Small Changes, Big Impact! Daily work around the homestead.
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- Join us on our Alaska homestead as we tackle small projects that make a big impact on our daily lives. From fixing fences to tending to the garden, every little task adds up to create a more sustainable and efficient homestead. And on this special Father's Day, we take to the lake to celebrate with a relaxing day of grilling on the boat. Follow along for a glimpse into our homesteading life and the simple joys of family time in the great outdoors.
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Bless you Jessica for having your grandmother there, it’s the hardest job to take on especially when someone their age has their minds set on how things are done
Thank you she always took such great care of me it’s my turn to return the favor
Happy Father's Day Aaron! Jessica porch looks great! Gma is so cute, she really gets around well for her age. She is just too cute!
Thank you Sarah!
Jessica!! Ok how cute is your grandma!! Everything looks beautiful in your front entrance. Beautiful!!
It all looks beautiful. Your grandmother is so pretty and sweet. It is good to see her too. That was a terrific Father’s Day gift. So useful.
I just had my house power washed and it looks so much better and happier ! There’s nothing like some fresh paint ! I just planted pink hydrangeas ( I already have blue) but the pink ones I planted in very large white containers, I love them ! Nice Fathers Day gift 🎁 Happy Fathers Day Aaron! Tell your Grandmother hello , she’s so sweet . The strawberry bed is beautiful ! Love ferns have lots of them . Great job as always. Thank you ! 🌸🦋🌸
That is awesome!
@@modernhomesteadalaska your place is beautiful!
The steps and porch look good for now. New steps can wait everything looks good. Your flower bed looks amazing. A happy place. Aaron I lov3 your grill that goes on the boat. I need to look into one of those for our boats. Enjoy. Thank you for sharing today Jessica. Take care from Cape Cod. Happy gardening🥰✌️🇺🇸
Thanks so much
Yes. Cooking preserving,chickens,cow ,Garden! Please😊 love it!🎉
Sounds good!
Talk about bang for your buck! What a great transformation of your porch! 🙌
Jessica get a zapper to hang up on your house for the mosquitoes. My daddy is an welder and believe me mama got a zapper machine to hang up right above porch and it zapped them bugs. In the summer time around by pur pool at night as daddy cooked on his grill sitting at the lounge chairs and table by the pool them mosquitoes csme out. Putting the spray off on you but mama was our hero getting a zapper then we could enjoy our days swimming by our pool.
Your home is very pretty. We lived in the country all my life. Best way to live and enjoy yourselves. God bless you and your family. Happy Father's day 💙
That’s such a beautiful “grandma’s garden”. Psycho chickens for sure but they are beautiful. Thank you for sharing your daily life and adventures with us.❤
Our pleasure!
It really looks nice. It’s amazing what a little paint and soap will do. Love all the planters
Your grandma seems so timid, so glad she has you.
My entryway says, look, my grandkids are here 5 days a week. Lol. Wouldn’t have it any other way. I love your entry, even the steps, they fit with the Homestead vibe. Your Gma is beautiful, God bless you.
Your grandma seems to be settled in quite well. I love how she putters around with you. The porch looks inviting. I am a stickler for our front porch too. I grew up with a grandmother who had a saying for everything in life!! One that she quoted frequently was that you could tell the type of housekeeper a woman was by the cleanliness of her front door threshold and butter dish!! Go figure. You are capitalizing on your summer!
Until we visit again, keep on gardening!! ❤ Momma G
I agree! It was not the case the house is clean and tidy especially the more the kids move out. But the construction porch was not telling a full story.
BEAUTIMOUS!! Ours is a bright red with a house that is Navajo white (butter cream color), sage, and white.
When I moved to the desert I had one room with its own swarm of mosquitos. Took me a couple years to get them all. No one had lived here for three years.
I love it I would of done red too but the yellow pops
I love the yellow of your door. It would make me happy every time I went in or out.
Love your garden! Centrolla plants works for mosquito control. I have them at my doorway. I have them at my patio 100%. They do work for the mosquitoes. God bless you and your friend thank you.
