Not again… our appliances are breaking 😩

Morning friends today is already a busy day. We have what have we done? What haven't we done today John got it pay for our cows melt a cow Detect stuff did taxes real fun I have cleaned and got my kids to clean up. We cleaned their kitchen and cleaned outside. They cleaned downstairs Made breakfast. Oh, we had someone come look at our oven if you have been here long enough to remember What I do with our refrigerator fridge gate as John calls it Okay, that Fridge was not originally in this house. Originally. There was the black cafe appliances The fridge was what? Six months old maybe when we moved in. Yeah and within a few months it stopped working and We had somebody come out Then they sent someone else out because for whatever reason they didn't trust the first guy that they sent out We we didn't pick him. They picked him. Anyway, they sent someone else out And he was like, yeah same thing DOA like this thing just needs to be replaced It was under warranty. They we were without a fridge for three months, which was crazy and They ended up replacing I asked him if they'd send me the white one because I knew overall I wanted lighter Appliances, so they did which was really great. And then a year after that The dishwasher broke so you could see that the dishwasher is now white It was not it was also black and it was a single door The dishwasher broke it was past the warranty. We were like this really stinks. But okay, we just ended up buying a new no we didn't We spent a year without a dishwasher which doesn't seem like a big deal and it seems like a first world problem, but With ten people it was a lot. It was a lot of dishes and our girls they did it They washed hand wash dishes for a year, but we have a milk cow and we store a lot of milk And so we need everything to be sanitized. So we needed a dishwasher. So we bought one anyway Now our oven broke This thing is like three and a half years old. Yeah, it was crazy brand new and we Moved into the house. Yeah, it was brand new Okay, so the house was six months old, but they the oven had been on back order So this was brand new and we got here Obviously, we love it a lot but and use it a lot but still 15 They supposed to last like 15 to 20 years. It's been not even four years. And so somebody came out today To look at it. It needs a part. We will not have an oven for at least three more weeks assuming that part fixes everything What a fiasco well, they were supposed to come to look at it last week Yeah week and a half ago And they never showed up the repair people never showed up. So that was fun And then they rescheduled it but then we had to get through Passover and then Elena also had a baking Big sale, that's it a bake sale for her class She's taking a business baking class at school and they had their like end of the semester a big bake sale So she had to bake a bunch of stuff I had to go to my mom's house and we were there to like 1230 in the morning baking because Robin was working so Anyway, I love When they work they work and I love them but I think that the year that we have had moved here like the appliances were manufactured in the midst of kovat and I really think Because of supply constraints and whatever else I think quality took a bit of a nosedive and we like literally have had an entire suite of their appliances that have not worked But since replacing We've had no issues. We have a cafe appliances fridge in our basement that we have had for Almost six years like no issue. So I think it was just that year Hopefully they will make it right and fix this like under warranty Whatever it needs because we also just replaced our washing machine that Did give out after I mean it's been about ten years or eight years eight years This guy isn't like six max. No, it's not. Yes it is For nope And we were only two years and we got it in our last No, we got it in the house the first. No, we didn't. Yes, we didn't move those. Yes, we did I remember them coming to oh, they moved in for us No, I don't We got those we made that stranger things video with that washing machine and that was in our old house No, I Don't believe it because that one was the white one that was the front-loader that we got from No, that one we had I think just gotten those washing machines Anyway, it's not that old now, maybe max. I don't know anyway still the there's an error code There's like part of them the motherboard on it is broken, but there's three different components to that. So like We could fix the one and then what if like in three months or six months the other breaks and so it was like do We spend hundreds of dollars on repairs for this or just get something else so I ended up going let me show you what I got because I think it was one of the best decisions I've ever made I Got a top loader. I went with Samsung So it still matches because like I said, we love this the dryer still works great It has a like a top dryer for delicates that just blows air up, which is really nice and so yeah, this Joker is Okay, it doesn't do it justice, but it's massive. It holds like three loads of water. No, it holds so much so I can have All of that could just go in and it comes out clean because usually you overload and it's like this isn't really clean No, it comes out clean. So I went with the top washer top load Went with the top load washer and I like that It slopes down because it makes it a little easier for my short self to get in that's why I never liked them before because it's I'm basically like Falling in feet in the air trying to get clothes out of the bottom, but I can actually Mostly reach that. However, I do still usually ask John to get everything out. Anyway, okay So I've been repairman came today diagnosed it and ordered the part. He will be back in three weeks to fix it Also happening today our little meat chickens are gonna go outside Tyler do if you want to help