, basics. We tried a couple of different spaces and she helped us narrow it down to this one. By the way, it was 80 degrees yesterday. It's like 35 right now. Custom Stan Oak. They even branded our R. Their last name starts with R too, huh? We got us a new Energizer from Premier One, and we got their bee net. Apparently, according to Kaylee, it's not for the hunt. I was like, we don't need this net yet. It's not for the honey. They're not after the honey. She said, poo's a liar. They included these fiber tufts. You make a turn right here. There's fiber tufts. You can make a turn wherever you want. Historic moment, kids. I'm not sure if the hauler's ever had bees. I think it's getting colder.
So anticlimactic.
So you opened it tomorrow? They didn't go anywhere?
They're— no, she doesn't think they will because it's so cold.
I just want to— I want to give them the option.
So if this were 80 degrees out here, they would have just started? Yeah, they just would have went out right away. They don't want—
nobody came out.
They're gonna kind of fly out and then they're gonna kind of circle around their perimeter. Okay. And it's like their way of like navigating. Being like, this is my home.
Okay.
And then, you know, they'll come back in and you'll see it.
You're gonna teach us how to harvest this tomorrow?
You are?
Yeah. There's honey in that?
Yeah.
Is that easy or hard to harvest?
It's pretty easy.
Not filled, obviously. Filled, and it's— that's filled with the honey?
Yes.
Lunch break. You guys excited about bees? Who's the beekeeper? Boston? Yeah, yeah, I'll take care of it. He likes it. You wear an outfit? No? Unless they're being like, some days you walk out there and they're being aggressive. She even brought honey.
I did. I mean, like, except it looks like peanut butter right now.
So you travel everywhere with your own honey?
Yeah.
You eat it every morning?
Every morning.
Why?
I'm gonna try it.
So honey is—
Wouldn't that spike your blood sugar? It would spike mine.
Honey is the prebiotic, like, it's a probiotic. You want to heal your gut, go with honey.
