In this informal family vlog, Victor (Speaker A) guides his children through a rainy‑day routine on their farm. He starts by coordinating chores such as milking cows, loading scrap metal onto a trailer, and discussing the family tradition of taking metal to the yard for cash. The conversation shifts to footwear choices, emphasizing the practicality of having multiple pairs of rubber boots for wet conditions. The central project is fixing the wood‑boiler pump: Victor walks through locating the faulty pump, removing the old unit, handling the electrical connections, and reinstalling a new pump while involving the kids. After the repair, the family prepares a comfort meal—yogurt‑ranch chicken with mac & cheese, homemade applesauce, and other farm‑fresh sides—while sharing jokes, apple‑bobbing games, and reflections on the day’s weather. Throughout, the vlog blends practical how‑to instructions, family banter, and a sense of self‑reliance on the farm.
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Go put your mom's shoes back before you destroy them. Happy day. I woke up not tired like I did yesterday. I'm fighting shingles, actually. I cannot believe I went to sleep last night after a 2-hour nap yesterday and went to sleep at 9:30. Feel up. I woke up feeling it's getting better. Gideon, why don't you guys go with me? No. Are you gonna behave in here? Yes, it's raining. It's cold and raining, but behave in here, okay? Yeah. Are y'all already did your chores? Yeah, you already milked the cows, strained the milk. Dang, I guess I'm not going on the first round. Good day for a meadow yard run. The rain has— well, it's sort of still sprinkling. I gotta keep you guys covered mostly. That's why I got this umbrella. Good day for animal tillage. Good practice backing up the trailer. What's the motivation? The hustle? They pay us for this metal. They're on to me. Used to be me taking them to the metal yard. It's a true family tradition. My dad used to do it for me, and now you're 17 and you take one hunch, oh, I'll take it by myself, and then you get that cash money. You've milked and you're ready to go by 8 o'clock. Are we keeping that stove? No, you can throw that out. We help load this in? Sure. This, uh, and what about this? Oh, we probably should. Okay, because we're throwing the two other ways that are in the middle stall away. That hot water heater, I don't know, I bet it could be repurposed or used one day. Too bad you can't take toilets, although those are probably going back in. I think I vaguely remember when I was probably about Jonah's age, I probably started doing this by myself. Myself, putting the money in my pocket myself, even though it's basically all my dad's metal. Jonah, what boots you wearing? Some boots. Yeah, you've got my boots. Does anybody know where my low-top boots are? Yeah, are they? Are you sure? I didn't see them. See a lot of boots here, none of them are mine. No. Okay, I just remembered what I could do today. It's very important. A good rainy day project. Fix the wood boiler once and for all. Replace that pump. Get it done. Can you make me these? Yeah, can you make him too? I have some old low tops, got holes in them. I haven't thrown those away because I can certainly wear those on a dry day, but not on a day like today. Uh, I have Jonas. What I would really like to wear on a really wet day like this is my high tops. I save those for different— guys, you don't have to get the— that's a good hack— you don't have to get the full-size. Get the full-size boots and the low-size boots. These work most days, are a little less expensive, easier to get on. These are not— these are the— these are the ones that have broken. These extra toughs though are the best. But eventually everything breaks. Yes, it's more of an investment in the short term to buy 2 pairs of rubber boots, but in the long term you save money because you're not wearing out these long tall unnecessary— unnecessarily. Like, I've had those boots for years, Jonah. We only wear those on really wet days like today. Nice load. You guys got some weight on this trailer. Boys have gone to the metal yard. I kind of wanted to go with them, but I'm starting to feel tired. Let's get these let's get our chores done and then let's reassess where things are and see if we're fixing the wood boiler. Boy, it's cold and wet out there. I thought we had buttermilk. We were gonna make buffalo or buttermilk ranch chicken wings. The pigs have eaten our buttermilk. It must have gone bad. All right, uh, let's hurry because you're supposed to marinate a little longer if you're gonna do this recipe. I wish I would have done it last night. Good time to be a little more elaborate with our meals on a cold rainy day. We're gonna do 3/4 cups yogurt. We're gonna make this buttermilk. Makes it a little less thick. Do a quarter cup of milk and a splash of lemon juice to get the tartness. I don't know how many we're gonna need