we're gonna take them outside Elena is setting up the big dog crate so that we can Put them in that so they're still contained for right now, but they get some fresh grass and water All right, I go this side All right for lunch today. We are throwing on some leftover burgers. I've got a few burgers chicken burger veggie burger John's gonna cook a few more burgers and a couple pieces of leftover mahi-mahi on the grill Some peppers some kids are eating cookies From Elena's bake sale that I promised them if they each cleaned a room Well, then they would get one of the cookies she made Well, you already got some how many did you have during her bake sale? Yeah, everyone else got one because she sold out I literally was not expecting her to sell out I Thought she'd bring home a bunch because she made brownies She took I think at least 10 brownies 10 cinnamon roll cookies And then I want to say I probably sent her with 18 to 20 salted caramel chocolate chip cookies Thinking for sure. She's gonna bring some of this back because they were like 250 275 and $3 Was the price range of them, but she's literally sold out of everything except two cookies Which is what I use to pay my children Work smarter not harder. I will have to walk you guys through our chore chart and reward system really soon It is set up through the hearth display. I Love it. It has saved me so much. It's a mom, but also a mom with ADHD tendencies who has trouble Remembering things unless they're right in front of my face who has trouble like unless I sit down and intentionally organize When I'm really in the mood to organize I can get very disorganized some sense like I love organization I love systems, but I have to be in the right headspace to create the system Because it feels overwhelming to create it. And so a lot of times I Just end up flying by the seat of my pants. I'm really liking simple things. So this has completely changed my life I Can kind of put a lot of things on autopilot it takes a lot of the decision fatigue off of me It takes a lot of the keeping up and remember who gets what and who's supposed to do what? I can set it when it's on my mind. That's another thing when something crosses my mind. Oh that needs to be done I can add it right from my phone I can assign it to a child or I can assign points to it and let the children decide for themselves if they want to Points or not and then yeah, and then it's like gone out of my mind. I don't have to hold on to that thing I don't have to remember it or write it down and then remember where I wrote it down It has changed my life. So if you guys are interested in the hearth, I do have a discount link for you I will put it in the in the description of this video. Alright boys making them lunch now gonna mop the floors real quick Hopefully before one I've got nine minutes. I think until my friends are gonna get here You can have a cookie with your lunch that's not gonna cook because I did not turn Would you rather have a chocolate strawberry or a no-bake cookie which one would you rather have? See there's either Okay, okay, okay sit down Cohen sit down sit down all the way you can pick you can either have Okay, you can tell me if you want a chocolate peanut butter cookie or chocolate-covered strawberry. This is what you pick Here, there you go. Which one you want? You want the strawberry too? Let me find you a good one It's just water What do you think? Is that good? All right. All right guys. It's time to talk about coffee Really quickly I am heading down to the creek to bring these lovely ladies Some coffee beverages real quick as I'm making this I roast my own beans If you didn't know here some of them are getting low need to roast some more but Roasting your own beans if you're trying to save some money on coffee This is the way to do it now Let me clarify if you are like a full Georgia drinker then probably not the way to do it That's gonna be like cheaper. But when you buy Folgers you're buying stuff that's already pre-ground It's been sitting for who knows how long who knows how long ago it was roasted probably months before you actually are getting it so your coffee is just Me but if you're really into coffee, like if you're someone who's like I like to buy like locally roasted I like to buy or even just kind of like really a little bit nicer coffees especially whole bean coffees Roast it yourself I started roasting a few years ago and It takes a little bit to get get going and get used to and figure out but if you watch some videos Read some forums Not even that really just watch a couple YouTube videos. You'll have it in like no time. So I use actually the this is part of my Roasting process. It's the drum that goes into my roaster which is Upstairs I have the Baymore Coffee roaster was a 3000 or a b3000 something rather. It's like the only like single small batch coffee roaster that Baymore has and It's great. It does a like a about a pound and maybe like 20 to 25 minutes I usually do like a medium to dark roast especially when I'm doing like espressos I get my beans from happy mug coffee company And so you can buy them the beans in bulk and the more you buy the cheaper it is I try to buy it and like 10 pound bags at least because it saves me a little bit of money But some people I know are buying like 40 pounds at a time and it will really start saving you money the more you buy For example, you can get you know one pound for around like seven to eight dollars So if you're paying like 15 to 16 dollars for a 12 ounce bag of roasted coffee beans then You know over time that's really gonna save you some money because the Baymore is only like 500 bucks I got mine used for like a friend sold it to me used for 200, but You can get them used for like around 300 I think so if you got a used one Again, the goal would be like trying to save some money here so get you a used one or a new one and then just roast your own beans