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[@RedPoppyRanch]

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[@JohnAnderson-kt4mb]

I’m Sure your family and my family’s ancestors came over on the same ship! They settled parts of Randolph Utah, (Laketown to be specific) still have family that lives and works the fields as well as many hundred head of cattle! Alfalfa is their top crop, it’s funny to hear you talk about your alfalfa, that’s more of a treat for cattle isn’t it?

[@philmckay1732]

Reed is going to remember driving in that field in your big red truck for the rest of his life… great job dad of the year award stuff right there

[@jim6390]

❤

[@damogranheart5521]

My dad taught me to drive when I was eleven. I, in turn, taught my eldest son to drive when he turned eleven. Your roots and where you came from are important. I'm still fighting to preserve mine.

[@benh59]

So true. I learned to drive my dad's old Ford truck with a 3 on the tree in my uncle's cow pasture. That was 50ish years ago.

[@FallLineJP]

💯 I still remember sitting on my grandfather’s lap driving an old Lada through the two-track in the hills back home. Couldn’t even reach the pedals. Must have been 6 or 7 at most 😂

[@rodolfog2459]

…and I hope you don’t get a ‘Guidelines Strike’ from YT…

[@GirdHerd]

The hardest physical labor I've ever done was when I helped my uncle put up hay bales one weekend when I was in high school. After that weekend I knew why the farm boys were so much stronger than the rest of us guys.

[@MountainMapleRanch]

We saw you drive by with all that hay and were seriously SO impressed!! If that time of year for sure. ~Ola

[@helenlaboe7532]

Watching a boy learn about his ancestors, the right way to do things and the pride in doing a needed job is what our kids need. They can take pride in themselves, their family and our country. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@GirdHerd]

Pretty cool that you are letting Reed drive. He'll never forget that time he spent with his Dad.

[@gumotx]

One of the most quoted verses about parenting is found in Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it”

[@againstallodds0538]

Incredible ❤

[@TheCabledawg1]

My dad was teaching me how to drive his purple VW bug in a field next to a stream. I got it stuck in a ditch. I can still hear him screaming....TURN TURN TURN! 3 guys on horses came by and pulled us out. I'll never forget it.

[@mikeunum]

These are memories.The young boy will never ever forget them. Man you do it right. God bless.

[@kriskloeblen3670]

I baled hay, shoveled oats, washed milkers, fed cows….and loved every stinking minute of it. ❤

[@jonathansweetchunky]

This is one of the best videos yet, your family history and stories are fantastic and must be passed on. Keep up with the great work. Good luck

[@andywells6485]

Father and son making memories that will last forever 😊😊

[@flowrider5082]

As a teen, i worked on a small farm and picked up bales of hay by hand and threw them onto a hay wagon. We then unloaded them into the barn. It was hard but satisfying work. On rainy days, we worked cleaning out all the animal pens. My love for farming was born on that farm. ❤️🇨🇦

[@nealwright5630]

Family is important. Heritage is important. In 1860, my great grandfather moved from Ohio to SW Arkansas and homesteaded. He gave a few hundred acres to the community there as a cemetery and community church. Our family is buried there, including him. We still hold funerals, wedding, and reunions there.

[@macleanct4340]

What a fantastic young man. Growing up fast and certain to be a terrific human being. Even with good parents kids can throw you a curve. Reed looks like he's going to be a home run with the bases loaded. Nice job.

[@deserthorizons]

"They get Heavier" is such a perfect statement.. It explains life in 3 short words.. 🌵🌵🌵

[@user-bp8bs6gh9q]

Sunday slow down starts when the Red Poppy notification comes up. Haven’t missed a one. Thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@mary-loujohnson4440]

A lot of work, but like my Dad always told me, anything that comes easy isn't appreciated. I'm sure when you all lay your heads down at night, you feel a wonderful feeling of accomplishment. A joy to watch each week.

[@randallreece3636]

Reed is killing it. Great job Reed. Hard work is your friend. It always pays off in the end. Enjoyed your family heritage.

[@willb3018]

Fun seeing Reed drive the truck. I remember the first time my dad let me drive ...on the road ....in his 1959 F100. . I was 11 but I was tall enough to reach the pedals. We lived on a little used country road and he let me take the wheel for about the last mile home. Some things you never forget.

[@elgonwilliams7624]

I remember my dad teaching me how to drive his truck on the farm. About as soon as my feet would reach the pedals I was on it.

