It's Over! Alaska's Long Harsh Winter has Seen Better Days

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:01]It's been a long, hard winter out here off-rid in Alaska.

[00:00:05]Our drains froze solid, our chimney folded up like a bankrupt circus, and now this hot mess. Join us as we race the breakup that will turn our beautiful Alaskanized driveway from this to this.

[00:00:26]Welcome back to Alaska. It is starting to be breakup season here. Puddle, dirty, muddy dog. Giant other puddles.

[00:00:34]So, breakup season is kind of well, it's really our springtime, but as you can see, it doesn't probably look like spring to you. All the snow melts and it becomes this giant mud hole mess of disaster, dirtiness, and impassibility.

[00:00:52]We made it through the long dark winter, and now the sun is out again. I mean, not today cuz it's cloudy, but but we're starting to get lots of solar gain, which means free power again, baby.

[00:01:03]We're definitely coming into warmer temperatures, which means we actually have to plug in the freezers that have been on the deck holding all of our food frozen throughout the winter.

[00:01:12]>> Free freezer season is over.

[00:01:14]>> Free freezer season is over. So today we have to take on a project that really cannot even wait for another day because as temperatures rise we are going to likely lose any day now our halfmile driveway and it will turn into something passable to a mud luge.

[00:01:34]>> It will turn into what we would like to call aw.

[00:01:39]>> As you can see we clearly have shovels.

[00:01:42]Shovel season needs to be over. Oh the dog saw something. There they go.

[00:01:47]>> Poof. It's like a yard.

[00:01:49]>> I know it. I think possibly I need different boots.

[00:01:53]>> Dude, I might need different boots.

[00:01:56]>> And you got like the knee high rubber boots on.

[00:02:00]>> Yeah.

[00:02:00]>> Why is there so much? We didn't get that much snow this year. Why is there so much so early?

[00:02:05]>> I don't know.

[00:02:07]Welcome to Alaska, boys.

[00:02:09]>> Usually like we can we got a while where we can like walk along the edges.

[00:02:14]Dude, it's banktobank water. Get your fishing poles, boys.

[00:02:18]>> We got the boat. Let's charge tickets.

[00:02:20]Charters. Fishing charters.

[00:02:22]>> Be a short boat trip. Brent.

[00:02:27]>> Okay. I did get my mud boots, but we decided taking a side by side might be a much more safer journey over Lake Havsu.

[00:02:37]>> Lake Havsu.

[00:02:38]>> Yeah.

[00:02:44]Are you going too?

[00:02:50]>> Okay. Wish us luck.

[00:03:00]So, this is our project of the day.

[00:03:03]We have to get that camper through the snow, over the river, through the woods, >> through Lake Havsu.

[00:03:09]>> Through Lake Havsu, down a half mile of waning driveway and get it out of here before we can't get it out of here. If you ever wonder what the most dangerous road condition is in Alaska, it's water on top of glare ice.

[00:03:25]Look at you in your skills.

[00:03:27]I kind of wanted to see how solid that was cuz Lake of Havasu and all of this, we have to drive this trailer through all that.

[00:03:34]>> Yeah.

[00:03:35]>> Yeah.

[00:03:35]>> I'm taking this I'm taking the scenic route of safety over here on the snow.

[00:03:40]>> Yeah.

[00:03:40]>> Woo!

[00:03:41]>> Look at that. Broke it.

[00:03:42]>> Yeah.

[00:03:43]>> Now we'll never get out of here.

[00:03:45]>> Jeez, >> you're losing your snow mounds, girl.

[00:03:49]Yeah.

[00:03:54]Junifer, what are you doing?

[00:03:59]What's down there, girl? You're like a periscope for snow.

[00:04:05]She What are you doing? Are you sniffing in the ground? You are hilarious.

[00:04:11]Get it, girl. Whatever's in there, get it.

[00:04:16]One of our lovely viewers called these girls the polar pups, and I thought that was quite appropriate.

[00:04:22]Don't you think so? Definitely >> enough distracting ourselves and on with the shovels.

[00:04:27]>> I could go with some more distractions.

[00:04:29]>> Yeah. Huh.

[00:04:32]>> I don't know if you can hear it over the geese, but there's like a howling in the background.

[00:04:39]Our new neighbors have a mushing team.

[00:04:41]That's like what? I don't know. We have three or four or five neighbors that have mushing dogs.

[00:04:47]>> Three.

[00:04:48]>> Yeah. At least three.

[00:04:49]>> Yeah. So, you might hear that in our future videos. They'll howl like that the two times a day that they're they're fed and also like if a moose or a bear is coming through the woods, you'll hear them go crazy. So, it's like a really fabulous Alaskan alarm system.

[00:05:03]>> Ready to have the last quality time with Rosie for the season.

[00:05:07]>> Rosie the redstone.

[00:05:09]>> If I fall on my butt in this thing, that's going to make good content.

[00:05:12]>> Yeah. I'd rather you not fall. Yeah.

[00:05:15]>> Thank you, sir. Nice doing business with you.

[00:05:21]All right.

[00:05:22]>> You know what the good news is?

[00:05:23]>> You're going to dig this out while you dig out?

[00:05:25]>> No. At least this snow was like soft.

[00:05:28]So, it's like super wet and super heavy.

[00:05:30]>> And a lot of it's melted down already.

[00:05:32]>> That is good. Into Lake Havsu.

[00:05:34]>> Yeah. Into Brown Lake over here.

[00:05:38]>> I just hope you can drive on it to pull this out.

[00:05:41]>> That makes two.

[00:05:43]>> We're at the end of the road, huh?

[00:05:45]>> End of the road.

[00:05:46]>> End of the road of when we can do this.

[00:05:49]Yeah. Throw it that way, please.

[00:05:51]>> Don't throw it this way.

[00:05:52]>> I'll throw this that way.

[00:05:53]>> Dude, this is so heavy. It's like 12 lbs of snow right there. If you've been around our channel a while, you've seen us shovel probably >> everything >> 50 times.

[00:06:05]I am so sorry if you are tired of watching us shovel cuz guess what? I'm tired of watching us shovel too.

[00:06:13]What's it look like under there?