and you're going to be saving a lot more and Not only that you're gonna get some of the freshest Roasted beans you can get and I know some some like brands will send you stuff like the next day They'll roast it and send it right away to you But still you're paying way less, especially if you don't like shipping and things like that. You're gonna be paying $20 just to get a pound of you know beans that's actually tasting good. So why not learn to roast your own beans? Anyways, I just thought I'd share that with you guys in case you were curious Because I always was curious about wanting to roast my own beans But just kind of too scared to do it until I finally just was like, you know, what let's make it happen. So All right. Here we go drinks in tow I Also make decaf beans Danielle likes hers decaffeinated. She gets all jittery and like anxious from the caffeine So I have made And roasted my own decaf beans as well And this isn't just for lattes by the way Which the beans are great for if you're just drinking regular coffee, but you like to have nice fresh coffee flavor That's also You know, we just grind it up and put it in a coffee pot or over a pour over if you're into that kind of thing Whatever you go. Thank you. Here's your coffee For the first time. Thank you. Enjoy Can he go with you because Hello, Johnny And the cows is that water overflowing? Is it shocking? Is it hot? You should take pull that hose out real quick and pour it all over where the ground rot is that'll help Oh look at you. You're getting your your summer coat in so she looks spotty. But yeah They shed all that thick winter fur and then she will look like her neck like really slick and shiny Once all that thick fur comes off. She's still got a pretty thick coat Well around her neck is thinning out a little you look just like your mom Actually, Annie's looking really light this year Yeah, she's shedding out light. Normally she was dark like her but she's looking pretty light. So this This is Olive. Olive is Anne's baby from not last not last September the September before She's like 18 months old and then this is barbecued and barbecued is Eden's baby barbecued is fully weaned. She is Nine months ten months old almost Yeah, she's fully weaned she so we ended up putting her Barbecued in with Annie and Annie was nursing her so she was like mothering her that way we could just milk one cow because at the time barbecued was born Annie was still in milk, so we were milking her and Then milking Eden, but we weren't getting very much from Anne and her teats are really short which makes it just like harder to hand milk, so We grafted her on her let her nurse from her and just milked Eden and that's what we've been doing And so yeah, she is half Angus. She will be raised for beef in the next probably year and a half She'll be ready for that. But until then we feed her. We love her we take good care of her give her everything she needs and make sure that she has a Painless merciful death at the end where she will then feed our family and we will be so grateful, right? It's always sad it is always sad To end a life but at least we're close enough to our food to acknowledge it and be a part of that process because It's easy to go into a grocery store and buy beef and be so disconnected from it that there's no emotion involved I think that it takes a lot more love and care to be so close to it that you experience like Like the the what it feels to like love something and treat it well and care for it But then still to ultimately know like that it is a food a food source So I wish if they were like chicks that I'm a meat chickens that way they could get that way It could get fat and so die either way So I wouldn't like you know be sad that I knew that I could have a chance to live. Yeah versus You know knowing that it would die. It would get me Also, at least we can watch a movie while whenever I have Anyway, oh that fences on be careful. So yeah, I think that that's the like bittersweet reality of Farming in general whether you're buying your food at a grocery store or raising it yourself It comes from the same source. It comes from an animal that has to give its life And so I think when you can have a hand in either directly yourself raising or by buying from local farmers and Supporting again the idea that if this animal is ultimately going to end up on the dinner table What is the best possible life we can give it until that point? And I think there's something really beautiful about that. So as much a work as it is literal blood sweat and tears it is it is so rewarding and fulfilling in like an emotional but also a spiritual way it just feels feels like this is If we're going to eat meat then this is really how it was intended where we're not disconnected we're close partners in their life, you know and merciful in their death and Hello barbecued hello barbecued She's nicer than brisket, she's Angus or part English. Oh, well, she's not an Angus mommy I was about to find out. She's about to find out Oh Good night Do you think they know that they have pay in there because they're staring at Eden and her hay like Where's ours? Are they staring at your milk bucket? This is the feed bucket. This is what we put feed in But did they know the Hayes there? I heard some little kids making some noises. What happened? What had happened here Did you fall down in some ashes come on let's go in Were you touching this? Oh gosh Why was there fiberglass in there John Don't rub your eyes Cohen Wash your hands with soap right now. Don't touch anybody don't touch your face Don't touch don't touch let's Yeah, wipe his eyes take him in to carry him into the shower No, no, no, don't wipe your eyes carry him in Jude pick him up carry him into the shower. Oh my goodness Never don't move it never don't move it Usually all those things are happening when we don't have a camera. That's what life really looks like