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Two couples assume the lives of early settlers to the West. Using only the resources and tools of the period, they will attempt to build homes, raise livestock, hunt and grow crops.
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00:30We tried plowing this morning and it was almost impossible.
00:40It drove me nuts.
00:41I was so frustrated.
00:45I don't know how we're going to do it tomorrow.
00:47With both of us using the plow, it still wouldn't really work, but we're just hoping for a vegetable
00:52garden now.
00:53I can't imagine doing acres of crops.
00:55It would be crazy.
00:56I think it would take as much to prepare because we should disc the soil, but we don't have
01:01anything to disc it with.
01:06Okay, now back them up straight.
01:13Day three.
01:14Frank and Alana Logie begin breaking the land.
01:18They have no choice.
01:19It's the first week of June.
01:21If they're going to have food for the winter, they need to plow and plant right away.
01:26Alan Webb, a neighbor, is here to give them a short course on sod busting because Frank
01:31and Alana have no experience with draft horses.
01:33The other thing is too, don't stand between the horse and anything that you've got hooked
01:38to it.
01:39Don't stick your fingers through the chain links either unless you want to have nine.
01:43It wasn't supposed to be this way.
01:47There was another couple here.
01:49They had more farming experience, but they had to quit on the first day.
01:54For now, Frank and Alana face life as prairie pioneers, alone.
02:00This is pretty risque for the Victorian period, isn't it?
02:05This is Frank and Alana's dream, to live the pioneer life of the 1870s.
02:10We're making a good furrow.
02:11Oh, there we go.
02:12Oh.
02:13Easy.
02:14Easy.
02:15There.
02:16Oh.
02:17Woo.
02:18There's your furrow shot here.
02:19Look at this baby.
02:20Look at this nice straight 14-inch furrow here.
02:25They got five good feet here, so that's a start.
02:30Slow down.
02:31Easy.
02:32Whoa.
02:33Oh.
02:34As soon as I let off it, it popped back out.
02:41Yeah, you have to keep pushing the whole time.
02:44I don't know if it would be better if we had someone that's strong back here.
02:48The land teaches a hard lesson here.
02:51Raw courage just isn't enough.
02:54Plowing 1870s style takes skill and brute strength.
02:59Easy.
03:00Whoa.
03:01Easy.
03:02Whoa.
03:03Go.
03:04I don't think I'm strong enough.
03:08No, my ankle's going to get broken.
03:10Okay.
03:11All right.
03:12Duke and Diamond, go.
03:13Duke and Diamond, go.
03:18Go, Duke and Diamond.
03:20Go, Duke and Diamond.
03:21Keep him to the right.
03:22They switch places, but Duke and Diamond won't listen to Alana.
03:27Plowing is a disappointment.
03:29Go, Duke and Diamond.
03:31Go.
03:32Easy.
03:33Don't keep stopping.
03:37Frank, are we going to try plowing again later?
03:39What do you want to do?
03:40Not today.
03:41Not at all.
03:42My ankle's too sore.
03:44It feels like all day we're fidging with the animals and we can't get anything done.
03:48Because we don't have a field to put them in or anything.
03:50So we have to feed them and water them.
03:52They can't do anything and keep them tied all the time.
03:54I said right now I'd like to kill all the animals.
03:56We spent two hours before bed just preparing the animals and then an hour and a half when you get up preparing the animals.
04:02So if we chose to get rid of the animals.
04:05If we got rid of them we could probably do a lot more stuff.
04:08It's recording, hon.
04:09We had the horse get its foot caught in its halter because it's been tied up too long and it nearly broke its leg.
04:18So now the horse is running loose.
04:20So what we're having to do is we have this big well.
04:25We're afraid it's going to fall in here tonight.
04:28I can't drive them into the ground so we have it all covered with wood and hopefully the horse won't step in it tonight.
04:37I'd have to try to dig fence posts.
04:39We'd be here for the next two hours.
04:41It's already probably 11 o'clock.
04:43We're going to be up in five hours, six hours.
04:48That's going to be it for tonight.
04:51I think we'll just leave it and hopefully the horse doesn't fall in and kill itself tonight.
05:04It's been a long night for Frank and Alana and the trouble with the horses is just the beginning.
05:09He bucked a bunch of times and ended up going straight down and his head was smashed against the tree and it was caught with his foot in between the tree.
05:16So I cut the collar off him and I cut the rope and it took him a while to get up and he was limping like really badly.
05:25How about you guys?
05:27I don't know. We're both sick.
05:29We're both throwing up. We both have diarrhea.
05:33We can't eat. We made breakfast today. We eat like two mouthfuls. We both threw up and chucked the breakfast.
05:42Alana slept maybe three hours but she's really sick. She's sicker than I am.
05:46Maybe if we could hire someone for a day. Just to take care of the animals.
05:50Just to take care of the animals.
