what's going on
youtube i know it's been a minute eh uh sorry uh we've been pretty busy on the homestead
uh if you haven't seen our last video questions off-gridders get asked uh we answered one of the
questions on there and it kind of will explain where we've been for a little while and why we're
not putting out the content um of the work that we're doing on the homestead and um things of that
nature and uh to be honest like we said in the previous video we've been working on our business
so our business is so there really has not been much work on the homestead uh
being that it is a slower time of the year and there is not as much to do out on the homestead
of kimberly and i we are uh we've had we put goals in place where we want to reach
a certain part of uh of our businesses come this spring when things get busier uh so that
we don't have to put in the um front work uh at that point so what we're gonna do is do all the
uh front work right now throughout the winter now that we have the time and uh and build up
uh reese well she's gonna be restructuring her business and i'm just getting mine off the ground
so um i'm getting content done up for that side of the business so that means instagram linkedin
facebook all that good stuff and my goal is to get ahead uh probably about a month and a half worth
of content and uh for people out there that don't know what's involved with producing videos like
this and uh and editing your own photos and making sure the mesh messages are right it's pretty time
consuming you know you can edit videos and get to the end of it and uh you know your computer
crashes and you gotta restart and that could be 45 minutes worth of work that's gone down the tubes
sorry i know i'm not i don't usually smoke cigars on the camera but you know i'll sharpen my chain
today here at the chainsaw chains one of the things i uh been neglecting because we have all
the firewood we need for the winner however this something that needs to get done and i put it in
the schedule to make it a point to get out into the shop uh a couple times a week and get ahead of
the game so get all my chains ready for the spring and summer because again we're gonna be having
the wood game uh going on and i got some other things that i'm gonna be uh i need to build and
take care of uh such as the the bow the compound bow back there i gotta put a peep sight on it
which i'll be doing a video on there uh i'll also uh i got a new toy here that uh if anyone follows
me on in or us on instagram will know what i'm talking about but i'll be putting a video on that
but the reason i wanted to do a video today is not to give you an update on what's going on
with kimberly and i but because when you're when i'm doing chains and doing these uh brainless
tasks your brain starts to wander and uh you know you start thinking about things you get ideas
uh you let you plan things and uh today has been one of those things days where i'm doing this
got the fire going beside me here it's about minus 20 out there uh and it's
about zero degrees in here so i'm blessed about that and with my brain going and uh
i've been thinking about it and i'm gonna title this video the little things
and being on the internet and i've been doing some research and whatnot and homesteading is
becoming a very popular topic on the internet uh people looking to get into homesteading
what they need to buy what type of property they need to buy
talking about raising animals and you know i look at some of these forms homesteading
forums and people that are just getting into it kind of shrug off the idea that
how much work is involved and that's why i'm going to title this the little things
is i find that in the world we're living today with technology uh with
so much media out there so many ways to keep the bright the brain uh entertained
that we've lost the touch to take pride in the little things the things that are boring the
the things that don't really matter or that aren't gonna don't give you self-satisfaction
and what i'm talking about is
sharpening this chain
i've sharpened half a dozen of them today already and it's taken me probably about an
hour and a half now for those guys that sharpen chains on the regular
um don't be giving me grief out there i'm still kind of getting used to this um i'm learning
different techniques i had one of the neighbors come up here uh the other day and just let me know
about a different technique so i'm going to try that out but let's go back to the job itself
it's not a glorious job however uh in a day of technology where we're entertained
a lot we don't get time to sit alone with our thoughts to reassess our lives our plans in life
to think about who we are and where we're going and how we can better ourselves and
if you're in a slump in life while you're in that slump and how you're going to get better
and being in the trades for 20 plus years i've come across a lot of different people out there
and one thing i find is people always want to find the quick fix and the easy way out
and let's put it this way i used to be that type of person
but for those people that want to get into the homesteading life
you need to enjoy the little things and what i mean by that is enjoy the tasks that are difficult
such as this when i first moved out here
or first when we first moved out here i didn't know how to sharpen the chain or it's been a
long time since i sharpened the chain so you know you look it up you figure it out and you do it
yeah it wasn't great it wasn't as productive as i wanted to be it wasn't as entertaining as i
wanted it to be uh however it was something that needed to get done in order to proceed with future
endeavors on the homestead such as more firewood uh building a sauna down the road and anything
else we need to repair uh come next year so it's something that you have to do and you have to
self-improve at and another instance is a few weeks ago i our snow blower didn't want
to start up and uh one thing i'll admit right off the bat is i'm not a very good mechanic
and uh i had one of the mechanics out here tell me a while ago that they ain't gonna show me
anything so so be it i'll learn things on myself by myself and so that's what i did is i couldn't
figure out why the snowblower wouldn't start so i have a book on small engine repairs and
you sit there and you read it and um it's tiring it's confusing you're not understanding too much
and eventually i worked through it it took me probably probably three hours from the
from the time i cracked the book to the time i found the problem and was able to solve it and
all it was was a simple carburetor needed cleaning which i did and got it fixed up
but again it wasn't one of those glorious jobs i didn't have someone that i can post this to
social media i wanted to do a video on it but you know i needed to get the snowblower fixed
and running so that i can uh clean the snow uh with but now a days where we left the snowblower
alone and we're doing it by hand but that'll be another video but nevertheless i got it fixed
and i didn't have someone to post well i could have posted on social media but
what good is that gonna do do me but the feeling that i got inside as small as it was it felt good
and that sat with me and throughout this year it's been like that a learning
curve for both kimberly and i kimberly even more because i've used to live uh
uh something similar like this on my grandmother's uh farm or our family farm back when i was younger
so kimberly had a huge uh learning curve this year and it was things like starting a fire uh which
she's an expert at now um cooking she wasn't uh the greatest in the kitchen now she's fantastic um
other things such as learning how to deal with goats i never dealt with goats when i was uh
in my lifetime so i had to learn with that things and it wasn't glamorous i had no one
to say hey good job i had no um what would i say is social approval uh or society's approval
and uh i feel that's where society has gone astray in life is everything needs
to be approved by society everybody is looking for that fulfillment inside from an external source
instead of buckling down and learning your things on your own and appreciating the little things
such as learning how to sharpen a chain learning how to start a fire learning how to fix an engine
so basically what i wanted to say is to those people out there that are looking to
get into homesteading that have never lived this lifestyle and that are looking into
it now i don't know your reasoning it could be something that you've wanted to do all your life
and you understand the work that needs to go into that this type of lifestyle
but then there's a lot of people right now that are running they're running scared because
they're not sure what's happening in society right now we're living through a pretty historical time
if you ask me other people got their own opinions and to each their own that's what makes
us beautiful and that's why the creator made us all different
but if you're one of those people that are scared running and thinking that you're just gonna run
and you're gonna live this lifestyle
ask yourself how much time do you spend alone how much time do you spend off of social media
because once you're out here and you're doing these things you're on your own and you don't have
that approval that pat on the back sure you can put it on social media but
that doesn't mean anything that's just a fantasy world the real world is what you're doing at
this point in time so if you're looking to do these things learn to enjoy the little things
learn to sharpen chains learn to fix engines learn to sharpen a knife learn to sharpen an axe
learn to shovel snow manually without a snowblower
learn to learn things off a book instead of the internet and having youtube tell you everything
learn to do things the old school way where people at one point enjoyed doing the little things
and i'm gonna end that off with this the new year's around the corner
and life is gonna keep on going
what changes are you gonna make what little things are you gonna start enjoying
time to get back to this chain i'll see you in the next one