The video is a day‑long vlog of a family living on a farm celebrating Christmas. It opens with the narrator (Speaker A) describing the reluctance to do chores on Christmas morning and the decision to make the day special with hot chocolate, homemade marshmallows, and a makeshift holiday parade. The family tends to farm animals—feeding a shivering calf, moving sheep through snowy fences, and navigating a steep, icy slope with a side‑by‑side vehicle. They assemble a “first annual burrow hauler Christmas parade” using a zero‑turn mower, a side‑by‑side, a Suburban truck with a Bluetooth speaker, and an old tractor, driving past a few houses in a low‑traffic area while blasting Christmas music. The parade receives little live audience but the family celebrates the effort. After the parade, the vlog transitions to a cooking segment where the narrator brines and roasts a whole goose, prepares sweet‑potato casserole, cornbread stuffing, and a new gravy recipe using arrowroot. Throughout, family members (Amy, Lorraine, Rebecca, Lily, Jonas, Arun, Sally, Josiah, Grandma, Becky, Bruce, etc.) comment, share jokes, and reflect on holiday traditions, including a brief cultural note on why goose was historically a Christmas dish in Europe. The video blends farm work, winter challenges, DIY celebration, and a traditional feast, showcasing the family’s resourcefulness, humor, and affection for each other and their farm life.
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Homemade marshmallows in effect. So nobody really wants to do chores on Christmas morning. We'll be honest. It feels like you could— you should take the day off and celebrate somehow. The animals still gotta eat, so we're gonna still try to make it special. One idea is to take hot chocolate with us. Now why are you putting it in that bag? I'm giving these away. Oh, those are gifts. This is to Amy and Lorraine. I'm making them a little— a little— Nice. Rebecca got them some— Mice mugs. We have our mugs. And that'll be neat. Hopefully we'll turn it from— oh my goodness, we have to do chores on Christmas too. It's a special. Yes, it's a special time, right? I have an idea to take this Bluetooth speaker with us and let's blare some Christmas music. And then we'll have our parade. Yeah, the parade. Parade's later. And look at there. It did snow. Has to be an inch to be a white Christmas. So maybe it's half a white Christmas? No, I think it's more than an inch. You think we got an inch? Anyway, it's enough to get the kids excited. And it's enough to— It is a white Christmas. —make chores even more annoying and challenging. It was snowing a lot last night. We'll probably have to break out the tractor to move the shed. Big pot of hot chocolate to go. You guys about ready to do this? Yep. Mom, these turned out amazing. They did. By far better than store-bought. Oh, 100% better. Y'all ready? Who wants to take the thing? You ready? Greetings. Oh, and a little bit of mistletoe. They're decorating the Christmas tree with a star up top for you and me. Can you hear the sleigh bells? It's Christmas time, it's Christmas time. Way up north, they're making toys for every little girl and boy who mailed in letters, 'cause they've been better, so much better than they I noticed that Maple was— Flossie's calf was shivering a little bit this morning, so we're gonna leave half the milk for her and that'll warm her up real nice. What do you think, Lily? We're about halfway? Yeah. All right, you want to call it? Yeah. All right, let's call it. Get you some milk. You're already not shivering just being back with Mom, huh? Get you some milk, get warmed up. We saved a lot for you. We'll also wait till longer. We'll give them— we'll give her her access to the cow till later. We won't put you up as soon. We'll put you up as late as possible, maybe 4:30. Keep you warm, okay? It's gonna be cold. 29 is the high. So far the chores are going pretty good. I mean, Phyllis was quite messy. Uh, I don't think there's been any other holdups, and I'm hopeful that Sally's going to be able to pull this thing despite the snow, despite the slope. This is actually a 30-degree slope right here, but we're going to hit it diagonally. We're going to direct Josiah slowly driving Sally, and all three of us are going to push. 1, 2, 3! Wow! Yes! That was crazy! It was frozen to the ground. We just jammed it really hard and it went. And Sally got traction with her four-wheel drive. That was awesome! Let's get this straggler over. Come on, we're gonna give that to the sheep, honey. Let's go! Here he comes, Santa. Good. Look! Hey, Jonas, look! Maple's no longer shivering. Back with mom, filled up. That makes me happy. Cute little calf, cute little calf there. Special place in my heart for little adopted Maple. Hey, we got Lily up there at the feed pan. I don't know if they'll ever see this makeshift lane, so Lily, you're gonna have to call sheep, sheep, sheep and walk them over, okay? We're going from one fence system over to another. A little bit of gap here. Hopefully your training is going to pay off here, Lily. All right, Arun, we need everybody to go. Arun, back up a little bit so they'll come. There we go. Good. It's working so far. They got through. That's all right. The two, uh, Harun's got it. Don't let them— uh-oh, there we go. Okay, we gotta open that gate a little bit better, that fence. Hold on, hold on, they're making it, they're making it. There they go, they're doing it. Good. It didn't go as smooth as it could have, but it could have been a lot worse. It could have, you know. I don't know, I don't know how well they can see this. In the snow. Could have got really tangled up in that, but they didn't. We got everybody in. Good job. All right, we just had breakfast, warmed up a little bit. Looks like the road has thawed out. We're gonna try to set up these machines for the first annual burrow hauler Christmas parade. It's a cold day, probably 25 degrees right now. So close, so close, just too cold. All right, we got our starter box here. I don't know if that's gonna work, but we'll see. So close. Come on, come on, come on. We're gonna have to get the saran on it. Yay! The lid was actually frozen shut. I was able to get it off with my knife and get it open. All right, got him connected. Suburban connected. So close. What's wrong? Ah, so close. Let it charge for a little bit. Got to take a potty