I painted my front door hot pink hahah when i moved in like 5 years ago and i love it
I love it! Something I would do
What a great idea putting a grill on the boat, how fun and your garden has come a long way from when you started your first one. It looks beautiful
Thanks so much!
love how it looks like a tool box . but great gift
I been working on the entry area love ur ideas your Grandma is the best love her singing it definitely shows u keep her happy
Yes! Thank you!
I so enjoy ur videos Jessica. Your porch and yard looks beautiful. I had never seen strawberries with red flowers before…they are so pretty, cheers 🇨🇦🌷
Thank you so much!
I used Shaklee Basic H as a bug no-biter repellent many years ago.Bugs may land but tend never to bite.Some essential oil sprays work wonders.The right formula keeps the biters at bay while being as healthy to the skin as possible.
Everything looks great.
So much information. Love gardening and yours is so beautiful. Keep going
Great job Jessica! I love that grill. Hope you get lots of strawberries!
Thank you so much ☺️
Never knew Alaska was a mosquito haven; good to know.
Everything is looking beautiful, great job.
Thanks so much! 😊
That little old lady is so cute 🥰 did you say that was your grandmother. I love when your husband is on there he makes it I love you but he's he's just funny to me
Excellent video Jess, these small projects are great for the lull between planting and harvesting from your garden. G-mom seems to enjoy gardening, she picked some lovely flowers and plants. Her bedroom view will be beautiful 😊 those bratty chickens though, I hope clipping their wings will stop the ninja 🥷 skills...lol
The garden and flower beds look amazing. 😊 I remember your small orange bucket and inground potatoes, as well as the colorful cauliflower, you've come along way,baby!! Happy Father's day, Aaron. Nice BBQ!! Can't wait for your adventures on the boat this summer. Does the BBQ work on the Argo as well?
Take good care, Milnes Fam! ( that includes G-mom and Judy as well)😊
Oh my goodness! You have been here for the ride for sure it’s crazy to look back at where we started! It takes such leaps each summer! I super appreciate you
You’ll never catch a fish by waving a spatula at them! It’s a warning for what’s to come. LOL
Also Geraniums are a natural mosquito repellent. A couple planted in pots by the front door would help. I’d have to imagine they’ll not survive the winter, but Home Depot/ Lowe’s sell them.
Keep the great videos coming. Love them all.
Ahhh lol I know right!
The entry way looks so nice and fresh. Love how young grandma are planting her flower bed that she can enjoy from her window.
Loved the video. Thanks for sharing!
I just got done painting my front door and porch doors, 2 more to go. I needed to cover up the streaky red a previous owner painted sloppily. I can't stand warm colors so it helps me feel like it's my home, not just a place I'm living in. For me when scraping the glass it helps to score the edge of the glass and to wait several days after painting 💗
I love it! So important to make it home for you!
Great video Jess, really enjoyed being in your garden, sending love from your Welsh friend Lorraine xx ( Wales 🏴 U.K)
Thanks so much! 😊
Very nice video. I enjoyed every minute of it.
You are differently a hard worker. Hats off to you.,hope all the plants do well. I’m in Michigan and we loose a lot of plants over the winter.
Nice looking strawberries. Interesting, didn't know that about the coconut core thing.
FYI: A THERMOMETER records temperature. A THERMOSTAT keeps the selected temperature constant.
lol my husband called and was laughing so hard!
@@modernhomesteadalaska 👍
Oh Jessica, the memories you are making! ❤
LOVE Aaron, Happy fathers day to me😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mosquito problem:
Order “Lemon Oil of Eucalyptus” better than DEET as a repellent. Look for this ingredient in commercial insect repellents usually in products for babies ( I use them). Might find it it in local organic store used in homeopathic lotions.
lol sounded like help help lol
Hi from 🇨🇦 The gardens are looking great.
Hello there!
Good afternoon, Jessica! I just found out that if you take milk and put half milk half water into a sprand bottle nozzle, you can spray your tomatoes, you know? The top of the leaves, the bottom of the leaves automatically and the bugs that like the. Tomatoes that like to eat them their mouths.Their mouth will wild.Shut from the milk and they'll fall off and might want to give it a try.I would go ahead and spray your tomato plants now to prevent it
I saw that too great information
Everything is looking awesome, and loving all the flowers and working with grandma
Like number 816. That pretty yellow door may leak because your porch deck is almost level with the door. Its better to have your porch deck built below the door so you have to step up into the house, that way water wont come into the house when it rains or from melting snow on the porch.
