THERE'S ALWAYS A BLESSING TO BE FOUND
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Hey y'all! Welcome to the farm! We are still assessing and cleaning up from Hurricane Helene and the effects of Milton. We have had a few losses on the farm since the hurricanes and are discovering faults that we can learn from to be better prepared. Come along with us today as we go through areas of the farm and show you a little more damage and discuss the difference in the animal's behavior since the storms and end up finding a blessing. Today, I'm learning a new skill and will be operating the tractor and plow to sow the land and get our gardens ready for next year's planting season. We ask that you continue to keep our neighbors in your thoughts and prayers and know they will be needing our assistance for a long to time come in order to rebuild and get back to some type of normalcy.
Here is some updated information on ways you can help from some of the channels we previously listed. If you are looking for ways to help, we recommend the organizations that the local residents are suggesting as the best ways to donate or volunteer your time.
If you click in the video links listed below, these channels will have a list of organizations helping the affected areas in the description of their videos ~
North Carolina Neighbors ~
@CelebratingAppalachia
• Storm Damage, Donation...
@thepressleygirls
• Hurricane Helene - Way...
@TrueGritAppalachianWays
• They Need Help || Our ...
To see how your donations and efforts have made a huge impact on those affected in the North Carolina area please view the following video -
@PermaPasturesFarm21
• How We Put YOUR Donati...
Residential Bridge Work & Repair Needed In North Carolina ~
If anyone in the North Carolina area affected by Helene in need of bridge repair and are in need of I-beams for residential bridge construction, you can contact us celebratingfarmlife@gmail.com and we will be happy to make a few recommendations.
Tennessee Neighbors ~
To see how your donations and efforts have made a huge impact on those affected in the Tennessee area please view the following videos -
@PinballPreparedness
• Operation Pinball: The...
@appalachiashomesteadwithpatara
• 🐢 The Turtleman HELPS ...
If you are still interested in donating to the Tennessee area,@PinballPreparedness recommends the following ways for future donations ~
Empower Cocke County
370 E Broadway St
Newport, TN 37821
Hunger First
Michelle
7485 W Andrew Johnson Highway
Mosheim, TN 37818
If you would like to donate to the affected areas of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia & Tennessee you can also donate to www.samaritans... as well as local churches in those areas.
Again, we want to thank each and every one of you that has helped in this relief effort! Please know your time, prayers and donations have been a true blessing! 🙏
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Aww Snots…..I’m so sorry for him, and for you too. Geeze, he came to you so sick and in need. You guys gave him love and a home. Let’s hope for the best….❤
We keeping our fingers crossed and hoping that Snots returns safely 🙏🙏
How nice to have that little cabin.
We love that little cabin! Bill's grandfather did a good job constructing it - such a nice reminder and memory of him. ❤️
@@CelebratingFarmLife no kidding. I mean you might even get that on a historic registry or something.
The garden path is looking beautiful.
Thank you! We are looking forward to seeing how our little fall garden will do there while we give the gardens a break for the winter.
Yes, I'm glad you left it where they could flee if they needed to. They know.
Definitely! 💯 I was worried about them with the high winds, but they are smart and have very good instincts.
That’s awesome you learned how to do that tractor! I would too. Great job Miki..👍. I think it’s important to work as a team, doing what you each can do on a farm. You guys are a great team ❤
Thank you so much! It's been a lot easier on both of us of with me learning how to operate the tractor and other things around here. And I have really had a lot of fun learning! It's nice to be able to depend on each other to get things done.
Oh My everytime you mentioned Snots I teared up and had to pause. You couldn't have ended the video better than with new life. God Provides goodness. I will pray that Snots is ok. You all do such a wonderful job with your Animals. I will Snots as I loved seeing the garden come to life while there. So Nosey, but so protective of you. God Bless you Both.
We are hoping she'll pop back up. I went out today to plant some more stuff in the flower bed and that's all I thought about was her being right there beside me. We will keep praying Snots is ok. A few days after we did this video, we ended up losing some of our chickens as well, so we are keeping a close eye out for an unwanted predator. It is hard when things like this happen, but no matter what this life throws at us, we need to hold on to those little reminders that bring us blessings and joy. We are promised a life of no more tears, pain and suffering for ALL of those who BELIEVE. Our hearts will remain true to that promise! Thank you so much for your prayers! God bless you and your family 🙏❤️
@@CelebratingFarmLife Oh I am so sorry, but I hope the new chick and Momma are ok. She is a beauty. I will continue to pray Snots just got turned around. I had a kitty that liked to be outdoors in morning and evening living in Inner City. My Dad would let him out at 4 am and when I would leave for School at 6:45 he would be waiting to come in, then he knew my mom would go to work at 4pm and when my Dad was getting ready to head to bed after we were all taken care of, he would go out around 11pm. He would wait till he heard my mom drive up, one night he wasn't there on the Porch, it was pouring Rain and my Mom knew something was wrong, at 1am she went looking and calling softly, and found him a block over on the same house as we would have been on the porch waiting. She called him and they walked home together. Animals have instincts. May God Bless you as well. I love your channel, you bring light in to this Satan filled world. Thank you.
That fellow doesn't look a bit worried about Thanksgiving being right around the corner😅
Not at all! He likes to strut around. We were wanting to breed the female with him. Looks like that won't happen anytime soon. The up's and down's of farmlife.
