She Got So Many Seed Pots I Thought It was a Mistake!

Justin and Rebecca's homesteading vlog captures a busy morning with their family and Grandma. They prepare garden beds, load a trailer, care for calves, and get ready to film a short film together, mixing everyday chores with family moments.
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You start finding your sweater, I'll go find your shoes. We're in a hurry this morning, uh, continuing to make our short film with Grandma. Grandma's opt-out story, how she opted out of eggs. Well, we're gonna film her letting them out. She's ready to go, she's ready to let them out. Of course Mr. Brown wants to go, and of course we have a shoe situation. Hey, these might actually work. Okay, these seem dry. It's the only shoes I could find. And the sweater situation— is this his sweater? That's Lily's pants. What, did you find something?
Yeah.
What'd you find? You found a coat?
Is a coat a big puppy thing?
Sure. Where is it? It's not hanging up there. Is it really?
See, see that?
Nope, that's Mama's coat. All mine and Mama's coats are here.
No, in the backpack.
Oh yes. Oh wow, boy, you found something. Wow, okay, that'll work. Oh, that is the right foot, and I know.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning, Mr. Brown.
Good morning.
You come to help me? Yeah, look how big it is. It's as big as your whole hand. Yep, I like that little contraption at the bottom. That's good. We got a local station. They talk all day.
You had to talk radio going. You turn the fence off during the day and plug the radio in.
Yeah, I never know. I hope it helps. Because they're kind of away from the front door.
Yep. Jonah! There he is. Hey, what do you need me to do? You could go get my cows.
No, go get the cows.
Oh, you want me to go get the cows? Well then, what are you gonna do?
Uh, I was just gonna go get the cows after.
Why aren't you—
You did the luchadors? I did film Grandma. I'm done. Yeah, man, I don't fool around. She got— I wish that would work because they're way up there.
Where?
They're way up there. Oh wow, it's a good 5-minute walk uphill.
No, we aren't gonna go uphill.
Yeah.
We've got Lorraine, and Brianna's like, I gotta get outside and work, so we're going to fill this last bed.
They're gonna keep it weed-free, encourage worms. I only had 5 apparently. We have some tarps that are huge for our 24 by 50 foot. Some of them have got tore up real bad. We have some small— I thought we had some smaller types too. This one looks pretty rough. It's probably one of our full-size rough ones. Okay, in here we got to labeling them. So how is this labeled? 25 by 25. That's a little one. That's 47 by 25. This one's little. Is this one ready to be covered?
What, babe?
This one ready to be covered? Yeah. All right, there we go. You can put the sandbags down, Jonah. All right, it's probably time to eat, Rebecca. I get super hungry by 11 o'clock. Look at those two homestead mamas, they're having the time of their life gardening, chatting in the sunshine. Come on, eat, people. There it is in all its glory. Done with the edit. 2:30, 30 minutes till chore time. Tetris?
Yeah.
Photos? Cows? Clothes not putting themselves away, guys. Clothes are not putting themselves away.
Ready to go?
Yes. You want to go? Well, hold on, maybe. 30 minutes. Vlog's ready. Okay, I have 30 minutes till 3. The boys have decided they'll go do the chores. Okay. And I'm gonna go get fuel and drop off the chainsaw. Okay. But first, so I've been tired yesterday. I had to take a nap. Should I take another nap? I feel like I need to take another nap.
If you need to.
Is that crazy?
No.
I feel so lazy.
No. What was that?
You're not lazy.
You're smart.
That's right. Crazy. I'm smart.
You're not lazy.
So maybe I'll take a 20 minute power nap. Okay, well, can I just lay down for like 20 minutes?
No, no, no, no, no. I know, I know, I know, I know.
You got something you can do? No, he's not gonna cooperate.
Yes, I will.
Oh, you'll be quiet for 20 minutes.
For what?
For Papa to take a nap? Practice piano? Would you watch Wild Kratts for 20 minutes? Yeah. Okay. One Wild Kratts show. And then we'll go, okay? Bring out the big guns. The Wild Kratts.
Yes!
