Hey everyone, it's Matt, the Stonedabe Farmer, coming at you from Farm For All, and today I want to talk to you about this checkerboard three sisters bed and all of the features that I designed into it. Let's do it. So the other day I featured this checkerboard bed in my video on gardening without irrigation, and it's getting to be pretty late in the season now. I've been planning on putting a second one of these beds in, and I need to do it now if there's any chance of maturing a crop at all. I've been getting it in really soon, I might miss my window, but I'm going to do it, and I want to bring you guys along when I do it so you can see how the prep is done, but first I want to go over some of the design features that I built into this bed. First of all, I didn't want to irrigate, and well, it's not that I didn't want to irrigate, although I don't, but even if I did, we don't have a functioning well at the moment, so irrigation is not an option. One of the things that I did was build these shallow depressions that catches the rainwater and directs it to the plant's roots. That is one of the major features of the design, and I go over it and all of the major water saving features in that other video, link in the description if you want to learn more about that. Today I'm going to focus on some of the other features. The other major feature of this bed is that I wanted it, along with a dozen chickens, to produce enough calories to feed a person for a year. According to my back of the envelope math, this bed will do that. What I did was pull the yields per plant as best as I could scrounge them from seed catalogs and reviews of the varieties that I'm growing, and then use data from the USDA to calculate how many calories it would produce. Now, granted, that is generally assuming an ideal yield from all the reviews and the information in the seed catalogs. I'm not going to get that my first year. For example, I only got 75% germination slash survival on the corn that I planted. So I'm already taking a 25% hit right there. The other thing is that I don't have compost. This is heavy clay that hasn't been amended a lot. The plants are going to struggle in this, so I'm not going to reach my goal this year, but I want to see how close this bed gets. So what I did was find all of the yields that were expected for these varieties, multiply that by the number of plants that I'm growing in this bed, then multiply that figure by the calorie values that I got from the USDA. What I came up with, assuming that winter squash are 80% flesh and 20% seeds, is that the winter squash flesh plus the seeds plus the corn plus the beans plus the eggs from a dozen chickens all comes up to about 730,000 calories, which is equal to 2,000 calories a day. And based on a standard 2,000 calorie a day diet, that'll feed a person for a year. It won't be all of your nutrition, you should still be eating greens and other vegetables on top of what is growing in this bed, but it'll technically grow enough calories to keep you alive if you get a perfect yield, or at least an ideal yield, not a perfect yield, an ideal yield based on what other people are harvesting from these varieties. The size of this bed was another important feature. I wanted to maintain a relatively small footprint while still providing enough space that I could grow plants without irrigation, and I wanted to accommodate enough corn plants that I could save seed without triggering inbreeding depression. If you're not aware, inbreeding depression is a common feature of out crossing plants, and basically it's if you buy a named variety of a plant, so you buy, in this case I'm growing Cascade Ruby Gold corn, if you buy Cascade Ruby Gold corn, those seeds don't all have the same genetics, they have a variety of genetics, they're all similar enough that when you grow it, you're going to get basically the same thing, but what's under the hood is quite varied. Inbreeding depression is a feature of out crossing plants that when the genetics get too limited, the plants lose their vigor. They're trying to self destruct, they're trying to commit suicide because they don't want to pass on their limited genetics to future generations and limit that plant's capacity to survive in an unknown environment. Different plants will have a different number of plants that you need to save seeds from in order to prevent inbreeding depression. Sometimes it's a couple of dozen, sometimes it's 20, 30. Corn is one of the worst ones for inbreeding depression. You need to save seeds from a minimum of 100 or 200 plants, minimum, more is always better. The way I set up this bed, it has just over 200 plants in it, so it's perfect for saving seeds from. It also happens to be the fact that most seed suppliers sell their corn in packets of roughly half an ounce and half an ounce also works out to roughly 200 seeds, so this bed not only allows you to grow enough plants to save your own seed, but also accommodates exactly a packet of seed. Of course, you won't get 100% germination, but that's a later discussion. The size that I ended up figuring out would provide all of these features was a 22 and a half by 22 and a half foot bed. That comes out to just a little over 500 square feet. It accommodates all the corn plants at the right spacing, it accommodates all of the squash at the right spacing, and you don't have to irrigate it. It was the best of all worlds. Of course, this bed features all of the standard features of a three sisters bed. If you don't know what a three sisters bed is, it's a traditional Native American planting technique where you plant corn, beans, and squash together. The corn acts as a trellis for the