It’s Gonna Get Bad! Our Job Is Keeping Everything Safe!
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- We are expecting some VERY Cold weather later this week and we need to make sure that all of the animals and plants are safe!
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What do you need the most on a homestead? A spouse you can really work with to get things done without arguing and complaining. That's probably the biggest reason your homestead is so successful.
Absolutely #1
I agree!
I do agree, though.... It's important to remember than Kevin and Sarah probably do have some small arguments or discussions with tension that they don't keep in the videos. If anyone does record and post arguments on UA-cam I'd be worried about them.
Oh 100% but I’m sure they do have disagreements, it’s normal and healthy. It’s how they treat each other during and after the arguments that’s what important. They are serious couple goals very patient with eachother ❤
agree 1000%
So sweet and smart you caring for the ladybugs 🐞 ❤️
I made a hoop coop for my birds! Double Sealed on both ends and 2 tarps thick with double doors on one end! Oh this has a floor and no wind inside at all! Window on the backside that can seal up tight! With one heat light it stays about 40 F when it's 14 F out! Vermont!
The snips drill attachment saves on time and bloody knuckles 🥰🤣
We moved our homestead from Michigan to the Ozarks because of the cold! Now we're teased that we brought it with us! Stay safe and warm!
Moved from northern Illinois to Western Tennessee. Same
the detroit area is actually going to be warmer than iowa and missouri in the next few days.... ugh
Been cold in Minnesota, still cold in Minnesota... Can't move till I retire.
You took the cold with you?
Well, what did ya go an do a silly thing like that for?
It must have stowed away in your trailer so it could go somewhere warmer.
😂🤣😂😏
Same. Moved from Boston to Ozarks. Be safe, stay warm.
You guys are such an inspirational couple. You’re a real team, great mates and it shows. Thank you for being such wonder role models.
Stay warm I am praying for all my animals here in Montana to make it through this cold cold weather.
Stay warm! I'm here in Eastern WA, current wind chill 25 below
Save your backs lifting those pots, use a 2 wheeled dolly
Ya Birds dont need heat just a no wind house, It s --12 C and 15 " of snow here In B C Canada above Seattle U S I m 82 now just hens and geese , wished I had You Tube when I was Farming LOL would use a lot of ideas , With the hoop coops , and that metal cutter great wow, I still cut with tin snips ,
Grower's Solution still carries the wire on their website. The wire is called Wire for Hoops, Wire Tunnel Supports. They also carry Coiled Wire for 32 Row Cover hoops for smaller cover projects. They also have a video on the item webpage of your first time using them. This gives me an idea to use the wires in the summer for shade cloth over my containers when the sun gets too hot. I love how you work together in unison to get projects done and don't fight or argue about anything.
I love watching how you two work as a team - you know how to get it done. You are great stewards of your homestead. Merry Christmas!
I use the frost cloth every winter it is fantastic. Has saved my vegetable garden many times over. It is summer here in Australia, I have had a bad garden season not enough pollinators in my vegetable garden and I have been recovering from spinal surgery so have not had the time or energy to put into it. I didn’t realise how much you miss the homegrown produce until you don’t have it. I will be starting to plan my autumn garden towards end of January 🤞. Kevin and Sarah please stay safe and warm, also to all the other viewers that are in harms way of that huge system. Merry Christmas 🎄 to everybody.
Kevin those electric tin snips are called in the sheet metal industry "nippers". Best wishes, Merry Christmas 🎅.
Sure hope you all stay safe - praying God keeps you, your family and all your animals safe. Wind chills coming from west saying -52 wind chill.
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🙂Glad I kept this video for a day when most of the homesteads are taking time off. Needed something to make me feel happy and you did that. You have such a fantastic relationship which is always a joy to watch. Your solutions for your animals were perfect! Making your homestead look better as you use extra materials available right where you are is such a great idea. Now I will be waiting until you return in your next video. Enjoy the storm. We are iced in here on the west coast. It is very cold for here so I hope you will be able to stay warm and cozy when the storm hits you! Take care and do stay very safe! Merry Christmas! God Bless You! 🎄
Thanks for showing how new tools work. Like the corrugated cutter. Stay warm.
Where I am in Florida it's going down to the 20's. I'm so glad I kept my tropical fruit trees in pots. Good luck everyone!
Just a wee suggestion. A hand truck dolly would help move those big planters & save your backs in the long run.
o wow o wow The tin snips for your drill Is great!!! Wonderful find!!!!! Rick
Y'all do such a wonderful job taking care of your homestead. You care for your animals. Stay warm. Merry Christmas
Look at the comments on how your inspire people.
Sure wish I had weather issues like yours. Canadian winters SUCK!