Nice thank you
Im late but hope you had a great FathersDay
❤❤❤❤
Hello from Alabama,l love your yellow door👏🥰
Grama is so sweet
Porch looks great
Aaron is sure enjoying that grill.. would love to see if you can jam or jelly. I want to do that this summer
Aaron's Father's Day gift is so cool!!! I know it will be well used. All of your projects turned out so well. The front porch refresher looks great. Oh those rebel chicks! LOL! What a nice view your Grandma has now that you freshened up the flower bed near her window. She is so sweet. God bless you all!
Thanks so much!
Beautiful garden
Hi Jessica- Thank you for sharing great information for planting, some prepping, cooking, home body care products and some fun family moments. I do have a question that might be a little off topic but something to consider. Given all the crazy weather we've been having all over the country and power outages, have you and Aaron considered an outhouse, I know most toilets do not work without electricity so maybe a future project if you don't already have one. We just had a round of 8 tornadoes in May pass through our area, but the LORD is good. Thank you for sharing.
That’s a great question. In the event it got there, in summer we have the lake and can use lake water to flush, and in winter we have a back up of water to flush, if all that failed there is one right next to use we could use in that sort of emergency, but we won’t put one in for just Incase reasons
Hi Jessica and sweet family! Your front porch looks beautiful. I have always loved the yellow on the front door, so bright and inviting.
We had a pontoon boat that we mounted a grill on the front deck. I’ve even made gravy and biscuits because we would camp at dollar island all weekend. Nothing tastes as good as cooking outdoors. Glad to see Aaron enjoyed his Father’s Day.
I have that oil diffuser and it really puts out better than any other I have.
Hi grandma, staying warm is important since moving north it will take a while for your body to adjust.
Your flowers are beautiful and catnip can be used by humans too. Your grandmother has an eye for beautiful flowers. Great job feeding your plants and the shower ideal is brilliant.
Have a blessed weekend everyone ❤️
Oh my goodness so great! I can’t wait to make breakfast on the boat! I love the ideas!
I love all of your flowers. Your grandmother has good tastes in flowers!
Where did you get your headbands that you have been wearing? They are so cute!
Thank you a local coffee shop has them
Love your porch so pretty. you work so hard it shows all the love you put into everything you do . God is so so good.
Thank you so much!
This was great Jessica. I love the project videos. The stain made the difference on the steps. Your grandma coming out was so precious. You are so wonderful with her. She's so sweet. Aaron getting a grill on his boat. I didn't know there was such a thing. His burger looked so good. Ty Jessica.
Thanks so much! 😊
Teary eyed watching and listening to your grandmother talking with you. This will be a treasure years from now. Good work! From another state that talks about mosquitoes as our state bird (South Florida), you are doing fabulous work!
Yeah I started to over edit it, and though I’ll keep this in here for me. And my siblings children all of us who love her.
Hi Jessica! Everything looks fantastic. I really enjoyed watching you and Grandma working in the flower bed together. I know you cherish the time with her.
Thank you so much!
Tea tree oil also in the oil pot by the front door
the porch and the strawberry garden and everything else looks fantastic! but WOW I am loving your shower hack - abolutely brilliant! ♥
Grill is slick
Thanks it worked great
😂 Glad to see I'm not the only one who measures where to put my plants and flowers 😂
Great vid Jessica!
Thermal cells work awsome up here ak into this
Looking great! Will be a great garden harvest. Glad Aaron had a wonderful Father’s Day. Nice seeing your grandmother! I have one of those plant towers with succulents and cactus planted.
Hi sweet one! I know after such harsh winters it feels so good to work in the garden. Since I live in Texas, we don't get the really harsh stuff, but Spring planting is a big thing here!!! Your porch and yard are looking so inviting. Your garden is growing so fast!!! I am always so impressed by your tenacity! Love the new boat grill! Big hugs and many blessings!
