Nashville Icepocalypse!, 6 Days No Power, Beehive Disaster, Q&A | February AOAT Live

0:02 Good evening, sunshines.

0:03 I hope your Thursday is going.

0:07 You forgot what day it was for a second there.

0:09 Well, I mean, I haven't slept for eight months, so here we are.

0:12 I hope your Thursday is fantastic.

0:14 Thank you so much for coming to hang out with us.

0:16 Right off the bat, we're doing Q&A,

0:18 answering any questions about any of the things we talk about on the channel.

0:22 So, start preparing your questions.

0:25 Uh we will also be doing a giveaway for Redmond um Redmond agriculture,

0:31 Redmond human products.

0:33 That will be happening.

0:34 So stay tuned for that.

0:36 And Adam, do you want to tell us about the hot goss that's been going on lately?

0:44 Oh, you mean about the absolute disaster that was in Nashville?

0:49 Yes, let's talk about it.

0:50 Um, yeah.

0:51 So, we we were debating actually making a video

0:56 about this, but in all of the chaos, it was just like too much to handle.

1:01 Um, and so whenever you heard about the ice storm in Nashville,

1:06 it was like it it was it was very accurate.

1:09 And we also were in the area of Nashville that was he like heaviliest affected.

1:15 Yeah.

1:15 I've never So, I'm 40 years old.

1:19 Been on this earth for a while.

1:21 I

1:21 never in my 40 years.

1:23 I don't I've never been in a uh natural disaster that crazy before in my life.

1:30 That was Oh, and I should mention that he's we've

1:33 had two tornadoes in our neighborhood since living here.

1:36 So, that is saying something.

1:39 Yeah.

1:39 So, I I've never experienced an ice storm.

1:42 I'm not from the east coast, from the west coast in Seattle.

1:46 Uh we don't have really ice storms.

1:48 Um he got to hear an exploding tree.

1:52 Well, th hundreds of exploding trees for the first time in his life.

1:55 That was a phenomenon.

1:56 Yeah, it was pretty wild.

1:57 So, uh this is like maybe three weeks ago.

2:00 It was Sunday.

2:02 But, um we knew it was coming.

2:06 I think originally the storm was saying that it was going to be the forecast

2:11 the sorry the forecast was saying it was going to be like two

2:14 feet of snow and we're kind of excited and then the storm shifted

2:17 and then all of a sudden it was going to be an ice

2:19 storm and it was really bad on Sunday that the Sunday that it happened.

2:26 We went outside and there was like an explosion happening every like

2:30 15 seconds which from either a branch falling or a tree falling

2:36 or a tree exploding because what happens like it it never gets that cold here.

2:41 So what was happening is that the sap inside of trees

2:43 was getting so cold that it was exploding the tree.

2:46 And then combine that with the fact that it

2:49 was like sleeping and freezing in real time.

2:52 And so the weight of all that water

2:54 on all the trees um was yeah just exploding trees.

2:59 So yeah, it looks like it looks worse around like everywhere that we are.

3:05 It looks worse than it looked after the last two tornadoes combined.

3:10 There's just like detritus, wood detritus everywhere.

3:14 We lost like 50 trees.

3:16 Mercifully, our house is okay.

3:18 Yeah, we got very lucky actually.

3:21 Um, in terms of tree, we lost some fences,

3:24 but that seems like it happens every time because I mean on a farm this big,

3:28 we have a mile a mile of fences on this farm.

3:31 So, you know, there's bound to be something that happens every once in a while.

3:35 But the real thing that was insane is so one of the we have an we we

3:40 own the the access to three more houses

3:44 on in this area and so they have they have

3:46 what's called an easement and um if you've ever

3:49 seen our foraging videos or anything I'm I'm we're

3:53 filming those videos on our neighbors property and I

3:57 have rights or whatever you want to call them.

3:59 I get permission to use their land for whatever

4:02 I want to because I help them maintain their road.

4:05 Um, and this is these are neighbors we have great relationships with.

4:09 We love them so much.

4:11 Anyway, they the neighbors on our easement got it the worst

4:15 because our power was out for five days, six days.

4:19 It was about six days and then but their power was out for 12 days.

4:24 And so we inherited some refugees as a result of the storm.

4:28 And it was I mean like like again good friends of ours.

4:32 So it wasn't it wasn't you know an awful thing in in most respects.

4:38 But yeah we it was it was wild.

4:41 But the craziest thing I think about all

4:43 of it was that the National Guard came out

4:47 to like it was bad enough that the National Guard came out with 50 people to saw

4:52 Yeah.

4:53 saw us all out.

4:54 I'll uh I'll put some pictures up,

4:56 but there was like there was like nine armored vehicles and uh we're

5:01 we're kind of in a part where like it was it was a disaster.

5:06 Yeah.

5:06 Oh.

5:06 Oh, and also the the the like well I mean I

5:10 laugh about this because I feel like in any like life-threatening situation,

5:15 Adam is always like you will scream

5:17 in a nonthreatening situation or like make some huge noise.

5:22 But in an actual threatening situation, I either laugh or I'm completely silent.

5:26 So like I fell off a 30- foot ladder.

5:28 Completely silent.

5:29 When was that?

5:31 You fell off a 30ft ladder?

5:32 No.

5:32 No.

5:33 the time that the ladder tipped and like like you you guys were all like,

5:37 "Oh my gosh, like why didn't you warn us?" Anyway,

5:41 completely silent, all these things, but like you know,

5:43 you walk around the corner and startle me, I will scream.

5:46 Anyway, I had two near-death experiences as a result of this storm.

5:52 One, like I find them both to be quite funny,

5:55 but one of them was especially funny.

5:57 It involves bees.

5:58 We'll talk about that in just a second.

5:59 But the other one is like because of the ice storm and just

6:04 the way things have happened is like there has been so many falling branches

6:08 and falling trees and still now like every like every time we're driving

6:12 on the road or anything there's a like a tree that will like fall.

6:16 Nashville is like literally like a disaster.

6:18 So it's gonna they'll be cleaning up for a long time.

6:22 Yeah, it's it's a disaster.

6:24 But the other day so we also didn't have internet for like two and a half weeks.

6:28 It was pretty I mean like Oh yeah.

6:30 and also my phone wasn't working for 11 days.

6:34 Yes.

6:34 All that to say we've had down lines all over the place.

6:38 And so I've been like we can't drive vehicles.

6:41 So I've been driving my four-wheeler back and forth

6:43 to to the dairy and because there's been downed phone lines,

6:47 I've just assumed that like you know

6:49 if there's a downed electrical line that's still

6:51 like a live electrical line like someone

6:54 probably will have dealt with it by now.

6:56 like because we're now 3 weeks out of the storm.

6:58 Well, yesterday I was riding my four-wheeler down to the dairy and I

7:04 turned like there's a blind corner and I turned the corner and my choice

7:08 in an instant was to either like hit this tree that had fallen

7:14 in the road or to drive over this wire that was literally dangling.

7:18 So, I just drove over the wire thinking that it was a phone line.

7:22 It wasn't.

7:24 And but I survived.

7:26 Here we are.

7:27 Not to call out Nashville publicly, but are you about to though?

7:32 I think I'm about to.

7:33 Like I'm used to in growing up in the Seattle area where

7:37 like when there's like down power lines or there's hazards in the road,

7:41 somebody comes out and puts a cone.

7:44 A cone.

7:45 Like literally there was people live on this road.

7:48 This is not like No one's coming out to putting cones.

7:51 No, it's more than that.

7:52 Anyways, I'm going to publicly call out Nashville.

7:54 You need to put out cones and signs.

7:56 Like there was a down power line in the road for two weeks.

8:00 Adam would also Adam would also like warning when our water gets shut off,

8:06 which happens a lot.

8:08 Weirdly weirdly frequently because in Washington when this would h

8:13 like when there was any interruption to any public service ever,

8:17 we would get a two-eek notice.

8:18 They would also they would come knock on our door to let us know.

8:21 But here it's it's just the wild west always.

8:24 Anyway, it's not very safe.

8:27 But anyways, Adam is a big fan of safety,

8:30 which is why I think being married to me is probably so stressful for him.

8:34 Is this a good time to talk about the bees?

8:37 Go ahead.

8:38 Good segue.

8:40 Okay, so uh a little backstory.

8:43 I've been keeping bees for 12 years now.

8:45 By the way, by the way,

8:46 really quick for you that if you have any questions or anything, uh, we have

8:50 Oh, yeah.

8:51 Please.

8:52 Yeah.

8:52 Yeah.

8:52 Oh, yeah.

8:53 If you're I forgot to mention that.

8:55 Well, actually, I did mention the cues, but I didn't say how to ask them.

8:58 So, send the questions you have in the comment section

9:02 and Adam will read through them while I and um

9:06 surface the the good ones while I not to say

9:08 that any not to say that all of them aren't good,

9:11 but the ones that I think are most uh universally applicable.

9:15 Anyway, I've been keeping these for 11 or 12 years.

9:19 Um my friend whose name on Instagram is Gapy on uh

9:24 like got me into it originally many many moons ago.

9:27 Anyway, I wanted to keep honey bees on um because honey is a great side effect,

9:32 but also I have a lifelong um pretty crippling fear of bees

9:36 due to like an incident that happened when I was a child.

9:39 Anyway, back in Washington eight years ago,

9:42 I was nearly killed by my bees because Howdy, my donkey,

9:46 got stung in the tushy when he was trying to get some honey out of the hive.

9:51 and he kicked the hive over and I was standing nearby

9:54 in the garden and I got stung 70 times from the neck up.

9:57 My doctor at that point told me, "Hey,

9:59 like you're going to want to be really cautious

10:01 about bees from now on because you're probably like now

10:04 allergic because that was a very near-death experience that time."

10:08 That definitely did not help my fear of bees.

10:12 But for some reason,

10:13 it also didn't make me think twice about doing I just drooled publicly.

10:19 It's now captured on video forever.

10:21 That did not make me think twice about um you know

10:26 doing more dumb stuff when it has to be do with bees.

10:28 So I have swarm traps that I set out all over the property.

10:33 Last um spring, you know, as one does at the end of their pregnancy,

10:41 thinking that 10,000 more things are actually possible than they actually are.

10:45 I put out all my swarm traps as usual.

10:47 The day before I went to the hospital to have Alexander,

10:50 unexpectedly, we should say, uh, I was legitimately like, "Oh,

10:55 I've caught a swarm in one of my traps." And I told Adam,

10:58 "Hey, I think I'm going to go get that swarm and install

11:01 it in a hive before we go to the hospital." And he's like,

11:03 "Are you kidding me?" Like, no, you are not.

11:07 All that to say, some time has passed.

11:10 I knew like I watched throughout the whole ordeal post Alexander,

11:16 I like watched bees coming and going from the swarm trap.

11:18 But for those of you who are not, you know,

11:20 savvy to this, swarm traps are like this big.

11:22 They're not the size of a regular hive.

11:24 They don't have enough space to sustain a whole colony of bees for a long time.

11:29 All that to say, I was like, hey,

11:32 there was bees for in that swarm trap for a long while.

11:35 One of the many, many,

11:37 many trees that fell on various structures around our farm happened

11:41 to collapse the structure that was holding that swarm trap prior.

11:45 So, it was our arbor.

11:46 Yeah.

11:46 Our like a grape arbor that's like up at the top of our Anyway,

11:51 I was like, "Oh, well, I saw bees in there earlier,

11:54 but like surely those bees are dead because,

11:56 you know, sub-zero temperatures, etc., etc.

11:59 There's no food for them." Yeah.

12:02 I was like, "But there might be some honey in there." So,

12:04 I went up on a very sunny day after the ice storm.

12:08 Our power is still out.

12:09 Nothing's happening.

12:10 I'm just like trying to figure out how to clean stuff up and make things good.

12:14 Anyway, there's it's a sunny day and on sunny days,

12:17 we all know that bees fly on sunny days.

12:19 There's no bees flying.

12:21 To be careful, cautious, I take a stick, I tap the side of the hive, nothing.

12:27 I put my ear up to the hive, nothing.

12:30 But it's quite heavy.

12:32 So, I'm like, this is great.

12:34 full of honey.

12:36 So I climb I use my lad my ATV as a ladder,

12:40 climb up like wrangle it out of the like

12:43 now collapsed structure that it was formerly in.

12:45 Pull it down, strap it onto my ATV and drive

12:48 a quarter of a mile down from the hillside to here,

12:51 which by the way is a very very bumpy ride and bring it into my office.

12:56 And if you know anything about bees,

12:59 they have they like to um seal every crevice when they're,

13:02 you know, doing their stuff with a substance called propolis.

13:06 And so it's basically like a very very strong glue.

13:09 And so I couldn't find any of my beekeeping tools.

13:12 So I was like looking around in here and there was a sledgehammer

13:15 off to the side and I was like, "This will be good.