Here in South Texas we are expecting a hard freeze on Thursday night. Merry Christmas and God’s Blessing to everyone and all of God’s creatures.
Hey can you show picking the carrots ad leaks . I love seeing the fruits of your labor
Tonight Whidbey Island Washington State is 16 degrees you stay warm
I really enjoy the simplicity of y'alls channel. Just helpful, useful information, delivered in a direct manner. Not hours of listening to drama or unnecessary things. I have learned a lot from y'all! Thanks for keeping it simple and being a bright light for our Lord and savior!
We have had about a week with temperatures down to -29 C, hit us over night from only 6-8 negative C. With just a little snow it becomes pretty cold inside, nothing that isolate the walls. Not normal, the cold usually comes in Jan/Feb. But then suddenly it went to -5 and yesterday we had a 0,5 positive grade for a while and got a little snow. Not normal for this time of year were I live, it´s official CRAZY weather nowadays! The water a a couple of eggs on the floor in my henhouse was deep frozen...annoying!
I hope that the birds gonna be OK and that your greenery stays alive!
-45c or F today in Alberta 🇨🇦. To cold for even us hardy Canadians.
Stay safe in your chilly spell ahead
Good fix for the chicken coops
Kevin for those who cannot afford to buy a tin cutting tool, it can be done with a board and some baling wire. take a 2x4 or something of equal stability, put a nail in the end, wrap baling wire to secure around the nail, and stretch the wire centered on the board, then lay your piece of tin that needs to be cut over the wire. wrap the other end of the wire around a piece of wood about 8" long to grab and pull(like a piece of mop or broom handle). lay a couple boards like 2x4s on top of the tin a couple inches apart over where the wire is so you can stand on them and pull the wire to rip the tin.
Wow guys, a lot of work to do, and you make such a great team together. Stay warm, and Happy Holy Days to you and your family. God Bless. 💝👍👍
That was really enjoyable! And thank you for mentioning Canada. We have been in the minus 40's Celsius over the last few days and I pray that no one will freeze to death. By the way that is minus 40 to 50 F. Love how you two work so well together. Not only do you have to take care of animals and plants but all your equipment. Stay warm!
So nice. I really enjoy watching you both work together DYNAMIC DUO👍💪. God bless you also, from Canada 🇨🇦
Another homesteader was fixing their coops. One item was icicles and snow getting in icing up the dry straw for the birds.
Your home looks beautiful in the background.
We use corrugated polycarbonate sheets for the ends of our coops. They let light in while keeping the birds protected.
Everyone knows about the big jobs on a farm. You Plow, plant and harvest. But it is the little jobs that make a farm successful.
Happy first day of winter. Minus 31 Celsius here in Saskatchewan. Minus 42 with the wind chill. Merry Christmas to you and the girls. Love and God Bless in the new year. Stay safe and warm 🤗💖🙏🎅
I am a Wisconsin girl. So I know there's a little bit of connection with you. And I'm telling you it's freaking cold out and we are bracing for a blizzard. Fun stuff! I'm actually a vegetarian and I like to follow your channel for your gardening content. But I do want to tell you that I appreciate the fact that you treat your animals with respect and love. I have nothing against people that eat meat. It just makes my heart Happy to know that animals are taken care of and raised in a happy place. Merry Christmas to you both!
I absolutely love that you guys reuse old materials, like a true homestead. The YTers that have a garbage pile just as large as their store receipts pile; just don't appeal to me like the repurposers do 😁
Caring is part of how you are ❤. Stay safe & warm.
MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄👵🏻👩🌾❣️
You two are good shepherds of your homestead. God bless you both. Merry Christmas. 👩🌾♥️🌲
if i was a duck or a chicken, i’d want you two to be my owners!! you’re the kindest!
We're hearing flash freezes. That's huge, We don't have that here, That what happened in Texas couple years ago. Be warm and stay home everyone in this storms path.
Merry Christmas!! I love seeing how your channel has grown, now celebrating your first Christmas in your new home. It's Dec 22nd here, almost midight in Fulton County Arkansas, with actual temp of -2, wind chill -22 which just blows my mind. We had some rain/freezing rain then about 2 inches of snow. Stay safe and warm!
Yup you are good stewards of what God has blessed you with.
Wonderful about the ladybugs!
From Michigan and have seen all the changes over the decades.
It's easy to use old items on the farm cause the inhabitants aren't taking picture to send home, ;-), it make that buck go a long way.
Have a great holiday!
Great work. Perhaps a trolley for next time to move the pots?
Ohhh myyy goodness!!!!! I just looked at your weather forecast... That's insane!!! Are you all okay? Praying without ceasing for you, your family, livestock and greenhouse. I know it's all connected.