05:51Because we haven't even milked her yet because we were both feeling so sick this morning.
05:53We thought, ugh, seeing that milk come out is just going to be...
05:55And the cow just isn't...
05:56Keeps moving.
05:57The cow isn't... I don't know. We think the cow might be getting sick too.
06:01Which we're worried it might be at our water.
06:02Well, how do you know?
06:03Well, we don't know because she's just not herself.
06:10What I need to know is how sick you are and how close we are to the point at which we'd have to get a doctor or take you out.
06:19I don't think so now. This morning I would have said, yeah, definitely. But no, I'm starting to feel better.
06:24I think we just need to rest.
06:26I don't have the energy.
06:28The thing is, we spend so much time trying to get the other stuff done.
06:31The last people we try to think about is ourselves because we have no time.
06:34You know, the well everyone keeps saying it's going to get harder, gotta get going, gotta get going.
06:37The chickens are going to die sitting in their coops.
06:39They're not hatching.
06:40We haven't got one egg yet out of them.
06:42Any tears?
06:44Yeah.
06:45Oh yeah.
06:46Yeah, this morning I was like, ugh.
06:48I can't do it.
06:49Yeah.
06:51We've got problems.
06:53They're both really sick.
06:55They were up throwing up all night.
06:57The crew is worrying.
06:59It's obvious the logis are overwhelmed by the needs of the animals.
07:03And struggling to cope with the shock of being dropped into pioneer life.
07:07Obviously it's created stress for them.
07:10And the reality of their situation as settlers is hitting them.
07:15And they may not have anticipated these things, but that's the reality.
07:19And that's part of the story, certainly.
07:22Is it together you're really sick?
07:25No.
07:26We were sick.
07:27We feel a little better.
07:28We're not throwing up anymore, so.
07:30I'm worried about you both being sick.
07:32And maybe the sun is partly to do with that too, you know?
07:35It's probably sun.
07:36We work too hard.
07:37We're a little bit tired.
07:38Yeah.
07:39Everything's a little dirty.
07:40And the diet is...
07:41Yeah, and everything's probably a little dirty we're eating out of in our hands.
07:44But the reality is that that is your predicament as homesteaders and settlers.
07:49And finding solutions to these problems is...
07:54I can't help you with that because I don't have the answers.
07:58And we chose the two of you because we felt that you would make decisions that would,
08:04you know, you could resolve these problems.
08:06Yes.
08:07And so the decisions that you make are yours.
08:12We know that they're a strong couple.
08:19We know that we've seen what happened two days ago.
08:22How they managed to get through that in spite of everything falling apart around them.
08:27And the only thing I am worried about is them being sick.
08:31What about the animals?
08:32What do you want to do?
08:33The animals?
08:34I think the animals are okay.
08:35I just...
08:36I think they were just worried about them and they're not used to them.
08:41He's right, I guess.
08:44But it doesn't seem like he's being overly supportive.
08:48I don't know what he could do.
08:49Maybe I'm just too tired.
08:52I also think too that you can't prepare yourself for how hard it is doing this.
08:57As hard as we thought it would be, it's way harder.
09:00I think of any job I've ever done, how dirty or stinky or hard it was,
09:08this is always harder though.
09:10This is harder than any normal job you could possibly have.
09:15If you have a normal job you just go home at nights.
09:18Where you can't go home, this is your home.
09:20So, you know, the ticks you have crawling up your underwear all day is the same ticks you're going to have in bed with you at night.
09:28So, they're still getting away from them or any of this stuff.
09:35We had a dead nose swimming here this morning.
09:38The Logies aren't quitters.
09:40So, the only thing to do is get back to work.
09:43Meanwhile, another pioneer couple is preparing to move in and help them out.
09:48For now, Frank decides to build a chicken coop.
09:51But that means taking apart all the chicken crates.
09:54And the chickens are in no mood to sit still.
09:59Ohhhh!
10:01Doing it wrong!
10:02This is not our life.
10:03This is late, I think.
10:04Hold on.
10:05Hold on.
10:10Uh.
10:11Uh.
10:12Uh.
10:13Uh.
10:14Uh.
10:15Uh.
10:16Uh.
10:18Uh.
10:19Um.
10:32Uh.
10:33Well, never a dull moment as a settler.
10:37Just as we're going to bed, we thought everything was wonderful.
10:40All the chickens started escaping.
10:42So we found that all our chickens can jump like 10 feet in the air.
10:46So now we have woods nailed all the way up the sides,
10:50and hopefully that'll hold them in.
10:52It drives us nuts.
10:53Every time we're going to go to bed, some friggin' animal goes crazy.
10:57Hopefully tomorrow we can try and fix this chicken coop.
10:59It's pouring rain again.
11:00We have to get up early and try to make it into town to meet everyone in town
11:06to go and pick up more supplies and bring the other couple out.
11:08I don't know if we're going to be able to get the wagon out of here in the morning.