beans, so the beans can get up to the light. The beans, they form a symbiotic relationship with the rhizobium bacteria in the soil, and it allows them to pull their nitrogen from the air rather than from the soil, and it supplies that nitrogen to other plants in that soil, which also means that it does not compete with the corn for nitrogen that you fertilize with. And the squash in the three sisters bed acts as a living mulch. It covers the base of the bed, it prevents weeds from coming up, and it shades the bed so that you're preventing excess evaporation of soil moisture. Those are all the main features that I built into this bed. There is one that I left out in my gardening without irrigation video the other day, which is that I installed a miniature soil, basically a trench at the top of this bed since it is on a slope. That trench kind of catches any water that's flowing down the hill and slows it down so it will sink in deeply underneath this bed and provide extra water. But those are all the main features. Let's get on to how you actually prepare this thing. That was the workout. I'm going to go in and have some lunch, but before I do, I'm going to show you guys what I did here with the groupeau. So you can see that this isn't really fine. This is still really, really rough, bunch of really big dirt clods. This first pass was really just to create a nice rough dust mulch on top of this. And to get the weeds broken down, I'll let this rest overnight, and then I'll come back through in the other direction. Do one more pass. It'll break up the bigger clods. There's a really fine seed bed. And then I'll be able to start shaping this bed for the next three sisters patch. I had to go take a quick break and put some mulch skin on my hands. My hands are really starting to protest all of this digging, even though I've been doing this all season. And even though I have calluses on my hands at this point, I can still get blisters if I push it too hard. So take care of your hands. Make sure that they're covered. Wear good gloves. Use some mulch skin if you need a little extra layer of protection, and take a break if you're doing just too much of it. The first bed that I did took me six or seven days to complete, so don't think you can just rush through this and get one of these in in a day or two, especially if you're digging in this heavy clay. If you've got some nice lumb, yeah, sure, you can probably bring it on a day, but take your time and don't be too hard on your body. Let's get back to this. Second pass is done, and I don't know how I'm editing this so that it's not just a 30-minute video of me digging, but I hope you guys could tell how much less time and effort that second pass took than the first pass did yesterday. Just doing that first pass and letting it settle overnight softens up the soil a lot. And I'll show you here in a second what it looks like now, but you can see how much finer and looser and fluffier the soil is than it was when I showed it to you yesterday. Just wanted to come and show you guys quickly what the soil looks like now that I've done my second pass. I'm sure you can tell that it is much finer than it was yesterday. There's still some big pieces, like this right here. That's fine. We're going to end up raking a lot of this out when we're shaping the bed, and you actually want some of the bigger pieces along the edges to help hold it shape. So this is the perfect texture right here. Be lots of loose stuff to shape the beds with, and then some larger pieces to give it structure around the edges. Let's go ahead and move on to that next step now. All right, for the next part of prepping the Three Sisters Bed, here are the tools I use. This is just a sheet of cardboard, two and a half feet square that I use as a template for marking out the little pockets. Just a regular garden hoe if you have a bow rake that's narrow enough to rake out the sections that would probably work at least as well if not better. I don't have one that will work for that, and this is a folk and hoe which I like to use to trace around the cardboard. It's not a super useful tool for using in heavy clay, but for marking furrows and tracing things it works pretty well. Definitely not something that's necessary. Not a tool I would necessarily recommend if you're in heavy clay soil, but I have it and it's either that or I can go find a stick. I don't have a long stick handy, so that's what I'm going to use. I won't really be able to film this part in a way where you can really see what I'm doing, but I'll see if I can do it one-handed, do one little example and show you how it works while I film. So, take my folk and hoe, use a stick, use whatever you have handy, use a regular hoe if you're good with it, and just mark out the edge of the beds, the edge of this little pocket so I can see where I need to shape it. And it doesn't have to be super exact, just to make sure you can see it when you move the cardboard, and here's the cardboard here, you can still see it in the video, but I can see it just fine and you'll notice that I ran string around two edges of the bed, I squared it off.  