13:17 I'll just knock the lid off and it'll, you know,

13:21 just pop that baby right off." By the way,

13:23 we're inside my office, not wearing a beuit.

13:26 I feel like I already gave away what's about to happen.

13:29 Anyway, hit it with a sledgehammer.

13:31 Pop that lid off.

13:32 Turns out it's full of bees, which are not very happy about the ATV

13:37 ride or the sledgehammer incident or basically anything else.

13:42 And I kid you not, I have never moved so

13:46 fast or done anything so efficiently in my entire life.

13:50 I somehow miraculously popped that lid back on and yeated

13:54 this 80 pound hive out the door like faster

13:59 than I have ever done anything in my life

14:01 and somehow did not even get stung by a bee.

14:08 So, those guardian angels doing a good job.

14:12 Anyway, any good questions while I was Yeah, I'm glad you didn't.

14:19 So yeah, get have have like a My Girl situation.

14:21 I saw a few My Girl references in the Oh, good.

14:24 McCauley Kulkin.

14:25 Good reference.

14:27 Exactly.

14:27 These were children of the 90s.

14:28 Although I didn't have a TV,

14:30 so actually the only reason I know what that reference is is because he's

14:32 told me every time he's like made

14:34 that mention every time I've nearly been killed.

14:36 Some millennial trauma we're all still getting getting over.

14:40 Um, okay.

14:42 Uh, question.

14:43 How did your animals weather the storm?

14:45 That's a great question.

14:45 That is a great question because we Yeah,

14:50 I was very very worried because with livestock

14:53 you have a like a basic rule that just

14:56 helps helps make everything work is an animal

14:59 can be wet or an animal can be cold, but an animal cannot be wet and cold.

15:05 And so the really yucky thing about this storm for a farmer like us,

15:11 me and Adam is also here, um,

15:15 is that it rained and then like an a massive amount

15:21 and then froze and a lot of our animal like all none

15:25 of our cows have shelter and we have lots of calves

15:27 on the ground right now and we're still expecting 12 more calves.

15:30 So, I was very very worried about the calves getting pneumonia,

15:36 like just straight up freezing to death.

15:39 Um, you know, we're always talking about how fragile alpacas are.

15:44 I mean, alpacas are good in the cold generally speaking,

15:46 but I feel like at any moment,

15:48 our alpacas are constantly trying to invent new ways to die.

15:51 But which by the way, if you haven't seen our uh most recent video,

15:55 which is called Please don't get an alpaca.

15:59 Like even if you've never considered getting an alpaca, go watch that video.

16:04 First of all, Adam did a Beethoven level job editing that video.

16:11 It's nice.

16:12 I think it's the funniest and best video we've ever made.

16:16 And it also has like, you know, some heart behind it.

16:21 Funny side note of a side note that was nice to say.

16:26 Um, we recently nearly f like found a new home for our alpacas,

16:31 which is a major major Nashville celebrity.

16:35 But hilariously, that person in the middle

16:39 of us like talking about sharing alpacas with them, they found the video,

16:46 saw the video, and changed their mind.

16:48 And I was like, well,

16:49 this is why it's now been a year of like trying to get rid of our alpacas.

16:54 Don't do that.

16:54 They can hear that.

16:56 Adam's playing my piano that you can't see

16:58 right now in nervousness because of the situation.

17:00 We won't name the celebrity.

17:01 We're not going to name names, but it's a pretty big name.

17:03 I was I was floored when when the initial contact

17:07 was made and I was just like only in Nashville.

17:10 But it Adam and I prior to this happening had been joking about oh

17:14 my gosh how funny would it be if this didn't happen because that person

17:19 because they happened to find the video.

17:20 Please don't get a packet.

17:22 And that's exactly what happened.

17:23 And that is exactly what happened.

17:24 they like apparently just came across it and then they said they said

17:28 they have they were having second thoughts

17:30 because of how high maintenance alpacas were.

17:34 So I mean but here's the thing

17:35 like basically we just keep shooting ourselves in the foot.

17:38 To bring this full circle though the reality

17:40 is I am a horrible salesman when it comes

17:43 to animals that have been troublesome for us because

17:46 I don't want to saddle anyone else with anything.

17:48 So, I'm like an un like I'm literally just too

17:52 honest about the the struggles that that person's going to face.

17:57 Um, and because like I I don't like if if

18:03 this is not going to be the last home an animal has,

18:06 it better be going to a better home than this.

18:08 And not to toot my own horn,

18:09 but like it's pretty hard for an animal to find a better

18:12 home than ours because I care a lot about my animals.

18:18 I did also just randomly see like a a a smattering

18:23 of questions about why don't we have an animal shelter.

18:25 Here's the thing.

18:26 We are currently sitting in our barn.

18:29 Um obviously I have taken part

18:32 of that barn for our my office/Aexander's second bedroom.

18:37 Yeah, it's that.

18:37 So, if you're watching the videos,

18:39 you always see like right next to the garden, there's like this black barn.

18:42 And so, probably onethird of it is this room right here,

18:46 and then twothirds of it is where the goats are,

18:50 and you have blacksmithing stuff in there.

18:53 Um, and but yeah, we're just in that one third right here.

18:58 Yeah.

18:58 And we want to have a cow like a cow barn.

19:01 We we want to like build a dairy barn,

19:04 but we're um if you've been around long enough

19:07 to know this, also trying to build a school,

19:11 and that's been a whole ongoing saga.

19:14 And so like I can't financially

19:17 or emotionally justify starting another building project,

19:21 especially like until we finish that one.

19:23 Especially because also we like if I could

19:27 find a contractor to help me finish that then

19:30 I would also have a contractor to help

19:32 me finish like start and finish the dairy barn.

19:35 So that's why the cows specifically do not have a shelter.

19:39 But I will also say that as much of an animal bleeding heart as I am,

19:44 the cows having a shelter would actually be far more for the convenience

19:48 of me dealing with the cows and far less for the cows actually needing it.

19:54 Because man, I grew up in Montana

19:57 and people have been ranching in Montana, Utah,

20:01 real barren environments that are much worse than

20:05 any situation we ever face here in Nashville ever

20:08 are for animals without barns for their animals because

20:12 you don't really like cows really don't need them.

20:15 It's just there are a handful of vulnerable moments which

20:19 it would be really h helpful to have a shelter, tornadoes, ice storms,

20:26 and in those moments, I really wish that we did,

20:28 but we haven't gotten there yet financially or otherwise.

20:34 All right, let's burn let's let's catch up on some questions.

20:37 Okay, Alexander.

20:39 Sweet Alexander, our little boy just turned eight months old.

20:43 He's the best thing that ever happened.

20:47 Um, we've Okay, the the the real suffering like there was not like I really

20:54 I really hesitate to even like talk about the ice storm as if it was like

20:58 a horrible thing because there is a piece of me that's like in a I was

21:05 meant to be born 200 years ago and I have all the skills and all the stuff.

21:12 There's a treddle lathe behind me, a spinning wheel.

21:14 Like I've This is a hand tool chair making shop.

21:19 I mean, I know how to deal with life when there's no power.

21:24 And so many people in Nashville were were way less equipped

21:27 than us because they didn't have like fireplaces and everything else.

21:31 I will say though that like two things can be true at the same time.

21:36 One of the things that was like really rough for us while the power

21:39 was out for six days and it was like zero degrees or hovering around there.

21:46 It really sucks to have a baby in like when your house is 32

21:52 degrees inside because our fireplace that we

21:54 do have in the house is not efficient.

21:56 And so like we had a sixfoot space to keep him

22:02 warm and like it was very difficult to like manage that emotionally.

22:09 Also like you know there's all this safe sleep stuff.

22:13 Um like I was trying to like keep blankets around him and keep him warm when

22:17 it was 32 degrees inside our house

22:19 and also like trying to like not suffocate him.

22:22 And then um you know everyone in the house got

22:27 sick when our when our neighbors came in to stay

22:30 with us and that was like really really really

22:33 rough because Alexander like it was it was really rough.

22:37 We like nearly had to go to the emergency room several times.

22:40 It was not great.

22:41 So we're like that was the negative.

22:44 But like also, I mean,

22:47 I had to help our other neighbor do a wellness

22:49 check on her mom who didn't have a fireplace, didn't have heat, etc., etc.

22:54 So, all that to say, Alexander is on the mend.

22:58 We're all on the mend.

22:59 Everything's great.

23:01 He's doing great.

23:02 He's so cute.

23:03 Uh, he's recently started uh scooting.

23:06 He's very close to crawling.

23:08 He's already standing up, which is terrifying.

23:12 Um, he loves playing in the garden.

23:16 Um, I will say straight up he prefers sticks to kale or shard.

23:24 He's really my son.

23:26 Yeah, he's doing great and we love him so much.

23:30 But yeah, the the regressions of sleep, etc.

23:33 that have happened since he was since the storm,

23:37 the break in his schedule, the sickness.

23:41 I've got some some black circles we're dealing with under my eyes here.

23:48 I have so a few questions on Well, this one few questions on this.

24:00 Oh, do we did we did you decide to no longer do Inerson classes?

24:06 I saw a couple of years ago at Rory Fe's

24:08 homesteading conference and you were going to start classes soon,

24:11 but I know baby put things on hold.

24:13 Uh well, we are currently while we're still

24:16 in the throws of trying to build the school etc.

24:20 We're traveling to do as many inerson stuff as we can inerson things as we can.

24:26 Uh so this year we are going to be

24:30 at Rory Fees Homestead Festival in Columbia, Tennessee.

24:34 That's usually in early June.

24:35 I would give you dates except we had

24:37 actually talked about before this started that we

24:39 should have like made a list of the actual

24:42 dates because numbers mean nothing to me obviously.

24:44 I thought it was Wednesday today.

24:47 Here we are.

24:48 Uh Homestead Festival at Rory Faks in Waco

24:51 or I mean in uh in Columbia, Tennessee.

24:54 There's another Homestead conference in Waco coming up

24:58 in April that we are going to Waco, Texas.

25:01 We cannot wait to do that.

25:03 Um the Homestead at Waco.

25:06 Um, it's a community there that that does things like

25:10 they used to be done a really long time ago.

25:12 I love the the place there, the people there.

25:15 Uh, we can't wait to go visit and and hang out.

25:19 That is a really awesome place.

25:20 We are going to Ontario, um, Canada.

25:24 I know there's some different Parises

25:26 and other things that are not actually Paris,

25:29 France, Paris, Tennessee, Paris, Ohio.

25:33 Something's happening behind us on the fence.

25:36 Um, yeah, Ontario, Canada, we're going to be going there in September.

25:39 We'll be there on September 19th.

25:41 I know that date because it's my birthday.

25:43 And, uh, we're speaking at the conference there.

25:46 Uh, there we're also going to be

25:49 in Cordelane at the modern homesteading conference.

25:52 Uh, and what am I missing here?

26:01 Well, we'll let you know what I was missing here.

26:03 But anyway, all that to say,

26:05 we're we're trying to travel around and do things while

26:08 in the in the meantime while we're not able to do classes here.

26:13 But I mean, I think you got them.

26:15 You can always find me at there's like four of them.

26:18 Yeah, you can always find me at Greg Pennington's uh chair making classes,

26:22 prepping for his classes, helping teach the classes, etc., etc.

26:26 Um, when Chris Barber at Barber Woodshop here in Nashville does classes,

26:30 I often show up and help teach with that.

26:33 Oh, look.

26:33 Oh, thank you.

26:35 Uh, Peek Rad.

26:39 Oops, it's going too fast.

26:40 I can't read.

26:41 But there there's some dates.

26:42 June 5th and 6th in Columbia, Tennessee.

26:45 Thank you so much to those who are on top of things.

26:48 Okay.

26:49 Oh, amazing.

26:50 Great.

26:52 Yeah.

26:53 So, that's that's the update.

26:55 And the thing is actually though we haven't really talked

26:58 about the school in a long time on the main channel.

27:00 Um things are trucking along very slowly but like a little bit at a time.

27:06 I um my nap time project, you know, we we now do things in 45minute increments.

27:12 My nap time project the last few weeks has been um digging hand

27:16 digging some French drains around the school and it's a 6,500 foot building.

27:22 So that's been a lot.

27:24 But it actually really helped to have had that project completed but prior

27:29 to the uh ice storm because it really helped with the water um displacement.

27:34 And um I've been working on doing some plumbing and some electrical.

27:38 Uh my friend Blair and I put hardwood floors in.

27:41 Like we're we're getting there.

27:42 It's just, you know, when it's not 50 people working at once,

27:48 it takes a little longer because if it's me working in 45 minute increments,

27:56 how do you eat an elephant?

27:57 One bite at a time.

27:58 That's right.

28:00 All right, let's see.

28:02 Do some questions.