[00:06:15]>> You know what it looks like under there?

[00:06:17]It looks like >> It looks like my >> itches are frozen to the ground.

[00:06:20]>> It just froze into the ground.

[00:06:22]>> Do we need that one?

[00:06:24]>> Kind of.

[00:06:26]>> Okay, >> I got an idea.

[00:06:27]>> What's your plan, Stan?

[00:06:30]>> I think if I take like a wrecking bar, I can probably get it out of there >> without stabby stab around there.

[00:06:41]>> Okay, >> no problem. It's one of those watch me, I'm going to try something kind of moments.

[00:06:45]>> Perfect. But first, more showing. It is melting, boys.

[00:06:50]>> You know what's nice?

[00:06:51]>> What's nice? We don't have to do the sides.

[00:06:53]>> Yeah. The tires are like not encased in snow.

[00:06:58]>> Not on this side. We haven't checked the other side yet.

[00:07:00]>> Oh, >> no. But we forgot to put the steps up.

[00:07:10]There's two and a half feet of snow over there. Yeah, you do have a shovel behind you. Just saying. I mean, >> yes, ma'am.

[00:07:20]>> I mean, I'll get right on it. No.

[00:07:25]>> Looks like I'll be shoveling out the steps cuz I'm a nice wife.

[00:07:29]>> I know you are.

[00:07:30]>> This is how tall the snow is. But after the branch whacks me in the face.

[00:07:39]>> That's heavy.

[00:07:40]>> Yeah.

[00:07:47]You found the tree.

[00:07:48]>> I know. Really wrecked my life. Here we go.

[00:07:51]>> Okay.

[00:07:52]>> Like the Lorax. Take that stupid tree.

[00:07:55]>> Okay, honey. I got most of it.

[00:07:57]>> Yeah, I got I got my side.

[00:07:59]>> I know. You did a whole side already.

[00:08:01]>> Actually, it's great. Like, we're we actually don't have to do that much shoveling. So, we can get to the super sketchy part earlier.

[00:08:07]>> That's awesome.

[00:08:09]Well, once we make sure we can get the >> hitch out of the ice. It's only in 3 in of ice. It's fine.

[00:08:16]>> Oh my goodness.

[00:08:20]>> Good thing we got this tree out of the snow. It was so that it wouldn't be in the way.

[00:08:24]>> Hey, it was in the way of all the shoveling.

[00:08:27]>> Now it's just in the way of your face.

[00:08:30]>> My face and my whole life. Go that way, Mr. Tree.

[00:08:37]Oh, >> good boy. I'm the tree whisperer.

[00:08:40]>> I see that.

[00:08:41]>> Like the Lorax. I speak for the truth.

[00:08:43]Don't do that. You're pulling it back on me.

[00:08:45]>> No, not at all. I just caught you. See anything?

[00:08:50]>> All righty.

[00:08:51]>> Think can get to the stairs now?

[00:08:53]>> Uh, yeah. I think so.

[00:08:57]>> All right.

[00:09:00]Let's go see.

[00:09:08]I think it'll be fine.

[00:09:15]>> Oh, like >> cake.

[00:09:17]>> Piece of cake.

[00:09:19]>> Like butter. That's what you're going to say. Like butter.

[00:09:22]>> Yeah. I don't know what I was going to say.

[00:09:24]>> You know what I'm super glad about? Huh?

[00:09:27]>> I didn't put the chalk blocks on it, so they're not frozen to the ground.

[00:09:30]>> That is awesome.

[00:09:31]>> Yay.

[00:09:34]Okie do. Everything looks good. Water didn't pour out. I want to open it up.

[00:09:38]No ice.

[00:09:40]And y'all are probably wondering if your driveway's so yucky and all this, why are you pulling this thing out of here?

[00:09:45]So, when when we have people that will move up here from lower 48, often times they'll have to move back down like if their folks are getting older and they need to live closer to them. And that's what's going on with some very dear friends of ours. Now, they've lived in Alaska for a long time, but their parents still live in the lower 48. And as their parents approach their golden years, they would like to be a little bit closer to them so they can help them.

[00:10:13]>> Are you making noise in the background?

[00:10:15]Yeah, I hear you.

[00:10:19]>> And they are going to borrow our camper while they're in their transition from up here to down there.

[00:10:25]>> I think that's pretty good with the exception of that hitch. But I am a little bit worried about like the tires, the wheels have sunk in >> cuz it's a giant mud pit.

[00:10:34]>> Yeah.

[00:10:37]>> Oh, yep.

[00:10:39]>> Good thing I had tall boots.

[00:10:44]>> Let's look at the state of affairs.

[00:10:46]Dying.

[00:10:49]>> Oh yeah. Like to the rims.

[00:10:52]>> We'll see.

[00:10:54]>> Your truck's big.

[00:10:55]>> It's not the size I'm worried about. But it's the traction I can get over there in Brown Lake over there.

[00:11:03]>> What are you doing, girls? Hunting over here. Huh?

[00:11:09]>> You know what?

[00:11:10]>> Yes.

[00:11:11]>> I think we have reached a watch me, I'm going to try something moment.

[00:11:16]>> Okay.

[00:11:18]>> These are solid steel and they're really heavy. I think if I whack at that thing, I might be able to get it to come loose.

[00:11:24]>> Whack away, my friend.

[00:11:29]Okay, >> the crappy part is going to have to kneel in this wet snow, but it is what it is.

[00:11:36]>> Oh.

[00:11:37]>> Oh, I see it moving.

[00:11:40]>> You got to like crowbar it. There you go.

[00:11:43]>> Oh, wow. That's really >> Oh, are you okay?

[00:11:49]>> Yeah.

[00:11:50]>> Take that funny bone.

[00:11:51]>> Take that whatever that part is.

[00:11:54]>> Wrist. Yeah, that >> Oh, there it is. Honey, >> it did that before. It just didn't still didn't come out.

[00:12:05]>> Oh, no. It's not. It's going to come.

[00:12:08]Yes, it's out, I think.

[00:12:12]The bummer part is this. That's solid steel, too. It's heavy.

[00:12:18]>> Holy moly.

