Who's The Boss?

Damn, one gotta go if we're gonna be done by 7:30. Not really, you can do the chores in 30 minutes. Once we do them in like 10. Wake up, sleepies. All right, what do you want me to do? You can feed the pigs or load up Shelly with hay. We were ready to divide and conquer chores. We're going mountain biking later, let's just get this out of the way. But— oh, just said— I just asked if I was gonna go with him. I said if you want me to. Yeah, so just starting to load hay, and just for some reason I felt led to just say, hey, I think he said, what are you doing? And I said, why, what, do you want me to go with you? And he said, yeah. But that's his subtle way of saying, gentle way of saying, come with me. I took this moment as a time to, well, let him be in charge. He's gonna drive. I'm gonna let him run this chore time. Shoot, we should probably fix that since we're gonna be gone today. We don't need any cows. Nice. One thing I noticed about this is, you know, he's just kind of proud. It's a moment I get to praise him and see how he's doing. He gets to show off and he— and we get to build up his self-esteem and pride, the good kind of pride. Where do you want to feed them? Down by their water. About done with this paddock, what do you think? Yeah, we're just gonna roll the hay bales down. Second, as I began to think about it, me submitting to him and letting him be the boss is me saying, "I trust you, and therefore you are trustworthy." Good morning! How's the bullito doing? We decided we cannot call him Stud Muffin. For some reason there can be another Nacho. Nacho Nueve adds a little newness to it. Nacho's the name of our new lamb, which was also the name of our old lamb. Stud Muffin was the name of our old bull. You're gonna help me over? You help the old man over? Whoa, hear that clicking? Yeah, that would have been my— let's roll! Happy Sunday C day! Welcome to another day in the life of a family on a health venture. Growing our food and eating what we grow. This morning, a hay bomb where we need to grow grass. Wasted hay will be left behind as organic matter. The cows will concentrate over here and manure. You might— can do one more day in here and this one and you're done. Say do over there, but maybe we shouldn't because we want to burn that brush pile. I had a really good time working one-on-one with Josiah. It's a bonding experience, and that can happen when working. You accomplish something good together, it's bonding. On today's Sunday seed day, sowing seeds of adventure and rest and bonding. Stay with me. Y'all getting tired? You can't be tired. We're about to go on an adventure. Now there's also the different kind of bonding. How about one around excitement and adventure and just athletic accomplishment. This is my favorite Sunday of the month. Mountain biking with the boys.

That was nice.

Josiah and I just had a little alone-on-loan time bonding. You don't have to go on adventures and off farm to have bonding. Mountain biking is just something good for my heart and soul and muscles. And we got problems. I went to pump my bike well up, hearing a massive liquid's coming out. It's a tubeless bike. That liquid is supposed to fix the hole. It has not fixed the hole. It must be too big of a hole. Is your bike ready, Austin? Yeah, good to go. Boys are good? Yeah, boys are good. We got a new complication. Does Austin have a tube? I do have a tube. But it's tubeless. Can you put a tube in a tubeless? You can. They might have glued that tire to that. Well, that's right, because there's all these different types of fancy stuff going on in there. We were gonna go and be back for a nice enchilada lunch. Rebecca was gonna make us enchiladas. O'Reilly though doesn't open until 10 o'clock. Pumped up my tire this morning.

No!

Put a little air and it's got a hole in it.

Stop it!

Yeah, come on, keep up. You guys know Jonah, he's determined to open this thing up and fix it. I think it's gonna be more complicated than that. Uh-oh, what happened to my shop? I've been keeping it clean. We might be able to fix this. This is not sealed to the rim like I was afraid of. Well, we got the loose tube in there. I don't see why this isn't gonna work. We got the tube in there. Last thing we gotta do is pump it up, see if it holds air. Henry, love you. Jonah, thanks for being Jonah. Yep. I know you're driving with more confidence. This time we decided to go just one trail. In the past we've done two or even three trails, and two has been a little too much. Per their request, just one trail today. It is a strenuous one though.

Y'all gonna be all right? Turn off the traffic cam.

Oh, show them how to do it. Goodbye. As we did this one trail, we were having more fun. We were taking more time out to take pictures, taking more rests. And as I was riding, I started to think, I need to praise these boys for following me, because when we started these mountain bike adventures, we went on 3 trails. Did we do too much? Yes, way too much. We should have gave it up, huh? You gonna come next time? If we don't do 3. And they, being good sports, went with us. Like, that was a 21-mile ride. They put their trust and faithfully followed me. So I've made sure to address that, and I wanted to praise them for that. I haven't said I'm sorry. I should say I'm sorry. Austin, you're one of the guys. I'm sorry. I accept your apology. I didn't know no better, but thank you for your— for being a good sport, following along and putting your trust in me, and I hope I haven't broken it in any way. Now we're down to one. It seems like everybody had a good time, so hopefully you see the leadership there. I'm willing to change. And we're back. Did you cramp? No, felt good. No cramping. What about you, Josiah? You feel good? Yeah, you ready for that tofu tempeh mom's making us? That's how I got through it. He was dreaming about it on the uphill. Jonah's got to find a tree. There's no bathrooms out here. What'd y'all think of that one? Ready for the second trail? He just said yeah. Do another one? Y'all done? Just one trail? I guess that's the perfect amount. Well, I guess if we're done, you're done. I'll be done. Funny. Hey guys, I'm back. Have you smelled it yet?

No. Smell.

Take a whiff. And it smells good. What's going on in here? You're cooking up a storm.

I have been. I made dessert. I have more enchilada stuff, but I ran out of space in the oven.

Wow.

This is part of the dessert.

Wow. Sopapillas.

It's gonna go on— well, they're kind of like fake sopapillas. Sopapillas are like real dough fried, but I just fried up some.

I get it.

We've got vanilla ice cream to put on this.

Ooh.

I'm making rice. I'm about to make a bean dip, and I'm about to make—

Where's your vegan option for—

Austin.

I'm sorry, Austin.

That's the new ice cream.

Look at your poor eyeball.

Oh my gosh, it's so much worse. This is what happens when you go biking on your anniversary. Happy anniversary. A sopapilla for y'all on your anniversary. Oh my gosh. Yeah, okay, there's nothing like Mexican food after a bike ride. And Austin and I hadn't eaten since breakfast. I mean, since breakfast. We haven't eaten since last night dinner. And how long did this take to to you.

I've been cooking since 9:30.

This is a labor of love. We appreciate it very much.

It's just a lot.

That's what got us up the mountain. Look at Austin, he just keeps piling it. There's a lot. And for the first time in many, many months, we're outside again enjoying this view. We will miss this view. How is it? Jonah's already done and I just got out here. This is one of those meals where you're not gonna get down. It's so good. And homemade ice cream too.

Do you want these?

Yeah. Okay. Boy, we earned that, didn't we, boys? Good news is that doesn't really do much to my blood sugar.

It doesn't.

Happy day, y'all.