When my husband and i lived in Coal Hill, ARKANSAS. Our date nights consistented of sitting in our truck in a field watching fireflies. He has been gone for 16 years, and it's been over 35 years since we lived in ARKANSAS. I still think of him and smile about our date nights in a field of frieflies.

Morning. I’m raising a newborn cottontail my Anatolian dug up. I’m on day 5 and the little guy is doing good. Hope to release back to the wild after a while!

I hope that you can get the rest of the boards up to you patio and get started on the roofing and I hope that you have a great weekend

Mel..my baby brother has gout also. When he has a flareup..it's bad. Brian has Down's Syndrome and his gout affects has feet and hands. Thank God he hasn't had ant flareups so far this year. Diet and medicine helps.

Hello Gary and Mel. Mel you are correct. The historic 2024 emergence involves two broods of cicadas - Brood XIII and Brood XIX - emerging simultaneously. These two broods of 13-year and 17-year cicadas haven't emerged together in more than 220 years

I know that I don't comment often even though I watch all the time. I just have to say this. Whatever you decide to do, I know that it will be great. Y'all always seem to come up with the right solution. I love watching things progress.

Hi guys!! I grew up here in Pa catching lightning bugs during the summer months. We would put them in a jar or plastic container with air holes in the lid and put them in our bedroom at night and watch them flicker. Sorry about losing the turkeys but I hope you try it again. I think it’s cool watching them saunter around lol. Have a great day and stay safe!! 💜

I'll bet Liz & Micah's boys will have a blast at your kid friendly yard. You will have to get video of them seeing the tree house and the mad dash to climb it. I'm sure Julia will keep an eagle eye out for the small ones. Hope you have a smooth productive day.

Fire Flies, Here in the South we call them ( Lightnin' Bugs) !!

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I loved watching lightning bugs when growing up in the country. It would be so dark outside and nothing but twinkling all around you. Just beautiful.

Yall catch lots of lightning bugs this weekend and make some wonderful memories. Happy Father's day 💙 GARY!! I love you guys ❤

Arms Family Homestead says baby turkeys are extremely hard to grow out.

Am really enjoying the new time and schedule for real talk. ❤️🙏😘

Ah! If the tractor is coming over that's a great way to get the green board up on the roof. Might have to put up on the front roof and drag it over though. It would be a great day to call in reinforcements (especially Mike the Monkey Man) and Giter Done in one day!

That rabbit is running because it heard of freezer camp....lol

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Great memories catching lightning bugs when I was a kid at my Aunt and Uncle's place. So thanks. Enjoyed watching. Love y'all

Awesome video God Bless you and your family Amen

You re doing an excellent job. I’ve been on this journey with you since you moved to 41.36, in Arkansas. You caught my attention in a massive way. Your first garden, every animal both in the beginning to now and each addition, your bunnies, baby turkeys, etc. Mel, I’m happy that you wasn’t hurt too badly when you fell the other week, you and Gary need to be careful🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ By the way, I love all of your fishing spots, and such beautiful lakes…until later🤓🤓🤓

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Sorry about the turkeys. Try again. Probably the batch. Good luck. So glad you all met Black Sheep Project. Great family. They are going to fit right in the community✌️🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Old timer told me never put turkeys in with chickens. I raised at least 10 a year for over 10 years and rarely list one.

We live in the Northeast and we see fireflies every year. I used to catch them in a jar when I was a kid.

I was 62 yrs old before i saw my first firefly....Had just retired, bought a motorhome , and was taking my retirement vacation from the west coast to NOLA with a stop in Memphis so i could go to Beale St and experience the blues at BB Kings...While in Memphis we stayed at T.O. Fulller State Park....Sitting on a picnic bench at dusk and there it was !!! I was like a kid in a candy store...My wife was laughing her ass off at me...Then i looked around and they were everywhere...TO kewl...To this day that is my only firefly experience....

The flea market near me usually has people selling chickens and turkeys. But lately they haven't been able to sell them there because there have been so many sick birds in the area.Syd from 3MS didn't do all her chickens at once . She picked the biggest ones first so that the smaller ones had room to grow. There's going to be a lot of chicken at Freedom Weekend.

Ducks are really good for gardens. They will eat all the bugs but will not scratch and dig up your plants. You can put them in the garden for a couple of hours per day .