[00:12:20]>> There you are. You're amazing.

[00:12:22]>> Well, it's not out of there yet. Don't me. I mean, keep going, honey.

[00:12:27]>> Okay, >> good job.

[00:12:28]>> My knees are wet, boys.

[00:12:30]>> Yeah, so is my honey.

[00:12:32]>> I'm sitting in the snow to video. You got it. You're happy.

[00:12:37]>> Heck yeah. One more step closer to the sketchy part, boys.

[00:12:40]>> I get lots of questions about do your dogs ever come inside or what do they do when it's too cold? It is never too cold for these dogs. Yeah, we live in Alaska, so we bought a breed that can handle Alaska's weather. And that is her favorite place just to lay on the ice.

[00:12:55]Yep. You're definitely a polar pup, huh?

[00:12:57]Yeah. Are you a good girl? Yeah. Okay, come here. She's like, "Mom, do you have snacks? Do you have snacks?"

[00:13:04]>> She says, "I'm pretty sure you're tricking me."

[00:13:05]>> Yeah. You good girl? Yeah. Did you want to give me a high five, dude? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Thanks, buddy.

[00:13:14]>> You know what else I just thought of? I Is it something fabulous that's going to make this easier?

[00:13:19]>> No.

[00:13:20]>> I was pretty sure you were going to say that.

[00:13:23]>> So, when I parked this here, there was not 4 in of ice.

[00:13:27]>> I did think about that and I just thought, "Oh, Mr. Reeves already thought about that. He knows his truck can just like whoop launch the trailer. No problem."

[00:13:34]>> No, it's not that. It's getting the trailer high enough that we can get the ball out of Oh, wait. No, no, no, >> no, no, no. I I can do it.

[00:13:42]>> We can let the back let the air out of the back tire.

[00:13:44]>> No, we're not doing that. We've done that before, by the way.

[00:13:47]>> Maybe >> in a similar ice, snow disastrous towing situation.

[00:13:52]>> Look at that.

[00:13:54]>> Hey, something that's not frozen. Yay.

[00:13:56]>> I know. Something that actually works.

[00:13:57]How is this a possibility?

[00:13:59]>> Oh, the bottom part might be frozen in there.

[00:14:00]>> Right. Right. Have no fear. Something sideways will happen.

[00:14:03]>> Something will be frozen. Don't worry, dude. That's looking pretty good right there, boys. Cross fingers.

[00:14:10]>> Is it time to get the truck or not yet?

[00:14:12]>> I think so.

[00:14:14]Let the sketchiness commence.

[00:14:27]Now you have to come back and get me. I can't walk through this mess.

[00:14:34]>> What?

[00:14:36]You best get back here.

[00:14:40]No, >> I don't want to go back and forth.

[00:14:44]>> Oh, okay. He doesn't want to go back and forth through this because it's already degraded like it's a giant puddle and the ground is mush underneath and the more he drives on it, the more broken down it's going to get. So, looks like looks like I'm hoofing it, boys.

[00:15:01]>> Yes.

[00:15:02]>> If you run really really fast, you won't sink down.

[00:15:06]>> I'm going to hurt you.

[00:15:08]If I run really fast. Have we met? I'm not much of a runner. I'm also not much of a dishwasher either, just for the record. All right, girls. You ready? You going to protect me if I fall? Yeah.

[00:15:21]What the heck? I guess I'll walk through the snow.

[00:15:26]Try not to die. Oh gosh.

[00:15:30]Okay. Yep. Awesome.

[00:15:36]Okay.

[00:15:41]Look, I made it three feet.

[00:15:44]>> How's it going?

[00:15:46]>> Yeah, I'm up to my thighs in snow. But I do have one dog that's a protector. That one's back there being a wiener.

[00:15:55]Oh, I'm making it. I'm going to do it.

[00:16:01]Okay.

[00:16:02]Holy smokes. Is that just glare ice at the bottom?

[00:16:07]I don't know. It felt pretty hard.

[00:16:09]>> That's what I'm worried about. That's why I didn't want to walk across it because I don't want to fall and slip and fall in that puddle on that ice.

[00:16:14]>> Yeah, but you run really fast and you just stay on top of the water.

[00:16:19]>> No, >> just like that.

[00:16:20]>> No, we'll leave that to Jesus.

[00:16:27]>> He just broke right through that ice.

[00:16:30]Can see the brown. That's H. You just broke right through the ice of that.

[00:16:37]>> I figured I would.

[00:16:38]>> Yeah. So, that's As long as the mud is frozen solid underneath, we'll be okay. It would have been better if there was ice at the bottom of that puddle because that means that the mud and ground underneath it is still frozen and solid.

[00:16:52]>> We still have to get traction to pull the trailer up out of those holes. So, the ice might not be great either. So, what you're saying is all of our options are horribly yuck. Perfect. Perfect.

[00:17:05]Look it, babies. The snow is melting.

[00:17:09]Look it. You have so much less snow in your pen. Hi, babies. You can eat my gloves.

[00:17:16]Let's see what we got.

[00:17:19]See?

[00:17:20]Peanuts. I forgot we had these peanuts.

[00:17:24]All right.

[00:17:28]Peanuts, honey.

[00:17:29]>> Peanuts.

[00:17:32]>> Eggs.

[00:17:32]>> Hey, look it. You got one.

[00:17:34]>> No. That's number five for today.

[00:17:35]>> Yes, boys.

[00:17:39]>> Hi, Ollie. You want a peanut? I'll be surprised if you eat that.

[00:17:44]No. Okay. Well, you need to give it to the goats.

[00:17:48]What do you think? You want a peanut, buddy? Get it. No. You had yours. You dropped it. I'll get it back for you in a second.

[00:17:58]There you go, Viv.

[00:18:00]Good job, baby. Olive.

[00:18:05]Yep. Oh, you guys are good at eating peanuts. Oh, you're rubbing your face so much.

[00:18:11]All right, Cedar and Whisper.

[00:18:18]I think that's everybody back at it. Oh, sorry. You were going to say something.

[00:18:22]>> Nope. I was just going to say she's thinking about it.

[00:18:26]>> Oh, she still hasn't eaten that peanut.

