hey everybody Sam here welcome back to Green acre
homestead y'all ever heard of a blackberry winter yeah you guys have
those were your adrenal I'm at I believe that we've just had our blackberry
winter or we're going through right now at least it is almost the second week of
May no I'm telling you wrong telling you're wrong big time let's check the
phone of knowledge here all right today is May 8th and we got lows down in
the 20s last night so anything that was out that we didn't want to die in the
frost had to get covered up Angela card up for pennies or peonies
it's flower I'm sure a lot of you know what that is
much more than I do covered those up and then honestly we've been running so late
this year garden wise that we didn't have anything to cover up out here in
the vegetable garden areas all of our seedlings are still in their little 4
inch pots and they are kept underneath the outdoor kitchen and so we didn't
have to worry about them getting frost bit or anything like that so that's good
and bad usually we've got plants in the ground in mid-march at the normal time
April at the latest but here it is May here it is the day or two before
Mother's Day and we've not got anything in the ground
- our volunteers which there's a handful of those and then our onions that we got
put in a couple weeks ago so you know points for being late I guess I don't
know I'd much rather have had our plants already in the ground with our cold
frame hoop houses that we do and just address the frost issues there but oh
well what can you do this year is kind of been an off year it's been a little
bit strange I believe it's safe to say it's been strange for a lot of us this
is one of the favorite spots we've got another property here it's the top
highest point of the field or backyard or a pasture area whatever you want to
call it it's not that much property to call pasture but we call it pasture all
the same it's a nice area to come up and sit and think a little bit and
kind of see the sheep areas they barn the chickens the greenhouse the garden
the house and over across the valley and just kind of think about things every
once in a while so my goal and hopes were to do the fencing up here today but
it's starting to rain a little bit they're calling for you know it's 5060
percent chance of rain which in our area can mean anything from sunny with no
clouds to a monsoon so kind of play it by ear and whatever you see the clouds
roll in on is what you got pretty much from looks of the clouds over there I
don't think it's gonna start raining too bad on me real quick so I think I'm
gonna go on down to the garden and start running the fencing on the post that we
set in the ground hmm probably about two and a half to three weeks ago at this
point for coordinate off our garden to keep it separated gotta keep them
separated but more importantly to segregate the chickens out of this area
because they've been dust-bathing in the garden beds which has been okay up until
the point that we have our onions in the ground already we've got some other
volunteers coming up that we don't want the chickens to destroy and they don't
seem to understand very well when we say you know you can get in all the beds
except for these couple here or that spot there I don't know I guess they
don't understand very well all right what's going down here to the garden
let's see if we can get some work done and not get total washout back up this
tripod here so right about now would be a good time for me to actually bring out
that GoPro that I've got to not worry about the rain messing it up or anything
but it's in the house somewhere or the workshop so I'll just try and play it
safe put you guys at the Sheep barn here speaking the Sheep there is Huey he's
the nicest one of the group they're all nice but he's extra nice and then we've
got back there in the background the white one is tink the other one over
there the darker one is Bill those are our to use our two girls and then moose
is way back there silver moose anytime you hear a sheep making noise on our
homestead ninety-nine percent of the time it's moose
we used to think that was cool and neat and all that fun stuff but now it's
annoying and it generally drives us crazy it's the way it goes huh let's see
I made a noise at the barn let's see if they'll come over yeah here comes bill
that comes tink now watch this I'm what I'm gonna do though hey sheep thing
I'll see if anything happens hey sheep Momus he's thinking yeah you better feed
me if I'm having to walk this 30 feet you better feed me now I would feed
y'all but somebody broke the feed bucket mm-hmm which one of you broke your feed
trough Not Me Not Me Not Me Not Me well the whole not me applies to sheep stuff
to me apparently so I'm gonna start over here
next to this chain leak gate that we put in place we're outside the greenhouse
wrap the fence around the galvanized pop and then go on down the line from there
I want to make sure this area right here at the gate looks the prettiest and it's
just a good place to start as well I gotta take the hardware off the post
first so I can wrap the fence around it but that's easily done with an
adjustable wrench
here's my preferred method for attaching welded wire to itself and that's just
the clip the vertical strand off so you got a bunch of tongs wrap it around it
and then hook it back to itself as well it doesn't require any extra hardware
it's pretty quick and easy to do
came to pull this fence tight over here on this corner post guess what I
discovered boys been messing with it I think they got her loose in the ground