11:11If it keeps raining, it's going to be too muddy.
11:15I don't know what we're going to do.
11:20We know they're going to be all excited right now.
11:23Where's he going? Oh, you suckers.
11:26You have no idea.
11:27She's got her bonnet on and everything.
11:30I hope they had a good breakfast.
11:33How are you guys?
11:34Good to see you.
11:38They're stinky, don't hug us.
11:40Day seven.
11:41The other couple arrives to complete the homesteading team.
11:44Tim and Deanna Treadway remember Frank and Alanna from the meetings
11:47with all the settler finalists.
11:49Wow, I have been so excited.
11:55When you guys called me up, or I was the only one home,
12:00I think I said the word really for five minutes.
12:03Really?
12:05I've been excited.
12:06Deanna's scared.
12:08There are many things to look forward to that I am looking forward to.
12:13I know it's going to be an awfully hard job.
12:18I'm the realist.
12:19He's a visionary.
12:20See you, civilization.
12:23Go Duke and Diamond.
12:25The Treadways are from Kenora, Ontario.
12:28They have some farming skills,
12:30and Tim's a house builder and keen on hunting and trapping.
12:33Deanna works in a dental office, and she's a great gardener.
12:37They've traveled the world doing missionary work,
12:39and they share a love of the wilderness,
12:42enough to leave a half-million-dollar house behind,
12:45and three sons.
12:47The youngest boy is just 15.
12:49He'll stay with friends while his parents live their pioneer dream.
12:53That's not the tent I envisioned, that's for sure.
13:19I thought you'd have the broom all out and swept all up here.
13:25Wow, looking good.
13:27You guys have done a pile of work already.
13:30Wow.
13:31We're really close together here, aren't we?
13:35Well, this will be a good test.
13:38Oh, if my boys could see this.
13:42This is fantastic here.
13:45Beautiful spot.
13:46Quiet.
13:47Except for the cow, get some milk out of it.
13:52That's not what I imagined at all.
13:54I thought the prairie.
13:57Yeah, I didn't imagine us all hemmed in like this by trees.
14:02Like, this is bush.
14:07Will it be okay?
14:08Oh, yes.
14:09Oh, yes.
14:11Yes, once we get organized.
14:12Once we get organized.
14:13Well, we've got a lot of work ahead of us.
14:20What about a rain now?
14:22That's just to cool us on.
14:25Well, what should we do?
14:26Should we start cleaning?
14:26Why don't we clean up all these brushes?
14:28Is this what you've done?
14:28Like, you've cut these trees here all the time?
14:31Is that what this is?
14:32Oh, I'm not worried about this brush.
14:33I don't...
14:34You want to clean this?
14:36Or what should we do?
14:37I guess we're going to wait for those guys, but we're waiting for those guys.
14:40Oh, where's that other horse?
14:42Oh, she's...
14:43Can't be too organized out here.
14:48We're in the bush.
14:53I think, you know, I think it's going to be really hard for her to see it disorganized
14:57because she said we've got to get this cleaned up right away.
14:59And I'm usually a neat freak at home, but, I mean, you just, you can't.
15:03And, like, I'm not going to pick bushes out of the way because they're just there.
15:07You know, like, so there's going to be little things that are just adjusting.
15:10Deanna wants an outdoor kitchen, complete with shelves, a stove, and a place to stow all
15:16the cooking supplies.
15:18Um, how long would it take you to make a couple of these shelves?
15:22I don't know.
15:22I really want to get going on that corral.
15:24We have to get it done by tomorrow morning.
15:25You tell me.
15:26No, I'm just saying that I thought this was a good area, but you can't.
15:28Well, it's good.
15:29A U-shape is good because then one roof can cover a lot of fair storage.
15:32Yeah, right, that's right.
15:36How come a kitchen first, Tim?
15:39Hmm?
15:39How come a kitchen first, you keep the women happy, you got the men happy?
15:47Haven't you heard that saying?
15:48If mama ain't happy, nobody's happy.
15:52Make sense?
15:54Frank's out in the back there, and he's marking where the corral's going to be.
15:57So when I get this done here, we'll run the corral thing, and we'll probably have the kitchen
16:02set up, corral set up, the horses, and the cows will be happy today.
16:06The ladies will be happy.
16:08And I'll tell you, when the kitchen gets set up, I'll be happy.
16:11It seems like Tim's a take-charge guy.
16:18How are you doing about that?
16:21Honest.
16:22Honest?
16:24Honest?
16:25We'll be out of here in a month, so Deanna won't.
16:28Deanna's got her doilies, and she's worried about her kitchen being perfect, and everything
16:32perfect, and if we live like that out here, we'll never get a thing done.
16:37To me, this corral has to get done by night.
16:39If the women don't have shelves for the next four hours, to me, who cares?
16:43But he wants to make them happy, so that's what he wants to do.