[@againstallodds0538]

I love everything about your family and the way you live your lives. You have no idea how much I love watching your family vlogs. Something I didn't get to live because of my beloved dad passing when I was a little girl. These videos help me imagine what life would be like if my dad is still alive 💔 Trust me, your kids will never forget these days, just like you. Thank you so much for what you and beautiful Cedar do for your kids ❤️ One thing I'd like to suggest about the retaining wall is to build wooden stairs in the middle!! And maybe lights bulbls on the side of the stairs. It would look like staris to heave at night! Great job, Heath 👍👏👏 Take care Have a wonderful day

[@WillowsDream]

The second terrace looks great! Heath it looks like you need to invest in a couple of hay hooks to save your arms when you're moving all those bales around. May your week be blessed. 🙏

[@azsinger49]

Heath, this is one of your best videos. Thank you for sharing your family history and the work you do with your children. I grew up on a ranch in Arizona out by Luke AFB, I know you will know where that is. We had a citrus ranch of 240 acres and another 60 in rotating truck crops. I'm so thankful for my childhood on the ranch.

[@douglascampbell7006]

There is nothing like putting up hay to know you've worked hard all day. Nice video Heath.

[@Aiko2-26-9]

Such a good feeling to be ready for winter. At some point you'll be doing firewood and then you will be ready for the snows! The terraces look great and I agree that the whole house looks better because of them.

[@chriskwammie2773]

Nothing beats bailing hay with that workhorse JD 4020, loved that tractor that could!!!

[@westoneaves7761]

Ceadars “little brother!”😂he’s the biggest brother of the bunch . He’s also one of the best people you could meet. 🤘

[@RedPoppyRanch]

I was blessed with the best brothers for sure!

[@patrickgreen2361]

That you have access to your heritage, knowledge of, and can pass it along IS IMPRESSIVE, IMMEASURABLE. I am impressed. Please share your experience with us as history matters. Southern, Louisiana..

[@stormmountain2521]

Love this. I feel that it's so important to teach your kids grandkids and great grandkids the family history

[@moneymakingmikeg.9555]

Every min. of this video was beyond enjoyable!! Boulder wall is looking FANTASTIC. Hoping all is well guys, Dirty Jersey out!!

[@christopherprather4080]

Seeing the old family cemetery is pretty cool, knowing where you come from is always nice to know

[@Susannabobanna]

Loved seeing the fam cemetery and especially loved seeing the old cabin. Family history is so important! Thanks for sharing! Love you guys!❤

[@AJAmax-22]

The memories you are creating will never be forgotten ! I drove with my grandparents on the farm etc . and treasure those memories . All the times together help your work ethic and character.

[@comedianmattrossey]

Heath, This time You NAILED IT, the Rock Retaining Walls. Looks great, consistent number of layers, consistent sizes of boulders per layer. Not too many layers. It doesn't look like piled rocks. It looks like a rock wall. AWESOME JOB!!! I'm puzzled about how your going to have enough boulders to do 2 more retaining walls. "Must be boulders in them there hills". Once you get them all built, I'd suggest putting down seed for a winter grain. Not for the use of the grain in the Spring, but to keep the soil from washing away in the meltdown at the end of the winter so you have a long enough time for all the soil to settle and compact to stop any erosion that might take place. I don't know anything about Alfalfa, but, if it will germinate and grow enough rooting before the winter as well as under the snow, then that would be a logical grain as you can give the deer fresh Alfalfa in the spring when you remove it from the veggie garden area you just created to plant the Veggie Garden? You could make Alfalfa Sod Cuts and lay the Alfalfa Sod in their enclosure, and grow it in the same way you are growing the Kentucky Blue Grass? I certainly hope you have enough boulders to finish the last 2 retaining walls! Have a great week, See You Sunday, Matt - Toronto, Canada

[@kimwilliams722]

It's really satisfying to know where your roots come from

[@trainchasersatwork]

Your video reminded me of when I was a young kid enjoying farm life and country living. We loaded alfalfa on a flatbed truck and flatbed wagon behind the truck. I was to little to load or stack so I learned to drive the truck In those fields of long ago. Had to keep moving at a Snail’s pace and not jerk the truck causing the stack to call collapse the stack or injure any one stacking on the truck or wagon. Enjoying and enjoyed watching your videos. Thanks for the fond memories. Good luck with the next levels of the rock terraces. 😀👍❤️🚂💨💨💨💨💨🚙

[@josephbrown-ut9ty]

JudithB Sure brings back memories teaching my 9yr old son to drive the pickup in the hay field!! He drove beside the square bales, his Dad pitched the bales in the truck and I stacked them. We made 25cents per bale stacked in the barn. One load slid off the back on the way to the barn and my son was sitting on top of the load. He didnt get hurt but was sure surprised!! LOL!!!

[@sinclairpages]

I am so glad you are teaching your children family history. To many generations of families are go now and no knows their story. They all helped make America what it is. When my three brothers and I pass, the male side of my family tree will end. There are no other males to carry on the family name. Sad to think that an entire family tree will have died off and they will be no more.