there played a ring around the pulley one too many times so I can't keep
working on the fence so I fix this so I guess we're gonna change gears we're
gonna pull the post out dig a new hole let's have some concrete and not touch
it for a day or two all right let's go down I get the auger
concrete and why not four-wheeler - be right back
I'm back up here with the four-wheeler a little bit of concrete in a princess
bucket I don't one of the world we got one of those how it enough here but now
it's concrete bucket and I'm up here with the earthquake auger this is a tool
that we got for our deck build that so far hadn't happened
use it on the greenhouse use it on the parts of the fence we're going to use to
get in here on this fence to turn out to be a very useful tool here on the
homestead alright the rain is kicking up a little
bit harder I'm gonna leave you here underneath the cover of the barn roof as
best I can let's go ahead and fire this thing up
drill a hole in the ground real quick throw some concrete post in and call it
done to be done done done for today a
little bit loose
here's the earthquake brand auger this is a complete complete cold start not
use this thing in a couple of weeks I've done anything with it down there
off-camera because honestly what good would that do if I pretend like a piece
of equipment it's better than it is especially you guys if you're looking
for something similar so alright switch on choke press the primer bowls or five
six seven all right here we go cross your fingers
yeah good job alright here's some concrete down whoo
that's good
Center post in backfill find a stick to poke it with here poke at it give it old
eyeball plumage chick good enough for state work I'm away one of the boys turn
the water hose on I'm gonna give some water to that concrete because this is
also going to be a hinge for a gate that I built here later that way we can open
and close still go up here and then back pasture with the four-wheeler or open it
let the boys round their bikes down back and forth so whatever gives us options
so let's go ahead and evoke the power of parents hey boys when do you go turn the
water on for me there we go like magic in about 20 seconds go on and read a
little bit of encouragement the water will magically happen up here at the top
of the hill - all right let's put some water in the concrete and just let's
just do that just Hudson do it right
here she comes I can hear it oh I bout took it to the
air do you see that
all right that's good turn it off that's good turn it off turn the water
off water off I'm done water off reverse upon how difficult
sometimes good good good hang that over there woman Fitz there we go
she's done well let her sit there for a day or two get all concrete it in place
and then we'll finish the fence then I guess so
Wow a little bit of an uneventful day huh all right so a little bit of a hike
for for a feller but feller needs to do more hiking apparently so I was thinking
as I was walking up that man if this rain would slack off I would love to go
ahead and take some of this black cow those yellow bags there put it on our
garden beds go ahead and tell them up to go and do some amendment here
preparation of in preparation of planting that's all gonna be depending
on the weather starting to get a little more rainy a little extra rain is out
here so tillers don't do good in the mud then we'll see let me say let me stay in
here for a minute look at the rain check the radar I'll
see what the weather gonna do and decide if we're gonna get to do that today or
not yeah radars not looking too good
rain for at least the next two hours it says well I don't doubt that
skies are a little bit gray can't hardly see the mountains over there so that
means rain is definitely in the air and it's coming this way usually weather
always comes up the hill for us so it's really easy for us to see what's going
to happen in about the next 15 minutes well guys we are getting rained out as I
can see from across the valley at the mountains over there there's hard to
rain coming because you can't see the mountains and that usually is a
predicament of rain indications I'm the weatherman bézier Sam the
weatherman local to me on the eights well I appreciate you guys watching
along hope you enjoy this a little bit of something extra my tail will throw
this up here on Sunday he'll be little surprise a little bonus extra footage
for the weekend you'll have just seen us painting the greenhouse and the per
video previous to this if you're here and you haven't seen that yet
go check it out there'll be a link somewhere down below for sure go check
it out and see how we're progressing on that greenhouse progress and kind of
words that go check it out and see how we're progressing on the greenhouse
their next step is doing plastic on that we have some specific greenhouse plastic
that I got to ordered from came from Oregon but it's some really super thick
stuff it's got mesh woven inside of it supposed to be seven year guarantee so
with proper care maintenance and a little bit of luck we could probably at
least eke out about seven years in a month out of it well I hope you guys
have had a good weekend and have a good week ahead stay safe
take care do something fun get outside get your hands dirty do something
productive otherwise I appreciate you watching as always and we'll see you
guys next time on the homestead
well what bonus footage guys bonus footage
FedEx trucks coming up the driveway I know what's in that truck
that's the deer fence that is the deer fence for the lower garden more work
FedEx is bringing me more work all right let's get out of the rain see you
you