The video is a candid, on‑site vlog of a family homestead where the narrator (Speaker A) walks viewers through a chaotic day of farm work, child squabbles, and home renovation. The morning starts with a dispute between the boys over milking duties, prompting the adults to intervene and mediate. The crew then tackles a remodel, covering a soffit and installing new fascia and shingles while a time‑lapse shows the progress. Throughout the day the family manages dairy tasks—milking cows, separating cream, and handling a cow with mastitis—while also moving cattle and horses, noting health concerns like a horse’s hernia. A new square baler is introduced; the family struggles to set it correctly, stack bales, and protect the hay from rain, discussing drainage and storage logistics. The vlog intersperses moments of humor, frustration, and encouragement as the kids are guided to work together, with references to soccer time and community on the farm. Near the end, the narrator promotes the “Homestead Builds” Kickstarter, mentioning a new hitch option and urging backers to watch for email updates. The overall tone is informal, instructional, and upbeat despite the challenges, highlighting the blend of family dynamics, farm labor, and small‑scale entrepreneurship.
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Jonah and Josiah won't milk. We're all gonna have to go down there and do this. Oh, Jonah was here. Okay, is that true?
Yeah.
Having a little tiff this morning? We were confused at whose turn it is. That's usually how it goes.
Somebody wasn't happy about it.
The boys' bank covering job looks great. Put seed down before it. Do you guys know why we mulch it like that?
That doesn't wash away.
Bingo! Happy day! Crew's back to work on the remodel. I'll tell you what's going on. Hope I get the terminology right. At least I'll show you what's going on. See this old board here? Construction guys, is that a soffit? We're covering that up. The roofers come tomorrow. Look, look above that to the top one. See that? Isn't that nice? There's before, after, and it's bumblebee-proof. I'll leave y'all on a time lapse. Can you stay steady on that for a while? A solution for their squabble. I set them aside, let them try to work it out themselves. They couldn't. So in that instance, let's get everybody close together. Where's Jonah? No idea where he went. It's to bring them close, but also will probably drive them crazy. Of boredom and they'll want to get along and do their own chores again. Jonah, you coming here? Jonah, it's frustrating. I told him not to leave me. Jonah, I just walked up the hill to find you. What are you doing right there in the ditch? Why? Why are you hiding? Y'all cool off and then try to work it out. We have got to harvest that cream. What are we doing with our lives? We also have to get the hay up. It's exposed. It's out in the weather. What are we doing with our lives? It's hard when it's like this because these boys, they could be— somebody could be milking, somebody could be cream separating. We gotta wait for it to dry out to unload that hay. Probably frosted on it. We can't do anything about that yet, but I figure relationship is the most important. We're hunkering down. Interesting paddock there, guys, but I guess we got to do what we got to do. Nook and cranny farming. Hey, it's like you have a horse ring, huh? This is how you train a horse. You get it in a small ring and lead it around in a circle. Well, it's Dixie, a good stock. She gives us twins every time. She does have a hernia. She does have a hernia, Lily. It could be likely her offspring get it. But that one, you know, that one of all these hadn't been sick. Go turn it off, Gideon. It's working. They just said, why don't we just— why don't we just go milk?
You wouldn't come.
This is the project today. We had a new to us square baler, and it took us a minute to figure out the, the perfect setting. And then we had so many people stacking, it didn't get stacked well. They're all broken, but we've got to make room for 70 bales, and there is room for 70 bales. I can show you how we can do it.
Look, that bale's falling apart, that bale's falling apart.
We can just kind of restack it right here. And get something firm going. And maybe we pull all these loose ones out, put some of these stout ones in first. Like, these are so light. This isn't much of a wall. See how light that is? Look, the wall collapsed right there. How are we gonna get through here? We're not. We can't pull that up forward and back it up. Hay wagon's hard to back up because the front wheels pivot. They're getting along now. What do you guys think? Why are you willing to that? This time to a pole. Yeah, I'm gonna let them be idiots for a minute. Seems to be bonding them in a positive way. 1, 2, 3. You gotta put a 4th rope on. It hurts. No mercy from them.
No, no, we're not ready yet.
It's hard. It's hard to tie somebody up. No, he's getting out.
No problem.
All right, let's go milk. Little detour. Mama needs some cream.
Me and Josiah just spilled milk.
Are y'all getting along now? No. No. Okay, no.
Why is it taking you so long to get ready, Papa?
Well, you tell me.