🤣🤣🤣That’s Florida weather for us. We are at -40 and -50 with wind here in Northern Alberta.
Stay warm. 😊💕🙏🏻🇨🇦
It was -22*f this morning. With the wind chill -28*f. In southern Alberta today. The first day of winter.
Like my father used to say. “ 9 months of winter and 3 months of poor sleighing”.
We are just gettin the snow now here in Greenville area. Hubby got the porch filled with firewood and turned on the light in the pump house so it doesn’t freeze. I have a pot of turkey bone broth going on the wood stove to make turkey soup for the week. I think we are ready for our first winter cold storm in Missouri. Just moved here from Oregon coast in August. Hope to meet you two this next spring at the farmers market in Ava for starts. Stay safe and God bless.
Stay warm! Thanks for your channel, always something to learn and lots of good information. Merry Christmas from Montana where we are at -12 this evening ☺️
Kevin should fabricate a hand truck for moving those huge buckets in the greenhouse. It could save your backs.
Praying for everyone in this country that is being affected by this massive cold front! Especially you and all my neighbors in Missouri. Even down here on the Gulf Coast we're going to experience extreme cold that we never get except sometimes in January/February. Stay warm and safe and we'll make it through this! God bless you and keep you. Texas Deb ❤️🙏
This weather seems to be across the country...even areas of Alaska are seeing record temps and snow fall! I'm in NW AR and as I stepped out this morning you can feel the bitterness in the slight breeze already.
Stay safe there in the gulf!
Single digits in Texas, Mississippi, and Geogia, and yet here in
Maine, the forecast here is for high temps in the 50's Friday.
High winds, 50 mph gusts, and up to2+'s of rain. On a good
note shoveling rain is much easier than shoveling snow.
There's a great chance we'll lose power from trees coming down,
but our on-demand generator will kick in.
Average winter temps around 15-20 degrees here. We're used
to that though and prepared for it.
What climate change!!!
Stay warm Texas Deb and all affected by this storm, and have a
Blessed Holiday
Yeah this is climate change alright!! 🤣
@@marktoldgardengnome4110 send those pleasant temps this way.
If those cutters will go on upside down and work correctly, you can hold the tool with the battery above the tin and cut the tin flat against the ground and keep your hands away from the cut edge.
I hope you guys are staying warm. I'm in central Missouri and I'm dealing with -7 degree weather. It's the coldest we've been in at least 15 years or more. I even had pipes freeze, which has not ever happened in my home. I'm praying that you and your animals, along with everything in the greenhouse, is doing fine.
Hello Trisha 👋 how are you doing today?
Here in Arkansas I use just cardboard and zip ties for the ends of my coops. It works good. No issues with rain and lasts all winter.
We're just skirting the weather. We're actually 30° above normal. Above 50° over the next week. Pretty crazy.
I was just noticing the steer horns on the side by side...Ha! Ha! Love your sense of humor.
You guys are good stewards.😃 I'll just bet that you're enjoying your new modular home! Hallelujah!
say, did you move to Alaska? You are dressed for it! I lived in Missouri for 17 years and it was NEVER as cold as Chicago, it never had wind like New Hampshire where we moved to in 2017. Missouri used to be our 'retirement in the warmer South" - crazy weather. Merry Christmas to you all.
It's gonna get in the lower teens here in Central Georgia, wind chills in the negatives
Stay warm!! I absolutely love watching you two working together!! Blessings from north central Wisconsin
Listening to you describing how you are able to relax during the storm because you secured the place before, reminded me of a story in Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories. About a young boy who had to work and found a job at a farm. One night there was a storm and the farmer got up to secure everything. All the animals were safe. Barns secure. The farmer found the new hired hand (the boy) sleeping. He was upset. Wanted to know why? The boy said he had already done everything.
Good luck with the storm! Before you pull down the windbreaks in the spring to store them away, be sure to label which hoop coop they go on to make next year's winterizing easier.
They did that the day they made them, if I remember correctly!
You two are awesome. We're not too far from you in Branson, Missouri. I would love to have you on The Legacy and Legends Podcast sometime. :)
I so look forward to watching you guys. Great video…❄️🇨🇦❄️
Need panelling?? Want it for free? Real estate companies use corrugated plastic signage to advertise properties for sale/rent. Once they're sold they're waste, so they usually give them away for free. 6x4ft and they're so handy for tasks like the chicken housing. Just use screws with panel washers, or sometimes zip ties to secure them. I use them under cardboard boxes that are stored in my garage to prevent rot. On the insides of raised gardens - better than plastic because it doesn't flop over. Another positive is that they're good insulator and last a long time.
Just a suggestion to save on all the heavy lifting. Build a small flat dolly and roll those containers.
