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Hello everyone, how's it going? Hope you're having a lovely day. Today is so beautiful. This is the best weather. It was like, you know, high 40s this morning and then now it's in like this mid 60s. Probably going to get close to 70. High of 76 today. I will take it. It is a beautiful, beautiful day and it's hard to not be outside. I've got a lot of videos I've been working on so I can kind of get stuck like in the basement. I'm not even upstairs inside. I'm in the basement working so that's like the lowest of the low place to be. But we are just loving this weather. So many things going on around here. One thing, lots of stuff outside happening but we are still in a drought here in North Carolina. The rain is just not coming in enough. It's raining but it's just like a little bit here and there. We just haven't had a really good rain and we really need like a few days, probably a week's worth of a good rain. So anyways, things are dry but still lovely and beautiful. The kids are outside hanging out. What are y'all doing? What are you working on? Tadpoles? You got some tadpoles? You got some tadpoles from the creek? Can you show me? This is your habitat? There's baby tadpoles. It's like combining caterpillars and tadpoles together and I love it. Oh yeah, you got some tadpoles. Some tadpoles. There's some back over there. Nice. So this is their little tadpole habitat set up where they just have these old pools and they put in some bins and they put water in them from the creek and then the tadpoles and then they just let algae grow. So great. That's cool. Whoa, those are huge. What in the world? That's just what we need. Some bullfrogs around here croaking all night long. Perfect. It's a little messy around here because we're trying to just finish some projects up. This was all like garden cardboard we were going to use but we don't need. So now we'll, I don't know what we're going to do with it. Hold on to it for a little bit. He just decided to hop on in here. Oh my goodness, it's a little froggy. You already got a froggy. I mean he wasn't born for one of the tadpoles. Yeah. What do you think about that? It's time. I'm actually not planting yet. I'm ready to. I want to. I'm going to take some of these things out though. I can plant my herbs. It's definitely, they're not going to be affected by the cold night but we do have a night that's going to be down, like it's saying 43. My thing is if it dips under 40, you know the forecast is like an approximation. So what if, what if it dips under 40 for a couple hours? That is going to affect the tomatoes and the peppers. It might not kill them but it's definitely going to stunt their growth. So I just don't want to take a chance with that. I know some people are putting stuff out but I figured, you know what, I can just wait a few more days and then transplant my seedlings as soon as all of those 40 degree nights pass. That way I'm dealing with the healthiest plants possible from the very beginning because again they can get stunted. They can easily recover. You just have like a lag, a kind of a lull where they're trying to focus on healing first. We're going to avoid that altogether by just not transplanting them until they're ready. Especially basil. Basil is another one. It does not like cold temperatures. So for sure my basil, peppers, tomatoes and like the watermelon, the melons and the cucumbers. They don't love cold either. For now I'm just going to take my mint, my rhubarb. I think I could probably take the chamomile out. Since I put these into this greenhouse these guys have literally almost tripled in size. A neighbor gave me these little tomato plants and I'm not even kidding when I say that they were teeny tiny just like staying the same size. I stuck them in this greenhouse and they are taking off like crazy. All of these tomatoes. Today's video is sponsored by Greenworks. Greenworks sent us their AI MoBot C20. I've been using it for the last two weeks. I do enjoy mowing. I've always loved mowing. However we're in a season of life where the the more things we can automate and take off of our plate the better. So we can pour more into our family, into our animals, into things we have to actually take our energy and time and pour into. Giving up mowing for right now in this season is totally fine and I'm actually even more okay with it now that we have the AI MoBot C20. Let me share with you a couple things I really love about it. So one is the multi-zone feature. You can set different areas. For example I have our front yard as one of our zones. I have our side yards as a zone and then I have our backyard as a zone. So what I can do is I can set up a schedule so that the mower knows on this day at this time I'm going to mow this section of the of the yard. Secondly check out the lines on this. My mother-in-law came to our house the other day and was like oh my goodness I really like the lines in your yard and I was like yeah they look really cool actually. There's different patterns that you can use and design your yard however you'd like to. The wheels are oversized and large so that it can handle going through tougher terrains without getting stuck as much. It's done really well making it over the hills, up and down the hills, and any kind of divots things like that. It can also detect up to 200 different objects. So if there's people, toys, things like that in the yard it can detect it and make sure it moves around it. Everything's controlled from your smartphone in the