16:49I'll go haul the 100-pound thing of barbed wire through the fence myself, through the bush.
16:54I'll go haul the 100-pound thing of barbed wire through the fence.
16:58I'll go haul the 100-pound thing of barbed wire through the fence.
17:02This is the best.
17:03Good.
17:04I'll go haul the 100-pound thing.
17:06Yeah.
17:07Perfect.
17:08It's okay.
17:13Good.
17:14Perfect.
17:32Okay, hold the end of the hand.
17:33Maybe you need a left-handed hammer or something.
17:35That's what it held.
17:37Are you sure you two in the bush were doing work?
17:42We heard a lot of giggling back.
17:44Yeah.
17:45I don't know, the fence got done on itself.
17:47We were going to do another one.
17:57There is an old saying from settler times,
18:00that many hands make like work,
18:02and in the doing, there is the making of a pioneer life.
18:05Together.
18:08Who says we need a voice coat?
18:11I wonder if it would help you.
18:13Do you have a milk before again?
18:14No, never.
18:15This is my first.
18:19I was doing better before you came.
18:22Stage race.
18:23That's right.
18:24Oi!
18:25Come on, menace!
18:27Woo!
18:28I'm not too good at the shot.
18:33She's got little tits.
18:35I know!
18:36I hit her teeth.
18:37Actually, her back right one is just terrible.
18:39Yeah, that back one just sucks.
18:41It's not a land in the head that you're the milker.
18:45Not the log!
18:47How are you doing?
18:48You're good at it.
18:49Look at you!
18:50Look at you!
18:51You know what five days ago she did.
18:52You know what skills you get out of here.
18:53It's going to go all around all kinds of nifty things.
18:56On my resume, I can milk a cow.
18:58You're just giving her.
19:00It's almost the end of your first day.
19:02Any thoughts?
19:06Well, we're starting to get organized.
19:10I realize we're going to just have to take this one day at a time.
19:13Not think about the whole year.
19:15Just one day at a time.
19:18It's recording!
19:19You're on camera now.
19:20Well, this is our first day.
19:23And, uh...
19:26I love it.
19:29I'm really enjoying it.
19:31How was your, uh...
19:32Let's see.
19:33How was your reaction?
19:34How was your feelings about being with Frank and Alana?
19:43To be continued.
19:46Looking forward to a good, quiet sleep tonight.
19:47There's beautiful, uh...
19:49Fireflies out all over outside.
19:52And there's a gentle breeze.
19:53There was a few mosquitoes.
19:55Such as this one.
19:57And, uh...
20:10And, um...
20:11But our tent is dry.
20:12And, um...
20:13Our spirits are high.
20:14Our spirits are high.
20:15We're ready to sleep and have ssssā¦ā¦sleep.
20:16white shell region today periods of rain for the rainfall amounts up to 10
20:20millimeters we're pretty happy with it had the fire going this morning and had
20:36some had some tea to the gals who were sleeping still we moved the wood stove
20:44inside because we needed to dry clothes there's a saying if mama ain't happy
20:50nobody's happy so they got to get the women happy first
21:14only jar with a lid our only one and you broke it and i broke it i'd say you don't
21:20get to sleep in the tent tonight you don't get to use your doilies for a year now
21:24are you guys i was just trying to be you wanted that sterilized you were the one who told me to
21:33sterilize it for the milk and this we use for our legs not to mention our underarms oh you
21:44women if only you knew what it's like the day began with plans to plow and work on the well
21:53but mother nature has a different idea and the settlers turned to other urgent matters well this
22:01is going to be our toilet sort of a reach-over toilet frankie started to get stomach pain so
22:08uh i've been here uh seven days now i've gone to the washroom once so i i think i think what i
22:15need is a relaxing time so i think you know come out here bring a book or something and just that you
22:20know sit here and get waterlogged this is the uh the cleaning water warm right now i have to go
22:26quickly so i'll have a that can be too much of a shock for myself this is our our rag with my
22:32initials uh put my initial f put in there so if no one gets confused using the wrong one
22:42here i thought i was really ready for this uh but it's a different story
22:46out here how about tim oh he's loving it he's just having a ball he's in his element this was his idea
22:54this is his adventure but uh i've often found out uh he's had he's had ideas of adventures many many
23:01times and i've not been the one that has been enthusiastic about it um sometimes i've squelched
23:09some of his dreams and this time i didn't want to
23:11it's one thing to have pioneer dreams but this is the real thing it's now the middle of june and
23:28the settlers are running out of growing days there's an urgent need to begin planting a crop in a garden
23:35so frank and tim try plowing in the rain
23:47well we got a good river going on this one anyway we got the red river blood wave
23:54it's very we're giving the horses or tim or us here isn't it
23:59watch out here when you start out the yeah let me just go ahead
24:02on his single tree there well i got the heart beating i'll tell you yeah
24:13that was good we just hit a rock back there well i'm fairly pleased there they're beginning to
24:17get the hang of it a little bit um don't think too many plowing contests would be one but on the