[00:18:28]>> She's opening it.

[00:18:30]>> Look at how smart you are.

[00:18:32]>> You got to see Lucy.

[00:18:35]>> Lucy, >> look at She's a wide little girl now.

[00:18:40]>> Oh, it's so hard to see you through the fence. Are you big as a house girl? Look at your tummy.

[00:18:47]>> Yeah. Sorry, honey. Look at S.

[00:18:49]>> I know. Silia, too.

[00:18:50]>> She is huge.

[00:18:53]Silia, how many babies do you have in there, girl?

[00:18:57]>> Once again, I'm easily distracted by goats. Do >> you have that shirt on?

[00:19:01]>> Actually, I think I do. Easily distracted by goats. You can't see it, but it's in there. Miss Crystal has decided you need to see the whole shirt.

[00:19:08]>> Hold, please. Look at that.

[00:19:12]>> You know who gave me that?

[00:19:14]>> Who gave me that?

[00:19:16]>> Carrie. The same friend that's going to borrow the camper.

[00:19:18]>> Oh, yeah. Trying to give yourself a pocket omelette.

[00:19:22]>> I know. I'm trying not to get a pocket.

[00:19:24]Pocket omelette.

[00:19:25]>> Hold that egg for you.

[00:19:26]>> You think they know what a pocket omelette is?

[00:19:27]>> I know you do.

[00:19:29]>> If If y'all have a homestead, you know what a pocket omelette is? If you leave a egg in your pocket and you either forget it or know that it's in there, but you're not careful and you lean up against something, it goes inside your pocket. It's nasty. And I call that a pocket omelette.

[00:19:43]>> And if you're lucky, you have a lovely someone else to do the laundry for you.

[00:19:48]Here you go. Pocket omelette avoided.

[00:19:54]>> Yeah, it'll end up in my pocket. Then I won't have anybody to blame it on. This is a dumb idea.

[00:19:58]>> If you get a pocket omelette in your sweatshirt, then I'll clean your sweatshirt. How's that?

[00:20:02]>> You're so nice. Reciprocity, my friends.

[00:20:06]That is the joy of a good relationship.

[00:20:09]What have you boys done to your pen?

[00:20:11]Look at this. You guys look it. So cool.

[00:20:19]It's delicious.

[00:20:20]>> Look it. They've eaten all the bark off of this little birch tree.

[00:20:25]>> The side they could reach.

[00:20:26]>> Yeah. Fun. What are all the striations?

[00:20:30]>> I'm guessing teeth.

[00:20:32]>> Oh, that does make sense. It's on that one, too. Super cool looking.

[00:20:39]Holly, too. You're super cool looking.

[00:20:40]Yeah.

[00:20:42]I did notice that you have saddled me with this possibly dangerous egg. I'll put this in your truck.

[00:20:50]>> So, I'll sit on it.

[00:20:51]>> Uhhuh. I know you're sitting pretty, but that is not your egg. That is daddy's egg. I know you're sad about it. Come on. Don't sit on that egg.

[00:21:02]>> Oh, no.

[00:21:03]>> Y it's in your seat. Oh, you picked it up.

[00:21:11]>> Good job, honey.

[00:21:13]Thanks.

[00:21:15]>> Trying to be supportive over here cuz I don't even know how to help you.

[00:21:18]>> Sorry.

[00:21:21]>> You're like, I've only done this a 100 times. It's not magical.

[00:21:24]>> 70 billion.

[00:21:27]>> Now the heavy guy.

[00:21:28]>> Holy smokes. I see that.

[00:21:34]>> I'm so glad that hitch came out of the ice.

[00:21:39]I could have made do with the other one, but this one I can put the torsion bars on if I need to going down the road. If we make it to the road. If we make it to the road.

[00:21:52]If we don't make it to the road, that's bad. Actually, we have to make it to the road. It just occurred to me like >> if it doesn't go down the driveway, then like we're stranded.

[00:22:03]>> Then the driveway is blocked. Yeah, maybe just in case we should bring your truck to the road before we try this.

[00:22:11]>> That is not the worst idea.

[00:22:13]>> Yeah, that's thinking thinking with me brain right there, boys.

[00:22:18]>> Yes, this wouldn't be the first time our driveway has been plotted. When we first bought this property and we we just had the driveway kind of cleared, um it was >> a trail.

[00:22:29]>> Yeah, it was August. It was super wet and super muddy. And this camper actually when we tried to tow it into the property, this camper sunk to its chassis in the mud >> and there it sat for the first 6 weeks while we were kind of clearing the property.

[00:22:44]>> And that's where we lived.

[00:22:45]>> And that's where we lived in the mud.

[00:23:01]Stop. We need to come up about 2 in.

[00:23:06]So, I can just stand on that hitch and maybe get us a couple of inches.

[00:23:10]>> Yeah, not 2 inches, though.

[00:23:12]>> Okay, let me show you the problem. So, Reeves's already pulled forward, but when he backs up, this hitch is too high for that guy. So, >> so we're going to have to switch back to the other one.

[00:23:26]>> That's dumb.

[00:23:26]>> It is dumb cuz it's lower, which is not ideal for clearance. Although, that's not going to be the worst of our problems probably.

[00:23:37]>> All right.

[00:23:42]This dude is so heavy.

[00:23:47]Okay.

[00:23:50]Okay, take that. All >> right. Why do you not like that hitch down there?

[00:23:57]It's too flimsy.

[00:23:59]>> It's flimsier than I would like.

[00:24:02]>> Yeah.

[00:24:02]>> Number one. And number two, if I'm sinking into mud, I don't want this thing to be too low and >> pop out >> and hit the ground or something, you know.

[00:24:13]>> Oh. So, >> you wanted the height that that other hitch provided to keep that off the ground.

[00:24:18]>> Yeah. But >> exactly.

[00:24:26]>> It's perfect.

[00:24:29]Good. Stop. I can try to wiggle it.

[00:24:34]Okay. Oh, a little bit more. Yeah.

[00:24:42]There it is.

[00:24:45]Look it.

[00:24:48]Look at me falling my butt.