28:03 Um, maybe I'll use this question as an opportunity

28:06 to nudge you to give you to give us

28:09 maybe how do the an update on how did the garden fair all of this and the trees.

28:17 Um, weirdly, aside from the fruit trees that were eviscerated by falling trees,

28:24 we have a or like so I have a little mini orchard out

28:28 in front of us here like around the garden area around the pond

28:32 that the pigs dug the famous pond that's still not done after three years

28:36 of trying to get it done due to a egregious math error on my part.

28:40 That's a story for another time.

28:42 Um, but we also have another orchard that I

28:45 like was kind of already established when we moved here,

28:48 but I had I've been actively trying to re reinvigorate it, replant it, etc.

28:53 That orchard was basically ruined by the storm.

28:58 Yeah.

28:58 The amount of damage up there is just like, well, you know what?

29:01 Let's try again in another five years up there.

29:05 But down here, doing great.

29:07 Um, and so our baby fruit trees look dead after the cold,

29:10 even though we covered them.

29:11 Is there any hope?

29:12 Can we do anything for them?

29:14 Um, the real question actually for that question

29:19 is what kind of fruit trees are those?

29:21 Because most fruit trees go dormant.

29:25 Um, they go to sleep during the winter.

29:27 They lose all their leaves and they look totally dead and they're also

29:31 totally fine in the cold and then they'll pop back up come spring.

29:37 So unless it's like a non cold tolerant variety, you should be fine.

29:46 Um, and as far as can we do anything for them,

29:49 like if you can like and I always do the little snap test.

29:53 So like reach out like on the farthest bit of a branch and give

29:58 it a little snap and if it just bends instead of snaps, it's still alive.

30:03 If it snaps, that branch is dead.

30:07 So, just keep moving closer and closer to the stem of the tree.

30:10 And if all the branches snap, it's dead.

30:14 There we go.

30:18 Will we have baby goats this time?

30:19 Yeah.

30:19 Are we going to have baby goats?

30:22 Do we want to fight on the live stream or I'm just kidding.

30:26 No.

30:26 Um, no.

30:26 No.

30:27 So, uh, I only bring selected this one because we were literally just talking.

30:31 Yeah, we were just talking about this.

30:33 Um, so we had decided to press pause on the goats

30:36 and we shrunk our herd from 22 to four,

30:39 which was a huge shrink um, prior to Alexander being born.

30:44 Um, and then we also got rid of Jeffrey, our sire,

30:49 due to him trying to um, do WWE moves with me every time I move down to

30:56 Good click of that clip of that in our Please don't get a goat video.

30:59 Yeah, I'm a big fan.

31:02 I love I love America's Funniest Home videos.

31:06 That's basically like half my personality.

31:10 Um, actually, we were just we've been filming a new

31:13 garden video and I keep in the video I have stepped

31:16 on a rake and hit myself in the face like

31:19 10 different times and I'm just like I'm not even mad.

31:22 It's just like funny because Yeah.

31:26 Anyway, all that to say, will we have baby goats?

31:30 Uh, probably.

31:32 Yes, absolutely.

31:33 Not this spring because it takes 5 months for a goat to be pregnant.

31:36 And I still haven't found a um man to join rejoin the crew.

31:43 But I did put out a bunch of feelers

31:46 on Facebook one day during nap time and then,

31:49 you know, the ice storm happened and it's now been

31:51 a month and a half and I haven't followed up.

31:54 So, in a dream world, yes,

31:56 we will have goats five months from the moment that I find some seed.

32:02 Some seed.

32:04 Some seed.

32:07 Awesome.

32:07 Well, that would be good.

32:08 And get the milk uh routine going again for you.

32:11 Totally.

32:11 But to be fair, like it's not really

32:15 ever an emergency to have the goat milk routine

32:18 going because we also have 20 cows and my friend

32:22 Tyler and I are doing the dairy biz.

32:25 So, we really don't ever run out of milk.

32:27 It's just a matter of I really prefer to drink goat milk,

32:32 like if I'm just having a glass of milk,

32:35 but I'll tolerate cow milk because it also has lots of other things.

32:40 Oh, I love um this.

32:44 It's SW10M.

32:47 You two need to write a kids book

32:50 in what life is like in an environment like yours.

32:52 I actually um have been writing a kids book for Alexander.

32:56 This is actually a product of the storm.

32:58 Oh yeah, it is.

32:59 Yes.

33:00 Uh, so yeah, basically because like we were

33:03 just like kind of sitting around and I

33:05 had a notebook and um we didn't have

33:07 internet and like we couldn't do anything else.

33:11 I was sitting there and we had we had a conversation

33:14 with our neighbors that were staying

33:15 with us because they didn't have power either,

33:17 but we had heat so that was good from the fireplace.

33:20 Um, yeah.

33:21 And so I started writing a kids book called Little

33:25 Alex or sorry Little Heart Learns to Feel and we it

33:31 it like once it's like one of those things where it's

33:33 like once it started it just like flowed out of me.

33:37 I it's like already

33:39 you have like a whole series planned.

33:41 No, it's like 15 15 chapters long already.

33:45 Um, and it it talks about like all of the things that like, you know,

33:50 it's been a hot minute since I cried on a live stream and here we go.

33:53 Just kidding.

33:54 I'm gonna keep it.

33:55 It's every other live stream.

33:56 No, no, no, no.

33:58 I haven't cried on a live stream since I was pregnant.

34:00 I don't think

34:01 that's true.

34:02 So, it's been eight months.

34:03 But anyway, the thing is that like there's a lot of things that um you know,

34:09 we really struggled with with things like fertility and everything

34:13 for for a really long time and we didn't like we'd basically

34:17 kind of given up on the fact that or like

34:19 on the hope that we would ever have kids of our own.

34:22 And in that, I am retrospectively very grateful now

34:29 that we have Alexander for the time that we

34:31 didn't have kids because it turns out like if

34:34 we'd been able to have start having kids right away,

34:37 like 13 years ago when we first wanted to, like I don't think I would

34:42 have been able to be the mom that I hope that I can be now,

34:46 the hope the mom that I hope that I am now.

34:49 And there's still lots of things that I am daily

34:54 encountering as as a mom that I'm like, "Oh man,

34:58 like I want to learn how to be better at this so that I

35:02 can model this better for my son." And as I'm doing that, like it's,

35:08 you know, every time I every time Adam

35:10 and I get in a fight or like whatever else,

35:12 I'm just like, "Oh, this is a good lesson for little heart to uh should I leave?

35:18 Should I read one of one of the little like

35:21 three minute ones for Little Heart or No, another time.

35:27 Um, sure.

35:28 I can do a quick one here.

35:31 Okay, I'll pull up one of the little heart stories.

35:34 This is, but also I'll pull up one that's not like

35:38 because the thing is most of them it's like it's so sad.

35:41 I mean it's like great but it's also so sad.

35:43 That's why I hesitated.

35:44 I was like do we are you going to make it through?

35:47 Yeah, I'll make it.

35:48 I'll pick I'll pick a good one.

35:51 We're not going to do little heart learns

35:53 how to say goodbye because that one's too much.

35:59 Adam, tell us about uh something while I find a good one.

36:07 Um, all right.

36:08 Here's a good one.

36:08 There we go.

36:09 Hope you enjoyed my

36:13 um

36:12 my talk.

36:16 Okay.

36:16 All right.

36:17 This is called Little Heart in the Garden of Yes.

36:23 Little Heart grew a little older.

36:25 Not all at once.

36:26 slowly like a tree.

36:28 But one day he noticed something about himself.

36:30 He loved many things.

36:32 He loved music and cooking and drawing and learning and building and helping.

36:37 And as he grew, Little Hart started dreaming up

36:39 new ideas faster than he could finish his old projects.

36:43 Little Hart smiled when he realized this.

36:46 I think he said softly to himself.

36:48 I am like my mother.

36:52 In his dreams, Little Hart found himself in a garden.

36:55 At first, it was beautiful.

36:57 Everywhere he looked, something wanted to grow.

36:59 A workshop over here, a project over there, a promise, a plan, a possibility.

37:04 Every time Little Heart said, "Yes," a new seed sprouted.

37:08 "Yes, I'll help.

37:10 Yes, I'll build.

37:11 Yes, I'll try.

37:14 Yes, because I really just don't want to miss out." Soon,

37:19 Little Heart's garden was overflowing.

37:21 But something started to feel very, very wrong.

37:25 Little Heart ran from plant to plant,

37:27 watering everything just a little bit, but nothing was going strong.

37:31 The garden was busy, but nothing was healthy.

37:36 In another dream, Little Hart watched his mother.

37:40 She built something tall and impressive, almost like a school.

37:45 A tower made of ideas, effort, and long days.

37:48 Everyone admired it.

37:49 Look how much she's doing.

37:51 and they said, "But Little Heart,

37:53 oh no." But Little Heart noticed something they didn't.

37:59 The tower had no rest built into it.

38:01 No empty space, no strong foundation.

38:04 One day, the tower swayed and then it fell.

38:07 Not because she was careless, but because she tried to carry everything.

38:12 Oh no!

38:16 Little Heart felt his chest ache.

38:19 The dream changed again.

38:25 Little Hart sat beneath his favorite tree with a group

38:29 of his friends that were much older and much wiser than he.

38:36 One elder said, "You can do many things,

38:38 but you cannot do everything." Another said,

38:41 "Every yes you say is a no you're choosing, even if you don't see it yet."

38:47 Another elder friend leaned in close and whispered,

38:50 "Not everything matters needs to be hard." Sorry,

38:54 "Not everything that matters needs to be hard."

38:57 Little Hart felt these words settled deep inside his precious little heart.

39:02 He returned to the garden.

39:04 This time, he carried a smaller shovel.

39:06 He didn't rush.

39:07 He looked at each plant and asked a quiet question.

39:11 "Is this project, this plant, worth the life it will take from me later?

39:17 Some plants were beautiful, but they drank too much water.

39:20 Some were exciting, but pulled nutrients from every plant around them.

39:25 With a steady heart, our precious little heart did something very brave.

39:30 He let some things go.

39:33 His garden grew smaller, but stronger.

39:36 Ah, stop.

39:39 The remaining plants grew deep roots.

39:41 Their fe fruit was sweeter, and their shade was restful.

39:46 And one night, little Heart noticed something surprising.

39:49 When he focused on the right things,

39:51 his work felt lighter and his body felt stronger.

39:55 His joy came back 10 times stronger than it was before.

40:00 And his friends smiled and said,

40:02 "When you choose what truly matters, life stops fighting you.

40:06 Effortless doesn't mean lazy.

40:10 It means you're doing what you should be

40:12 doing." And little heart liked that word effortless.

40:20 And so he carried that lesson into adulthood.

40:23 And he started to ask every time he wanted to say yes,

40:26 is this yes worth this the no that it will ask of me later.

40:32 Some yeses are seeds, others are weeds.

40:35 Wisdom is knowing the difference.

40:40 Little heart lay in bed breathing slowly.

40:42 He no longer wanted to do everything.

40:44 He wanted to choose to do the right things well.

40:47 He closed his eyes knowing this.

40:49 A smaller life chosen on purpose can be wider,

40:52 deeper, and kinder than a life stretched far too thin.

40:56 And Little Heart slept ready to grow what truly mattered tomorrow.

41:02 Good night, Little Heart.

41:03 We love you.

41:06 A.

41:08 Anyway, so there's like a lot of those

41:14 that have been lessons that I really would like to learn myself

41:19 and relearn every day as we try to teach him to do that.

41:25 Anyway, how are Papas doing after the storm?

41:30 They're great.

41:31 Thank you for asking.

41:32 All right, hard transition.

41:37 They're great.

41:38 They're great.

41:38 Thank you for asking.

41:39 I think they survived.

41:40 So,

41:40 no, they're all fine.

41:41 And also, I do want to let everyone here know that I have a pack of paw

41:47 paw seeds that I have been pawpaw seeds

41:53 are really hard to get to grow from seed.

41:55 Usually, you have to like cut the ryome

41:57 and we always like growing seeds from like

42:00 trees from seeds instead of trees from like

42:02 replanted trees because the roots just do better.

42:05 So, all that to say that um this last year

42:09 while I was eating mini paw paws that I picked,

42:14 I was also very careful to rough up the seeds with my teeth and then

42:19 to collect the seeds and then I put

42:21 them directly into the fridge with Pete Moss.

42:23 And I've been diligently spraying those Pete Moss covered disrupted seeds.

42:29 Um, and they and then I put them in some

42:33 for 90 days and then I put them in some um,

42:36 soil and they've started to sprout.

42:38 So, good news of great joy.

42:39 We have a lot of paw paw trees coming your way in 2026.

42:52 Um, should we take this moment to talk about Redmond?

42:55 Redmond.

42:56 Yes.

42:56 Are here's the thing.

42:59 Um, as a young mom, the amount of energy

43:04 it takes to make any decision is phenomenal.