I got like a 20-30 minute nap. It worked! The boob tube worked! Oh, okay, it worked! Oh my word. Hey, how much longer? Oh, 18 minutes. Okay, I'll go load the trailer and the gas cans, and then you come out after that. What in the— I got this for my paint, but I don't need this. I was gonna put this in the Suburban, put the chainsaw on this, but I'm gonna take the trailer. I don't need this. I bet these are our pot pots. Oh yeah, look at there, buy the great oak bull planting pot. Oh yeah, big time, big time. I guess we got serious. That's a box full of I wonder if she meant to get that many. It's a bunch. Rebecca, how many plant pots did you get? That much?
Yeah, yeah.
What are you gonna do?
That's funny.
It's not that much. Okay, I thought you were getting— how much more do you have to plant for the spring?
The ones that we know we like?
Yes.
Okay, so I got these and then I got some other ones that I didn't know.
She's unafraid.
Okay, afraid.
You have to fill every single one of those.
It's not hard, there's not that many in here. You're overreacting.
Okay, you're overreacting.
She starts the Suburban, get it warmed up.
Justin's got the, um Sally going for me. I think maybe it's the Suburban. I don't know. I'm going with the boys to do the other chores. He didn't start Sally for me. I was wrong.
Sorry about that. She started Sally for you.
That's all right, I'll start her up. We are all loaded up. Minerals are gotten. Water, hay, I think that's it, right?
Going the access road.
We're gonna go the access road.
All right, let's get out of here. I just realized, Gideon, do we have our ball on? I think I got it off for the tractor. I don't know if the same— yeah, it's the same ball. All right, let's check before we back up. Our hitch is not on. I've been meaning to get one. Oh, you don't have to be in there, it's right here. Yeah, we have that ball. That's huge. That's what I was afraid of. We had the hitch but not the ball. It's on the tractor. I meant to— I borrowed it from it. Meant to order another one so I didn't have to screw it on and off. Get in somewhere. You've stepped in here on this. Don't do that. Okay, go through the doors.
I'm gonna have to bring the calves down again.
What's wrong, Mom?
He's trying to figure out what to do.
I gotta bring the calves down.
Okay, what if— okay, you've got that laying up down there. Why don't you put these up and just get her first get them first thing.
You're gonna drive through it. Oh, and you'll have to take it down and then go through it and blah blah blah.
I wonder if it won't— it— no, because I gotta load the gas, I gotta hook up the ball hitch.
Okay, well then just put it up, Jonah.
There's our ball. This should do it. I did it. Hey, you got to get your bike further off the road, honey.
Are you picking this trailer for the guy for me?
So you're right there. Yep. And I can see you from my driver's seat. Okay, you back me up. Okay, get in your car seat.
Make sure that works.
All right, everything sounds good. I just realized I didn't tell you. Well, we're gonna get gas too. We're out of gas completely. Mark is near where we can get some gas. Let's get some gas. Let's drop off the chainsaw. All right, got the gas in. Putting Mr. Brown in the back just while we get gas. We dropped off the chainsaw. What do you want to say?
Did we get our pop tire fixed? Did we, Papa?
Yeah, we got our pop tire, and there's a spare. Full of memories. 8 gas cans. It's one of the last things my dad did for me before he died. These are his gas cans. I should show you these. Not one the same. A lot of them needed repairs. I got a lot more caps. But we have a golf tee going into the breather cap there, a screw going into that one. We go and remember my dad. We just— 98 bucks.
Flossie broke out and, uh, is down at the barn. So Jonah went to go deal with her. She's quite the Miss Fang, here you go, Jessa.
Hey, ladies!
What the mineral situation is here— they're actually really good.
I love all the food.
The boys are showing me their cabin.
You see what we did here? They made a little dam over here in the creek so just I can polar plunge and we can swim in it.
He said just I can polar plunge.
And we might go swimming. Like in the summer we might use it as a wash tub.
Fun.
You can polar plunge in there.
And they've got their— I guess they took the bark off of their wood to give it a look.
We're still working on that.
It looks nice. You guys have You've done a good job. So you guys have some mud cooking on the stove.
You guys and Mom can stand up.
And we got the—
this is actually an add-on up here.
This is an add-on.
It's very nice in here. I really like the openness to the trees and how you just feel like you're in nature.
How'd it go for you guys?
It went fine. Plus, she finally calmed down. No, she didn't.
You guys playing Dutch Blitz?
Yes.
Yes.
It's a good way to end the day.
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