The Day We Started Planting (Plus Everything Else That Broke)

We don't need that part. Oh wow. Should we move that or? No, it should be under here. Let's get it painted. Good morning. Today is our day off work, which really just means it's a different kind of work day. Today we're tackling all the things that we haven't had time to do because we've been so busy getting ready for the lava crate build and working on the house. Just lots going on. But today we got to fix our headlight that's out. Adelaide's air conditioning doesn't work in her car so we're going to try to fix that. What else do we have? We have a pump switch. You've got some gardening to do. Today is all about being a little bit self-sufficient. When you live in the middle of nowhere and your headlight goes out, you can't just run to the store and have someone replace it because it's like an hour long ordeal. I mean, it still might be an hour long ordeal, but at least I don't have to go anywhere. Trees are blooming, so that's the positive of this whole situation. Look at this mesquite. Look at that bright green. It's beautiful. So yeah, just a whole lot of random weird stuff that we have to get done today. It'll be interesting. Oh my god. Or maybe it won't be. Jonathan's just breaking stuff, so this may not even get done. Who knows? Here's the thing. As much as I love the Prius, getting to the headlight is a whole... I feel like you should just be able to pop this off. Yes, or there's like not enough room to reach in the back, so you literally have to disconnect the whole bumper and then start taking it apart. Here, one more for you. If it's stuck, you just have to pull hard. So when you switch out the HID bulbs for LED lights, you kind of change the way the connections are done. So when you replace it, you end up with this. Positive and negative. And you just kind of... You just shove it into the fitting, which doesn't seem right, but it works. Today's video sponsor is Function Health. 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No, no. You can purr all you want. But you're gonna have to move. Come on. Just a quick pet. Just a quick one. I thought it was this thing, but I'm not entirely convinced now that that's what it is. It should be under here somewhere. Here we go. This doesn't look like it would do much. I hate this so much. This is so annoying. There's one all the way in the back. Oh, my gosh. Whoever did this was a psycho. I think I'm at a weird angle. I don't think I can get it. You think you're at a weird angle? All right. I'm gonna go get my 90 drill attachment. I'll be right back. I think I see it. You can do it. Two more screws. Just put it in. Oh, no. Why? How are you supposed to get a screw? Oh, geez. No, no. This is the most ridiculous location for a piece. Let's do it quick. Turn it on and make sure the air blows. All right. Now, from what I remember, this has to... Should we wash it off? Nah, just put it back. I feel like we could probably wash it off, but... It's also just gonna get kicked again. My dad. I can just hear my dad. Why would you hit it against the car? Well, if I... I'm gonna have to dry it off. No, it's fine. It's fine. Just put it back. We'll pretend it's not dirty. We don't need that part. Just throw it out. There's a stupid wire in the way. It needs to go like that, but then the wire is in the way. There you go. Okay, where's that black plastic piece? One more test. Car's fixed. Now we need to work on the pump switch. But before we get to the pump switch, we have to do something else. Ocho, do you want to go on a ride? Do you want to go on a ride? Get in there. Are you ready? Taking Ocho to get a bath and dried at the tractor supply. Then he's going to come back and we're going to shave him very short because it is hot and he's a mess. So let's get it done. Are you going to be good today? This is a before. What was that? Was that you? I decided it's a little windy, so let's try to cut Ocho's hair in the bathroom. He's never been in here, so he's freaking out about all the things. But we'll get him up on the table and hopefully it won't take too long. We're going to come. Good boy. Okay, you're going to have to sit. Can you sit? Good. You're too big. Can you sit? Good. Okay. All right. Ready? Up to your face. Ocho, do you look so nice? Are you ready for a doctor's appointment time? Look at this mess you made. Do you want to go inside? What do you think about Ocho's haircut? I gave him a mohawk. It's not going to stay like that, is it? Yeah. What do you think? Is it actually? Maybe. So we got Ocho all cleaned up, so now it's this guy's turn. Mojito. He is also a disaster, and he also doesn't do as well as Ocho does, so this will be interesting. We're going to try a different dog wash. Let's go check it out. Let's see you. So that was a bit of waste of money. I'll stick with going to Tractor