24:22other hand they are going to get enough stirred up there that they can clean out the side in between
24:28with a shovel and throw it off to the side and they should get their bedding plants in today
24:32just wish it wasn't quite so wet and it's not too late there are people still reseeding potholes
24:37there are still people that are planting gardens but it would have been better if it was about two
24:42weeks ago so if they're going to have any any uh crops growing well in the fall we're going to need a
24:48nice benign fall without any frost
24:50that's quite an art i i never got it i'm i mean we were all over the place
25:01good boy we'll be healthy
25:06thank you lord for this food and for the safety that you gave us and this morning
25:10we just pray for strength now and enjoyment throughout this day in jesus name amen
25:19there's the moon evening well we're sitting in the wagon horse wagon
25:26and the moon's in the background as you can see and we're looking at our little kitchen
25:30how have you felt today about cooking deanna
25:32oh man made a nice soup this morning took about four hours to cook but it was good but it was good
25:45very very tasty a lot of work you feel discouraged at all
25:55yes yeah this ain't easy life boy i've been thinking about these settlers so much today
26:00what a hard life it was for them
26:06you see those mosquitoes yeah there's lots of them lots lots of mosquitoes huge yeah
26:12anyway it's uh time for bed oh major time we've been up since five o'clock yeah since five o'clock
26:18what is it now about 9 30 i don't know probably a little later but uh we've been putting in about 18
26:24hour days something like that and feeling good okay okay good night good night for now
26:49it will be a june remembered as one of the wettest in a hundred years crops and gardens all across
27:07southern manitoba drown and rot but in this hidden field there's no turning back
27:19it's going to be a good night go doken diamond go seeds and plants will go straight into these rough
27:27furrows just to get things growing in spite of the weather there's a renewed confidence in the work
27:34and the optimism of true pioneers who have to believe that things are going to get better
27:39and the wind is going to be a good night
27:44that's all right
27:46good job great
27:53Oh, it's arid extra dry, eh?
28:13When you guys are doing this, what are you thinking about what it was like for those
28:21homes that were 130 years ago? Yeah, I am. I'm really thinking about that. It must have been
28:25just terribly hard. Just terribly hard. Of course, you know,
28:29I mean, where we're coming from has also got a big thing to do with it, you know?
28:33I think a lot of it is that you're relying on the weather all the time.
28:37I mean, we thought we'd have this done five days ago and there's just nothing you can do, you know?
28:41A lot of it, you're just relying on what's happening around you and what kind of comes up
28:45that you have to look after first. We have a pig coming, we've got to build a pig pen, you know?
28:49It's not stuff you think of. You just thought you'd plan to do it Tuesday and you do it Tuesday.
28:55Is there any satisfaction in at least getting this far, though?
28:58Oh, yeah. Yes, there is. A lot.
29:00That maybe we'll have potatoes. I think we will.
29:03How are you guys getting along? Do you feel like a team building or how's it going? Honest.
29:08Good. I feel a bit like she's my mom and I want to be more partners, but other than that, it's going good.
29:18She's great. She's just great.
29:20I wondered if that would happen, you know?
29:24Never had a daughter, you know? I've got three boys, I've never had a daughter.
29:28Okay, here's the shot of my hands. They've got, there's the burn from the stove there.
29:34This is from when the horses took off on me and kind of pulled the skin off, so it's kind of a rope burn.
29:39This is just all from chopping up things and peeling potatoes with a knife instead of a peeler.
29:43That's just where an old sliver was, and they're kind of orange from the leather gloves.
29:48And I have no nails, I used to. These are actually clean, I just clean them with a knife.
29:52So it's getting to be quite a difference in our hands. They're going to be muscular soon for all that milking.
29:58Oh, I can't believe this. I can't believe I'm living like this.
30:02Try to get these clean. Well, we have no nail brushes or any nail files.
30:08In fact, I'm using the file, or the sharpening stone, to file my nails down.
30:13And, uh, that's the way it is out here on the homestead.
30:21What's for dinner?
30:23We have garlic poured here, and then carrots. I should probably stir them.
30:29And Deanna's actually just making butter right now, so we can at least have carrots with butter.
30:33You'll notice they're really black. It's just from this pan. I mean, it will kind of taste like whatever was in it yesterday.
30:39And it gets the colouring, so that's why it's so dark.
30:42We both dread our kitchen day. Today was mine, and last night I was saying, oh great, it's kitchen day tomorrow.
30:46And tonight I'll feel good when it's done.
30:49I don't dread it yet.
30:51I do.
30:52Yeah, she's not a traditional wife like I am.
30:56I'm mad because Frank's not in the kitchen helping me.
31:00And Jim would never be in the kitchen helping me.