So you can use like a measuring tape or another five foot piece of string, just pull your outside edges out just so that a string or measuring tape going from the four feet marking on one side to the three foot marking on one side is exactly five feet, and that'll square up your corners. I only do two sides of my bed, because in my experience when you're using the template, it's not going to end up being exact, you're going to go a little bit over your edges. So I only do the two, and I use that to line up my template, and then I just use the beds that I've already created, or the little pockets that I've already created to know where to put the template and to move along the bed. I'll see if I can get part of this raked out so you can kind of see how I do it, but I'm not really going to be able to show you the whole process, and at this point I'm sure you're sick of watching me dig anyway, so I'm not going to bother. Basically, let's take from towards the middle, and these outside pockets are always going to be the worst, at least for me, because I never dig quite deep enough along the edges, because I don't want to hit my string. You can probably see even here it's a lot better than it is over here, so I might have to go with this, go at this with the hole a little bit more just to break it up, but once I get it down there'll be a nice little pocket here that I can plant my corn in. Alright, I'm going to get that done, and then I'll be back. Okay guys, I'm wrapping up this first row here. As you might notice, I only have eight squares instead of the nine that I'm supposed to have, and that's the end of my string, and that's the template hanging off the end. Like I said, when you're working with a template like this and dirt like this, it's very unlikely you're going to get it exact the first time. In a situation like this, you can do one of two things, you can either just extend the bed, it's not going to hurt anything, in fact it'll help a lot to have that little bit of extra room between plants, especially if you're in a climate that's much drier than I am, extra space is going to help. The other thing you can do is just push back these little dividers in between the squares, just a little bit to make a little bit of extra room, and I think that's what I'm going to end up doing with this one so that I don't have to extend this little bit that I've dug out, because this is pretty compacted, I don't want to deal with it. I'm just going to go ahead and lay the template down at the edge of the square, I'm going to have it going kind of up the side a little bit, and then I'll just use my hoe to scoot the dirt back level with the template, and try to make an affirm that I can fit one more little square in. Alright, I scooted it down a little bit, and then my template mostly fits, still hanging off by a few inches, but since that's where the soil is going to be piled up at the edge of the depression, I think that's good enough for me.  I'll get back to you when I'm done with this thing. And here is the bed after it has been shaped. Now I mentioned that I was doing the wood chips every other spot as I made the rows, and I think that'll be obvious, and if it's not, it would be obvious once you got to the end and realized that you wouldn't be able to get a wheelbarrow through all these little pockets without destroying your work. If you do row by row, you can do it with a wheelbarrow really easily, and that saves you from having to haul wood chips bucket by bucket to each of these little pockets. I still need to fertilize, and I still need to plant, but it's getting late in the day. I don't have much sunlight left, so I'm going to save that for morning, and I'll show you guys what that looks like. All right, it's the next morning. I need to get this thing fertilized, so let me show you what the fertilizer situation is. This is my homemade organic fertilizer. It's from Steve Solomon's complete organic fertilizer recipe. I've got links to his books in the description.  Basically, it's a combination of a few different types of lime, some seed meal, seed meal is actually the bulk of it, because that's where the nitrogen comes from, and we've got some rock dust in there. The main recipe actually calls for kelp meal, but at $80 for a 50-pound bag that just wasn't in my budget this year, and he recommends rock dust as an alternative to that. Now, there are a few other random things that he recommends if you really want to go hardcore. A very, very small amount of borax for the boron that's in there, and a few other odds and ends. Definitely recommend checking out his books if you want to be able to mix up your own organic fertilizer. Yes, we understand, dude. Nobody really cares. This is basically similar to your Dr. Earth or your Job's organic fertilizers that you would pick up in the store. Seriously. Those generally have like a few different bacterial and fungal inoculants in them, which this doesn't have, although you could add them, but this works out to, I think it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $0.50 a pound or something like that, and when you buy it in the stores, it's closer to $3 or $4 a pound. So if you can buy everything in bulk and mix up your own, this is way more economical than buying organic fertilizer at the store. I need about 30 courts to do our three sisters bed. He recommends 46 courts per 100 square feet, and our bed is just a little over 500 square feet. How much exactly depends on what type of crop you're growing. The higher end, if you don't mind, the higher end is for your heavy feeding crops like corn and squash. So since that's primarily what we're growing, I'm going to be going with that. He has specific recommendations by crop. He has specific recommendations by crop in his book. So you can go ahead and pick that up if you want something a little more exact than the directions I've given you here. Let's go ahead and measure this out and apply it. And hopefully we'll get a little bit of a break from the rooster. Here's this plastic tub that I like measuring out my fertilizer into just so that when I'm working in any particular spot, I can measure out the exact amount I need and then go ahead and take it out to the garden to apply