Love that you call them “fire flies”. Up north in Iowa, we call them “lightning bugs”😊. I do like you doing your Real Talks in the evening. Great idea you guys!❤

Hey mel n gary ! Dream of turning traingles into fish gary 😂 ! Sorry couldnt help it ! Yall have a great day n i hope yall get as much as you can done ! Be blessed

Good Video , sorry about the Turkeys not making it .... but happy about the rest of the video and had a few laughs with yahs as well. Looking forward to seeing the work or fun you have with the new fam members coming to visit yahs

SLR, Here in Maine, there are less and less available Turkey Poultes due to a " Bird Flu" getting into flocks. My neighbor lost two yr laying hens, twelve of them, in a two week period. He is starting over with less chicks( 10) and doing some home-made feed. He thinks that the feed was the source, so he is trying a this approach. His chicks will get 30%cracked,30% wheat,20%peas,10%oats,10%fish meal. He also mixes into the feed grit, as opposed to a seperate bowl in their run.

I wonder if they had something that was contagious with each other, but I would worry about that gage putting anything else in that Gage until you find out what was going on❤

We raised bronze turkey started w 1 day old chick's. They need a big area and place to perch too. ❤❤

I'd asked about the turkeys a couple weeks ago & you replied what happened in the comments of one of the videos. I can't remember the video that I'd asked on though.

I would be weary of buying animals from auctions. Oftentimes they will sell their sick or problem animals there. If you get anything from an auction, make sure you quarantine them for a while to keep an eye on them and that they don't get other animals sick, if they do have a sickness.

Sorry to hear about your turkeys.

Turkeys can get blackhead which is usually fatal. Chickens are usually immune to this deceased but can pass it to Turkeys.young turkeys are most effected because there feet are soft and that's usually the way the get black head. This might be what happened. Raise young turkeys off the ground on wire until there feet harden. Love your channel! Alice

Good Afternoon and Morning too .❤ Sorry for your loss.Turkey are hard to raise , I had turkeys they was about 5 months old. They just set because of their legs was week. My husband had to put them down . Grow turkeys I think is way to go . Love videos ❤

I dont Iike lives.. It's just me, they make me tense.. so I will always watch these clips.

I see you started cutting the rafters. 👍👍

Lower Wisconsin,fire flies are starting here too.

Good morning 🌞 bummer your turkeys didn't make it 🥺 yay Gary, you figured decking out 😊 Have a great day 🙏🇺🇲💖

Sorry about your turkeys. Those baby chickens are getting so big. Looks like good eating.

I'm so sorry to hear about your turkeys. Hope you'll have better luck next go-around.

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I like Your Hat Mel

Howdy Howdy, have a great weekend!

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Keep up the hard work y'all ❤️ 🙋‍♂️ 👍

It was like to get to see you too 💕

man sorry to hear about your future turkey dinners 😢💔 that really sucks y'all hopefully the next batch will get to go to camp 🤞

Keep up the good work!!!😊🎉❤

Seems like everyone has trouble with turkeys. I have gout Mel, it sucks. I make a weird salad of shredded cabbage, arugula & radishes, it's a cleansing salad and helps. Also, good for it is red grapes. The best is a couple days rest. Just tell the "youtube critics" to chill and put your feet up every once in awhile. Take care.

Have you thought about taking off roof face boardan then put 2x4 from rafter to top of beam.

YOU ARE DOING GREAT,

Good morning Coffee.. have a great day

I spotted my first lightning bug last night as well! I hope your kids are catching them and putting them in a jar overnight. Put some grass in the jar as well, and let them go the next day. I loved having that jar setting in my room when I went to bed at night and all those bugs lighting up.

Hey 👋 👋 Gary and Mel 😊

Gary just keep it simple

Doing real talk at night, and sharing what got done, rather than what is planned makes so much sense. Use those cooler hours to get the work done.

You mean a lightening bug? lol 🪰🥏

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Sorry about the Turks! Have you tried ordering from a hatchery instead? Yeah buddy, those cicadas were awful this year. There were millions on my mountain and it sounded like I was living on a freeway for WEEKS ! The shells were on everything and THEN they started to die and were everywhere you walked. It was gross! So glad Wiley is helping out Shovel Life Reclaimed!! Go Wiley! Texas Deb ❤

Turkeys are really hard to grow out, don’t know why.

