We Need to Do This

Food's done, babe. First round of food. Whoa!

Holy cow. It's like—

It's like, uh— It's like crystals.

I know.

Those— those are just like dehydrated.

No.

It's not dehydrated though.

Freeze-dried. You could eat them freeze-dried, but if you eat freeze-dried fruit, you need to drink a lot of water.

This looks like a food bag from Back to the Future. That stuff is so neat. Tell me if I get it right, Rebecca. This saves a lot of the nutrients, whereas other preservation techniques like canning tend to take more of the nutrients. Are they even dehydrating?

I think yes.

Healthy MREs. Look at that, homemade. We got it sealed. There it goes. Take a little piece of cotton.

It's like cotton candy.

That's what it is. All right, our broth cotton candy is gonna fit into a pint. It was a half a gallon, right?

It was a half a gallon.

So basically you could heat that back up with a half a gallon of water. I'm very excited about our first process with the freeze dryer, especially— I'm particularly excited about healthy MREs, homemade, homegrown. Cut the storage space in a, uh, 75% for the broth, and shelf stable. It can be stored right here. If you are interested in a freeze dryer and want to try this yourself, Harvest Right, I've got a link down in the description for it. Check it out. Back to rest. Shabbat shalom. It's Saturday, uh, our zero day. We didn't mean for that to carry over into it. It happens. Next time we'll plan better and don't have to do that. We like to not have to do any projects on our rest day. What has Lily roped you into last night?

Hot chocolate. That's an easy yes for me.

You're the hot chocolate lady, huh? Oh yeah. It's gonna be a cold one.

You've never had a cold.

Dude, I think the second one we did, it was like 18 degrees. It Snow. Has to be an inch to be a white Christmas, so maybe it's a half a white Christmas. Hey, you come with me.

My hair's stuck.

What are you, Bane? Let's not stand on ceremony here. All right, come on. Let's go. He's gonna need his coat. I want that to be your job, okay? Find your coat, find Gideon's coat, Henry's coat, his shoes. Karma. Gideon's gotta find somebody else's shoes. I hear the tractor start. Look, he started. Wait, where's your other boot? I have found enough shoes. For other people in my lifetime that I'm good. Yeah, there you go. You want to wear two rubber ones? Yeah, one cowboy boot and one rubber. We're homesteaders, right? Uh, so we don't like to go anywhere if we can help it. So we don't want to go to the Christmas parade. We're going to make a Christmas parade. And if not, bless somebody in the community, at least get a kick and giggle for ourselves, right? It's quite possible that there are going to be more people in this parade than people seeing this parade. We did put out 70 flyers for the first time ever. We put flyers along the route. Here you go, float number 1. That's gonna be my float. Josiah's gonna pull me on the mountain board. This is a festive truck. Hogsdale, you got no horn? Oh, that's loud! You're scaring Winnie. One of the best floats. Merry Christmas. Yeah, Merry Christmas. Lily's cart getting ready. Hey, look what I found. Hey Lily, will he be scared with a big horn? Yeah. Did you hear that horn go off earlier?

No.

Did he jump?

No.

What about that sign?

Well, I was inside. I wasn't— we were inside. There we go.

Christmas parade without a reindeer.

It's gotta have a reindeer.

Well, look what we got here. You gonna go with us? Where'd you get a diesel Suburban?

So a friend of mine who was a fireman bought it from a fire department, and, uh, they had him take all the lights and logos off, but he left the sirens in it.

Nice.

So then I bought it from him.

That's a bonus. Hey, he's driving in the parade! Oh, there's two seats in the back. Hot chocolate! I guess they're handing that out to anybody lucky enough to watch. Okay, so I get it now. Where's Ashley? She's getting the hot chocolate ready. They're handing out hot chocolate as we go, I guess, to viewers. Audience. Okay, so we got to get somebody to sit back here with Ashley. Yeah, nice. I get it now what the hot chocolate is. It's not for us, it's for the audience. What does that mean? Is that right? For anybody who's watching the parade?

Oh, I don't know. Lily just told me to make it.

Well, there's a sign on the back of your truck says hot chocolate. Well, do you know about that?

She said we could do it on the back of our truck at the halfway point.

Oh, okay, okay. Well, if we see anybody, I wonder if we should give somebody hot chocolate. Yeah. How much of that do you have though?

A gallon. Whatever you think.

Just give them a little shot, a little shot glass. When I saw that on the back of the truck, I figured, oh, that's what y'all are doing.

That does kind of sound like that. Now we have to give it to the neighbors.

We can't drink it, especially since y'all are in the last line. Oh, it was not for— wait, what? It's just for people that are in the parade?

I think that's what—

I think it should be for people outside the parade. We're trying to unite the community after a hurricane. Let's get back together, you know? Yeah, no, well, we all kind of got together During the disaster, let's get together during a celebration.

She's holding the PA to the phone.

Thanks everybody for coming. This is the greatest parade that no one ever sees. People are going to see it. 70 flyers.

Well, actually, I've made them and Ashley put 70 flyers in between here and the church building.