it. See, we've got 500 square feet here, like I mentioned. Well, it's 506 feet in change. And because I've already covered up every other hole with wood chips, I go ahead and divide the fertilizer by 41, which is the number of planting spaces we have for corn, and then apply it just to the corn, figuring that the squash roots are going to make it into those areas anyway, and they'll be able to get their fertilizer once they get there. One other thing I expect to happen to be... I expect to happen because of that is that the corn will get a little bit of a head start and it'll help get it up above the squash before the squash really takes over this area. Um... So it's 30 quarts for this entire bed and that works out to about a pint and a half per each square. So, literally just measure out your pint, sprinkle it on the hole, grab another little half eyeballing, it's fine. Steve Solomon designed this fertilizer so that you can't really over-apply it. It's a really gentle mix. It's going to really help your veggies out, but it's going to be really hard to overdo it. Um, let me go grab the tool I like to use real quick and I'll show you how I mix this in. Alright, I went and got this tool here. The brand name is a Hound Dog. I think I've seen other brands before. I think they're sold as soil aerators. I like to use it if I need to make something in so that I'm only disturbing a very small amount of space with it. It's basically kind of like a spiral fork and you stick it into the ground and twist and it'll mix stuff in. I'm going to see if I can get a shot of me using it, but I don't have a tripod, so I'll see if I can prop my phone up so that you guys can see what it does. Alright, so what you're going to do is just stick this in the ground and give it a twist because this is heavy clay. It's going to fight you a bit. Although, once you get it started, it usually goes pretty easy. Sometimes I'll give it a little push with my foot just to get the tines in there and get them started. And then I find that rocking it back and forth really helps a lot. You don't need to mix it a whole lot. You just want to mix with the soil so that it'll break down and be available to the plants. Sometimes going a bit of an angle helps. Here's the first one done. You don't really need to get the stuff that's here around the edges. When it rains, that stuff will wash right in. And all I did down here is I pushed some of these larger claws that weren't breaking down towards the edge and left all this really fine stuff in the middle for planting in. And now we just have to do that 40 more times. Let's do it. Just wanted to get a quick shot of the bed now that I've got the fertilizer in it. Not because I need to, but just because I think it looks cool. This contrast between the fertilizer and the wood chips really brings out the namesake of the bed. Checkerboard bed. One quick note is wear a mask when you're applying this stuff. It's not toxic, but it is a very, very finely ground rock, basically.  Same goes when you're applying the wood chips. They aren't finely ground, but they do tend to be a breeding ground for fungus and if your pile isn't extremely wet, it'll kick up a bunch of spores. And trust me, I've spread wood chips once without a mask and I definitely regret it the next day. Don't make the same mistake. A quick note on other amendments. I don't have compost this year just because it's my first year growing in this large of a space and I can't produce that much yet. If you have compost or if you can buy in compost, I would go ahead and put a quarter to half an inch in each of the holes. I'd apply it to the corn depressions as I'm adding the fertilizer and I would throw some in before I put wood chips down for the squash. Another thing that I use quite a lot is nettle tea. You can find lots of videos on that. I might do one in the future, but I usually apply that as a foliar spray. As things get growing, sometimes when I first plant things, I'll do a soil drench with it real quick. That helps compact the soil around the seeds and make sure that the roots can get into the soil really well. And those are the main things that I use and if you have them available, I would definitely add some of those on top of just the fertilizer. And if you can't get the fertilizer, I would definitely use some compost at the very least. That is prepped and it's time to plant the seeds. And one thing that I like to do if I'm planting either at a time of year when the soil is too cold for the seeds to germinate, or if I'm planting when there's not gonna be any rain in the forecast and there might not be enough soil moisture for the seeds to germinate, is to go ahead and pre-germinate those seeds. There are a few different methods that you can use. You can use a sprouting jar like you would use if you were growing sprouts to eat. The method that I went ahead and used this time and one of my favorite methods is to just roll up your seeds in a moist paper towel, stick them in a plastic container or a plastic bag with the top cracked so that the air can exchange and then just check them every day for the roots to emerge. Let me show you an example of what that looks like. Here's an example of what the seeds will look like after they germinate when you're pre-germinating them. This seed right here is what it should look like. The root should just barely be peaking out of the seed. That way it won't be long and fragile. There's no risk of you breaking it. I underestimate how much time it's gonna take me to get this bed prepared and I ended up with a bunch of seeds like this. You don't want this. This root is way too long. The risk of breaking it is really high. In fact, this