[00:24:49]>> Oh my gosh. Okay, >> you missed it.

[00:24:53]>> Sorry.

[00:24:54]>> Fell over. Hey.

[00:24:56]>> Yeah, the other camera got it.

[00:25:08]>> Perfect. Other than you're slinging water everywhere.

[00:25:14]>> Yeah, let's just pretend it's water.

[00:25:16]>> Hey, wait. What?

[00:25:17]>> We live on a farm. Who knows what could be in there?

[00:25:20]>> Yeah. Mhm.

[00:25:23]Ooh.

[00:25:25]I had no idea I was going to do that. I totally thought it was on there.

[00:25:29]>> It was just back a little bit too far.

[00:25:32]Well, like I say, >> watch me. I'm going to try something.

[00:25:35]>> Watch me. I'm going try something.

[00:25:39]>> All right. Here we go.

[00:25:41]Wish us luck.

[00:25:46]Oh yes. Oh no.

[00:25:53]Go honey. Go.

[00:25:56]Oh sheesh.

[00:25:58]>> Sheesh is right.

[00:25:59]>> Yeah. I'm like right in the way too.

[00:26:02]Oh, >> a whole lot of natada.

[00:26:09]>> Making it go.

[00:26:11]>> I don't know what to do. My truck has studded tires. Oo, it's moving sideways.

[00:26:30]H Oh, you almost got it.

[00:26:50]Yes, boys.

[00:26:52]Yes.

[00:26:56]Oh, yes.

[00:26:58]We got it.

[00:27:11]Okay. So, now I try to make get back across. Oh, good lord.

[00:27:21]>> Good news, though. I already have a path.

[00:27:26]>> We have a new lake. I went right through that ice.

[00:27:29]>> Uhoh.

[00:27:30]>> Woke right up.

[00:27:34]I would just like to say >> byebye.

[00:27:38]>> You're awesome, honey.

[00:27:41]I wasn't sure we were getting that out of there for a while.

[00:27:43]>> I had to do some fancy footwork >> when you started driving forward and the truck slid whoop. I was like, "Oh no, this is going to be bad."

[00:27:50]>> I thought, "Let's get two trucks out.

[00:27:52]Let's get the winch." Like, the wheels were already turning. Let's get all the things. We we would have gotten it, but I was afraid I was going to have to unhitch from the trailer, pull out of the water, put the chains on, and >> all I have chains, but >> chains.

[00:28:05]>> Yeah, >> man. We'd have been fine.

[00:28:07]>> Chains will get you out of anything. All righty. There we are, y'all. The driveway is still pretty soft, so I stopped on kind of a solidish spot.

[00:28:18]And we're going to let it sit right there for right now. And here's why. It is the warmest part of the day right now. It's like 35°.

[00:28:25]>> Yeah.

[00:28:26]>> But it should get down below freezing here tonight. So, we'll give it a few hours, let the temperature come down, and then when things are firmed up a little bit, then we'll try and go the the next almost half a mile out to the road.

[00:28:41]>> Yep. And see if we can make it to the end.

[00:28:42]>> Heck yeah, we're making it, boys.

[00:28:44]>> Because it's because it's just barely coming above freezing during the day and it gets way below freezing at night.

[00:28:50]Every night the driveway gets soft and turns to mud and then it'll freeze solid again.

[00:28:56]>> Yeah. At night.

[00:28:56]>> So, we'll wait for the solid road again and then get the camper to the end of the road.

[00:29:02]>> Yeah. We're going to do it. You know why?

[00:29:05]>> Uh because we said and we're going to make it happen.

[00:29:08]>> Cuz we ain't g uppers >> and because we talked about putting your truck in front of ours, but we didn't.

[00:29:13]>> Mother buckets.

[00:29:16]>> Rutro. We got so invested in whether we could get hitched up and out of the mud hole that we kind of forgot to do that part.

[00:29:25]>> Stay tuned. Did Mike get >> I was so confident. I was like, "Yes, because we are awesome." No, because we're ding-dongs and forgot to do what we said we were going to do. That was the actual like good planning part of this project.

[00:29:38]>> That's why we can't do that. Can't do no planning. We don't do no planning around here. Ready, firing, boys.

[00:29:43]>> Planning's for sissies.

[00:29:45]>> That's right. All right, y'all. While we're waiting for the driveway to firm up, we've got one other thing that we have to get done today.

[00:29:52]We are almost at the end of wood stove season, and this is our firewood situation.

[00:30:01]>> So, we definitely need to get firewood today. And with how soft the snow is, today's probably going to be the last time we can do it with the snow machine.

[00:30:08]Now, this is usually the time of year that the trails rot out. Um, rotten just means that the snow is too soft to hold the weight of snow machines or people or puffers or whatever on top of it. I did have one thought here and that is if I go out into the woods and I fall through the trail without any snowshoes, it's going to be a pain in the butt trying to get unstuck. So, grab my snowshoes here.

[00:30:41]We're going to bungee cord these bad boys on.

[00:30:45]And then you all can cross your fingers and we'll see how well this is going to work.

[00:31:05]Okay, y'all are great, but I don't know if I can bring you with me. Uh, I can't spare a hand for the for the camera. It's really soft, but maybe a trip or two around my firewood trail might kind of firm it up, but I already almost fell off the trail twice and I just turned in. So, I'm going to put the camera down for just a second and make the loop. And if I come back super fast, I guess it's because I got stuck.

[00:31:36]Actually, I just had a fun idea.

[00:31:39]I'm going to just leave the camera right here on the back rack and I'll have it facing back behind the snow machine as we're going because then I don't have to hold on to it. And who knows, maybe the footage will be cool.

[00:32:02]Well, it's pretty sketchy, but you know me. Watch me. I'm going to try something.

[00:32:24]All right.

[00:32:42]This snow is soft, boys.

[00:32:47]Okay.

[00:33:00]There we go.

[00:33:06]You hear that? It sounds like a small bird, but gosh, I don't know if I can catch them.

[00:33:15]Nope.

[00:33:21]Wow, there's two of them.

[00:33:24]Okay, weird and off the wall, I know. I apologize.

