Autumn On The Homestead | Drilling holes, building a coop, cooking dinner

Hi guys, this is Megan with the blog wilsonhomestead.com and today I am doing another vlog. These have been a lot of fun to do lately. You guys have been seeming to really enjoy them and it's just a lot of fun for me to show you guys what we're doing on the homestead. So, Demi wants more sauerkraut, hold on. Anyway, so yesterday I forgot to film much but Luke was home. It was Thursday yesterday, now it's Friday, so he had an extra day off this week which was a lot of fun and he worked on drilling some holes out in the pasture. Fruit trees we're getting soon and worked on building the chicken coop. So we're kind of on hold with the chicken coop project because we need to get some more supplies for it but he's going to be borrowing the neighbor's big auger to make drilling holes go faster out in the pasture. So he's just out there measuring and marking it out with some orange spray paint so we know we can just borrow it for a day, go through and drill all the holes real quick. Well, I say real quick but we're getting 600 trees in so that is a lot of holes. So I'm just working on starting dinner in the crock pot. I'm putting in two rabbits and I made kind of this sweet spicy sauce and that's always really good. Either rabbit or chicken with that sauce on it. But we're just about to eat some lunch. We're having leftover soup and sauerkraut and raw milk. So I hope you guys enjoy following along with our weekend and I'm gonna go feed this baby because she's getting a little fussy. How are you doing? By loving him. Doing what he says. She is. By loving him and doing what he commands. I'm doing what he says. Oh no, not yet. Not yet. Has daddy been helping you memorize that? Yeah, is it fun? Yeah, all the countries are there. Okay, give him. Give me what you're doing. Are you reading? Show me your baby. Oh, it's got a blanket on. Yeah. Walking back to the house now and I love how the duck's little log cabin turned out. It looks so cool. This is really starting to look like a homestead. It's so much fun to do all this stuff. We just feel so lucky to be able to live this life. It's what we've been working for for the last five years. You always want to make sure you close gates when you live on a farm. That is one of the worst mistakes you can make is leaving gates open when they were closed when you went through them. I learned that lesson many a time as a kid growing up on a farm. Vivian's just hanging out here with me. We're on the way back inside to make dinner. We're going to have that rabbit and I'm going to start the mashed potatoes and Luke and the kids are just going to work on that. Who knows if they'll even come in for dinner. They're going to be having too much fun out there. It's dark in here. I just made some chocolate chip cookie dough. I just used the Nestle Tollhouse recipe but I substitute the flour for gluten free flour since I can have gluten. It always turns out the best ever. I'm going to get to baking those cookies and making the potatoes for dinner. It's the next day now. It's Saturday and Luke started out this morning drilling holes out in the pasture with our neighbor's auger and then it started leaking hydraulic fluid and it needs to have a part changed out. Long story short, that's on hold for today so Luke is working on the chicken coop again and moving OSB into the garage because it rained a ton last night and we weren't expecting it so all that OSB got rained on so we're moving it before that happens again. I'm just in here. Vivian's been so fussy all morning and now she's finally asleep so I've been able to get an order out. I had to make some pregnancy herbal tea to ship and a bar of soap so the order's finally out and that feels a lot better to have that done. And yeah, I like to try to have the house cleaned up a bit before Sunday so we can just relax and not be stressed out about, you know, how dirty the house is. So I need to do a little bit of tidying, I need to wash the dishes and it's just, it is ridiculous how fast the house gets dirty when you have little kids or even just in general. It just gets so dirty so fast. It was literally like perfectly clean yesterday. I don't even know what happens, it's constant. And then if I have time, I have a bunch of apples I want to slice up and dehydrate. I don't know if I'll get to that today. But I mean too soon before they start going bad. But yeah, we're just going to start working and see how much we can get done. Well, we had a really good weekend. Although it did seem like our plans kept getting foiled. We had a couple issues with the auger and so Luke only got like 20-ish holes done and had to take it back and we're waiting for it possibly, hopefully he'll have it fixed by next weekend and we can borrow it again. It was something that was like totally not Luke's fault. It was just was going to need to be replaced anyway and it just happened to break when we had it. But he did get more work done on the chicken coop, got more of the walls up and that's going to be nice. So hopefully you guys enjoyed seeing some of what we did this last weekend. Thank you for watching and I will see you in my next video. Bye!