app so if there's any firmware updates if there is an issue with the machine where it's stuck in a hole or maybe something's clogged in the wheel it'll let you know all that sent right to your phone. You can even see in the app where your mower is currently at and how much it's already mowed. I will say the one thing don't get this thing I think it's just going to start like mowing down all your tall weeds and stuff. It's going to go around that it kind of recognizes weeds as like flowers or something. You're supposed to in the instructions it says make sure your grass is already mowed down to a normal height. This thing is going to do a really good job of maintaining so don't expect it to just come and like plow over all your grass it's like six inches or higher. You're going to need to have a base set for this thing so that it can come and maintain your property and once I did that got everything cut down. I've had zero issues and it's been a really great addition to our house and I'm excited to continue to use it. So check out our link in the description for the AI Mobot C20 from Greenworks. This thing is really awesome. Okay I have to tell you I was the most skeptical about a robot lawn mower partly because I thought it's not going to do a good job. Our lawn is a little sparse and it's really uneven. They didn't do the best job grading honestly. I don't know it's just kind of really bumpy really whatever and I also thought like do we need that? Does that make sense? I don't know. But I am the most wrong. I was the most wrong about it because I actually love it I think even more than John does. When I tell you the first time it did the lawn I was so impressed. One because it actually was cutting it and keeping it down. Two like intelligently doing it by itself. Three it's so quiet you don't even hear it. I have to like pay attention when I was driving the tractor the other day because I saw it thankfully I was like I could have easily run over that thing because it is so quiet. But just seeing the stripes that it makes it looks so neat and tidy and I when I mow I like to mow try to mow stripes in it. I feel like it looks nice but it's kind of a pain in the butt. And so just I don't know it's it's doing it for me and releasing at least keeping our front lawn and right around our house completely maintained freeing us up to do everything else. Having that taken off our plate has actually been a blessing. I did not know we needed. I think I'm gonna put my lavender in the front. This I got from Costco and they're like super healthy great thriving little plants. Some rosemary. I think I mismatched too which ones I you like you could kind of pick and choose what you wanted so I got yeah lavender look at that pretty healthy lavender plant. We've got spearmint, peppermint. I'm looking forward to these completely taking over and just having like you know a giant bed full of bushy peppermint. This one's rosemary. I may save this. I need to see how many I have left. Let's go look. All right this is orange mint. Smell it. It smells so weird. Oh yeah it's nice. Doesn't smell good. Here's the thing beginner gardeners if you think that you have to know it all to do it you don't you just get on your phone and type in is basil a perennial searching. No it's an annual not a for so it needs to be the oh yeah I already told you that basil doesn't like the cold weather. That should have been enough for me but it won't come back next year like some things will kind of die off and then they'll come back. Basil won't. So yeah maybe I don't want to use one of those for something that isn't going to come back. Now technically this German chamomile is also an annual meaning it won't survive the winter however they are notorious for dropping their seed heads and then re-sprouting very easily. So what I'll do is I'll harvest a bunch of the flowers and then I would leave some of them to go to seed allow it to reseed itself so that I would have that again next year. Shall I plant these two together? Most one of the most ideal companion pairings in the entire herb garden. Cool you see that compost let's go check on it because the other day it was hot and I thought I might have to split this in half if it gets any hotter. Oh she good though look at her 140 degrees. That's it that's how you break stuff down it kills seeds and all the things. Okay I think I'm happy with this I don't have a seedling for lemon balm but thankfully I did pick up seeds and it's not too late to get these in the ground so I think I'm going to move all of these down one and I think I'm going to do the lemon balm there. And so we've got spearmint, peppermint, orange mint, strawberry mint, that's the thyme and rosemary, german chamomile, and I have some german chamomile seeds so I'm hoping to get this thing full of chamomile because we love chamomile tea and I'm just thinking like a lavender chamomile tea for the evening before bed for my kids will be amazing so I don't know if it's too late really for the seeds here no March through August. Beautiful yeah okay look they're gonna be full. I wasn't gonna plant them I was gonna just let them out here today you know keep hardening in a more sunny location but I think I think I'm just gonna get them in the ground so. So we ended up taking the rest of our topsoil and mixing the composted mulch in it and it has left us with this like beautiful loose, that's a rock, this loose beautiful soil. I'm really excited I think I think it's gonna do really well. I'm betting that that's how this works. This