So true! It’s my favorite thing to be just out among the plants
Jessica, your porch looks so much better that painting touchups the stain just cleaning everything up. It looks so great.
Oh thank you!
Lol Stubby beer bottles??? From Ontario Canada 🍁
Love you and grandma outside together
Loved all of the progress with outside gardening!!
Looks Great ❤❤
Love the front porch, so much better.
be good if you had rased beds where u can grow dif things in ity they look so nice and neat and keep your food or flowers tog looks nice though xx
Your grandma is precious ❤
I love your grandma, she reminds me of mine. 😁
I love your gardening videos. We have had so much rain this year (after a drought last summer) that we have had to replant many things and now can't keep up with the weeds.
The fern will take over the garden before you know it , probably as bad as the raspberry, I had a wild volunteer fern come up and it just spread like wildfire and took some getting it out .
For the strawberry patch put the wood chips and as runners form put them under the chips. Did that for years until we down sized. Worked just fine and we lived in hot dry summers in Texas.
I love all you do around the homestead. Especially the gardens. We call the mosquitos our state bird too lol.they are horrible here in Okla.
Tell grandma hello from North Carolina.
Love the hose holder. I'm stealing your idea. ❤😊
Please do!
Cut the wings, done
Loving the overalls, that’s def your vibe, so cute on you! Ever thought about throwing a ton of mosquito repellent plant seeds around the perimeter of your driveway and just seeing what happens? Maybe a few plants on the porch or mixed in with the hanging baskets. I keep a water bottle with some oils it in with me outside, and spray on and around me when the bugs are bugging, but I don’t deal with swarms like you describe so don’t know how affective that would be. That catnip will grow stick like stems eventually (if it gets enough sun) and could break being by the hose. The bees absolutely love catnip flowers, as I’ve learned through my own voluntary catnip this year.. I’ve always had mine in mostly shade, but this year I said what the hell let’s put it out with my flowers, and it’s thriving, so many happy pollinators, it’s worth the effort.
Such great ideas!
Hello Friend !
Thanks for the visit
Thank you !
impatients n fushia petunias johnny jump up n panises my favs
Beautiful entry way porch Jessica....your property is so nice n that garden area is sooo lovely. You have an eye for beauty. I don't have a decorative eye. Grilling n boating looks so fun. Will you share the story of how your mom n gramma came to live, how are they adapting liking it in alaska. And is mom now in the off grid cabin? So nice to be closer to family.
Thank you so much! I’ll will try and share that great idea
Just wondering if you could maybe make a video on how to can diced tomatoes!! From start to finish?? Please and thank you for any help
Sounds great!
If by you want to swing by my place next time your in anchorage I dont have a huge amount. It I do have quite a lot of rock you can grab
a wake knocks ir burger into water lol
Canning if no freezer dryer would you use dehydrator
Just clip one wing, will keep them from flying.
It actually working they are still in
put netting over top of chicken yard
Do you ever get a bad back when bending over. Every time I try and in the garden, my sciatica starts playing up. Ps love your vlogs 😊🇬🇧
I hurt all day and night!
i bought rolls of nettlije ud put on fruit trees its like .95 -1.0 in spacing nothing can get in ot ir well bugs can but orey birds ect cant get to ur chickens n ur chickens cant get out either
😊how does you medicinal garden grow? Do you make any like cough chips, salves, lotions? Your homestead is moving along so fast, lots of hard work. Boat grills are aweome, we used one on our boat. What we live for fun in the sun. We had another veteran gift us 10 copper river reds 😊 really takes the edge off for me. One of my daughters has a proxy for me so more fish may be coming. May your summer be beneficial for you and your family. Blessings ❤
Thank you going down to the Russian tomorrow! Yeah! I just want to collect and dry my own herbs for winter!
@@modernhomesteadalaska😊please share any herbal teas you put together. Thank you
thermometer not thermostat
lol there the word I was looking for
what else is planted in thete looks like red flowers
Becareful with mosquitoes carry a lot of germs diseases I couldn’t do it girl, lol 😂
Exactly!!!!
Where did you get that white planter with herbs? On the porch. How cleaver is that.