[00:33:30]Weird fun fact. Everybody thinks that eagles like screech like you hear you'll see like a eagle on a commercial and it be like, you know, really cool sound. No, eagles don't actually make that sound. they like kind of tweet. So, it's like way less cool. It's not cool enough for commercials, but I just heard some eagles talking uh up above me and there's two of them that I couldn't I couldn't catch. The girls have been go nuts cuz every time they see an eagle, they like really they're great about trying to uh whenever they land in a tree around here, keep them keep them out of here cuz eagles are definitely a concern particularly with baby goats coming in just a few weeks.

[00:34:16]Now I got my snowshoes on. The snow is so soft, y'all.

[00:34:26]if I can stay upright.

[00:34:29]But we got the sled here in the woods and I've picked out a tree that I'm going to fill and we're going to try and get a bunch of uh firewood off of it and probably one saw log.

[00:34:46]But I'm going to have to do it in two trips. There's not going to be a ton of firewood, but I'm going to do it in two trips because I'm worried about loading down the sled behind the snow machine in um in all this rotten snow. So, let me show you the tree that I have selected.

[00:35:02]So, this beautiful dead spruce right there, the tall one, of course, not the short one, is going to be our uh our tree that we're going to take. It's leaning a little bit the opposite direction where I want it to go, but I got tricks, y'all. Hopefully, I can get it hopefully I can get it to just come right down here next to the trail.

[00:35:31]And uh we'll get some firewood off of that chicken, that bad chicken, and uh start getting it back to the cabin.

[00:36:29]Oh, come on.

[00:36:59]While Mr. Reeve is out in the woods, we are going to make him a salmon salad sandwich out of some leftover salmon that we grilled up the other night.

[00:37:09]Because this is the tail of the salmon, it doesn't have pin bones in it. So, we don't have to pull any of the bones out.

[00:37:15]But I do have to pull the skin off and either the dogs or Mr. Reeve will eat that part.

[00:37:22]We'll show you my cheating skills. We're going to put this in a Ziplo and then we can just break it up. And it's way faster than flaking it with a fork in a bowl and making a mess everywhere and have little pieces of fish all over your kitchen. Ask me how I know.

[00:37:43]We'll just cheat and use this as our mixing bowl so we don't have to dirty up a dish. And that's definitely good when you live in a house without running hot water. These are just some leftover onions that we had from salad last night.

[00:38:00]Chop those up.

[00:38:03]Throw those in there. Mr. Reed likes lots of onions in there.

[00:38:07]And this is the magic. This is zucchini relish. Maybe if I can open it.

[00:38:13]That made a fun mess. Hold please. Okay, after much convincing.

[00:38:20]We got that out of there.

[00:38:22]We'll just take a couple big spoonfuls.

[00:38:27]This is zucchini relish from our garden.

[00:38:34]And if you look in our cooking and preserving videos, recipes in there.

[00:38:40]Whenever we make salmon on the grill, we always make dill sauce. And so this is just the leftover dill sauce. And I'm going to use that instead of mayonnaise cuz we got to use it up, right?

[00:38:55]Make a tiny little cheaty piping bag.

[00:38:59]Just squeeze it all in there.

[00:39:04]He also likes a little bit of yellow mustard.

[00:39:07]Squeeze that in there. And then mixy mixy.

[00:39:17]This dill rye is one of our favorite store-bought breads, and it works great on like tuna salad, salmon salad, or even just like a turkey or ham sandwich.

[00:39:27]It's delicious.

[00:39:30]Since there's plenty of mayonnaise and mustard in our salmon salad, we don't need to put any on the bread. We actually maybe ended up with a little bit too much, but that is okay. It'll eat.

[00:39:45]That salmon tail fillet has made enough salmon salad for two sandwiches.

[00:39:52]Now we just have to wait to feed the man.

[00:40:10]that trail is soft, boys.

[00:40:19]All right, y'all. So, that didn't go too bad. I got That's what we got right there. Now, let's go grab the muscles from Brussels in there and see if she'll help us split it.

[00:40:29]>> Looks like he just got back, so we'll feed him a sandwich and a mangled hard-boiled egg.

[00:40:37]>> Hi.

[00:40:37]>> Hey, what do you got?

[00:40:39]>> Lunch.

[00:40:40]>> What?

[00:40:42]>> I'm glad you don't have your glasses on.

[00:40:44]>> What do you mean?

[00:40:44]>> Don't look too close at that hardboiled egg.

[00:40:47]>> It's pretty mangled.

[00:40:48]>> Uh, I understand. I just peeled a couple the other day.

[00:40:51]>> Yeah, rough, boys.

[00:40:52]>> Farm fresh eggs. Don't feel so great.

[00:40:54]Wow. Thanks, honey.

[00:40:56]>> You're welcome.

[00:40:57]>> I was just coming to grab you.

[00:40:58]>> Look at the dogs.

[00:41:00]>> I know. They're excited, too.

[00:41:01]>> They're coming to grab a sandwich.

[00:41:02]>> They want to know where their sandwich is at.

[00:41:05]>> Look at these guys.

[00:41:06]>> I know. They are very interested.

[00:41:08]>> I'm sure they love you extra right now.

[00:41:10]>> Yeah. How about I eat this and then we go split some firewood.

[00:41:16]>> Awesome. How'd you do?

[00:41:17]>> Not bad.

[00:41:19]>> Look at that. Oh my gosh. The dogs are being so bad.

[00:41:24]>> Yeah.

[00:41:24]>> Come on, girls. Let's go.

[00:41:26]>> Go on.

[00:41:27]>> That's better. Look at She is digging in the mud. You see how dirty her nose is?

[00:41:33]>> Yeah. She's digging holes again.

[00:41:35]>> In the dirt. Oh, don't you be digging holes in the dirt. Baja, you girls. Stay while daddy eats his lunch. No, stay.

[00:41:42]Thank you.

[00:41:44]All right, honey. I think it's safe.

[00:41:46]>> You going to protect me from those two?

[00:41:48]>> Yeah, I am. Hooligans.

[00:41:52]I put that Cajun season that you like on there.

[00:41:56]>> I know that's what you do.