Supply. So $30 later and he's still not dry. That place was like a sauna in there. No air conditioning, and it's just like a very small metal box that you're in. Won't be doing that again, but it's good to know. So now we got to go dry him somehow at home and cut his hair. My day, nothing's going to plan, but it's okay. Everything's going to be fine. Right, mom? We are over at the pump house near the solar shed. So solar shed is right here, and then here's our big water storage tank and our outdoor shower, and so we use this solar powered pump house to get showers, to drip irrigate, to build all of our earthbag stuff with, and even the Lava Creek building will be using this tank. So the other day, one of the kids came out here and they were like, the pump's not working. So I looked and apparently the actual switch had melted or it had failed. So we're going to pull this out and replace it and maybe talk about what might have happened. I have some ideas. So we'll just get in here. Oh, it's a big black widow. Where? Right there. That's huge. There's a lot of... Crickets. Cockroaches. Gross. I'm hoping our Lava Creek building doesn't have this problem. I think it'll be a lot better sealed. That's a really big black widow. Should we move that or... Or something else? He's not gonna make it. Sorry. She. Look away. It's she. Look away. It's angry. Oh, you missed it. It's fine for now. It lives another day. Got away. So what do I need to do here? So I need to pull the fuse for the pump because the pump is connected to the switch. And then we can disconnect the switch and take it out. So I got to reach way down in here. Well, watch where you're... Watch where you're reaching. I know. Oh, there's so many spiders in here. Goodness. Yeah. All right. So here we're just pulling the fuse. And then we'll take the switch out and look at it. We have a few of these switches and so far we've been pretty happy with them. This is the first time we've had one fail on us. The other day I pulled it out and it's kind of hard to tell. But right there, there used to be a thing. A spade that you hooked onto. You can see where it is soft and it's kind of expanded. And so obviously this left switch... And see it doesn't click anymore where this one does. So what I did temporarily the other day is I just switched the main connection to this switch because we weren't using it. But I did not like this being in here. And obviously that's not great long term. And probably I need to... If you look at this, this is a little damaged too. So I'm going to redo this cramp just to be safe. Taking this apart. The other spade terminal came out of the... So obviously this side got overheated. And you can even see this from the kind of the glue coming out of this here. My theory on what happened is, you know, we've talked in the past when we did our whole solar water pump guide that this particular pump, it's a five and a half gallon per minute pump and it runs on 12 volt. When it runs on 12 volt, it has a really bad tendency to draw the voltage down on the system because it takes so long to pressurize, especially with a big pressure tank, which I think might be part of our problem. Anyway, it ends up drawing the whole voltage down. It creates a lot of heat and then it causes components in the pump to fail. And then sometimes it drains the battery. And so to combat that, we've ended up converting this into an AC, a dual solar and AC power pump. So it's plugged in all the time to the shed. There's a little charger here that tops the battery off. And so we haven't had any of those problems since. But I would imagine that in the past, this got hot over and over and over and over and over again while we were still having those problems. And now it's finally failed because this switch should be rated for the amps that this thing is pulling. We'll keep an eye on it, obviously. But we're just going to switch out switches and get it working again. And since this has visible signs of overheating, we're going to go ahead and chop this and put a new connector on before we put it back together. Another reason I wanted to replace this switch is that because these two switches are connected together, you probably saw that joiner piece, the positive that connects both of the switches together. The indicator light was being weird even on the other switch. So it just the integrity of the switch had been compromised. So I figured it was safer to go ahead and replace the whole thing, rewire the part that got too hot. And hopefully now that we have AC powered, we shouldn't have any issues. We're definitely going to keep an eye on it because, you know, we don't want things to melt. So I finally went to get a few plants. I didn't go crazy, although I really, really wanted to. I got four different varieties of tomatoes, artichoke and raspberry bush. So let's get it planted.