So our goal is to exceed an audience than participants in the parade, but we'll see. At the end of the road, once we turn right, I know there's a family a little ways down on the left that will watch. I texted them, they said they'll be able to watch.

That's our family.

Yeah, if Lily sees anybody watching, I'm gonna tell her to stop and we'll all stop. We'll give them some hot chocolate.

Is that what we're doing? Well, the plan was for us to all drink it, but then Justin had the idea we should share it.

Well, they put a sign— they put a sign on the bag. You can't put a sign. Oh, that's hilarious.

Well, I think you guys should just get rid of the truck and ride in the hayride.

We found out there's only going to be 3 people on the hayride, so we're like, Ashley and Austin, let's get on the hayride. We'll distribute hot chocolate from there. Let's go see how Lily's doing. It's time. Is he gonna be spooked by music, Christmas music? No.

Okay, don't blow any horns.

No, he's not gonna blow any horns. Hey, what do you call a green deer? What do you call a green deer? Leslie knows.

A John Deere.

I made that joke up. It's pretty good, huh?

Where do dads keep their jokes, Justin?

Me? I don't know.

In the database.

She's pulling out her own dad joke. All right, our, uh, puller broke down right before we started. It won't stay running. I'm behind the hay wagon.

Here we go! It's gonna be cold!

Look! Merry Christmas! Oh boy!

Oh, Merry Christmas!

We got somebody!

Ice cream, hot chocolate, finished stuff.

Thanks, y'all!

Thank you!

That looks like fun!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, y'all! Hot chocolate stop. Look at these two. Oh, Henry, he's got the sheep approach. He's just being real still. They just hunker down. We're on our way back.

So cold. Every time it's cold, it's Justin's fault.

I know. No, it's my idea. Your idea. Last year when it was super warm, it was your idea.

Oh, last year was great.

Hey, we have an audience. You get hot chocolate for watching. Hey, Merry Christmas everybody. Merry Christmas. I thought you were leaving your place at 2:30. Oh, and so I was waiting for— No, no, because when I looked again, Henry, are you done?

I can only imagine.

It's cold.

I'm freezing and I have like 5 layers on.

Figured out what was wrong with the four-wheeler. We accidentally put diesel in it, and buddy, we kept trying it and trying it, so that diesel got all up in the lines. It may be above us, although Mike Bacotti might know how to do it. I figured out what's wrong with this four-wheeler. What's that? We put diesel in it. You know how to do that? What? You know how to do that?

Do what, drain it and all that?

Yeah, yeah. Just— is that a big project? Oh, it did. We started it. Remember? Yeah, it was smoking and we kept running it. It's a big job. I've already called my mechanic.

That, that's what I was gonna say. I mean, I would know basics, but I wouldn't know everything that needed to be done.

We have a fantastic mechanic who, as soon as I text him, 1 hour, maybe 2 hours later, they're here. Let's go learn how to do this stuff because one day we're gonna need to do this. You got a siphon pump, don't you? Well, no, we're just siphoning it out with the hose. I thought I had a bigger hose on the truck, but I didn't. Did you do it old school, suck on it? What's that? Did you do it old school and suck on it? Well, yeah, but it's clear hose. I've drunk plenty of gas in my younger days. And boy, if we can get most of this diesel out of here and pour some fresh gas on it— you think that's all it needs? Yeah, it's tar. It'll run diesel through there, so it won't hurt anything. Did you boys see how he siphoned? Sucked on it. Did you see him do it? Use a clear hose, it ain't too bad. What does that mean, because you can see it coming? Yeah, yeah, so you can take it. All right, see it come up in there. Problem is he ran it from the shed down here and then we kept trying to start it because we thought Gideon flooded it or something. Did you smell that? Now that's going to be confusing. They put D— they put gas in yellow cans and then they put the X's on it to make it— and then they put diesel in red cans and put the X's on it. Yeah, I don't know why they did that. Can you smell it? Let's make sure it's— somebody else better smell it. I think that's diesel. That's not gonna be enough to flush it, is it? I don't believe so. Running rough. What's this? Teaser. Because we have run completely out of gas. I don't even want us to run out of gas no more. Remember, we were set up nice during the hurricane when we had gas. We can't be letting this get down to empty. Starting to sound a little better. I just fill it up, maybe get you a high test, and that'll help me. High octane? Yeah, get some gas in there. Once you— it'll make sure that they can fuel, it'll be okay.

Yeah.

All right, think I can drive it then? Yeah, you should be okay. He says high octane fuel to run that diesel through. Ought to be good to get down, park it. What's going on? What? Why are we doing this? It's a traffic jam. Leave the tractor there. Sally's out, can't get through with the four-wheeler. Well, I'm excited we got the four-wheeler run and it is not totally destroyed and learned we could have totally done that ourselves because There was no line draining, there was no replacing spark plugs, there was none of that. Just siphoning and putting new fuel in it. Starter fluid. Put starter fluid on the list. Because starter fluid here— do not run out of fuel. I thought I learned that through the hurricane. We happened to have a lot of fuel when the hurricane came, and I was like, this is nice, we were prepared. Don't even get close to running out of fuel. Classic steak dinner. Steaks, potatoes, beans from the land. That's a happy day.