43:09 It's a huge amount of energy.

43:11 Um, and so one of the greatest gifts that we've

43:14 gotten by already having a relationship with this company, Redmond,

43:20 is the number of products that we've very easily been able to replace

43:24 in our lives that we just know that like if it's coming from Redmond,

43:30 they're doing it right.

43:31 So, I kid you not, things like toothpaste,

43:37 when one gets a bee sting or a bug bite,

43:41 a pimple, they now make they now make like protein powder for smoothies.

43:49 I'm currently drinking grape relight, which by the way,

43:54 Alexander is 50% grape relight and 50% chocolate relight because

44:01 because he's drinking this.

44:02 No.

44:02 Well, but also he is.

44:05 But yes,

44:06 but yes, I drink this and it turns it into like I mean if you're

44:10 breastfeeding um you need to stay really

44:14 really well hydrated and have like good calories

44:18 and you want to make sure that you're

44:20 getting the vitamins that you need and they're

44:22 not being stripped from your body every time you nurse or pump or whatever else.

44:26 And Redmond is all of that.

44:29 I have not had a sip of unreaded water for a year and a half.

44:37 And that sounds probably me, too.

44:40 Yeah.

44:40 No, the thing is water's disgusting.

44:43 Full disclosure, I didn't know until I

44:45 was an actual adult that humans drank water.

44:49 Like, because it it wasn't a thing in our family.

44:51 Like, our family,

44:53 didn't you just eat watermelon?

44:57 Yes.

44:57 Our family did not drink water.

44:58 My parents drank coffee and they started giving me coffee

45:02 at 3 years old because they realized that it calmed me down.

45:05 Draw whatever conclusions you want there.

45:07 But I started drinking coffee when I was 3 years old

45:10 and I drank milk and ate an ungodly amount of watermelon.

45:16 And I found out when I was an adult, actually in therapy,

45:20 that I was like phenomenally dehydrated all the time because I I

45:26 just genuinely did not know that humans were supposed to drink water.

45:29 I had never seen anyone do it.

45:31 Didn't seem normal.

45:32 Anyway, water's gross and it doesn't have to be because relight exists.

45:38 I love milk.

45:39 Until I was pregnant with Alexander, I did not like chocolate,

45:42 but Redmond's um chocolate relay product,

45:45 which we don't have here because I drank it all.

45:48 Um is like the greatest additive to hot water.

45:53 You want to have hot chocolate, drink Redmond Relay.

45:56 If you want to have like a mocha coffee,

45:59 um add Relight, the chocolate relight to your coffee.

46:02 If you want to, um have the best

46:04 chocolate milk you've ever had in your entire life, add it to your milk.

46:08 That's why I said Alexander is basically like half

46:11 grape relight because of the water and then half

46:14 chocolate relight because I was literally drinking a half

46:17 gallon of chocolate milk every day while I was pregnant.

46:20 That was the only craving I had and boy howdy, it did something for us.

46:24 That baby is a fat little lard.

46:27 Um anyway, yeah, Redmond is so great

46:32 and um it's ironically our whole journey with Redmond

46:35 started because I was feeding my animals Redmond

46:39 mineral products and I saw their health like like garlic salt, Redmond,

46:45 garlic salt, which like keeps flies off.

46:47 If you're dealing with flies on any of your livestock,

46:49 start feeding garlic salt.

46:51 It's the 10 fine added garlic um in February ahead of fly season.

46:57 Um you can you can um like Sorry, I got

47:05 Anyways,

47:04 I was like I eat a lot of garlic too.

47:06 That helps with like mosquitoes.

47:08 I never get bitten by mosquitoes.

47:09 Adam does.

47:10 That has nothing to do with Redmond, but it has lots to do with garlic.

47:13 But all that to say that we start feeding

47:15 our animals Redmond salt with garlic which helps with the flies.

47:19 But also feeding our goats and our cows Redmond added selenium during

47:24 the winter months has like removed all of our birth defect issues.

47:29 Um like our dogs that have yeasty paws, yeasty ears, constant ear infections.

47:36 We used to be having to treat all

47:37 those things with antibiotics and like expensive vet visits.

47:41 Now all we have to do is just spray a little puff of Redmond clay

47:44 in there and it's like the it's solved

47:47 a thousand a year issue for our dog Johnny.

47:51 It's also a good baby powder replacement.

47:53 Yep.

47:53 We don't we don't like I want to show them the puffer.

47:58 I'm going to get one.

47:59 This is a funny thing.

48:02 Okay, so we don't use baby powder because we use Redmond clay.

48:10 Where's your puffer, buddy?

48:11 Top top drawer.

48:14 Oh, you you're hold

48:15 No, I'm holding my puffer.

48:17 Oh.

48:18 Oh, here it is.

48:18 Okay,

48:18 here you go.

48:19 All right.

48:20 She's looking through the camera gear.

48:22 Okay.

48:24 So, funny story.

48:25 Prior to having a baby, I was like, I need to have I want to use this as a baby

48:31 powder product because like I had been using it again on my dog's

48:34 yeasty ears and like all kinds of things where like when I

48:38 would like you know any situation that like remains wet gets infected.

48:44 Draw your own conclusions.

48:45 I was like, I need a little thing that's gonna like puff the clay because

48:50 it works so well at fixing a myriad of issues into all those little areas.

48:58 What is that though?

48:58 What is it supposed to be for?

49:01 Well, listen, this is actually for that.

49:03 But here's the thing.

49:04 Adam, I don't really shop online.

49:07 Adam loves shopping online.

49:08 He buys a lot of stuff online.

49:09 You shut your mouth.

49:13 By some weird coincidence,

49:17 Adam and I ordered nearly the same product on the same day on on Amazon.

49:24 I was looking for a clay puffer for my baby's tushy.

49:29 He was looking for an air squisher to like get dust off his camera lens.

49:34 Anyway, this is the first time I'd ordered anything in a really long time.

49:39 So naturally, when I saw that like something that was

49:42 like the general shape of the thing I ordered had arrived,

49:46 I took it down to my office and I was like, "Oh, this is great.

49:49 It's actually like directional.

49:50 You can really like spray that spray in the direction you want it to go."

49:55 But then I filled it with clay and I every time I tried to like spray it,

50:01 all the clay came out of this hole, not this hole.

50:04 This is a disaster.

50:05 It made a huge mess.

50:07 There's like these like holes on the side.

50:10 Yeah.

50:10 And it was just spraying all over.

50:11 Not what I wanted.

50:12 A thousand a thousand% not what I wanted.

50:15 Anyway, come to find like two weeks later,

50:19 I was complaining to Adam because I was like, you know, I never leave the farm.

50:23 Adam goes and does little things because he needs like he

50:26 likes being social and like going and doing like human things.

50:30 I would prefer to just be a hermit for the rest of my life.

50:32 Anyway, I was like, "Adam, can you please take this garbage thing back?" I tried

50:37 to get something that would spray my clay and it doesn't.

50:39 He's like, "What the hell were you doing with that?" He's like,

50:42 "I ordered this for my camera." And I was like, "What?"

50:45 I was like looking for it.

50:46 He had been looking for it for a week.

50:48 I was like, "Did they just like leave it somewhere and like got stolen or what?"

50:54 Anyway, this had arrived and he was like, "This isn't what I wanted." Anyway,

50:59 turns out this little bulb, which is for spraying powder,

51:03 it's a baby powder sprayer and it works great for the clay

51:08 by by the way had arrived and our boxes got mixed up.

51:15 Here we are.

51:16 All that to say that this as a baby powder sprayer, as a dog ear sprayer,

51:21 as any other wet crevice you want to not

51:24 have wet or infected or gross smelling anymore.

51:27 Also, dry shampoo.

51:28 Give it a little puff puff.

51:30 Great, great, great.

51:31 These don't work.

51:32 These do.

51:34 But all that to say,

51:35 like the number of things in our life we've replaced with Redmond stuff,

51:38 it's like it's wild.

51:39 And we don't have to make any decisions.

51:41 We know it's great.

51:42 And Redmond is like the best company ever, has the best people working at it.

51:47 We want to support them in every way we can.

51:49 And if you want to support them, too, or support our channel, uh,

51:53 that's probably the best way to support the channel.

51:55 That is legitimately the best way you can support us.

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52:02 If you're a gardener and you're not doing soil tests,

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52:19 Like, get the Redmond soil test.

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52:33 It's worth it and it also is a great way to support our channel.

52:36 But it's also literally just a great way to improve your own

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52:46 Sweet.

52:47 Yeah.

52:47 All right.

52:47 Here's another one.

52:48 My kids are learning to garden and they like watching your videos.

52:51 They want me to ask you if you have any advice for young gardeners.

52:56 And yes, I do.

52:57 Super chat, too.

52:58 Thank you.

52:58 Thank you so much for that.

53:00 Um I it's my greatest it's it the greatest

53:05 gift anyone can ever give me is asking

53:07 my advice because I have a lot of opinions

53:09 and I'm just always waiting to share them.

53:12 Uh, the best advice I can give anyone is to plant things that you

53:17 think you might like eating because it is so like I'm 37 years old.

53:24 I can't even tell you the joy that I have experienced this year

53:29 for the first like I mean I've I've always love it like I still remember

53:33 getting my first egg out of the chicken coop 12 years ago and like

53:38 it's never been less magical to get another egg out of the chicken coop

53:42 with our secret chickens that we had in our backyard

53:44 our illegal chickens.

53:45 We lived in an HOA that forbid chickens and

53:49 I got illegal chickens.

53:50 We still had chickens anyway.

53:51 Um, but all that to say, this year, uh, I planted I mean,

53:58 we this year was a big fill in a lot of ways for the garden.

54:01 We have lots of we have a couple videos about that.

54:04 But, but the thing that I did was I planted sweet potatoes cuz I was like,

54:08 you know, by the time that Alexander is a certain age,

54:12 he's going to need sweet potatoes cuz like he's going to need some like,

54:15 you know, daily staples of food, solid foods.

54:19 And so if I'm gonna do nothing else this year,

54:21 I want to grow some successful sweet potatoes.

54:24 And every single time I like sweet,

54:28 it turns out sweet potatoes are Alexander's favorite food.

54:32 And every single time I feed him a sweet potato,

54:34 it's like the the crack of picking that first

54:38 first carrot out of your garden and eating

54:40 it or that crack of like getting that first egg out of the ce and eating it.

54:45 It's like the best feeling in the world.

54:46 So, the thing is like lots of vegetables are disgusting.

54:50 Let's not pretend like they're not.

54:52 Shard, absolutely not.

54:54 Um, kale, no thank you.

54:57 But like, you know, based on your taste buds

55:01 and the things you like, plant some of that.

55:05 I will say that along with also plant something that's gonna

55:10 guaranteed be successful because it's it's really disheartening to like you

55:14 know what if you only like broccoli but it's a little

55:17 hard to grow broccoli and it takes a long time to grow.

55:20 A better option would be to grow like to try

55:23 to grow some broccoli but also grow something like kale.

55:27 That's a bad example, but like kale is in the same family as broccoli.

55:31 And if you take the leafy gross part off of it and you cook just the stems,

55:35 you it actually tastes a lot like broccoli.

55:38 So you can get like 90% of the way

55:40 there with like something that's fairly easy to grow.

55:44 So grow like grow also kids are a little impatient.

55:48 So grow things that grow fast.

55:49 Like radishes are disgusting.

55:50 So I'm not going to suggest you do that.

55:52 But like if you if you just want to see them

55:54 put some seeds in the ground and see some green coming up,

55:57 that's a great thing to do.

55:58 Peas.

55:59 Pea vines.

56:01 Oh my lands.

56:02 Pea vines are so delicious and like they

56:06 grow pretty quickly and really early in the season.

56:09 Potatoes, great thing to grow.

56:11 You can grow potatoes in a laundry basket and do great with them.

56:16 In most climates, like if you're not in zone five or above,

56:21 growing sweet potatoes is a great thing to do.

56:24 Do that.

56:25 Um, you know, grow things you like.

56:28 I love paw paws.

56:29 The whole ongoing paw paw saga is funny and cute because I love them so much,

56:35 but I mean, they're great and worth it every day.

56:40 I whenever I see comments like this, I

56:44 always we have to highlight them because they're great.

56:50 Oh, okay.

56:51 Well, first of all, we this this comment says,

56:54 "You read it cuz I suck at reading the love."

56:56 Your farm animal chore videos are my daughter's favorite.

56:59 They're three and four and love all the animals.

57:04 We love to hear that because when I

57:08 made my YouTube channel many many many moons ago,

57:14 um I took this course from my friend Tim Schmooer who um

57:18 like teaches you how to have a like a successful YouTube channel.

57:25 And one of the things that that it's like the main

57:27 premise of that course is like nobody cares what you care about.

57:30 Which by the way, look around you in my office.

57:34 Like no one cares about any of this stuff.