[00:41:58]>> They're still being so good. I'm shocked by this reality >> because they think that they're waiting for you to give them something.

[00:42:05]>> Oh, sorry, girls. I'll give you a snack in a minute.

[00:42:13]>> Did I do that, >> honey? Oh, yeah.

[00:42:15]>> You're welcome.

[00:42:16]>> Mhm.

[00:42:16]>> I have to go busy myself by getting Pepper's snacks. Yeah, you better, huh?

[00:42:23]>> Oh, I see you got a little closer.

[00:42:24]Uh-huh. Come on. Look, girls. Somebody sent you barking bacon. Yeah. Sit.

[00:42:31]Good girl. Can you take it nice? Good girl. Say thank you. Thank you, lovely viewer. Huh? Good girls.

[00:42:41]Y'all ready?

[00:42:43]>> Sorry.

[00:42:47]>> Yeah.

[00:42:47]>> You know what I forgot?

[00:42:49]I see you.

[00:42:50]>> I forgot. Yeah.

[00:42:51]>> Got to give the salmon skin to the puffers.

[00:42:53]>> That's the goodest puffer snack ever.

[00:42:55]>> They're getting extra snacks now.

[00:42:57]>> Yeah, they won't mind.

[00:42:59]>> Oh, yeah. Are you sitting already? You think you girls could handle another snack? Yeah. Oh. Oh, two dogs are sitting.

[00:43:09]Okay. Be gentle, buddy. Good girl.

[00:43:14]Here, Ollie. Here.

[00:43:20]Good girl. Good poppers. That's it, buddies. Yeah. Sorry. E for empty. Do you want to lick the plate?

[00:43:29]>> All right, Juniper. You can lick the plate, too.

[00:43:34]They're like, "You never let us do that." We're pretty sure we're getting in trouble right now.

[00:43:40]>> All right. Look, >> you got the wheels and everything, huh?

[00:43:42]Got the >> wagon.

[00:43:43]>> All right.

[00:43:44]>> You ready?

[00:43:45]>> Yes, ma'am.

[00:43:51]Whichever one looks good to you.

[00:43:53]>> Well, you're over there.

[00:43:56]>> You're getting fancy.

[00:43:58]>> I got to show off on camera, you know.

[00:44:01]>> I can't split two at a time.

[00:44:03]>> I won't tell anybody. They're really light cuz they're already dry.

[00:44:12]>> I'm in charge of stacking and racking.

[00:44:14]Let's go.

[00:44:18]You getting cold? Is that what's going on?

[00:44:20]>> You getting cold over here?

[00:44:22]>> No, >> I know. Sorry. Slowing down the machine.

[00:44:32]>> I'm getting bored.

[00:44:39]>> What in the world?

[00:44:40]>> I know.

[00:44:42]Seriously, y'all been dead calm all of a sudden.

[00:44:48]>> Go, honey. Go.

[00:45:13]Careful.

[00:45:24]>> Yeah. Don't want to split either.

[00:45:33]>> Sorry, I saw you. I was watching you too, baby.

[00:45:37]>> You doing firewood?

[00:45:41]>> I got good peripheral vision for flying logs. I'll tell you that.

[00:45:47]>> And and mall heads, you know.

[00:45:52]>> Oh, yeah. You get hit enough with a flying piece of wood as a kid enough times, you learn how to stay.

[00:45:56]>> Get out of the way.

[00:45:57]>> Yeah.

[00:46:01]>> All right.

[00:46:02]All right, y'all. What are the odds that all of these make it to the cabin?

[00:46:10]>> None.

[00:46:10]>> None. Come on. I got more faith than you than that.

[00:46:14]>> Don't touch the stack. All right, you video. We'll see if I can do it.

[00:46:17]>> Homestead Jenga. Let's see what you got.

[00:46:19]I >> I'll tell you though, this cart is tipsy on its own without stacked with wood.

[00:46:23]I'll tell you that.

[00:46:24]>> Excuses before you even start.

[00:46:25]>> Yes, definitely. I think the fly the tires are flat, Ray.

[00:46:29]>> No, I just took the air out of the ones on one side. You'll be fine.

[00:46:33]>> Heavy, dude.

[00:46:38]>> Might have to put this in. Fast forward.

[00:46:41]>> Yeah. Make you look like you're way faster.

[00:46:45]>> Where you going?

[00:46:47]>> Toppling over. That's what's happening.

[00:46:54]>> This front's looking real sketch. You should come look at it.

[00:46:58]>> Uh the side.

[00:47:00]Yeah, the front's holding on by like the bark over here, dude. Look at this.

[00:47:06]>> All right. Nice.

[00:47:08]>> He's good.

[00:47:11]>> Yeah. Is that what you think?

[00:47:12]>> Where's my 15minute break here? That's what I want to know. Union break. Here we go. Oh lord.

[00:47:22]>> Oh gosh. That's Yeah. Yes. Logs in the throat. Doesn't feel that good.

[00:47:27]H.

[00:47:29]>> All right.

[00:47:30]>> Okay. So, if I make it, you'll put all this in the house and I don't have to carry any of it.

[00:47:38]>> Yep.

[00:47:38]>> Deal.

[00:47:40]But I don't want to carry all of it if it falls over. Okay. Hey, get out of there, Jack.

[00:47:49]>> You're not there yet.

[00:47:50]>> It weighs so much.

[00:47:52]Okay. What constitutes all the way? Ha.

[00:47:55]I bumped the stairs. Yay!

[00:47:59]Insert round of applause here when you edit.

[00:48:02]>> Hooray!

[00:48:03]>> The crowd goes wild.

[00:48:07]>> No sound effects needed for this video.

[00:48:08]We make our own.

[00:48:11]>> All right. I've been told to turn the camera on. Yes, sir.

[00:48:14]>> You did such a good job of getting this all the way to the cabin.

[00:48:18]>> I feel like there's a punch line or the other shoe's going to drop or something.

[00:48:21]I don't trust this >> that I'll put the air back in the tires.

[00:48:31]You guys ever want to know why our why our channel is called Flat Tire Farm and why our farm is called Flat Tire Farm?