It's true that time to sit and think about stuff is important.

Turkeys will drown themselves in rain. We had a roof over most of their area. We raised them for years. One was 65# we had to cut him in half and smoked it. Yummy. The turkey didn't have enough area.

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We use to take mason jars and catch them for night lights when we were kids :)

I am sorry that you lost all the turkeys and I guess it’s like you said to wait and get them when they are bigger and then maybe you can have some meat for your holidays

Chickens would Love to Eat the Cicadas! Catch as many as you can to put back & feed the Chickens!!

The background work is just as important as the building and management of your homestead. Yall are awesome at the balance of both!

Are you going to build an enclosure for the goats?

Good Morning guys! Always something going on, on a homestead. Never ending projects. If ya think that will stop once your livestock, and house are done....think again! LOL Sorry to hear about your turkeys. There again you never know. Hope ya have an awesome day tomorrow. Gary, we knew you could figure it out! LOL

Could it have been poisonous snake bite? Or some disease from get go? So sad! Sorry y'all lost the turkeys😢❤

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I love Jen and Whitley brother and sister in Christ ! I totally need KZfaq University! I miss you all! I miss your momma she has been such a great friend to me and sister in Christ ! Oh Garry just box it in don’t cut anything off .

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My Pa n mother in-law said baby turkeys are hard. Getting damp/ wet feet wit( a draft. Not that was what happened to them. But another option.

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I wish those meat birds had access to more light and fresh air 😢

Every 13 years cicadas

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Did you say gout I have crippling gout Hit every joint in my body1 time they wanted to remove my arm and I said no way cause they didn't know what I had And I got a good doctor I got on his pills15 years now I have not have a Gout attack

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You've never seen a lightning bug before yall moved to Arkansas?

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Try again w.turkeys. You may get lucky this time

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are there any bears in your state ? and do they come onto your property ?

Did they have bird flu?

Sounds like maybe something wrong with environment, to much yuck from dropping maybe. or could be they baked in the heat from the sun. Could be internal genetics. Clean the cage, dig off an inch of dirty where it sits, put down so good dirt and mulch before anymore animals

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First. Ha ha lol I love you guys so much hope you’re having a wonderful day today ❤

you are touring those chickens, you must have a big out side area for them to eat and have fresh air, look at their place is dark. hot, dirty

Quick get it done before you over think it again gary😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

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Gary what kind of turkey were you raising the white double breasted turkeys are the best raised. I never had any problems raising my turkeys, but you want to keep the turkeys away from the chickens because chickens can be brutal. They killed my female and yeah, you need to make their own pan the bronze turkeys are mean and aggressive, as to the white ones are me or but I never had any problems with my turkeys. I know that my neighbor Tommy was raising bronze and he lost a lot of his turkeys so I’m hoping you didn’t get the bronze. Please try to get the white ones there a lot better turkey I raise them for meat 🍖 they build their own pen don’t put them in the same pen with chicken . Bc chicken love meat as well . Now goats 🐐 I enjoy goats so please 🙏 get a book specially a Nubian male pisses in their mouth. It’s like brute or a Chanel number five to the females and it will make all your properties stink bad they have to have a pen alone far away cause they smell to bad . have baby I enjoyed Bonnie Bon she wasn’t bad and she was a milking goat, but she wasn’t a Nubian she was a great goat. I miss her a lot except she like going into the chicken coop and got herself locked in. I had to rescue her very curious animals, but they’re better than dogs. My stepfather had a goat Percy and a there like dogs in the house until he got too big anyway be careful with the goats. They have to have a pin of their own pellets are fine, but you should give them Tennessee grass, especially when they get pregnant. They’re just so cute. I love baby kids. I have fed all three Bonnie had triplets and I enjoyed feeding them out of the bottle. We had it separate mom and two daughters and a male. I can’t remember what they’re called but they’re not new and Nubians are stubborn and bullheaded but I hope you have fun with your new baby goat just don’t, take it to a different goat farm and pay the price to have them get pregnant because it’s not worth having the mail. It stinks. I don’t know how David does it but I wouldn’t keep my mail in there anyway have a good life. You’re doing really good. Just get that house finished, and then you can take all the time you want. Later guys Blessing. ❤