57:36 Like I no one cares about spinning things from scratch.

57:38 No one cares about my 1906 Barnes lathe.

57:42 No one cares about my um Rubo saw or building tiny Windsor chairs from the tree.

57:48 Like these are very niche interests that I have.

57:53 But what Tim and and his incredible course

57:57 that he has says is like pick a person

58:02 or two people that you want to talk to and then talk to them for forever.

58:08 And it's really helpful if you can pick someone that like you know

58:13 and then you know how to talk to them already because you're talking to them.

58:18 And the thing is that um you know I

58:21 I don't like to talk about what I don't know,

58:23 but what I what I do know is that I've wanted to be a mom my whole life.

58:29 I wanted to have a good marriage and I wanted to have

58:33 lots of babies and I wanted to raise those babies on a farm.

58:39 And so what I wanted to do was talk to, you know,

58:44 these people that we call Jack and Jill who are someone like

58:48 someone in their early early 30s who have one or two kids.

58:52 Yeah, these are not real people.

58:54 They're not real people, but they're based on real people that we do know.

58:57 Our friends Scott and Britney, in case you're wondering.

59:01 Uh,

59:01 do they know those or are they finding those out on the stream?

59:03 Well, I mean, they're probably not watching, so it's fine.

59:06 Like, you know, they have, you know, they're probably not here.

59:10 Um, but anyway, Jack and Jill are the people we're talking to.

59:15 And the thing is that like my goal has

59:16 always been like I want like whatever iteration it is.

59:23 I'm obviously like a woman who does woodworking and has

59:26 a lot of like formerly male centered interests and stuff.

59:30 But if we're going to be like stereotypical,

59:32 Jill is interested in gardening and you know is is very busy

59:37 and her husband like might be interested in woodworking and other things.

59:41 But the whole thing of it is that like we get Jill like some help in the garden.

59:47 We get Jack to build a dining room table and the goal is

59:52 to like have Jack be proud of his dining room table and and Jill

59:56 to grow some food in the garden and then they serve it

1:00:00 at the table and now they've both contributed and it brings the family together.

1:00:03 And so like to know that families are watching

1:00:06 our channel together like that's the the whole goal.

1:00:10 I mean, sometimes, you know, I worked on a fishing boat for eight years,

1:00:14 so sometimes like I get a little ahead of myself and I

1:00:18 say things that like maybe three and four year olds shouldn't hear,

1:00:22 but I try really hard not to

1:00:24 in the morning chore videos.

1:00:26 No, not in those.

1:00:26 But I mean, like, you know, just in general, like sometimes,

1:00:29 every once in a while, my mom's like, you know,

1:00:33 reel it in.

1:00:34 Reel it in.

1:00:35 But all that to say, like it's my greatest joy.

1:00:38 Like the thing that has made me like cry more times

1:00:41 than anything else is like when I find out that dads

1:00:44 and daughters are watching their channel watching this channel together cuz

1:00:48 like you know my dad and I have a great relationship now.

1:00:53 I didn't grow up knowing about any of this stuff or learning any of this stuff.

1:00:58 And like I would have like I would have loved to but that's

1:01:02 also not who my dad is and not what he does.

1:01:04 And like and so here we are now like the thought of a a dads and daughters,

1:01:11 moms and sons, like families watching this stuff together.

1:01:14 This is this is why we do this stuff.

1:01:16 So like

1:01:20 totally

1:01:18 I am so overjoyed anytime I hear that you know anyone else like

1:01:28 that that kids are watching our videos that that families are watching videos.

1:01:31 No, I love it.

1:01:31 I mean, those are my favorite comments.

1:01:33 Also, like even um even kind of additionally to that, like

1:01:40 I love that people like those videos because um speaking of Timmooer,

1:01:48 if any YouTube person would tell you that you

1:01:54 should just kind of stick to one lane and not make you should just make one type

1:01:59 of you shouldn't split your audience so much like that.

1:02:00 And those videos are like have nothing to do

1:02:03 with anything to do with the rest of the channel.

1:02:06 And we just do it because we like those to make those videos for kids.

1:02:10 We like making videos for kids.

1:02:11 Yeah.

1:02:12 And they and like thank like thank

1:02:14 the algorithm gods that people find those videos.

1:02:17 Um but um yeah, it just makes me happy that people watch those and enjoy them.

1:02:24 And yeah, I mean even to to really tie a bow on all that, like Tim told me

1:02:30 a really long time ago that if I wanted

1:02:32 to talk about any of the things I was talking about,

1:02:35 I needed to pick one and pick one topic.

1:02:39 Pick one topic and stop talking about all the other stuff.

1:02:42 And the thing was like which is pro is true.

1:02:45 It's great advice.

1:02:46 Yeah.

1:02:46 No, we I should have if we were following YouTube best practices.

1:02:50 This should just be a gardening channel.

1:02:52 Like that's all that we should be doing is gardening.

1:02:54 If I wanted We shouldn't make videos about alpacas or

1:02:58 Yeah.

1:02:58 No.

1:02:58 Or morning chores or any of that stuff or woodworking or anything.

1:03:02 That would be the smart thing to do.

1:03:04 Yeah.

1:03:04 If we cared about having a a successful business more than we cared

1:03:08 about actually like reaching Jack and Jill the way that we want to.

1:03:11 Yeah.

1:03:12 We would be only making gardening videos.

1:03:15 So, I guess this is another way that you can support the channel.

1:03:18 Even if you're not interested in the other videos,

1:03:20 maybe just like click on it and then leave the room.

1:03:23 Yeah, leave it playing because the thing is

1:03:25 like when it's when when please don't get alpacas

1:03:27 comes up and all you care about is gardening.

1:03:31 Yeah, but Yeah.

1:03:32 No, like I made the very conscious decision

1:03:34 in the face of advice I knew was correct.

1:03:37 I mean, I've been doing social media since 2012.

1:03:40 I know I know that like I I literally consult small businesses

1:03:46 that that pay me for my time to tell them don't do as I do,

1:03:50 do as I say because um but yeah,

1:03:52 for me it was really important that I was like I don't want

1:03:56 to necessarily do everything we can do to have the most successful channel.

1:04:00 I want to do what we can do to reach the right people the right way.

1:04:05 and like let's not pretend that I'm not interested in really irrelevant things.

1:04:16 Um, and also helping people have better marriages,

1:04:21 better families, like grow nutrient-dense food for their families.

1:04:25 if you want to have animals, like how to care for them.

1:04:28 Well, like that's if you're here for a little bit of our of it,

1:04:34 I want you to be here for all of it.

1:04:35 And I really really appreciate those of you who have stuck around for all

1:04:40 of it because it's been a slow burn for a really long time.

1:04:43 And it yeah, it like I have, you know, people talking to me all the time like,

1:04:49 you know, you could make so much more money, you could do like this.

1:04:51 And I was like, well, first of all, if you've ever seen any of my videos,

1:04:54 I feel like you already know that like I making

1:04:59 money is literally the opposite of what I try to do.

1:05:04 Um, much to Adam Sugarrin probably, but like, you know,

1:05:10 I it's the last thing that I think about.

1:05:14 The first thing I think about is like how could

1:05:16 we help people who think or or or feel like us

1:05:22 maybe have a little bit less painful of a life

1:05:26 or dare I say a a more connected like more satisfying life.

1:05:34 Totally.

1:05:35 I think also like on top of that it's easy

1:05:37 to forget that this started out as a woodworking show.

1:05:41 So it's like we're Well, it's easy for you to forget.

1:05:43 No, I mean look behind you.

1:05:45 I know that, but like most people who probably have joined

1:05:48 the channel in the last few years probably may not even realize it,

1:05:52 but this was started out as a woodworking channel.

1:05:55 Yeah.

1:05:55 For those of you who don't know, my actual expertise is woodworking, not

1:06:01 she's a worldass woodworker.

1:06:03 She's been on the cover of Popular Woodworking.

1:06:06 Well, thank you.

1:06:07 With a like I don't know if we have it here, but

1:06:10 I mean it's framed over in the corner, but yeah.

1:06:13 uh just said,

1:06:14 "Yeah, I've been in 52 woodworking magazines." Um but like that's not Yeah.

1:06:21 The thing is one of the great things about you know actually I will just

1:06:27 even say this too like um some people watch because they also know that like

1:06:32 either they know someone who has similar struggles to me or like they they they

1:06:36 have kids that have similar struggles to me

1:06:38 or maybe they have similar struggles to me.

1:06:40 like uh I I grew up being told that a jack of all trades is a master of none.

1:06:48 And that was a really really discouraging thing to hear

1:06:51 because it was always said in a derogatory way.

1:06:55 But one of the most encouraging things that ever happened

1:06:58 to me was reading the book range in the year 2020,

1:07:01 which is a book about like the end of specialization.

1:07:06 Like basically specialists are really really good at one thing but people who

1:07:11 learn a myriad of different skills have

1:07:14 different perspectives to lend to any situation.

1:07:17 And I'm not going to, you know,

1:07:21 pretend that I'm like really great great at anything.

1:07:24 Like I do know that like I'm pretty good at woodworking.

1:07:26 Like I'm pretty good at a few other things.

1:07:28 But um I think that the my superpower is that like because

1:07:34 I because I've so struggled with learning for so much of my life,

1:07:39 learning has been the main focus of my life.

1:07:42 And so in that because I never stopped constantly searching for knowledge,

1:07:48 searching for learning, searching for other things.

1:07:50 like it's actually made me it's given me more superpowers

1:07:54 because um a lot of the things that I've been interested

1:07:57 in throughout the the years really lend themselves to each other

1:08:01 it turns out and um I've I've ultimately gotten a lot better

1:08:08 at helping people who have similar issues fix the problems

1:08:13 that they have because quite frankly I just have like so many

1:08:18 different lenses to view things I have like animal husbandry

1:08:21 and music and cooking and natural health and woodworking and trains and trains

1:08:33 and paw paws and like all these other things

1:08:35 to just like you know like um you know

1:08:39 has a really cool train setup in the Halo.

1:08:42 I don't know.

1:08:43 I think it was maybe in the alpaca video for one the like one second.

1:08:48 It's like this like what is it?

1:08:50 Playmmobile.

1:08:52 Yeah, it's like a Playmobil train set.

1:08:54 It's pretty cool.

1:08:55 I would have loved it when I was a kid.

1:08:58 Totally.

1:08:58 Anyway, all that to say that like Anyways, we got to get this

1:09:01 We really Yeah, let's get it back on track.

1:09:03 We really appreciate kids and families watching together and like

1:09:07 if your kids are are struggling with like learning disabilities,

1:09:12 being bullied, like those kinds of things, like this is something that I'm like,

1:09:18 yeah, I was horribly bullied as a kid.

1:09:20 Actually, Adam was too for for different reasons.

1:09:23 Two people who were bullied quite a bit when they were kids.

1:09:25 But I I genuinely think that like the things

1:09:28 that you like your biggest struggles in life can also

1:09:31 become your biggest assets if you don't let them define

1:09:34 you and you don't become a victim of your circumstances.

1:09:36 And I think that that's one of the things that both

1:09:38 of us are really passionate about is like okay so yeah

1:09:43 that happened yeah that sucked but like what are we going

1:09:46 to do about it or how are we going to use it?

1:09:48 And the thing is that as painfully lonely of a childhood as I had,

1:09:57 like people ask me why I know how to do so many things.

1:10:00 It's literally because I had no friends.

1:10:02 I had so much time like as an unemployed child.

1:10:08 um who by the way got to get led

1:10:10 out of school constantly because I was constantly having panic

1:10:13 attacks because I was so badly bullied that like I

1:10:16 learned so many things and it's like I could look

1:10:19 at the sadness of that or I could literally just

1:10:22 like look at pictures of myself and know that I specifically

1:10:25 chose to have a bull cut and a rat tail

1:10:27 for 13 years and I probably deserved a lot of it.

1:10:33 But in that like I had so much time to learn things

1:10:36 and now I get to reap the benefits of that like of learning

1:10:40 how to learn for the rest of my life because every single day

1:10:43 it's like once I finally learned how to read at 22 years old.

1:10:48 I'm really good at learning things in books now.

1:10:50 I read one or two books every single week and learn things.

1:10:54 Like if you're struggling with dyslexia, all those things, shoot me a message.

1:11:01 If your kids are struggling,

1:11:02 I probably have a little bit of things I can do to help.

1:11:10 Totally.

1:11:09 And that's my goal in life instead like I

1:11:11 spent so much my young life feeling like a burden.

1:11:15 And the greatest gift anyone can give me is asking you for help

1:11:19 because it makes me feel like I can then be an asset.

1:11:22 So, please ask those questions.

1:11:24 Send me messages.

1:11:26 Like, right now, I'm spending a whole lot of time pumping.

1:11:30 I've got a little time to answer those questions.