[@CC-Rider4564]

MY FAVORITE IDAHO OFF GRID KZbin FAMILY ! 😁👍🏼

[@richardthomas1743]

HEY! Hello Red Poppy and thumbs UP!!!

[@ColinSargeant-p5n]

Hi, Colin from the UK..ist grate too see you guys hard at work your land is looking grate....have been watching you guys from day one...🎉.....grate videos....

[@jefftrag1956]

You out to restore that old tractor if you can get you hands on it. Nice winter project.

[@armidaperez5360]

😮 WOW that's a huge savings doing it yourself... ❤ The sign for the cemetery. That rock formation looks so good 👍 As always RPR is changing for the better.

[@HoneyHollowHomestead]

Your hay will stack better, more stable, if you turn each row 90* to the previous row. It will also give you a sturdier "stair" to the next level.

[@PabloP169]

I started driving the tractor on our farm when I was 5 yrs old, drove the 1927 Chev truck at about 8, and the car followed of course. Short legs was the main hassle.

[@ws775]

Love the history! Bear lake was the site of many mountain man rendezvous in the 1820-30’s. WOW! There is even a Skinner road.

[@christychristensen1412]

I would love to see the Skinner cemetery some day. John and Jane are my great great great grandparents!

[@op3y3mi]

He will never forget that driving experience and he would say the story to his kids, grand kids and if he's lucky great grand kids.

[@jameswest685]

Spontaneous combustion, look it up. Best wishes, prayers for you and yours. Great job!

[@paulrobinson3528]

The old cabin? you either need to restore it or take it down and take it to RPR. The way its leaning, its not long before it secumbs to gravity. it needs saving one way or another, its your heritage Heath, your Heritage!!

[@jakobrebeki]

Thanks for posting....

[@HoneymoonAlways]

We were at Bear Lake last weekend with family! Pretty crazy that the area was first settled only 150 years ago.

[@michaelchamberlain4618]

Should call the barnwood builders they'd buy that and they can build you one also.

[@goldenfoot05]

My family has a very similar family cemetery near redlodge Mt. We all go up once in summer to mow it and clean it up and talk to our family that’s gone before us.

[@Bill_N_ATX]

That’s exactly how I learned to drive. Driving my grandfather’s truck as we did chores and such. By the time it came time for me to take driver’s education in school at 16, I’d been driving for four years, albeit never faster than 20 maybe 25 miles an hour. I also remember summertime throwing hay. Hot, itch, and miserable but we made great money for teenage kids.

[@icehog3454]

The walls are looking great Heath. Well done. Should be a huge piece of mind not having to worry about a mudslide coming at your house.

[@jaynareynolds3684]

This was a thoroughly beautiful video. Loved every second of it! Thank you! 👍❤

[@albertwhitehead4849]

WOW!!! Those terraces look great!!!! Changes the look of the entire property!!!!

[@brianroberts4349]

Nice work! Always good to see the progress! Gotta say....from experience....BAD idea to pile hay up against the wooden exterior of your building....but the critters will love it!

[@noyopacific]

Thanks for the video Heath! Watching Reed moving bales reminded me of my daughter moving bales when she was 15. She got pretty good at it after she learned how to use hay hooks and hold the bales against her legs so she could lift them with her knees. These were 3 wire bales that weighed over 100 pounds. She used to like to ask the neighbor boys to move bales for her just so she could watch them struggle with them. Then she would take over and move them herself. 😆

[@scotterickson1582]

Good evening RPR😊

[@pippaseaspirit4415]

A vintage flat-eight bale collector and pickup to go with that lovely baler would save you some time, fuel and effort. It’s certainly worth keeping an eye out for them. We used to couple the flat-eight collector right behind the baler.

[@blackbuttecruizr]

It is good to see where you are from, it gives you perspective on how far you have gone.

[@williamdumaine2527]

Wow.. My Mom's original Family name was Skinner. When her Grandparents came here from Ireland.

[@DavidRobinson-mx6cl]

Very nice , thanks for sharing !!!!! 😊 🙏👍❤️

[@inadollard6672]

I remember driving the truck collecting bales what a fun memory ❤😊💪👍

[@zbowen8489]

The wall came out very nice!

[@FallLineJP]

Having such deep roots in your area is such a privilege. Thank you for sharing that, it really struck a chord. I had the good fortune of knowing most of my great-grandparents. Sadly I may never be able to return to the place where they lived and are buried in my lifetime because of dumb world politics. But I will treasure those memories with them forever.