If only I was young and naive and had no worries in the world and I had all the time in the world. But now I'm old.
One quart of cream. Half a gallon of cream. This part is not cool.
I said a pink horse.
We could give Stella super diarrhea.
Just have her and then shoot it at the horse. Lily, take Mom that cream.
Just say I got the other cream, then let's milk. All right, let's get the sheep over. What do you think of that, Rebecca?
The house?
Are they soffits? Is that what they're doing?
Fascia?
There we go, fascia. They're putting shingles on today, hopefully Friday. Moving the bulls and the steers over. The boys assured me— hey, you guys assured me they'd go past the truck. Oh, they're going. It's a good sign if he stops to eat that hay. They went through here. Now these little guys, they don't know what they're doing, do they? Right past it. Now watch Stud, he'll go right in. Phil, frisky this morning. Yeah, they're like teenagers. They know what to do. It's not going to do it. They're gonna be frisky. Look, Stud walked right in. Third time this year, and he's been here 5 years. All right, go get those steers. Go wide, just how you'd block them from going down that way. Look, they know. They want to be with Stud. Isn't that something? That's all right. All right, shut them up. Let's go milk. Honey's done jumped ahead, but I'll just leave her there. Gideon, Let's wait on Vanilla if we can help it. Oh no, we can't help it. There she goes. All right, we got to move her then. I would like to move them at once. She's looking for Stud. Vanilla won't stay. Okay, we just got to let Honey go. I didn't mean for Honey to get out. All right, we bring Honey back. It's fine, we'll bring them back together. Now Vanilla's out. Here comes Honey. Good job. We got to bring them back, Jonah. Vanilla didn't get finished milking. She'll get mastitis. Vanilla doesn't have a calf on her to finish milking her out. We've dried her off, or weaned that calf, so we gotta milk her. Hey, don't let her go past. Boy, they're crazy. They want what that other— they don't like it that they don't know where the rest of the herd is. Some extra alfalfa, calm her down. Goodness, we'll get you to everybody soon. You got your hat on backwards. I will hope they don't run right past it. Jonah didn't open that. Ah, I told Jonah to open that. I want to be back with everybody else. Stud, thank you for showing the way. We need the sheep shaw for their minerals. We used that on the 3 little lambs that were up here, but now down in the tractor. While we're up here picking up nets and doing it all together, it's driving the kids nuts. They'll definitely want to work independent after this, but we have to pick these up. Hey, come on, let's go! I'm gonna ride in the back of Sally, hold this thing up. Incidentally, in Homestead Builds It's coming out now for those who backed it. We have a hitch option for this thing. That'd be real handy right about now. So for all y'all that backed Homestead Builds, you need to stay tuned to your email from our, uh, our Kickstarter email.
You'll get the plans.
Are they just breaking, Jonah? Are we just breaking them? They were jumping on them. The plan works. It's 11 o'clock. We just finished chores. I like, you know, comb, separate, make sure everything gets done right. I think you're on to something there. We're almost done when they do chores and we divide and conquer. We're done like by 9, 9:30. Those top ones are wet on the top. We're gonna dry them out in the truck. This is much better. Oh, much better. Boy, we got good at that square bale by the end of it. These, uh, this hay— no, it can't stay there. If we get a rain event, water's just gonna wash up on that concrete. We gotta get— dig down below. And I'm even gonna dig this out to let water drain. The drain's over there. It's that time of the week, soccer time. When you're on the farm, you find all kinds of ways to create community on the farm. Yeah, we got Nelson, you and I over here.
Yep.
Nelson and Josiah over there, and then Anne Marie and Lily, and then we get Chris. So it's all of them against us three. Is that unfair?
We'll find out.
Oh, oh, oh no, I got 3!
Oh, finishing up soccer.
I just remembered these hay bales. We dried them out all day and let's not get them wet again. I'll need the boys and the machine to throw them up there tomorrow. Little guy ran out of steam, huh? Was he crying?
Yeah, he was crying.
It's like a crying—
he was crying because Liam was sitting next to me. He was tired. He was tired. He's just tired and he was upset. Oh, I also tried to move him.
Yeah, before he fell.
I didn't know if he was falling asleep. Flipped over here and was just sobbing stuff up for the rain.
Hey, hey, Henry, can you say Papa's best?
Oh, I'm the best!
Cleaning lady's coming tomorrow, everybody. Clean up. Clean up our room too. Clean up cleaning, like.