1:11:32 Don't be offended if I don't answer them because also

1:11:35 I have a squirrel living in my home, in my brain, and in my heart.

1:11:41 There you go.

1:11:42 A squirrel in your heart.

1:11:44 There's squirrels everywhere.

1:11:47 I love that.

1:11:48 All right, that was a long detour, but I think it was good.

1:11:52 It's good good like state of the union for for the channel.

1:11:56 Um, okay.

1:11:58 Super sticker.

1:11:59 Thank you, Jay Cober.

1:12:02 Super generous.

1:12:04 Oh, also Sierra Schwab, who was in our cohort

1:12:09 super chat.

1:12:09 Oh, really?

1:12:10 Yeah, that's right.

1:12:11 Yeah.

1:12:11 So, another side side side thing.

1:12:17 Um, I've been working on a book called Habits and Hope,

1:12:20 and it's about reclaiming your time and making

1:12:23 better decisions with how you prioritize your time.

1:12:26 and we've done two iterations of cohorts because I

1:12:31 before I release that book out into the world,

1:12:33 I wanted to double check that like the things that worked for me

1:12:37 to manage my time and manage my priorities worked for other people, too.

1:12:41 So, anyway, Sierra, great to see you.

1:12:43 I am so glad you're here.

1:12:45 Also, I love, you know,

1:12:48 hearing your mom stories and and sharing my mom's stories.

1:12:51 like this is this is the best.

1:12:56 Awesome.

1:12:57 Another super chat from my channel PC2XY.

1:13:02 Thanks so much.

1:13:04 I saw the alpaca shed clip today and had to remind

1:13:07 myself you are a woodworker that gardens and all trades.

1:13:12 I mean, there's a a video on our channel that shows

1:13:17 how I built an alpaca I called it an alpaca palace.

1:13:20 It's a It's like a shed that I built out

1:13:22 surprise at the end.

1:13:23 The surprise was that I get I got a pockets to fill the shed.

1:13:28 Um Oh, was it?

1:13:29 Yes.

1:13:30 Oh, that's funny.

1:13:31 You never like pieced the two that those two together.

1:13:34 The shed was a shed for a surprise.

1:13:37 And the surprise with the alpacas at the end.

1:13:40 Anyway, I also built a whistle to train the alpacas

1:13:43 to come to the food like Willy Wonka did for his guns.

1:13:47 Anyway, all that to say, yes,

1:13:51 we do lots of different things here on this channel.

1:13:55 Recently, thanks to Adam's um perspective,

1:13:58 we do a little bit more focused things.

1:14:04 And this isn't an official announcement,

1:14:07 but we're launching a second channel for woodworking.

1:14:10 Oops.

1:14:12 Well, I guess the cat's out of the bag.

1:14:14 Oh, it's Yeah, it's happening

1:14:21 someday.

1:14:19 Soon.

1:14:20 Very soon.

1:14:21 More details soon.

1:14:24 Um Oh, I like this question.

1:14:28 Are you going to purchase anything new from your experience on the storm?

1:14:32 And uh the answer is actually no because we like this is again

1:14:37 where it's like I have a little bit of survivors guilt because like we

1:14:42 had we were very very much more prepared than most of our most

1:14:48 of Nashville was due to the fact that I'm obsessed with living in the past.

1:14:52 But um like the thing that we had already that I mean saved the day

1:15:00 from my ability to use my breast pump

1:15:02 to like us keeping our freezers safe and everything else

1:15:06 is um we have a Jackaryi home battery

1:15:10 backup system that can be recharged with solar power

1:15:13 and yeah so we it worked as it should have and we're thankful to have had it.

1:15:21 Um, did you have anything you wanted to purchase as a result of the storm?

1:15:30 No.

1:15:30 I mean, I I hope we don't have to go through six days power outage anytime soon.

1:15:36 Um, I don't think so.

1:15:39 It got really cold in the house.

1:15:40 I will say it was I think 31 degrees in the apartment.

1:15:46 In the apartment.

1:15:47 Yeah, that's not good.

1:15:49 Yeah,

1:15:51 but that's just not good for the house to get that cold.

1:15:55 Yeah, if we have any um I will actually just like shamelessly ask here

1:15:58 if we have any uh friends in our audience who are like drywall experts.

1:16:03 Our drywall in the um hoft where Alexander's sleeping

1:16:07 right now and also in the apartment where my parents

1:16:11 stay when they visit um took a real beating

1:16:14 as a result of the extreme humidity shifts during the storm.

1:16:18 So, if anyone here in our audience wants to come for a farm stay Oh, no.

1:16:23 in exchange for some drywall fixing, I would love it.

1:16:28 You're welcome.

1:16:30 Send me a message.

1:16:31 Yeah.

1:16:31 The the Please don't be a murderer.

1:16:34 The tape like basically in a lot of parts

1:16:37 like everywhere that there was the tape.

1:16:39 Yeah.

1:16:39 Everywhere that there's seams like the tape separated from the wall.

1:16:42 So, it's really common when that gets that cold or the humidity.

1:16:46 And we did also have plumbing issues,

1:16:48 but um mercifully our friend Scott already came and fixed them.

1:16:52 Bless bless you, Scott.

1:16:54 Seaman Custom Builds on um YouTube, by the way.

1:16:58 He is an angel.

1:17:03 Um yeah, he's great.

1:17:07 Oh, look at this.

1:17:09 I live in a small apartment in Siberia, literally.

1:17:12 And I still watch Please do not get an alpaca.

1:17:15 That's amazing.

1:17:17 That makes me so happy.

1:17:18 And also, uh, I've not been to Siberia,

1:17:23 but I have been to many of the surrounding areas.

1:17:26 I spent some of my inner Mongolia, Mongolia, uh, Russia,

1:17:32 lots of areas in Russia, lots of areas in Ukraine.

1:17:35 My parents are missionaries and, um, I also went to university in Beijing.

1:17:40 And like I have traveled far and wide in in that region.

1:17:49 There you go.

1:17:50 And um Siberia is a like you've got to be

1:17:56 way more creative than we are in making life fun there.

1:18:01 Yeah.

1:18:01 I try not to complain too much about the cold

1:18:03 because I know that there's people on here who like experience actual cold.

1:18:08 I mean like I grew Yeah.

1:18:09 Like I grew up in Montana where it actually is also very cold,

1:18:12 but like Siberia in comparison much colder.

1:18:16 Also, there's a YouTube channel that we both really like.

1:18:19 This is the one from Yakuts.

1:18:21 That is that how you say?

1:18:22 Well, I don't know how it's said because I also can't in like Eastern Russia.

1:18:28 Yeah.

1:18:28 The coldest area in the world.

1:18:30 She's like taking care of eight kids and it's like 70 or something.

1:18:34 Yeah.

1:18:34 Anyways, um Oh, I like this one.

1:18:42 Ricky Ellen Jr.

1:18:43 asks, "How did you two meet and how did the proposal go?" Oh, my lands.

1:18:49 Hold on.

1:18:49 Your weird sprayer thing just uh Well, Adam and I met when I was 15 years old.

1:18:58 Why are you shaking your head?

1:19:00 my brother who um I was very close with uh

1:19:08 was his roommate and my brother was a musician.

1:19:12 He also was the one who like taught me

1:19:14 how to play all the instruments and um I came

1:19:18 to visit my brother and it happened to be

1:19:23 the season finale of a show about American band Stand.

1:19:28 Not recommending it.

1:19:29 It was a pretty crappy show, but I was really into it at the time because

1:19:33 American Dreams.

1:19:34 American Dreams with Britney Snow.

1:19:36 Uh, and it lasted like five episodes.

1:19:39 It was five seasons.

1:19:40 It was the fifth season and it was the last episode.

1:19:42 Thank you very much.

1:19:43 But anyway, all that to say, uh I was going to miss the episode,

1:19:49 but Adam made a full movie theater

1:19:52 with a projector and like set everything up so

1:19:55 that I could watch this American band stand like

1:19:58 final episode and that was the start of everything.

1:20:02 But anyway, we ended up playing in like a Beatles

1:20:04 covered band together and we liked playing music together even though

1:20:08 we fought about music and broke up about music lots

1:20:10 of times in between being 15 and 22 when we got married.

1:20:16 Wait, wait a minute wait.

1:20:18 I was 22 when we got married.

1:20:20 Okay, that's what I'm saying.

1:20:21 What are you saying?

1:20:22 Okay.

1:20:22 Okay.

1:20:23 He was by that time an old old man.

1:20:26 Just kidding.

1:20:27 No, we're very close to age.

1:20:29 Just to clear that up.

1:20:30 Well, since you're discounting what I'm saying,

1:20:32 I'm just, you know, throwing you under the bus.

1:20:35 Just Anyways, um,

1:20:40 I saw this asked a few times, so we'll we'll throw it up there.

1:20:49 The answer is we have no idea.

1:20:52 Yeah, we haven't left our house in six years.

1:20:55 I feel like that should be obvious by this She's from Montana.

1:20:58 I'm from Seattle.

1:21:00 And since we've been here,

1:21:03 we've been in Nashville a total of three months before the pandemic happened.

1:21:08 And then we really settled in and never leave the house.

1:21:11 Yeah.

1:21:11 So like um for for a quick frame of reference,

1:21:16 I've put more miles every year I've put

1:21:20 more miles on my four-wheeler than on my car.

1:21:26 So take that like when people talk about other like other

1:21:30 areas of the city or other areas of Tennessee, I'm just like

1:21:34 yeah, we pretty much stay around Nashville or we or we're road tripping for

1:21:41 like out of the state out of the state for work or something.

1:21:44 Um,

1:21:48 oh, if you were restarting your garden, would you go traditional or raised beds?

1:21:56 Wanting to quit shopping at the grocery store?

1:21:59 Great question.

1:22:00 We are actually making a video about that as we speak.

1:22:04 Um, the answer to that can actually be found like like it really depends.

1:22:12 It really depends on like how old are you?

1:22:15 What like what level of involvement do you want in your garden?

1:22:18 Like what kinds of stuff are you trying to grow?

1:22:20 Do you want like a bunch of space?

1:22:23 Like how much money do you have to invest in this endeavor?

1:22:27 How much time are you a woodworker?

1:22:29 Do you want to get metal beds?

1:22:31 Like the answer is like in one way or another.

1:22:35 I'm going to suggest raised beds.

1:22:37 Whether that be like raking a whole bunch of crap

1:22:39 from your yard into like some mounds so that you can utilize like

1:22:43 the earth's stuff it's got to offer better um or would you

1:22:49 like to put all that stuff into a raised bed in some capacity?

1:22:53 The answer to all of it is um we

1:22:55 have a video called Start a Lazy Garden from scratch

1:22:59 and that video shows you how to basically turn a lawn

1:23:05 or a crappy piece of garbage land into a vibrant garden.

1:23:11 And um if you want an actual video

1:23:15 that shows specifically how to do raised beds, we'll have that shortly.

1:23:20 But it's basically all the same information that will basically be repackaged.

1:23:24 But yeah, if you want to stop shopping at the grocery store,

1:23:30 what I would recommend is like make a list of what

1:23:32 you're buying at the grocery store because everyone who's starting a garden

1:23:37 gets very very ambitious and suddenly like goes and buys all

1:23:41 these seeds of all these plants that they're never going to eat.

1:23:44 Like nobody likes shard.

1:23:47 Don't plant it.

1:23:47 It's a waste.

1:23:49 Unless you like shard.

1:23:50 Um, which by the way,

1:23:52 one of my goals in 2027 is to release my shard cookbook that's a result of all

1:23:57 of the recipes people have offered to me

1:24:00 trying to convince me that shard is delicious.

1:24:02 And the reality is the forward and afterward of the book will be,

1:24:07 "If you add butter, garlic, and baking grease to anything,

1:24:10 it'll be delicious." Imagine what it would taste like

1:24:13 if you added it to something that was already delicious.

1:24:17 I know, right?

1:24:18 But anyway, all that to say, plant stuff you like,

1:24:21 plant stuff you're going to eat, and it'll be a whole lot easier to grow it.

1:24:24 Um, especially if you do the one thing that we recommend over

1:24:29 and over and over and over and over and over, which is do that, too.

1:24:35 But also do do a soil test because the thing is like if you if

1:24:41 you're just throwing pasta at a cupboard

1:24:44 and seeing what what pieces stick, that's not science.

1:24:49 Know your starting point.

1:24:50 Know your ending point.

1:24:52 Like know what you need to add.

1:24:54 Healthy plants are pest and disease resistant.

1:24:59 Healthy plants come out of healthy soil.

1:25:04 Having minally balanced soil means that you're going

1:25:08 to have microbes and fungi and all the other things

1:25:12 that need to be invited to the buffet

1:25:15 to be able to create a lowmaintenance easy torow garden.