@@CelebratingFarmLife 🥺
Congratulations on the surprise chick 🐥❤
That was such a sweet surprise! There's always a blessing in every situation! ❤️
Love the little cabin
Thank you! We're so glad to see it still standing.
You can integrate some rebar in your build
Great video today God bless
Thank you! 😊 No where near the damage you endured! We are thankful, but our hearts go out to everyone that is still trying to pick up the pieces since the storms. We are still trying to figure out what happened to the cat and turkey. Y'all take care! God bless 🙏
Aww, sorry about losing your kitty and hen.
Thank you! We are still trying to figure out what happened. It's hard losing your animals, especially your pets. 🥹
Watched entire video. Im veryvsorry about your hen turkey and snots. Smh. Watching this video made me feel i was right there on the farm w you. Great video. Thank you for posting
Thank you, Mimi! We appreciate you watching and supporting us! We want all of our viewers to feel welcome and part of our FarmLife family. We are still curious as to what happened to the turkey and Snots. A few days ago, we lost some of our chickens as well and we are keeping a very close eye out to hopefully catch this unwanted predictor soon.
That tree is fruiting like crazy now. Maybe it finally got some nutrient it needed.
Maybe they are hearing creaks in the barn and sensing that it's unstable.
Yes! I agree
@@cbass2755 have to be careful.
Something sure spooked them. We've checked everything else, and it all appears to be ok - it just got that corner of the roof and lifted it up. No other damage that we can see to the barn.
@@CelebratingFarmLife maybe it's the same thing that happened to the two animals that freaked them out. Maybe a coyote got in there.
@@lostribe5130 We are watching closely especially since we lost the turkey and Snots disappeared.
How nice to have that little cabin. That is just amazing. Maybe it didn't lift the roof because the are could get out of all different directions of that cabin. In the old days when I grew up in Oklahoma tornado Alley, the conventional wisdom was open your windows and it won't tear up your house as much, but then I think that was proven wrong and everybody stopped doing it.
We enjoy having it here and so glad to see it still standing. We always worry about a bad storm blowing it down, but it always seems to survive. It is very open and that may help to keep it in place. We couldn't imagine growing up in tornado alley. That had to be pretty scary. I think we've heard something like that before too, but just recently we've heard to shut all the inner doors in your house - not sure if this works either if it's a really bad storm with high damaging winds.
@@CelebratingFarmLife the wisdom now is you do not leave any windows open. And you do shut all the doors you can and then get in the middle of all that and just have as much between you and the outside as possible.
One of the suggestions for tornadoes when I sent off for a packet about safe rooms and cellars is you can sink a couple of piers and then tether your roof to those. Of course that works best on new builds where you can do it under the home. But I also saw some drawings for doing it outside of a structure and then connecting wide bands and cinching them down type to the top of the pier sticking out of the ground. On some of those smaller buildings you might only need to put a couple but it might still curl up one end like it did there but at least might not just take the whole thing off.
Thank you so much, that is a great suggestion! We did think about that but were worried it would be tripping hazards for the cows and goats and something they could get injured on. Bill was installing them before the hurricane on a lot of buildings in another county closer to Georgia that got hit really hard.
@@CelebratingFarmLife yes, they would be kind of in the way. Maybe if they came up about 3 ft and it was like a concrete pillar and then attached to that but still in the way but not a trip hazard.
I guess it's possible that a big predator came in was in the barn or around the barn and scared them all.
We are wondering if that's what happened since something happened to both the turkey and Snots.
@@CelebratingFarmLife a coyote might have gotten in with all the storm going on.
@@lostribe5130 We are keeping a close eye on everything and hopefully can spot whatever it is soon!
Now you know you can just take turns😂
That's right! And that would be fair! 👍
You could mash up a little of that guava with some mashed sweet potatoes.
I enjoyed trying the pineapple guava for the first time! They are really good! We made some sweet potato fries with supper, but we will have to try them together with the ones we have left.
Bill, she's playing the woman card now😂
😂🤣 I sure did, didn't I?? That really wasn't fair, but I love picking with him! 😂
@@CelebratingFarmLife you've earned the right after learning how to do so many man things. I really admire that about you especially since you said you did not grow up around it.
@@lostribe5130 Thank you! I guess it is kind of a tradeoff now and good for me to know how to do a lot of these things, but I will tell you, there's still a lot I don't know, and I think a lot I'll still need to rely on Bill to do or get some other help if needed.
Maybe just sand bags. It's either that or spend a bunch of time on a drainage you might not ever need that bad again.
That is true! We are just trying to divert any water that comes down that hill. The barn is pretty dry inside. It looked like it mainly washed out the sides and most likely from water coming off the roof as well.
@@CelebratingFarmLife that's good. When I moved into my house I had water cooling by the enclosed patio slab. So I put up a rain gutter just on that side and then I ran the downspout down the side of the house and about 12 ft out into the yard where I knew from there it would drain off toward the alley. And that worked. But you have to have a good eye for where the slope is. This year I had to fill in a hole with rocks at the end of the downspout because of just that many years of it dripping in there.
@@lostribe5130 It is a lot of work keeping up with water drainage! It sounds like you're doing a great job getting it under control. Hopefully by Bill digging it out some and pushing dirt higher against the barn will help it drain away from the barn.
Maybe it just has to do with what side the sun is on.
We are puzzled by that, but it may be a good reason.
That tree is fruiting like crazy now. Maybe it finally got some nutrient it needed.
We were so excited to see that! How amazing - that for so many years with nothing and now it is loaded with fruit??!!