[@tylerbarrett6652]

Wow! Your terraces are looking great so far, but it looks like I was wrong. I thought for sure that you'd include some sort of water feature... and I didn't picture the terraces being so wide. I guess I was thinking garden-bed width rather than mini-steer width - but you are transforming that area into something much nicer than I imagined... and I imagined a fairly attractive landscape. It was good to learn about your wife's little brother who lives nearby... I must have missed that earlier, and I've been following you for a few years now. Thanks for sharing this journey with us... it's been fun to watch.

[@albertwhitehead4849]

You should have had Alan Jackson singing "Daddy Let Me Drive" playing when Reed was driving the truck!!!

[@rionstretton8133]

Great day had by family with lots of history and hard work ❤. This is a great video.

[@househen1]

That’s where we all learned how to drive is a hay field. Ha, I love your comment about the driver’s license. It warms my heart to see your kids at the cemetery. I don’t know how much you paid your son for helping but he earned every penny. Putting up hay is hard work!

[@Leeeri1954]

A work of art!

[@AZHITW]

Wow read a bit of your family history, what an amazing and adventurous couple that brought your ancestors to Idaho. I also impressed with Reed and his driving skills. Take care.

[@glimmermomma4373]

Nothing but beautiful country up there!!!❤

[@charleeghee7195]

You have a beautiful family, and an outstanding homestead that I've watched you build from the beginning. Your capabilities and hard work always amazing me. I really appreciate how you've made everything off grid. I keep waiting for you to build a greenhouse and get some livestock going to complete your self-sufficiency. I know you're not going to eat those deer or amy I wrong? I can see some cold hardy low maintenance cattle like the Scottish Highland and a winter hardy breed of goats and foraging chickens (with a noisy goose to protect them, ha). Thank you for sharing.

[@cuocsonglangnoigogang]

Congratulations on completing the second boulder terrace! Your hard work and dedication to creating such a beautiful and functional space are truly inspiring. It’s fascinating to see how you balance the artistry of landscaping with the practical aspects of managing your land, like considering how much hay a deer herd can eat in a year. Your commitment to both aesthetics and wildlife management is impressive and showcases a thoughtful approach to homesteading. And I am Floating Village Life, Hit follow and let's explore together!

[@shanehaws3828]

At 10 years old I did the same as Reed did with driving your dodge! But 8 was dr8ving my parents 75 silverado camper special c20 with a 30' flatbed trailer as both of my parents bucked hay in our neighbors pasture for our cows and horse

[@estellaknox9285]

beautiful view and place

[@1944chevytruck]

Good history congrats!

[@jeffreybrookes9731]

I worked a lot of hey with some Farmers where I used to hunt in Pennsylvania we would pull them straight out of the Bailer and stacked it on a wagon We always used bail hooks. I can't imagine doing it without hooks.

[@paddycaseygsxr]

Evening red poppy ranch from the uk 🇬🇧

[@lds6899]

Invest in a round bale wrapper and skid stear hay spike. Great job 😊

[@AFellowBrother]

Man i can still remember when you where building your house and look where you are now #GoedWerk #NL

[@alangriffiths1432]

My wife found my 4th or 5th great Granddad and Grandmother in Erbistock in Wales, his job was a blacksmith

[@thalleshoward3962]

Your brother in law property is absolutely gorgeous scenery. I think I would be fishing every day if that was my property.

[@bohammarberg4072]

Good morning !!! 🌹🌹🌹

[@lint2023]

I was about 9 or 10 when I was taught to drive on our christmas tree farm. 1947 Dodge pickup! I wish I still had it.

[@ProfIdiotFromMars]

Reed already looks like a young man rather than a boy. What a beautiful time for him, and how lucky he is to grow like that to these parents. He maybe is looking for a couple of bucks but he could be the richest kid in the world.

[@jisidrocapetillo1281]

One of those boulders looks like it has a face on it when you’re walking and showing it at minute 13:27 looks pretty cool

[@mattke5etc]

For a second I thought I was watching a "Bales Hay Farm and Ranch" episode. Great work on the retaining wall that looks awesome!

[@NettyRodriguez-z1q]

I love the terrace

[@joshuaknoll6697]

Heath it would be awesome for you and Reed to restore that old farmall tractor

[@tombrenes2411]

Beautiful content Thank you for sharing Love all the hard work

[@curtisking2962]

Great video, lots of history. Thanks for sharing. See you next week.

[@judd_s5643]

13:30 the terrace is looking very good, add a bit of wild flowers and it will pop,

[@roberto.peterson9917]

now im 72 soon 73 remember my time with grandparents and living on farm helping with haying and farm chores wasn't optional especially if you wanted to eat lol lol

[@danbartley852]

The rock wall it looks amazing sir. Cheers from Canada

[@meaww7373]

The boulders are almost there..drainage following soon