break anyway. Maybe I didn't cross my fingers hard enough. Woo! It's barely going. It's barely going. It's going. Got it over to our trailer. I would say that's an inch. I would say we officially have gonna have a white Christmas. You ready? Yeah, I gotta hook that. Let's get the hay bale. It's starting to look like a parade. Let me give you a tour. A Skag zero-turn mower, Sally's side-by-side, a Suburban blaring the Christmas music, and an old blue tractor, and finally our kids and the hayride. Now that's Hooray! Oh, snowball missed bad. Parade's ready. Waiting for some participants. I'll put my coat on. Grandma had a good idea. Honk at people's houses when we go by. Sally has no heat, guys. You gonna be all right? No heated bench. I got one. Okay, what do you think, Amy? Oh, I think this is awesome. This is in case anybody sees us live. Okay, where's any live audience. Where's Snowball? She's, uh, he's coming. He's coming. I thought he was coming. You cold, babe? I am, cuz I'm only wearing one layer. This is some sight. Here we go. I'm glad we got you guys in case there's no live spectators. At least we're doing this for you, right? All right, we'll hope for some live spectators. Just so you know, this is a very dead-end road. It's very low traffic. And I doubt anybody's gonna be driving on it now anyway. What'd you guys do? Oh, got the Christmas wreath! We got Santa Claus! Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! You can see Arun on video and say, "This is Arun's wife." That's right. There she is. With their child. I sent a text to Arun, a screenshot. Does Arun have a wife? He's got a little girlfriend on YouTube. She's right here. But just so you know, that's Arun's wife right there. Is everybody ready? Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! All right, we're about to come into the public. A few houses. Let's see if anybody's out. Merry Christmas! Nobody's out. All right, nobody yet. We're about to go into the biggest cluster of houses. What, 4 or 5 maybe? They're hollering in the back. Oh, here's a bunch of cars. Maybe somebody will be out. Nobody. It is 25 degrees. Well, we got some cows. Let's give a cow The cows are looking. Not for anybody but the cows. We're good. Hey, we did it! No live audience, but we got a kick in the vehicle. Not one soul. I saw somebody waving at us. Oh, you did? In the window? Oh, okay. Well, maybe somebody did see us. One person. One person. We did it for the one person. Oh, good. We are back in an Got a very, very, very, very special Burn It Up Cooking Show today because I had brined our goose. First thing I'm gonna do is cut this. This is the key to the best root vegetables in the world is cutting off this extra fat here. You'll see. Here, I gotta wash my hands. Well, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and cut it while it's still in the pot. Wow, there's a lot of fat on this thing. Look at that, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah, man. Well, this is the key to the vegetables. Let's cut all this extra fat. Into little chunks. Fat cuttings and just spread them out through the vegetables. We'll get even more fat on it by cooking the goose on top of it. I think that looks promising. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Garlic in the cavity. Oven at 375. Calls for an hour and 15 minutes. Oh, I want some time to be able to make the gravy and let the goose cool. And rest. And um, I have to cook the sides too. Oh, that's right. Okay, so let's get this in there. You make so much. Well, we have a lot of people. Got that and this. Just 2 other people. Besides our our family. This is enough for 16. Well, if we don't want leftovers, but I want leftovers. Rebecca's famous sweet potato casserole. It's gonna go in next. Then the cornbread stuffing. I think I'm gonna call it, Beck. Okay. Do you want butter? I just checked it a little bit ago. It's 160-ish. Let's do a little shift. Yeah, I want to put that on and I want it to be hot. Let that rest and I can get to work on my gravy. I put the cornbread stuffing in there also. Now I'm gonna try a new gravy recipe. 2 cups chicken broth. I'm gonna end up bringing all this to a boil. Whoops, moving too soon. I need to get the drippings. Hey Rebecca, the vegetables didn't get quite Well, we weren't gonna eat those for dinner. Yeah. So we'll just put them in the fridge and then we'll cook them another day. All right, so now I'm gonna grab the vegetables off into a separate dish. I didn't have a whole lot of grease in the bottom, so I'm actually gonna use all of it for my gravy. Add a bit of onions. One more thing, I forgot to drip out the garlic. Oh, it's hot, it's hot! Teaspoon of poultry seasoning. We're gonna bring that to a boil. We have boiled. I'm gonna turn it down to simmer, and then let's do our— we're gonna, we're going crazy, we're gonna do 2 tablespoons of arrowroot. Root as opposed to all-purpose flour. The gravy turned out nice. Rebecca, how'd your sweet potato turn out? I hope good. And the cornbread stuffing, the goose— well, shall we try a little bit? So good. So good, Becky. The whole reason we raised goose was for today. For this moment. For this moment. And Lauren goes wild on her Old American. Is that what they— European. Well, from what I understand, the Europeans used to eat the goose because they would fatten them up by the fall, winter. They celebrate the solstice, which was around Christmas time. But then when we came to America, there were no geese around, but there were turkeys. So that's why it switched to turkey. So we're going old school here. We're going back to the goose. We're going back to our heritage. A nice ambiance here, Beck. I love this candle situation. How is it, everybody? Good. Has everybody had the Christmas goose? Yeah. No. Okay. I haven't had it either. I haven't. There goes Big Daddy. There goes Big Daddy. Have you ever had goose before? Yes. Well, this is going to be the best. Yes. Mmm. This is good. Grandma, you grew up eating goose at Christmas. At Christmas. Christmas goose. Very European. With chestnut dressing. Oh, nice. Yep. I'll take that. I wish I'd have known that. I would have made you some of that. Bruce likes cornbread stuffing, so that dressing is his favorite. All right, let's see it. Oh, I gotta have a taste. Just like I remember. How is it, boys? That was a dog. How is it, boys? Good. Good. Mm-hmm.