Thanks for saving the lady bugs! Wishing you safety from the big freeze and a very Merry Christmas. God Bless you both. ❤🎅⛄❄
You should find a recipe for Leek and Potato soup. Oh so tasty and
comforting on a cold Winters Day, and easy to make too.
Question, wouldn't it be easier to put all the buckets that will be used
for Winter crops permanently up one side of the greenhouse instead
of moving them around?
Since we can no longer be self-sufficient I really enjoy your videos. Seeing how you take care of your animals, how you preserve garden produce, it makes me wish we were young enough to use some of your methods. God bless your efforts at surviving on a few acres.
Hope you guys stay warm!🥶🥶We’re about to get it!!!
Happy Holidays!☃️🎄
Yes, Merry Christmas.
God bless y’all, and just love y’all spirit, and the love for God. ❤.. I am learning so much, so I will know what to do and grow on my homestead.
Great job. Hope the weather isn’t too brutal. You earned a hot beverage with all that prep.
It was -8 here with 50-below windchill and whiteout conditions all day, so I can relate. But I wasn't working outside all day like you guys. You rock!!! I agree with what many said below: you two and your partnership ...the way you work so well together....are such an inspiration to watch. You are truly blessed. Merry Christmas, thank you for the past year of wonderful videos, and all the hard work that goes with them (that we never see). You make all of it look easy, and with everything else you get in done in a day, it can't be easy. Kudos!
Metal also has the advantage of heating with the sun. You could put the hoop coop metal pointing east so that it start warming up with the morning sun.
Merry Christmas! I look forward to your videos every week. This was no exception. You're a joy!!
Perhaps a handtruck would be a welcome addition for the greenhouse. We find ours invaluable around the farm. But we have quite a few more years aging with all the aches and pains too! You are a wonderful example of teamwork and marriage. God bless!
I was telling hubby that I don't worry as much about you two because yas are so smart and work together as a team ♡♡
We're having our "2 week winter" in Western Washington. The. Christmas day is back to our 50° temps. Have a Merry Christmas!
Thanks for sharing with us Kevin and Sarah, you got the chickens and ducks all set for winter and set up the Greenhouse for the winter stuff to grow and weatherized it too. Have a very blessed Christmas with your families and stay safe through the winter. Fred.
Good luck! They are calling for -50* F windchills for us. I heard N MT could be as low as -70*F windchills. Yikes!
Looked ahead and next weekend back to 40* F temps and that I can’t get use to-Crazy swings.
Yes, ventilation is very important for animals as their body heat creates moisture and that causes trouble.
Stay safe and warm! Thanks for sharing!
One year January didn’t get above 0 day and night. That was in Michigan 2 miles from Lake Michigan. I loved that because we didn’t have anything but dry snow.
-35 here in Alberta Canada with lots of snow . love to live where you are.
Stay safe and warm!🙏💖
11 below here with a 60 below wind chill.... Wyoming in the Big Horn Basin... I understand this storm extends all over the US...
Sarah sweet pea is such an appropriate name for the calf, as you were talking about the ladybugs in the celery buckets I thought an appropriate nickname for you would be ladybug. Best wishes, Merry Christmas to you and yours. Blessings.
Team work that’s how you do it. Love your channel. Merry Christmas 🎄
That cutter is so neat. Looks like a parrot beak : D
Such a very satisfying video. Thanks for sharing!
Merry Christmas 🌟 . I think it is truly wonderful about the lady bugs 🐞!
I’m in rural Missouri! We are winter proofing everything. Luckily my poultry are very cold hardy!!! ❤
DirtRoadDestiny: Can you tell me a good MO. county/town for off grid friendly living. An area with least building code rules. We are a handy, small farm couple in our 50's looking for a quiet life with less *%#@...........
Any suggestions from this community? Thx!
@@nanh.9906 hey friend, try ozarks are great for off grid living. We don’t live in the ozarks. we’re near the loutre river. Missouri has a lot of amazing river towns and towns I call “rail road towns” our town is tiny 150 people our butcher is our general store and hardware store all in one. No stop lignts. Tiny schools. We are semi off grid. Just switched from our rain water system and bought a well for livestock. I hope this helps and merry Christmas ❤️
I'd almost drill some holes in those buckets and put rope handles on them to make grabbing easier.
Burning a few candles in the greenhouse can do wonders when the temps drop for a day or two.
You're lucky, it was Windchill -43 degrees here today lol
I recently discovered insulated heating wire used for snowy rooftops or plumbing pipes. Electric and they turn on only at 38° or below. I thought a good use would be strung around chicken roosts or rabbit cages for a little warmth. But only if solar-powered worked at night, I guess. Maybe the fence solar power could be used.
Look out the next your sharpie is freeze up solid !