The Day EVERYTHING Happened

Where are your shoes?

Uh, at the Holtz and Fruitland.

The last two elevated work days, you've left a boot at each place. No wonder I wrote a book after you. Windows have arrived. Yesterday, yesterday, put in the decking frame. Old onions. Hey, wait, maybe I should put them on the chicken's compost. What do you think?

No, they have stickers on them.

Then let's definitely put them in the chickens. Beefcake doesn't eat onions straight up, does he? Neither do chickens. We're about to turn this gigantic compost pile— onions of compost, stickers and all— this, when we first started it, yeah, it was 6.5 feet tall. The chickens are helping break down this gigantic compost pile for our garden. Is that all the eggs? I hope not. We got another broody hen. Well, let's see if she's still broody tomorrow. Oh wow, look how soft that egg is. You want to dunk it in the creek? Or do you want to put it in a hairpin for a few days? It brings their core temperature down. Do a chore over there for 3 days or carry it to water?

I guess I'll do, uh, hairpin.

Okay. All right, let's do it. You could set this on some fertilized eggs, get in, but we need— we need our eggs more than we need chicks right now. It's gonna be a lot easier. Just dunk it?

Yeah.

Okay. You sure? Yeah. You want to see a chicken go in a cold plunge? Look how well he cleared that wall. That wall yesterday, this today. Hopefully this is cold enough. Chicken bath. She's been broody a while, she's lost her bottom feathers. Join the others. Hopefully that did it. Join us tomorrow to find out. You can get down in there. Sure, we're gonna have to go behind with some brush sawing, but now we can actually get to it. Weeds go deep down and bring up minerals, so they're getting mineralized by eating this brambly stuff. Say livestock goes to the forest for their medicine. Pasture for their food. Marking the septic tanks for the health department. Gideon, stop throwing walnuts at your sister. Come with me, please. I should get a measuring tape. How are the little chicks doing? Good. They look good. Do those guys have a guard goose? No. Those guys might be big enough now. Winnie, Beauty's gonna kill you, and she's up there ordering you dog food right now, and that's how you treat her. Let's open this up and herd it in. There it is. I think these teenage chicks are big enough to not get got. What do you guys think? Yeah, you stand right there, Gideon. Only one more. Yeah, who's empty?

Both.

Nice. You like? Very nice. What looks so good? Hey, you want to come with? Every day is a beautiful day with a beautiful one. Every day is a busy day with a beautiful one. Is that how we're getting you out? You're gonna take the stool? Gotta eat and take my aspirin. All right, and then you can come. Sure. You still have to take aspirin? Oh, blood clots. Okay, you want to run the Ergo? You want to take the stool? Which one do you want to take, Salma or Sally? Okay, we'll take Sally. In your stool, I got jobs for you. Okay.

Hello.

Oh, you see a yellow leaf? Can you reach now? How about that? Can you reach? No, not quite. You want to pull one of those milks up? Can you? All right, thank you. Good job. Papa's camera. You want to film some? You want to film? No? Good boy. And on today's show, we have little baby Henry and big brother Mr. Brown. What's the show about today? It's exciting. Oh, all right, ask him a question.

Uh, I don't know what to ask him. Why do you like tractors?

There you go, get to the heart of it. Nope. Okay, look who had her baby. It looked like she just had it. You want to come see the baby? Could it be we have our 7th steer on the farm. Maybe that's a fee— maybe it's a little heifer. 2 cows and milk now. 1 cow means milk every day for the children, yogurt a little bit, cream a little bit. 2 cows and milk, yogurt and cream all the time as well, plus some butter. She just had it. She's eating her placenta right now. It's a heifer. Wow, call the Inquirer, we finally had a female on the farm. We're real close to nursing. I think it's gotten one. We want to nurse within the first hour to get that colostrum to seal its gut. You want milk? You'll be the youngest, I think, of my kids that ever milked. You want to squeeze that teat? Let me help you. Here, grab that teat right there. Nope. All right, good boy. That's nice of you. You watching the cow now? Yeah, I like it. We're gonna drill holes in some of these to get the nets across. Yeah, now you have to put the net across so I know where to drill the hole. Okay, is that gonna work? Nice, it works! Is that gonna work? Yeah, did it! Now we can clean up these banks along our pretty place so that we can start living over here. Nacho's already in the paddock. It's time. It's the happiest day of the year for him. He just doesn't know it yet. And I heard some of the people over now. Whoa, that's on! Woo, that's on good! Don't let them go that way. Okay, okay.

