In this informal family vlog, the household prepares for an upcoming camping trip while juggling daily farm responsibilities, health appointments, and home renovation projects. The parents coordinate moving cows to a new pasture, protecting clover and trees, packing bikes, gathering firewood, and ensuring livestock are fed. They discuss scheduling conflicts, checking a Zoom meeting via WhatsApp, and handling a dentist emergency involving a gum sore and a broken nose. The vlog also showcases progress on a homestead remodel, including framing new stairs, adjusting window heights, planning skylights with a pulley system, and designing a farm bathroom that can be used without removing shoes. Cooking activities feature banana bread and vegetable prep, while the children contribute by making firewood and getting a mullet haircut, adding humor and family dynamics. Throughout, the tone remains conversational, with moments of concern, pride, and amusement as the family balances chores, health care, and personal grooming before heading into the woods for camping.
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Today, the day before camping, we've got a lot to do. You guys know it gets crazy. Let's do this. You got eggs up there? Well, you got eggs in the other one too, I bet. Did our leaf survive on our newly protected trees? Oh, it made it! The sheep couldn't get to it. Y'all will have shade after all. Feels so good to have that under control before we leave. Those are kinds of things you just can't leave, and you can't count on your farm sitter to take care of— We just set the cows over to their new pasture. I want you to observe something. All these clovers have gone to seed, most of them.
Ideally, we're hitting this with only 20% of the clovers afterwards because you, um, have a 1 o'clock Zoom meeting.
I'm gonna check WhatsApp to make sure that's at 1 o'clock. I think I might be having to miss it.
You won't even walk— talking into your walking stick.
Hey Rebecca, um, maybe I, I WhatsApp Heather because from what I can tell, the Zoom in that time zone, it's at 11, and I told her I have a doctor's appointment, so I may not even be having a meeting today. Textbook perfect, hitting this about 20% has gone to seed. It's about the opposite now, but doesn't seem like the cows have read the books. This looked just the same and they've eaten all the cl— well You know, they've missed some of it. Maybe they don't like it as much, but they surely have eaten a lot of it. How's the packing been going back? Is it worth it? I don't know. Get in, Lily. Please take these bikes and put them under the shed. I don't know if this rain's gonna hold. Yeah, I would say give me a kiss. We've been kissing for 30 years. It's still exciting. Of course, you quake every time. You almost faint. All right, Mom, you got this. Bless your heart. I think you get the short end of the stick. Sick, babe. Packing for camping. You guys gonna help her? Okay, that's the farm project today. Hey Mom, our tree system works. We saved those trees. Last ditch effort to get ready by tomorrow. Gotta come find out. I gotta train the farm sitter early in the morning and we gotta leave by 8:30. Gideon, really? 3 pieces of fruit and a popsicle, which is a fruit? You're gonna turn into a fruit. I'm actually on my way to the ear, nose, and throat doctor to check up on my broken nose. I don't think there's anything to report. It all looks straight to me. Does it look straight to you? Jonah working up some firewood himself next to the house with the Mini X. Dr. Laura gave a piece of advice yesterday for parents. Dr. Laura Schlesinger. It was two words: don't blink. Remember that low water All checked out. Said it was straight. We're good. What do you think? You think it's straight? Uh, we bottomed out on the shocks.
No.
Is it a little crooked? He would tell me the truth. Next up, semi-emergency meeting with the dentist. My gum was hurting last night. They are jacked to the— I don't think you can see it. It's just weird sores on them, and then there's a hole in my tooth.
Shoot, you're barefoot.
I don't know. I was gonna take you to the library, have a moment, not blink, you know what I mean? Could have gotten some extra work done, or I could take and read some books to you. Just be cool, Gideon. Just be cool. Maybe they won't notice. Rising, waking, bread is baking, school bus honks its horn, feeding, sewing, rooster crowing, counting ears of corn. All right, Gideon. Dennis time. Gideon, you glad we did that? Yeah, I'm glad we did that. Come on up. At the dentist, Gideon's coming with me this time. Thanks to Dr. Kamal, Black Bear Dental, Hendersonville, for seeing me on such short notice because we're leaving town tomorrow. We're gonna be in the woods. You ready to camp?
Yeah.
Nurse is not alarmed by the x-rays, so there's nothing super serious. My man, how's it going? Good, how are you doing? Good, how are you? Good. Thanks for seeing me. Of course. Any trauma to that area that you can remember? No, like biting on anything hard? Mm-mm. Something weird last night, I don't know. You can at least look at the sore.
And I did do percussion tests on all those teeth on the lower right.
He didn't respond to anything. Okay. Yeah, it's all right. I think you just want to come see me. I just want to see you before I go camping. I'm a companion. Next up, Camping World for some quick supplies. Hopefully they have no shoes, no shirt, no service policy. Hopefully they don't have that. Up the hill we go. Uh, is your camper like this?
Right there, you good?
Yeah. 50. And then—
Can I get a flashlight?
Don't you have a flashlight?
Like one of those old ones?
Get a lighter. What'd you get us?
Tomatoes and zucchini. That's all we got.
Good update on the homestead house remodel. Big Daddy's here. Put some rough-in stairs here. They're framing to the outside. How do you like your window there? It's nice. Your door and window is not the same height? Yes.
Okay, down here, because if we have the big— the reason I didn't go with the big windows down here, yeah, is because this is so low. Okay, but I'm gonna have two skylights in here as well. If we could do some sort of pulley system along here where we like lowered them, loaded them, and then pulleyed them up so that they could dry up there. We're not putting the onion right in front of my window. No.
Rebecca, look how vaulted this is gonna be.
I know, they said, how high do you want it? Yeah, I want it to stay high.
Yeah, because you know, this is the north side, it's the darker side. Oh, the bathroom's gonna be here, and this will be a farm bathroom that we don't have to take our shoes off to use. You over it?
Hey, Cindy!
Haircut lady's coming, Jonah. Oh, I'm gonna get a mullet, I guess. What you making?
Banana bread, 3 loaves.
This is a before.
Oh, you gotta get through all this.
He's going for a mullet. It's coming along nice. Whose idea was this, Josiah? Jonah's. Look at this little man, Beck. Business in the front, party in the back.