one you probably can't tell but it broke off and it may survive but there's a very good chance that this seed will die now that the root is damaged. I'm gonna go ahead and stick it in the ground and see what happens. But definitely aim for this guy right here. Should pop out within maybe two or three days and that'll be the perfect time to plant it. Now in each of these squares you're going to want to plant five seeds. One in each corner and one in the very center. What I like to do when I come out to the garden is to keep my seeds wrapped in a moist paper towel and then just open it up as I pull out each side, each seed to plant. In this case because I've got around 200 seeds here I went ahead and kept them in a plastic container just to help hold some moisture in because the paper towel would dry out before I'd be able to plant it all. And what you want to do, I just use a trusty little screwdriver here. I kind of clear some of the looser stuff around the top out of the way and then I drive it in, give it a little purl, pull it out without, hopefully without dropping any soil down in there and filling my hole back up. Take your seed, drop it in, try to get it root down. Just so that the root's going the right way from the start. Fill it back in and that is it. Do it four more times, again, once in each corner. So I already got the one in the center and then move on to the next square. Okay, next I'm gonna show you how to do the squash seeds. It's more or less the same process but there'll be one difference because we've got the wood mulch here. One point that I want to make real quick before I do the squash seed and so if you do end up with any of those seeds that get away from you and have the really long root, you can still plant them. They'll probably make it. You just gotta be very, very gentle with it.  Try to make sure its root is facing down and if there's a sprout starting to form like there is on some of my corn seeds, make sure that's pointed up and just be very gentle with it and hope for the best because that's all you can really do once they get that ahead of you. Okay, squash. Because we have the wood mulch here and one of the points of the wood mulch is that it is a weed suppression. Well, you don't want to suppress your own seeds from sprouting. So what you gotta do is pull back some of this mulch from the center to make a spot to plant the seed. You see that? Just like that. Pull the mulch back, get back down to the soil. And there it's basically the same as it was for the corn. Pull one of my squash seeds out of my container here. Squash seed. You can see the root tip coming out right there. That's a good size. You can get it at that length, watch them every day, try to make sure your bed's ready so you can get them in when they're at this length. And that'll be perfect. And you're gonna do screwdriver again. Just make a hole. And the nice thing about the squash squares is that this mulch is going to hold a lot of moisture in. I don't know if you can tell quite how moist this soil is. Hey, it's a lot easier to get the soil to stay where you want it. And it's a lot easier to ensure that the seed has enough moisture to actually sprout.  Don't pull the mulch back over, leave it open in the center just like this. And once the seed sprouts and you've got a nice little plant going, then you can pull the mulch back in around the plant to hold the moisture in and keep the weeds out. There are a couple of points that I need to hit on while we're on the subject of planting seeds. Typically in a three sister's bed like this, you would not plant your corn, beans, and squash all at the same time. You would plant your corn first, and then you would wait until the corn reaches about a foot high and then come through and plant your beans and squash. The reason being that if you planted all three at the same time, the corn would not be tall enough by the time the beans and the squash really took off, and it would end up getting either shaded out or completely pushed over by the larger squash and bean plants. So typically I've found that the corn will go in and then it'll take it, in our climate it'll take three to four weeks for the corn to be tall enough and then you can finally put in your squash and beans. Now I did make a point earlier that I'm only putting fertilizer in the corn spots in the hopes that it'll give corn a little extra boost and the squash will catch up to it later. That's going to be especially important on this bed because I am running really late in the season and I really need to get a second bed planted. So I'm going to end up putting in squash and corn at the same time as you just saw. I'm hoping it works out, but it's not a guarantee. Given the choice, I would always plant the corn first and then wait to plant the beans and the squash. The other thing that I need to point out is that I have set up this bed so that around the outside, all of the squares on the outside that contain squash actually contain summer squash. I'm planting early prolific yellow squash, but any kind of summer squash like your zucchinis or your patty pans, that's what I'm planting around the outside just because I'm going to be planting them anyway. I don't want to dedicate a row in my main garden to them and planting them around the outside means that the plants will still be accessible when this bed is fully mature. Also, I have been planting my summer squash at the same time as the corn because summer squashes are bush varieties, not vining varieties. So it won't really be a case that these squash are going to sprawl everywhere and overtake the corn. Another thing I need to mention, and it's a bit of a sticking point, most seed catalogs don't mention whether their winter squash varieties are climbing or trailing. And that is very, very important when you're doing a bed like this. You need a trailing squash and the only way to figure out what you have is probably to experiment or ask people who have already grown that variety.  