31:03I've only realized the last day or two how much it's bugging me, though.
31:05Yeah.
31:06That I'm stuck in here doing the women's stuff.
31:07Yeah, see, and that doesn't bother me.
31:08It's really bugging me.
31:09That doesn't bother me, because...
31:11Today was laundry all morning and then cooking all afternoon and then airing out the tent.
31:15So in some ways the traditional women's role was just a given. It just had to be.
31:20Yeah, because I want to get out of this traditional thing desperately, but I kind of can't.
31:25I mean, there's no choice.
31:26Why couldn't you, though?
31:27Because I don't have the strength, which is bothering me.
31:30So I've got to start lifting rocks in the evening.
31:32I mean, if I was out there, I can go out and help, but I can't physically do what Tim and Frank are doing.
31:37And I'd love to say to Frank, it's your turn to cook, I'm going to go chip away at that log, but I can't.
31:42I can't even get a mark in it.
31:45Boy, I'll tell ya, that's a meal fit for a king.
31:48And the biscuits are wonderful.
31:50They make amazing biscuits.
31:53Deanna makes amazing biscuits.
31:56They got fleas.
31:58They're milk and daisy.
32:00Right now what you can't see is Tim's behind the camera getting undressed
32:05and picking the fleas and different bugs off his body.
32:09And we're all just watching. We're pretending to look at this video.
32:14I guess we had a good day today.
32:16We got all the potatoes planted.
32:18How many rows?
32:20A total of...
32:21Five?
32:22Two, well...
32:23Five very long rows.
32:24Seven.
32:25How much?
32:2675 pounds in a bag.
32:27Seven rows.
32:28150 pounds.
32:29Yeah.
32:30Seven rows of potatoes.
32:31We did some more masterful plowing today.
32:34We're getting better at that.
32:35The horses are responding better.
32:36Responding.
32:37Now that we've shot one.
32:39And just a sec.
32:42Deanna and I had a very successful day making yet another soup.
32:46Cleaning more dishes.
32:47And mending some more.
32:48And we did some more shh.
32:49You really, uh, tie that up while I can see inside.
32:51Okay, he's even interrupting.
32:52I'm stinking.
32:53And we did some more dishes.
32:55So that, that was our exciting day.
32:57A woman's work is never done.
32:59My wife graciously washed my hair.
33:01And, uh, as you can tell, it's, uh, silky smooth.
33:06You can shape it almost to anything you want.
33:10You want?
33:11They didn't need gel back then.
33:13It was sort of natural.
33:14This is, this is for strong days to keep me in line.
33:18As I'm going down the fields.
33:20This one here.
33:22This one here.
33:23This is for on sunny days.
33:25For shade.
33:27There.
33:28For shade.
33:30We're all feeling really proud about this place.
33:33All of us.
33:35Us too.
33:38And, um, it's getting nice and clean around here.
33:43It's drying up a little bit.
33:44And tomorrow we're going to start planting the vegetables.
33:47And making it look like, uh, a real good garden.
33:57It's raining again.
33:59The pioneers have been dreading this day.
34:02Today, they take delivery of Annabelle.
34:05She's 450 pounds and pregnant.
34:08They hope her piglets will become hearty meals on the cold winter nights to come.
34:13As for Duke and Diamond, it's hate at first sight.
34:17Duke and Diamond.
34:18Go.
34:19Go.
34:20Go.
34:21Just let them stand.
34:22Go.
34:23Settle now.
34:24Let them calm down and stop blowing.
34:26The pioneers are still learning how to handle the horses.
34:29Duke and Diamond look like they're going to bolt.
34:32Then suddenly, the worst happens.
34:35A runaway.
34:36Go!
34:37Go!
34:38Go!
34:39Go!
34:40Go!
34:41Go!
34:42Go!
34:43Go!
34:44Go!
34:45Go!
34:46Go!
34:47Go!
34:48Go!
34:49Go!
34:50Go!
34:51Go!
34:52Go!
34:53Go!
34:54Go!
34:55Go!
34:56Go!
34:57Go!
34:58Go!
34:59That wasn't a bad runaway.
35:01Would have been a lot more exciting with the wooden wheeled wagon, for example.
35:04Because then they would have been in the ditch at the other end of the road.
35:07But they're learning a lot.
35:09And of course the school of hard knocks is the best way for the pioneers to pick up the
35:12knowledge that the real pioneers would have learned from the time they were small.
35:17So they're lucky.
35:18They didn't break anything.
35:19They got the horses stopped.
35:20They drove away with them without any trouble.
35:22And we'll catch up with them at the gate.
35:23And I think they'll be going just fine.
35:26They eventually, I think they stopped just because they were too tired.
35:32What about the pig?
35:35I didn't care about the pig.
35:37What were you thinking, Tim, when that horse took off?
35:40I was thinking that lucky guy was telling me this morning he's into racing dog sleds.