thing came with these garden beds and oh really? I thought this is how it works you put the seeds in here. Look how cute is that so I guess you just make sure it works first. Yeah I mean it's working. Most of them went everywhere because these yeah they're very tiny. I'm just gonna do this and trust that they're in there. But it's lemon balm and it is in the mint family so it really should take off no matter what because that's what mint does. This is probably the best part. So much work on the front end you guys this is like literally months in the making. Nice job. One is hot that means it just came out of the chicken. One is cold. That one came out earlier. This one is a girl so and this one is a boy. How do you know? Oh that's cool. Oh yeah. That's really cool. Soil is really cool down here. Which is why I'm holding off on planting some of the other things I was going to plant today because it's a soil they like warm soil. You can tell I just uphutted that recently. All right now you can grow as big as you want. That's it. Everything is planted now we just have to water it all in. So we told you guys in if you saw our little one of our last vlogs we were telling you that there were some big changes coming to our homestead and then I ran out of energy before we got to the part of sharing that. If you guys have been here for a long time when we first moved here you might remember and maybe not. I don't know if we ever intentionally showed it like maybe we probably vlogged the whole process of cleaning it up but this whole middle section was so overgrown completely overgrown over my head like you couldn't see through it we weren't sure what was in here and John and I spent four days with like he's a weed eater a machete and just like pure grit to to clear it out. It turned out that there were a bunch of old like tree stumps fence like I don't even know if it was a fence post like giant wood poles and logs that had been burned it looked like someone tried to burn them but they didn't burn all the way so those things weren't going anywhere and it was like crazy making crazy terrain. John ended up borrowing a friend's tractor and we shoved all of that off into the woods cleaned this all out and it's been really beautiful. There were a lot more trees but we recently thinned them out. We cleaned up some of them but you can obviously see I went back and thinned a few more. We also thinned some of the trees along the bottom which was equally equally grown up. So we didn't really have plans for this other than trying to get some grass to grow and having it be a picnic area a nice shaded space until recently. We have decided to bring our daughter's horse here. So last year we got our oldest daughter her first horse. It was kind of like a it was always a childhood dream of mine to have a horse so it was really sweet to be able to do that for her. However our plans with her changed she was down the street of the neighbors and then we decided to have her boarded with her best friend's horse about 20 minutes away and so while it's been really great for Tyler to get a lot of experience caring for her horse and learning how learning how to ride getting better in her groundwork building a relationship and trust with her horse in a facility that had you know like a round pen an arena and a lot of structure we have seen her blossom with all of that. It is also really hard to get over there driving 20 minutes a few times a week for her to go see the horse has been something we've been doing but it's definitely a bit of a strain sometimes. It also costs a lot of money to board a horse and it should because that person there is responsible for your horse they're taking care of them day and night and we so appreciate every single month and everything we've gotten out of the experience of having our horse boarded for the last year but we're ready to bring her here. So we are planning to fence in this whole area eventually we will build an arena at the bottom it's pretty flat and level back there it's like the perfect size and shape for that so what we've been doing is clearing out space we're going to remove these stumps we're going to try to level out fill in some potholes there's a lot of work to be done we're going to sow some grass seed some forage blend for horses and turn this into a better pasture so we have a lot to do to prepare for that but that is our goal we've ordered and gotten all the supplies for fencing so before we put up the fencing obviously we want to do all of the taking out of trees hauling in of dirt that way we're not having to go back and forth with the tractor through a small gate so that's what we've been working on but the idea of having them here means that there will be so much more time spent with the horse and eventually horses that i will be able to learn how to ride and do all the things and then some of our younger girls that have wanted to do horse things right yeah you want to ride and so it'll be a lot easier to start ponying them around and teaching them all the basics of horsemanship and all of the basics right here where we don't have to like go somewhere else take all of our kids take all the time i think tyler is looking forward to teaching you guys too she was already telling me about how she wanted to be able to like give her little sisters rides around on the lead line and everything cool huh yeah and stick around if you want to see the process of transforming this piece of whatever you call it into horse haven and then yeah join us as we bring our horse home