of these, so I'm just gonna do this over and over again. We got the chicken marinated, Lily. Let's remember to take it out maybe 10 o'clock to start coming to room temp. Slowly cooking it by just setting it out to room temp. That would boiler pump, but Kids watch some boob tube. Hey, listen, I'll tell you what, let's go fix the wood boiler. I could use some help. Yeah, I could use some help. Could you turn the wrench for me? You got to get on some pants. And I'll tell you what, if we get done before lunch, you can come in and watch the show again. I've taken a little nap, a little power nap this time, not a big old monster nap. I'm ready to go. 15 minutes. Can we do this in 15 minutes? Do we need to put that chicken in? Can you hold the wrench? Bring your wrench, Henry. We have to put this pump— we have to get this pump off. Shut off all the waters because this one doesn't have a shutoff. Does that mean it's just gonna spray up? This was like this. That's not the right pump. That's the wrong pump. That's not the right pump. So yeah, down. Okay, pump was easy to get off. It's this little electrical device holding the plug in that I can't seem to— I don't know how it comes apart. Blow it up again. Well, it's, it, it's the same one. I never replaced it. Really? It was kind of off and on working, and now it's just not working, so I'm gonna replace it. But how did you get the electrical cord out of there? You have to have a pair of These are anti-theft, I reckon. You squeeze that little knob there in. Ah, okay. Yeah, little booger, ain't it? Channel locks. Yeah, cotton picking thing. Be hard not to get in the way there. Yeah. You got it. Okay, thank you. As long as that right there ain't bent— that one's kind of bent. Okay, just push her in there again, straight middle. Hey, what's happening? We're not technically done. Y'all turn that off. As much as I want to get down there and just put that on, it's time to cook lunch. Do I see more applesauce in our future? Yeah. Are you just bobbing for apples? You want to try? I heard it's hard. I'll pay money to see you do it. Aw, grandpa. Gangsters. Look at y'all. Let's get one apple. You have to go really fast. Did he get it? No. No, he hasn't got it. One apple only. Hey, Papa. Hey, she got one. I got one. Wow. That's hard. I left my phone at the wood boiler. So I'm just gonna go with it. It slipped. All right, okay, we figured it out. We got this part. Come on, we got till the chicken cooks. Let's go, you mountain boarders. Got fortunate, you know. I guess water could be gushing out of this. We got this cord out of here. I don't know if I would ever figure that out because This is, uh, it wasn't intuitive because it was so hard. We got our pump secured. Let's see if the water can go back on without leaking. Oh, so far any leaks? All right, you want to plug in the pump and see if it works? Yeah, it's working. It's getting warm. Moving water. Water. Oh my word, I'm fixing stuff. Yeah, this is the test. See if water— hot water is coming through. Oh yeah, oh yeah. What you want to do? You want to go that way? I think he wants to go this way to use his umbrella. Shoot, it's probably time to eat. Let's go, let's make sure the chickens aren't burning. I don't want to go this way, camera's gonna get wet. I'll do it for him. All right, well, I kind of gotta hurry. I'm not got an umbrella. I do. I know you do. Thank you. All right, you're so nice. I'm gonna rock it a little crooked. I can't get under there no more, it's too, too low for me. I got the wood boiler working. Well, that didn't need nearly 40 minutes. It was only 30 and it's very dry. It's dry. Comforting food, isn't it? It is very comforting. Ranch yogurt chicken mac and cheese. How's that yogurt ranch chicken? Just something different. So we don't get tired of our chicken. Straight to the source, vitamin C, an orange. Oh, we approve the vlog. Look at it. I mean, look at this thing. Okay, freeze dryer, dedicated fridge, and he's making apple pie. Heated up the apples, sliced them, warmed them up. Now you're gonna crank it. You're making memories. Look at this pulp. The animals will love it. And it goes from here, then you put it over here, just keeping it warm. You're getting your cans ready. You're gonna be Henry's best friend. I hope so. He was like, I want the good applesauce. Oh yeah, I looked at him, I said, rude. After eating this, I don't know what it was that he had. Maybe he was thinking of like the store-bought, probably has a little sugar in it. He was probably thinking of the package. It's so good. What are you talking about? I'm gonna see if that'll sweeten some of that yogurt. How was the applesauce? Good. Potatoes and roast beef and green beans from the land and applesauce. It's like a dessert. Let's see, you're going for it first. Rain tomorrow? No, I think it's actually supposed to be nice, like 50 degrees. Let's put a chicken hoop up tomorrow. Who's down? Happy day.