35:48And so I thought this is just a unique opportunity for him to try it out with a horse and pig team.
35:55Thank you, Lord, for this good food.
35:58And thank you for the safety of bringing this pig back and the danger of the runaway.
36:04And just thank you that Frank was able to get them stopped.
36:07And we just thank you now for the health and strength that you've given us.
36:11In Jesus' name, Amen.
36:12Amen.
36:13Those horses are going to hurt somebody yet.
36:15How did that make our house out of oak?
36:25Wow, we've only done four.
36:28The common comforts of the outside world are a fading memory,
36:33replaced by a routine of hard labor.
36:36But the settlers take time to share a few simple pleasures.
36:40Well, Tim just brought it to me.
36:42My afternoon gift.
36:44Why do you think he did that?
36:46Oh, to cheer me up.
36:48How's the weather been?
36:50Absolutely the worst conditions any settler could ever, ever have.
36:55It's been cold, windy, rain, rain, rain.
36:59It poured all night last night.
37:01Every time I woke up, anyhow, every time you woke up, it was raining.
37:04Just sopping wet. We're just sopping wet.
37:06In fact, our garden, if you're going to take a look at our garden,
37:09it's all the rose that we've planted is just filled with water.
37:13Frank and I have been here 15 days and we've had three days of sun.
37:16And the rest has been rainy and pretty much pouring on and off the entire time.
37:20How about staying clean?
37:21We don't bother anymore.
37:23I mean, we just can't.
37:25And it's funny how every day you start to care less and less.
37:28You wash your armpits at night and you just, you know, you don't care about the mud.
37:32We have marks on our legs every night where our socks ended and you scrub it off if you can
37:36and if not, you just want to go to bed.
37:38Remember reading about stories about how they'd have a bath once a week, eh?
37:43And you thought it was gross.
37:44Oh, how gross, you know, to have a bath once a week.
37:46But boy, now I can see why.
37:48Just the effort of having a bath out here is just incredible.
37:51It just seems stupid.
37:52Well, if you look at our stove, we've just got one kettle to heat up water with.
37:57Well, you can't have much of a bath with that one kettle of hot water.
38:00I'd love to have a good bath, but it's a waste of time really.
38:05Everything has gone moldy.
38:07These big blue marks.
38:09I left them on the floor for a day and they're moldy.
38:11Well, that's gross.
38:12All our meat's gone moldy, everything's moldy.
38:13We figure our wool blankets are moldy.
38:15We've got these gunny sacks behind us as a headrest.
38:17We aired them all yesterday and they're now soaked again,
38:19which means all the clothes in there are going to get moldy too.
38:22But I'm really tired of the rain.
38:25But the well is up.
38:27There's some good parts about it.
38:29Another wood tick.
38:30Good night.
38:31Good night.
38:32Ready to go to bed.
38:33Yep.
38:34Very good.
38:35Tim, did you ever get the frogs out of the well?
38:36Frogs are still in the well.
38:37Are they dead?
38:38Must be.
38:39I think they're still living.
38:40Good night.
38:41I'm just looking for carrots.
38:42Any sign of those carrots?
38:43Not here.
38:45And we planted our burrows here full of, a whole potato sack full of seed potatoes.
38:46And of course we got more rain and more rain and more rain and more rain and more rain.
38:51We dug this up yesterday and they're all rotten.
38:52Just because of the rain.
38:53They're all rotten.
38:54Just because of the rain.
38:55They're all rotten.
38:56They're all rotten.
38:57So we're going to have to redo, replant them all.
38:58It's getting late.
38:59It's almost July 4th.
39:00So we're going to have to redo, replant them all.
39:01It's getting late.
39:02Little round of fools by 30 soit-up.
39:03Two goats.
39:04Any sign of those carrots?
39:05Not here.
39:06And uh, we planted our burrows here full of a whole potato sack full of see potatoes and
39:13of course we got more rain and more rain and more rain and we dug this up yesterday and
39:15uh they're all rotten.
39:20Just because of the rain.
39:22So we're going to have to redo, replant them all.
39:25It's getting late.
39:26It's almost July 1st.
39:27And so it's pretty late.
39:29But we'll do what we can and try, see what we can get out of it.
39:34Now for those of you who love the movie Babe,
39:37I don't know what you think about this pig,
39:41but I already got a hate relationship with it.
39:45The pioneers have all their animals now,
39:48but no place to keep them for the winter.
39:51The next challenge is putting up a log barn.
39:54It's good practice for the houses they'll soon be building.
39:56They have only a few simple tools
39:59and a sense of humor to get things done.
40:04Girls, girls.
40:05You can't make 90 degree turns.
40:07Wait, I've got to get out of here.
40:09Okay, now back.
40:11Okay.
40:13They came here girls and they'll leave women.
40:18Came here girls and will leave men.