1:25:20 And I don't know where all that stuff

1:25:23 got lost in our modern modern like gardening lexicon,

1:25:30 but whoever is selling you on like $1,000 courses about how to become a better

1:25:39 gardener is ripping you off because it costs $40 to do a soil test.

1:25:46 It costs maybe $160 for the natural amendments that you can do to invite

1:25:52 the good microbes to the party if your soil sucks and you can fix it.

1:25:59 And then you really won't have to weed, water, deal with pests, etc.

1:26:05 nearly as much as you currently are.

1:26:08 So yeah, the answer is if you're restarting your garden,

1:26:12 which by the way, we are.

1:26:14 We are restarting our garden right now.

1:26:16 That's our next video.

1:26:17 We are literally restarting our garden after six years.

1:26:23 Um, and oh my god, the donkeys.

1:26:25 Holy moly, that scared the living daylights out of me.

1:26:28 You You take care of them.

1:26:30 Sorry, my donkey.

1:26:31 How have you learned how to open doors recently?

1:26:36 We're good.

1:26:38 We're good.

1:26:43 Okay.

1:26:46 He Yeah.

1:26:47 Okay.

1:26:49 We're good.

1:26:49 All right.

1:26:50 We used to have them on the stream.

1:26:52 The donkey on the streets streamed on the streets.

1:26:55 Donkeys on the streets.

1:26:56 In the streets.

1:26:57 Um, okay.

1:26:58 Super chat here from Ryanosaurus.

1:27:02 You two ever heard of Bill Mlan talk?

1:27:06 I don't think I have.

1:27:09 Do you?

1:27:10 Allow me to quickly look because names mean

1:27:13 nothing to me due to my many disabilities.

1:27:16 Are you Bill Mcccleintoch?

1:27:18 Ryan Rossaurus trying to make Are you trying to promote yourself?

1:27:22 It's probably like super famous and looking down.

1:27:26 Wait, did you Google this?

1:27:27 How is that already up here?

1:27:29 I was looking at it while while you were talking.

1:27:32 Oh, I have no I have no idea what this is.

1:27:43 Um, thank you for the super chat, though.

1:27:45 Super generous.

1:27:48 Oh, it's like a mashups.

1:27:50 Mashup, soul funk.

1:27:52 Oh, well, I should mention that we're basically Beatles and pop enthusiasts.

1:27:57 I'm well I'm kind of stuck in a Beatles rut right now for the last 40 years.

1:28:03 Well, especially with Alexander.

1:28:05 I find myself just playing Beatles songs to him whenever I pick up the guitar.

1:28:12 But also that's stemming from the fact that you've

1:28:14 been in a Beatles rut for 40 years.

1:28:16 That is true though.

1:28:17 Not 40 years, but you're 40 years old.

1:28:20 For 20 years.

1:28:21 His dad gives him a Beatles book and has since you

1:28:26 were like nine years old for every single holiday or every celebration.

1:28:30 Well, I think I Yeah.

1:28:31 Well, I mean, you know how parents are.

1:28:33 You You tell them one time that you like

1:28:35 something and then that's your birthdays and Christmas for

1:28:39 It's almost like my Playmobil train collection.

1:28:46 Anyway, yeah.

1:28:48 Uh, oh, I also really love someone just said,

1:28:52 "I love those like old style open handles." No,

1:28:55 this is a round regular doorork knob.

1:28:58 Howdy knows how to like lick it just right to get it to turn and open.

1:29:04 Howdy is a donkey, by the way.

1:29:06 Donkeys are dogs.

1:29:07 Oh, yeah.

1:29:07 I don't know if people imagine any idea.

1:29:10 Donkeys are dogs that live for 40 years that are incredibly smart.

1:29:14 Anyone who tells you a donkey is stubborn is not correct.

1:29:18 They are extremely smart and very wary and they will not

1:29:24 do anything that someone that they don't trust asks them to do.

1:29:28 We have a video called please don't get a donkey.

1:29:31 Shameless plug for by the way that's a whole

1:29:34 series of videos about please don't get a which actually

1:29:37 is please do get a but just do it

1:29:39 responsibly if you're going to have any of those things.

1:29:41 Anyway, uh yeah, I don't know.

1:29:44 Surface something good.

1:29:49 Did your alpacas do okay in the storm?

1:29:52 They're still alive, which is actually a daily miracle we always celebrate.

1:29:56 Well, you kind of reinforced the alpaca palace.

1:30:01 That's because they were putting it very generously.

1:30:04 They were fighting the Yeah, the alpaca.

1:30:07 Okay, so they were fighting and they got a little rowdy earlier in the video.

1:30:11 Someone mentioned my alpaca shed build,

1:30:13 which is um building a shed with a great surprise.

1:30:16 And the surprise was the alpacas at the end.

1:30:18 And um that was five years ago.

1:30:20 And I've learned a thing or two about building things in the south since then.

1:30:24 But part of the reason I've learned those things is cuz my alpacas

1:30:28 recently absolutely eviscerated my alpaca palace shed that was in that B video.

1:30:35 Like they were trying to bite each other's nuts off,

1:30:37 which alpacas regularly tried to do.

1:30:40 and they knocked the entire shed over.

1:30:44 So, what's now left is like a whole bunch of random

1:30:47 scrap woods propping up a formerly pallet built pallet constructed.

1:30:53 It's pretty nice now.

1:30:54 It w I mean it's like more nice than it's been in probably the last few years.

1:31:02 That's so offensive.

1:31:04 it currently.

1:31:05 Just to give you a picture of what it is,

1:31:09 is that there was like this ratinfested tarp that was used

1:31:14 to be used to cover hay because we don't have a cow barn.

1:31:18 And the rats had like pooped and peed and like

1:31:21 metriculated in it like made thousands of rat babies in it.

1:31:25 So, it's covered in rat seed.

1:31:34 Seed.

1:31:33 We talked about that we need a goat for goat seed.

1:31:38 This is a family channel.

1:31:39 Anyway, it's a disgusting, awful tarp.

1:31:42 But anyway, because the alpacas knocked their dumb thing over,

1:31:45 I like used a whole bunch of wood

1:31:47 to prop up random things so it wouldn't blow over.

1:31:49 And then I stapled the heck out of this enormous

1:31:53 whole ridden tarp to it so that I could.

1:32:02 Sorry, we're listening to the monitor right now.

1:32:04 Adam thinks that Alexander's crying.

1:32:06 Just open the video.

1:32:08 Anyway, all that to say, the alpaca palace is repaled,

1:32:12 but like it is so ghetto right now.

1:32:15 I mean, it's not great.

1:32:17 Oh, Bubby's awake.

1:32:19 Well, that might mean that it's time to call it a night.

1:32:26 Well, you can keep going.

1:32:27 I I can go.

1:32:29 Okay.

1:32:29 Well, his bottles right there on top of the fridge right there.

1:32:33 Okay.

1:32:33 So, these are the starred ones.

1:32:35 Okay, cool.

1:32:36 And you just click them and they show.

1:32:38 Okie dokie.

1:32:39 All right, so we did Oh, here's a good one.

1:32:42 How do you keep raccoons out of your corn?

1:32:45 Every year they destroy mine.

1:32:47 The answer to raccoon questions, cat questions is on top of the fridge,

1:32:54 squirrel questions, etc., etc.

1:32:58 All of those questions, the answer is I have an electric line on top

1:33:03 of and on bottom of my um fence around the garden.

1:33:09 I have an exterior fence and an interior fence.

1:33:13 And I have livestock guardian dogs that are on patrol 247.

1:33:17 By the way, I hope you all just enjoyed watching Adam go through

1:33:20 that tiny little secret door which is takes you up to Alexander's room.

1:33:26 There it is.

1:33:27 There it is.

1:33:27 There it is.

1:33:28 Uh it's really cool up there.

1:33:32 We'll have to show you.

1:33:33 Or you can watch our uh please don't get out alpaca video

1:33:36 and you can see the um room on display in that video.

1:33:40 But anyway, uh all that to say that the our dogs will literally will have

1:33:50 done eviscerate any animal that um is not

1:33:55 one of their known animals on the farm.

1:33:57 So that's been bobcats, raccoons, coyotes, anything.

1:34:01 So it's very easy for us to keep

1:34:03 our anything out of our garden because we have dogs.

1:34:06 But preciously, um, we did a video

1:34:08 with our friends Cody and Michelle from More Than Farmers,

1:34:11 um, earlier this year called How an eighth of a an eth acre of a garden.

1:34:18 8 acre good night.

1:34:20 8th acre garden feeds a family of six all year long.

1:34:25 Um, that video, the number one question people have asked is like,

1:34:29 "How the heck are you keeping pests

1:34:30 out of that garden?" Because there's no fence.

1:34:32 They have like a little dog that's just like their little family dog

1:34:37 and um that dog apparently is just on patrol 247 and keeps every animal,

1:34:43 deer, raccoons, everything out of their garden.

1:34:45 So that's pretty cool.

1:34:47 Um, but yeah, the kind of answer there is like live traps, not live traps,

1:34:55 uh, cats, dogs, electric fences,

1:34:59 whatever you got to do to keep keep those pests out.

1:35:05 Um, oh, someone asks how Alexander, our son,

1:35:09 who is now eight months old, travels.

1:35:12 So far so good.

1:35:14 And the thing is um my parents um so my parents are missionaries

1:35:20 uh and they raised a whole gaggle of kids abroad on the road etc.

1:35:27 Um and their claim to fame as parents was basically just like

1:35:32 kids are part of what we're doing not all of what we're doing.

1:35:37 And I've like I've tried really hard to like uh apply that rule to everything

1:35:47 that we're doing with Alexander is like I want him to see me as his mom.

1:35:54 Like being a strong, powerful, empowered, uh you know,

1:36:01 capable woman who's who's working to support

1:36:05 my family and those kinds of things.

1:36:06 Um, I want him to to know that that that's possible.

1:36:10 I want him to see me doing things that that a lot of guys

1:36:14 that I have to interact with in on a regular basis don't see women doing.

1:36:19 I want that for him.

1:36:20 I want him to grow up being a a man

1:36:23 that expects that that a woman can do everything.

1:36:26 Uh, and in that we've just tried to fold him into what we do.

1:36:29 And what we do is we have a family business.

1:36:31 And so one of the things again because we haven't gotten the school done

1:36:36 and everything else is that we have a family business that involves some travel.

1:36:40 So he's gone on crossc country road trips.

1:36:43 He's been on planes and he's done really really great mostly because

1:36:47 we just don't allow that like any other like result to be possible.

1:36:54 Like we've got to do great because it's what we've got to do.

1:36:57 And so there you go.

1:37:00 Um, oh, someone says, uh, Jake from Landile Farm asks,

1:37:08 "What's your best advice for keeping wildlife from chewing

1:37:10 trees you plant?" The best advice I have is, um, I it's actually,

1:37:16 it was hilariously because of my friend who uh was helping me weed,

1:37:21 eat, and stuff when I had injured my hand, weeded and ruined a bunch of trees,

1:37:27 and I was like, how can I stop that from happening?

1:37:29 but I feel like it applies to wildlife as well.

1:37:33 Um, I bought a really big roll of corrugated

1:37:37 drainage pipe and I just cut it into small sections,

1:37:41 cut holes in that with a jigsaw or like cut cut

1:37:44 lines in it with a jigsaw and then just fit them

1:37:47 around my trees and that keeps the bottom like foot

1:37:50 and a half of every tree protected from rabbits, other animals, etc.

1:37:58 Uh, and definitely weeder weed eaters.

1:38:02 Weed eaters.

1:38:03 So that's my best advice.

1:38:13 Sam Foster 4144 asks, "As pawpaw as paw paws have ryomes,

1:38:19 sorry, I'm dyslexic, so reading aloud is a little challenging.

1:38:23 As pawpaws have risomes,

1:38:24 are they related to ginger or turmeric?" Here in the UK,

1:38:28 it takes a lot of effort to grow

1:38:29 ginger constantly moving in and out of poly tunnels.

1:38:32 Could I grow paw paws here?

1:38:33 Um I I actually don't know, but I like it depends on what part of the UK you're

1:38:40 in, but I do know that paw paws do grow as north as Michigan.

1:38:46 Um and so they grow areas that it regularly snows and frosts.

1:38:51 They are ryomal.

1:38:52 They in my understanding are not in any way related to ginger or turmeric

1:38:58 but um they they are great trees to grow and great fruit to eat.

1:39:04 There are some some you know people that every

1:39:09 time I talk about that plant are warning

1:39:11 me about potential issues if you consume too much

1:39:14 of them and I will say that good warning.

1:39:18 It's true that if you consume too much of anything, it's probably not great.

1:39:22 Everything in moderation is a good rule to follow.

1:39:27 Tips for starting on 5 acres from gau gain gon 834.

1:39:35 I'm in Colorado and have to clear it of sage.

1:39:40 Um well step I actually am always like start

1:39:45 as small as you can and grow it from there.