[00:48:37]Because when we lived at the old house, everything had a flat tire. We, and by we, I mean Mr. Reeve, didn't fix any of the flat tires. We just bought more and more and more tire pumps.

[00:48:53]I think we had five tire pumps and there was like one on the deck and one in the greenhouse and one in the shop and one in the front.

[00:48:58]>> Every piece of equipment in the yard had a leaky tire. At least one.

[00:49:02]>> When we moved, we tried carts.

[00:49:05]>> Everything. Everything.

[00:49:07]>> Riding lawnmowers. Everything had flat tires.

[00:49:09]>> Riding lawnmowers. And so what broke the camel's back is we were trying to move the fridge out of, you know, down some stairs in a two-story house with a dolly that had no air in the tires. And not just no air, but no capacity to hold air. So we would pump up the tire and we could move three feet before it went flat again. And >> if we' just moved faster, it'd have been fine.

[00:49:36]>> I had had enough. Enough. And I said, "When we move to the farm, there will be no more flat tires." No more flat tires.

[00:49:46]So then we went to dinner with our friends.

[00:49:49]>> Yep.

[00:49:49]>> The same friends that are going to borrow the camper.

[00:49:52]>> Yep.

[00:49:52]>> And we were talking about, you know, they're all excited for us. We're moving out to the moving out to the property.

[00:49:58]And we come out from dinner and the truck has a flat tire. No joke. If I have the picture of it, I if I can find it, I'll show you. And so, so then our friend Jamie made us a beautiful birdhouse that says flat tire farm on it with a picture of a flat tire. And I know I have a picture of that, >> but we affectionately, you couldn't tell it was a flat tire at first, so it is now affectionately known as the farting snail.

[00:50:22]>> Then we decided it definitely definitely has to be called Flat Tire Farm. That was just it. So >> So congratulations, Mr. Jamie. You named the farm.

[00:50:32]>> Whoop. Okay, now get to chucking wood.

[00:50:35]Boy, I'muck I'm gonna go take a nap. Not really. I'll probably help because I'm nice.

[00:50:41]>> Oh, candy camera.

[00:50:46]>> I'm pretty sure this cart has a flat tire, Reeve. Did you know it has a flat tire?

[00:50:52]Oh, >> I didn't say yes.

[00:50:59]>> There's >> What? There's three flat tires on this.

[00:51:03]>> No, there's not.

[00:51:04]>> Yes. Get over here. Videographic evidence.

[00:51:11]>> Let me have that.

[00:51:12]>> No, no, no. Okay.

[00:51:16]>> Look at this.

[00:51:18]See that bump at the bottom?

[00:51:21]>> It's full of firewood.

[00:51:23]>> You're full of firewood.

[00:51:26]Look it.

[00:51:30]>> Okay. No. No. Oh, no. Hang on.

[00:51:32]>> Yeah, >> hopefully.

[00:51:36]Okay, let's see. I'm nearly in the water again.

[00:51:40]I'm looking for the thing. It's only supposed to be aired up to like 10 lbs.

[00:51:45]>> Uh-huh.

[00:51:45]>> Yeah, it's somewhere on here. I promise.

[00:51:49]>> Mhm.

[00:51:52]>> I don't know. Over inflation.

[00:51:56]>> Oh, Lord, you're over inflated.

[00:52:01]Mr. Eve, for the record, >> in your expert tire opinion, >> are these tires >> injury or death? If you overinflate it, injury or death. Thank you. Gorilla Carts.

[00:52:15]>> Or if you let your wife pull a giant cart full of firewood with the tires not filled up, >> also injury or death.

[00:52:22]>> Also, injury or death. So, let me restate my question for the record. In your expert opinion, do you believe that these tires are or are not underinflated?

[00:52:38]>> I believe >> they are not over inflated.

[00:52:43]I do not recall, Senator.

[00:52:47]>> Cut.

[00:52:52]>> Don't overload yourself.

[00:52:53]>> Yeah, sure. Now you're going to be nice.

[00:52:55]>> I'm always nice. You are always nice.

[00:53:06]You're lucky I like you and that you're cute.

[00:53:12]All right, y'all. We are going to forego the wait for the driveway to firm firm up bit because it just started raining kind of off and on here. So now it's a let's get it down the driveway before it gets any worse.

[00:53:26]>> Yeah, especially because our back up of get my truck way ahead way did not work.

[00:53:32]>> Rut row.

[00:53:33]>> Rut row. Look at how much it has melted just sitting here. This little pool of water was just made by the runoff from the roof and all the snow up there. We better get this guy out of here.

[00:53:48]That's crazy reef.

[00:53:50]>> It's a little soggy.

[00:54:07]So far so good. But now we're at the stretch of the driveway.

[00:54:10]>> The sketchy the sketchy stretchy.

[00:54:12]>> Yeah, this the sketch stretch of the driveway.

[00:54:16]So, this is the part of the driveway that isn't fully graveled, and it's the part we lose every year so far. All right, let's see how she goes. We can't stop on this part of the driveway because it's already super soft.

[00:54:35]Ready, boss?

[00:54:35]>> Yep.

[00:54:36]>> All right, let's go. I'll be Dukes of Hazard. Okay.

[00:54:38]>> Oh, yeah.

[00:54:39]>> Oh, yeah. Don't try this at home. Yada yada. All the things. Don't go fast.

[00:54:44]Okay.

[00:54:44]>> Oh, yeah. I was not planning on it.

[00:54:50]>> Go.

[00:55:12]See all this snow?

[00:55:14]It melts into the driveway and that's why we have such a problem.

[00:55:20]>> How long you think it's going to take me to get back out of this window?

[00:55:24]>> Hey, that was cool.

[00:55:26]>> Piece of cake.

[00:55:27]>> Yeah, >> Dukes a hazard.

[00:55:29]>> Whoop. All right, folks. We made it to the end of the road. Our friends are going to come and pick up this camper and take it to where they're going to stay. We hope you guys enjoyed this video. We had fun making it.

[00:55:41]>> Thank you.

[00:55:42]>> We'll catch you on the next video. Bye >> bye.

[00:55:48]You smell those foxes, girls?

[00:55:52]Smell those foxes? Yeah.