40:20But you know, I was saying,
40:22most women, 48 years old,
40:26back then in the 1870s,
40:29half of them were dead already.
40:32And here I am, 48 years old, out here.
40:34Hoping to die.
40:36Wishing I was dead.
40:38We're going to need a barn later.
40:40So what we're going to do is build a barn-sized pig pen,
40:43but the walls are only going to be three feet high.
40:44It's going to be all log.
40:46It's a lot of work.
40:48But everything's going good.
40:50Alana, I don't know if you can see Alana's back there.
40:52She's sleeping away.
40:54She worked so hard today.
40:56I have to say,
40:56Alana is as tough as any guy I know out here.
41:01She goes in the bush and hauls out logs
41:03as big as I can carry.
41:05We carry between us logs
41:07that weigh about 250 pounds up on our shoulder.
41:10And she's wearing this big, long skirt
41:12and then her feet go and get tangled on it
41:14and everything else.
41:15It's a lot harder, I think, for the women
41:17than it is for the guys.
41:19The guys get to do a lot of jobs
41:21that are a lot more fun.
41:24So we're going to try and, uh,
41:26we didn't feed it last night.
41:27We haven't fed it yet this morning.
41:28So we're going to try and dice it with food
41:29over the pen.
41:31And then we're going to try to just
41:32slowly take them over there
41:34without getting them too excited.
41:35Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
41:44Get her out of the way.
41:45Get her out of the way.
41:50Let go of the rope.
41:51Don't let go.
41:53Go, are you?
41:57Okay, give me the rope.
41:58I'll last to it.
42:01Hurry up.
42:05Oh, look at her, the brats.
42:23Oh, man.
42:26And to think, what would we be doing
42:27home today on a Saturday?
42:29One more board.
42:30Oh, did I get Biggie?
42:32We beat you.
42:33Well, now I know why the Lord
42:36made ears on a pig big.
42:38Why?
42:39You can hang on when you have the pail.
42:41You just hang on to the ears
42:42and hang on to the pail.
42:46That was fun.
42:56I don't know.
42:56I feel really good about a day like this.
42:59You know, I'm working for,
43:00it's like working for yourself.
43:01We reap all the rewards
43:03for everything we do.
43:08And we see the difference.
43:10You know, if we work hard,
43:11we see a difference the next day.
43:14And I think that's one of the main differences out here
43:17compared to a normal job
43:19where you're working for somebody else.
43:21Like, I'm a millwright,
43:24so I fix a machine for someone,
43:26it's fixed for them.
43:27Like, I get a paycheck and that's it.
43:28We're out here, you get something real.
43:31You get something that, I don't know,
43:35you could really grab a hold of.
43:37It's a really good feeling.
43:38It's Sunday.
43:44The sun finally returns.
43:48The pioneers look back on their labors
43:50and resolve to keep every Sunday
43:52for rest and reflection,
43:54as it would have been in decades gone.
43:56Give him something to drink.
43:58This will make him feel ashamed of himself
43:59and God will reward you.
44:00Marking Sunday,
44:02even with a homespun service,
44:04has become important,
44:05especially for the Treadways
44:06who are strong in their Christian faith.
44:09A faith Deanna will need
44:11in the weeks and months ahead
44:12if she's going to survive
44:13the other great challenge
44:15of a life on the land,
44:16isolation and loneliness.
44:19We've left behind three boys, of course,
44:22and that's hard, very hard.
44:25And when you don't bring me any news,
44:26it's even harder.
44:27I try not to think about them.
44:31That's what I've tried to do
44:32is just shut it out of my mind
44:33that we're in a different world out here.
44:35I mean, there's nothing that tugs at your heart
44:37more than your own kids,
44:38and it's been hard for me.
44:41And just not being able to pick up the phone
44:43and keep and talk.
44:44Or just have a hug.
44:45I mean, my boys are very, very huggy to me,
44:48and I just, I mean, I love them dearly,
44:50and I miss that.
44:52Yeah.
44:57Oh, my goodness.
45:06Oh.
45:07Think you have to hold it straight
45:08or I'll come down.
45:12Can you give me a try?
45:14No.
45:15I'm not letting you anywhere near my neck.
45:18Like crocodile dundee.
45:21Give him a mirror, hon.
45:24Marie, I have to be serious.
45:29Let me try that.
45:30That's okay.
45:31I'm doing a good enough job cutting myself.
45:38You notice the fact that nothing's happening there?
45:40Yeah, that's a good sign.
45:42You don't have anything spurting.
45:45If there's a barber watching this,
45:47can you please call in,
45:49email us,
45:49and tell us how to do this broccoli?
45:50Yes.
45:50Yes.
45:51Yes.
45:51Yes.
45:51Yes.
45:51Yes.
45:52Yes.
45:52Yes.
45:53Yes.
45:53Yes.
45:54Well, where's the rest if you call 9-1-1?