this is the day i think it's gonna happen
water down to our pastures we're gonna water our pigs today from the mountain
the big project this week was getting the spring water and creek water hooked up to i don't even
know what we found a spring which we didn't know was there and that's awesome because if the spring
water is clean which we're having it tested then we can have spring water piped into our house
which is amazing it's good to have many different sources of drinking water so we have a clean well
source but it would also be nice to have spring water it's less work on justin and the boys with
watering the animals which is nice to support the project i am making dinner just doing things that
justin would be doing i guess normally if we actually get water working today that's gonna
feel amazing we've been wanting that for a really really really long time it's kind of like the pole
barn it just seemed like one of those things that was never gonna happen and then it is so it's it's
really wonderful i'm very excited about it shoot the calf got through we've had the fences off
shoot we were just gonna get milk dag i reckon the plan is to herd glossy and calf back over here
that was first night calf separating it's always a little tricky because the calf wants back with
the mom so much let's turn that fence off they figured out quick i got willy out of there got
the fence back on hopefully that'll hold till milking time what are you doing well i'm thinking
tomatoes these are bad tomatoes put that in the bed tomatoes but look at this it's a hornworm
oh wow that got the pair it got parasitic wasp eggs on it that's why you don't want to kill wasps
well this is a certain kind of wasp anyways it lays its eggs on it and then it kills it
love it feeds off its body be careful going killing what we might think
are pests looky here look who's in ain't nobody escaping the day after the wing clip last night
and right inside their run a little experiment going well into our
favor chickens aren't getting over here and getting that squash and it's jamming really
back this on a motorbike with jonah you got a hammock in the tree you got your audiobook
come on girl there'll be a time for that all right now it's time for chores well flossy
did the calf get to you she's had birth a week we haven't got any milk yet cat's been taking it off
hey hey hey oh wow she did get untied she is not into it
boy it didn't take long for the calf to drink it all basically got nothing i just
milked phyllis and only got a little bit of milk i thought maybe the process cap was getting hers
but she definitely didn't get it last night let's get her calf over here she's likely holding back
on us let's get the calf to bring it down cut the calf over letting him nurse i think he got it down
what do you say and we're still going yeah she was holding back on me i don't have to training
eric i don't i don't see him i don't see him but there's plenty of stuff we can do until he
gets here a certain connection piece we weren't able to get at lowe's hopefully eric has some
and eric knows how to connect the spring box right now it's not going it needs to go the spring box
then the tank then our line i'm in charge of the line i got one inch poly pipe we got a 100 pound
pressure pipe at the top 160 pound pressure at the bottom where the weight's gonna be look who's here
just in time just before we went up the mountain i can see if he's got those parts you don't happen
to have the pieces that connect the hose to the spring box or the ball of valves yeah okay that's
what i was doing this morning okay i was supposed to i couldn't find anything we're talking about
how to connect the hose now this will go right in the hose and then oh yeah that'll do it too
oh and then shut off and everything hey josiah what's what's up with their water they got water
okay they got they got about a foot of water so we definitely gonna have to make this work
today or we're hauling water this feeder though i am not impressed with this feeder
so did it snap off yeah it fits in there look look you're on your bolts you got to tuck your bolts in
there you go let's open this fence up so they can get to this feed we've only got five days left
with these pigs we got to figure something out bring that feeder out josiah they eat
a lot in five days though it's worth probably fixing that definitely not worth replacing it
we got the fence around the fig feed more really do you guys know how far this chicken is off
it's off by like a thousand feet all right let's get these water lines up the mountain
we did it we got the thousand feet of line through or 1100 feet
let's go see about connecting our faucet to the bottom oh my word i'm excited the final city
where did that you get water i mean we got to put line in the whole farm
final piece all we lack is eric finishing it and connecting it at the top but it's gonna have to
wait till after lunch let's shut it off because i want to come down and open it in suspense
we've finished lunch let's head up the mountain and see how eric's doing get it connected up there
yep okay good the water's turned over okay good and i went down to the pig resort yep
and bled out all the air okay so hopefully it's working okay eric's got water to it
hold on are we leaking we're not leaking it did just rain let's see
all right get us a hose for your pigs pretty exciting this is a unique moment in rhodes family
history i don't think there's ever been gravity fed water in the history of this farm it's pretty
exciting sure going to make chores a lot easier what is up happening it makes this easier we just
end up getting more done we're not gonna need this reservoir bucket anymore look at this look at this
oh look at that power holy smokes that's more than if we were down at the house from the well
look at all this water no electricity no pump required off our land
there's something very special about that
it's gonna fill up fast it's already done like an inch