1:39:49 The greatest gift that farming on one usable acre that had extra acres we could

1:39:56 expand into gave me um 10 years ago was basically like I had to start

1:40:04 small and it got it got me very good at using a using space efficiently

1:40:10 um because of you know I have OCD and so I um am a step counter.

1:40:15 I've been counting steps since I was a kid.

1:40:17 And this is one of those things that it's like

1:40:19 it could be debilitating or it could be an asset.

1:40:22 And it has absolutely been an asset because it's forced

1:40:26 me to think about efficiency and how many steps I take.

1:40:30 The thing is you can do so much more on so

1:40:36 much less land than I think most people even remotely realize.

1:40:42 That video that we did with Cody and Michelle, um,

1:40:45 how to feed a family of six on way on 1/8 acre of a garden like

1:40:52 was so mind-blowing to people and like so

1:40:54 angering to so many people who who thought like, oh, like that's impossible.

1:40:59 You can't do that.

1:41:00 That's way bigger than an eighth of an acre.

1:41:03 No, an eighth of an acre is 5,400 square feet.

1:41:07 Most people don't have houses as big as 5,400 ft.

1:41:11 And if you think about how how much space that actually

1:41:15 is if you like are careful about how you use it,

1:41:19 that's an enormous amount of space.

1:41:21 And you can absolutely with healthy soil, which how do we get healthy soil?

1:41:26 Test it and amend accordingly.

1:41:28 In healthy soil, you can grow an abundance of food.

1:41:33 And so like, yeah, start small and grow from there

1:41:37 because if you try to do everything all at once, you're going to get burnt out.

1:41:40 you're not going to do anything.

1:41:41 Well, my grandpa has a great like had a great thing.

1:41:44 He always said he said you can't ride two horses with one ass55 if you will.

1:41:49 Like you can't It's true.

1:41:52 Like focus.

1:41:54 Focus is so important.

1:41:55 That story that I read earlier about Little Heart,

1:41:57 like the reason it makes me emotional is because it's

1:42:00 a lesson that's been very painful for me to learn.

1:42:02 Like I want to ride all the horses all at once, but focus is so so important.

1:42:08 Like if you if you're if you're just

1:42:10 starting out on this journey and you're like,

1:42:12 "Man, I really want to do all the things,

1:42:14 don't if I could give you any piece of advice,

1:42:18 it's like start where you're at with what you've got.

1:42:21 Start small.

1:42:22 do a little bit and then add a little bit

1:42:24 more to it because like I can cook from scratch

1:42:30 and can and take care of my animals and all

1:42:33 those things because those are skills that I built incrementally over time,

1:42:37 not because I suddenly got 30 acres and got

1:42:40 everything all at once and started from scratch.

1:42:42 At that point, I've overdone it.

1:42:47 I've burned myself out.

1:42:48 I've done all those things.

1:42:50 Even knowing all these things,

1:42:51 I still continue to make dumb choices like that all the time.

1:42:55 But like I am so so so thankful that I had

1:43:01 constrictions over my early entries into all of this this this stuff

1:43:07 that forced me to on like when we lived in the middle

1:43:12 of the city and we had an HOA and I got illegal chickens.

1:43:15 like those il illegal chickens were the thing that consumed like my life,

1:43:20 fighting for my right to have chickens in the city.

1:43:23 Like that was, you know, so silly in retrospect,

1:43:27 but also like I learned so much about

1:43:30 having chickens and caring for birds and other stuff

1:43:35 when I was in on that tiny plot of land land in that tiny piece of life.

1:43:40 And I took that when we were able to move

1:43:42 to a little bit bigger property in the suburbs.

1:43:45 And then we were able to get that first farm where we had a usable acre.

1:43:48 And then I was able to expand that first farm to like almost four usable acres.

1:43:53 And then we moved here to 30 acres.

1:43:55 Like if it had happened just in like one fell swoop where

1:43:58 I just got to do it and got to do all the things, everything would be so yucky.

1:44:05 Uh, someone asks, "What is healthy soil exactly?

1:44:08 I have thick sugar sand and silt

1:44:12 15% clay that is slightly slight slightly alkaline.

1:44:15 And the thing is um healthy soil like first

1:44:21 of all you can take like the solution to most

1:44:25 soil issues is the same thing same three three things

1:44:29 it's organic matter moisture and time testing helps a lot.

1:44:36 So technically four things but like organic matter,

1:44:39 moisture and time will reawaken the microbiological life in your soil

1:44:45 and will help to create more idyllic uh conditions.

1:44:50 But healthy soil is when you have a good balance.

1:44:54 And like this is this could be a TED talk so I'm going to try to rain myself in.

1:44:59 Basically, uh, if you go back to organic chemistry from, um, ninth grade,

1:45:05 10th grade or 11th grade,

1:45:06 depending on where you went to school and what you did, um,

1:45:10 you have positively charged ions and negatively

1:45:13 charged ions and ultimately in a healthy system,

1:45:18 you have all the right combination of all the right things

1:45:21 so that everything kind of binds together in the right way.

1:45:24 And in that, this is why again I really love Redmond

1:45:28 soil tests because they are testing for not just the macros,

1:45:34 which are the things nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus,

1:45:37 the things that are in modern fertilizers,

1:45:40 but they're also looking for the micros.

1:45:42 There's a there's 88 known nutrients that natur

1:45:48 that that that that massively affect the balance and health of your soil.

1:45:54 And getting those things,

1:45:56 the positively charged things and the negatively charged things and the right

1:45:59 combination of those things is how you create healthy soil.

1:46:03 And when you do have that perfect balance,

1:46:05 the miracles that happen with water retention,

1:46:08 disease prevention, pest prevention, etc.

1:46:12 are truly amazing.

1:46:13 Um like even the nutritional value in your body's ability

1:46:18 to use those foods and to use those calories is phenomenal.

1:46:23 It's not the rocket science that it sounds like.

1:46:26 I could, like I said, I'm trying to rein myself in because I

1:46:29 could make it seem like it's super complicated, but it's really not.

1:46:32 Like, genuinely do a soil test.

1:46:36 the like the reason I work with Redmond

1:46:39 is because I like because I love that company,

1:46:42 but also because I used to read the absolute scientific

1:46:49 gibberish tests that used to be available and now I'm like,

1:46:53 "Oh my gosh, something that like a regular human could read is now available

1:46:59 to us." And it costs $40 including shipping

1:47:02 and it like you get your results immediately.

1:47:04 So, like there is no negative.

1:47:06 I'm like, if you're going to spend any time and you're

1:47:10 going to try to grow any food in your garden,

1:47:12 like even if you have to clip coupons to get that $40 $40 to do the test,

1:47:19 like that is the best money you could

1:47:21 spend on your garden because having data to look

1:47:23 at like your your only other choice is throwing

1:47:27 pasta at the wall and being like, does this work?

1:47:29 Try this.

1:47:30 Does this work?

1:47:31 No.

1:47:32 But like the time and the frustration and things of like not working,

1:47:36 not worth it when you can get data that can help you make better decisions.

1:47:39 So all that to say that healthy soil looks like like you don't have to till,

1:47:46 you don't have to fertilize.

1:47:48 You like depending on your climate, you might have to water a little bit,

1:47:52 but you probably don't have to water very much.

1:47:55 Your plants like are able to establish healthy root systems.

1:47:59 your plants are healthy coming up out of the ground.

1:48:02 You don't have a ton of pest and disease pressure because pests and disease

1:48:06 like pests especially like bugs if you're dealing with squash bugs or like

1:48:12 nematodes or other things that are massively affecting your sc your your crops

1:48:17 it's because you have a nutrient imbalance in your soil like across the board.

1:48:24 If you have well- balanced soil,

1:48:26 you will not be having catastrophic results from pest and disease

1:48:31 because pests um multiply and feast on diseased plant material.

1:48:40 If you have healthy plant material,

1:48:42 you will like your not only can your plants repair themselves,

1:48:46 but also your your your pests are not actually like targeting those things

1:48:51 and and laying eggs in those things

1:48:53 and reproducing and making babies on those leaves.

1:48:57 They just aren't.

1:48:58 So, if you're having catastrophic issues with pest and disease,

1:49:02 it's a soil imbalance issue.

1:49:07 Oh, we can hear Adam singing to Alexander.

1:49:11 He's the best best dad ever.

1:49:14 Anyway, um yeah, I could go on and on and on on that topic,

1:49:19 but I I won't bore those of you who don't want to hear about that.

1:49:23 But the thing is, um oh, is Alexander coming?

1:49:30 You want to say hi?

1:49:31 Hi, buddy.

1:49:33 Oh, hey, Muffin.

1:49:35 Sorry, my door is too small for Adam to fit.

1:49:38 Oh, there's my buddy.

1:49:41 Hey.

1:49:42 Hey.

1:49:43 Nothing.

1:49:48 Hey.

1:49:47 Hey, little buddy.

1:49:51 You want to come hang out with our friends?

1:49:54 Yeah.

1:49:54 I'm sorry.

1:49:55 You're having a rough time.

1:49:57 It doesn't look like you're having a rough time at all, huh?

1:50:02 What do you have to say?

1:50:04 I don't know how to look at any other I've got them.

1:50:06 Don't worry.

1:50:07 I can feel I can feel the balance shift.

1:50:10 Um I don't know how to look at anything aside from that.

1:50:12 So Oh, there it is.

1:50:13 Okay.

1:50:14 Okay.

1:50:16 Here's my little muffin.

1:50:18 Here's our buddy.

1:50:22 He's pretty good.

1:50:22 We kind of like him.

1:50:24 Very cute.

1:50:24 Yeah, he's very good.

1:50:27 Anyways, thought it would be a good send us off.

1:50:30 Yeah, we were talking about soil health.

1:50:32 Oh, here we are.

1:50:32 We've got a just a little bit of time left.

1:50:36 We've got four minutes.

1:50:38 What do you have to say for yourself?

1:50:39 Huh, Mr.

1:50:39 Muffin?

1:50:43 Is that what you have to say?

1:50:46 Yeah.

1:50:48 I lost my voice talking.

1:50:51 Oh, you want to show everyone your your new skill?

1:50:53 Oops, that's a toot.

1:50:54 Sorry for everyone.

1:50:55 That's how rude.

1:50:57 Hey, you want to show everyone your new skill?

1:50:59 Can you go like this?

1:51:03 Oh, he doesn't.

1:51:04 Here I go.

1:51:05 He's okay.

1:51:06 He's all right.

1:51:07 You want to show him your new skill?

1:51:15 Well, that's that.

1:51:17 He's a pretty cutie.

1:51:18 Cute pie.

1:51:20 Hey.

1:51:20 He's also very good at drums.

1:51:22 He's been working on playing um to a beat.

1:51:25 He can He can keep a beat.

1:51:27 He knows how to play a hard day night.

1:51:30 Huh.

1:51:32 He's been working like a dog.

1:51:36 Yeah.

1:51:37 He's a good dancer.

1:51:38 He's ticklish.

1:51:40 Yeah.

1:51:42 Yeah.

1:51:44 What else do you have to tell us?

1:51:45 Huh?

1:51:47 You like looking at the soil?

1:51:50 You like playing with sticks in the garden?

1:51:52 His favorite animal on the farm is Eugene.

1:51:58 He says, Are you questioning me?

1:52:03 He has to say good morning and good night to Eugene every day.

1:52:07 He loves Eugene.

1:52:08 He also loves Rigby.

1:52:10 He also loves literally every animal on the farm.

1:52:14 He's um he and I feed the cows every

1:52:17 afternoon and it's his favorite thing watching the twins.

1:52:21 Yeah.

1:52:22 Yeah.

1:52:24 He's a good guy.

1:52:25 We like him a lot.

1:52:29 Anyway, well, it's 9:58 p.m.

1:52:35 It's time to go back to bed, huh, Bubby?

1:52:38 Thank you all so much for being here.

1:52:40 We are so, so happy to have you here.

1:52:45 Thanks for supporting a family business,

1:52:47 letting us do what we dreamed of doing for 13 years.

1:52:52 Who would have known it took us this long?

1:52:54 But here we are living the dream.

1:52:58 Trying our best.

1:53:03 Yeah.

1:53:03 What do you think?

1:53:06 You have any wisdom for us?

1:53:09 He like told me how Stonehen just built earlier, but I think he already forgot.

1:53:18 All right, y'all.

1:53:20 All right.

1:53:22 Stay warm out there.

1:53:24 Thanks, everyone.

1:53:25 Go do your garden garden test.

1:53:27 Soil samples.

1:53:29 It's easier than you think.

1:53:30 Best $40 you'd spend.

1:53:32 And of all trades will get you a discount.

1:53:35 We love you and we'll leave you.

1:53:37 Can you say bye?

1:53:39 Bye, buddy.

1:53:41 Cheers.