Now we gotta get a bird in this there.

My best idea is get everybody in the trailer and then we can get who we want out. We've got little lambs, girls that we don't want bred because we're gonna harvest them in November.

We only have like 2 little girls.

Is that it? Was there— is there withers in there?

What's a wither?

Castrated male.

I mean boy. Yeah, yeah.

All right, hope Lucky starts. Let's sort through these guys. Oh, we're gonna keep in there the little, the little lambs. Okay, all right, open it up, Josiah. Got one mom.

But we don't have enough. Can we do this on Sunday for a project?

Open it. Open. Is it— I'm going to—

next one, girl.

Young girl. Let's take these guys to the 2 acres. You're pooping. That smirk. Come on. You're right. Maybe not. That cat can't even get out of the— everybody's into it. Help me, guys. Shoot, this steer. I don't think we're gonna get him back to where he was. We do have an old paddock here that we're probably gonna have a lot easier time getting him into. The calf is not gonna go back to where he was, so we've actually got an old paddock out here we're just gonna put him in. Hey, you got the Seminoles in. Fuck them from going past. I would have kept that net up. They will not go in that brush. There they go. Boy, they're flighty. My goodness, finally got him in there. You think he'll let you stay right there? We'll funnel him in. Oh wow, he is— yeah, he is jacked up. You are wound up, dude. No, no, no, you just watch your air. He won't go over it. Wow, he's got to make it though or he's out. Just keep right here. Here, here, look, he's trying me. He's trying me. Nope. Wow. Okay. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. We'll just hurt him up there. Where's he at? Okay, Billy, watch your shape. Watch your shape. Cut to your shape there. He got in there. Oh, my gosh. We're gonna watch the tractor this time. The left foot is the clutch. Look at that smile, boy. First time driving the tractor, you can't help but sm. That's a third generation tractor right there. Keep going, keep going. Get out of the way, get in, get out of the way. How was it? Good. It's a lot funnier than I thought it would be. Oh really? And you need the mommy. Look at this, sweating. John's been string trimming. Y'all been working this whole time? Uh, yes. Look at this view out our window. Look who's cooking tonight. Boy, I like this rotation. Get people out of their comfort zones. Want to know how to cut up an onion for a salad? You've already cut the ends off. You put it like this first. Aaron, it's yelling at me. They all got better ways. Then sideways like this. Did you see that? Did you follow that just now? Yeah, and that should break up and put in your salad. Sam's crying. You guys are getting emo together, telling sad stories. Just saw you crying. It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay. Greek, what do you say? Greek on Tuesday. Gonna do a little bit of gardening this evening. Pulling up the potatoes. I believe we've got 2, 3 rows of potatoes. I dread this. Am I really gonna show you this? There was consequences to the cows got out the other day. I feel so bad because Beauty's been working so hard. And the cows knocked off that one. Broke this one. Probably gonna have some fried green tomatoes though. So we only lost one plant she actually likes. It will be disheartening though. Jonah can mow on our first garden bed. That is gonna make it easier to plant. Maybe I will let him mow on the other one. And maybe that mower does fit right over it. Just try to put your wheels in the path. I don't want him to compact the beds, but sure is going to make it a lot easier. I think he's only having to ride on the bed a little bit. You look at your tomatoes. This is not gonna kill me. Maybe you didn't tear it up, but it sure does look like tarp's pretty much ruined. Two very dirty arms later. Oh yeah, we got lots of potatoes. Look right there, very nice potatoes. Look at that. Potato. That's a big one. We win, man. That'll cheer her up.