If you can find a seed catalog that tells you whether the squash is climbing or trailing, that's perfect. Most of them do not ask around, do your research or just be prepared to fix the facts that your squash might decimate your corn. One last thing is about the corn varieties that you grow. A Three Sisters bed is about growing staple crops. The whole point of this bed is to grow enough calories to feed a person for a year. What you need is either a flour corn or a flint corn. This isn't the place to plant your sweet corn because you will not be able to access this bed to harvest it. The point is to let this bed go to maturity when the corn dries, when the squash matures, when the beans dry, then you go through and harvest all of it. The reason that I'm recommending a flour corn or a flint corn and not a dent corn comes from legendary plant breeder, Carol Deppie. If you read her book, The Resilient Gardener, which I have a link to down in the description, she gives a brilliant write-up about the differences between those three types of corn. A flour corn and a flint corn have two very different types of starches. One of them cooks under dry cooking conditions like baking. The other cooks under moist cooking conditions like boiling. They are polar opposites.  That corn will not cook properly because it's going to need to be boiled and baked in order to cook all of the way through. Like I said, Carol has great write-up. She makes a point about how the way most people are instructed to make things like polenta and grits and things like that. Encourage people to boil their dish and then bake it. And it's because most people are using dent corns. It's a very long process. It takes like 40 plus minutes to make a dish of polenta, doing it with a dent corn. If you select a corn that is meant to be boiled and only boiled, then it's a 10 minute process tops. So choose a flour corn, choose a flint corn, do not choose a dent corn, do not plant sweet corn in your three sisters bed. One last thing, which I forgot. One last thing about flint and flour corns. Now, typically flint corns are a Southern adapted variety and they'll get eight plus feet tall. Flour corn varieties were grown by Northern tribes and they were adapted to Northern climates and they typically only get four to five feet tall. Why is that important? Well, the whole point of a three sisters bed is that the corn acts as a trellis for the beans. If you're growing a corn that only gets four to five feet tall, it is not going to act as a trellis for a bean that wants to climb eight to 10 feet. Alternatively, if you're growing a flint corn that gets eight to 10 feet tall, you're wasting a ton of space by growing a half runner type of bean that will only get four or five feet tall. Choose your corn and beans to match each other is the point that I'm trying to make here. And further, what I like to do is choose a good dual purpose bean. What I mean by that is a bean that is excellent as a green bean, but will also make a really, really excellent dry bean. That way you aren't growing multiple varieties of beans. You have one bean planted throughout your whole bed and you can pick green beans from around the outside of the bed. And then when the season's over and all of the beans dry, you can go through and harvest all of the dry beans for use as dry beans. The one that I've settled on for that purpose is Kentucky Wonder. Honestly, the first year that I grew it as a dry bean, it was completely by accident. I planted way more plants than I could harvest green beans from. I got sick of picking them. I let them go at the end of the season. I went through and picked all the dry beans to save seeds for the next season. And I had way more than I needed in order to plant for the next season. So I ended up cooking up the rest. They were the best bean I have ever tasted. It's the best argument I've ever seen for growing your own beans. Most people say, don't bother growing dry beans. Beans are cheap. Cheap beans taste cheap. Grow your own beans. They're way better. Grow a good, dull purpose bean so that you can get green beans and dry beans and choose your corn and beans to match. Choose a flint corn and a regular pole bean if you want tall varieties and you have a climate that will support tall varieties. Choose a flower corn and a half runner bean if you need short varieties for a short or cooler season. Since I won't be planting beans in my new bed today, I want to come over and show you how they're developing in my first bed. So like I said, when the corn reaches about a foot high, then go ahead and come on through and plant your beans. I haven't decided yet on an exact number that is appropriate for this kind of planting, for this bed setup. This year I went ahead and planted four beans per corn stalks. You can kind of see four beans popping up there. And we'll go ahead and give four beans a try this year and see how it goes, but plant somewhere between two and four beans per corn stalk. Now, if you aren't saving your own seeds, that is going to be difficult because this bed will have just over 200 corn plants in it. And that means you would need 800 beans if you're doing four per. You can get away with 400 beans if you're only doing two per plant, but in either case it means you're either going to have to buy your seeds in bulk, which is sometimes an option, depending on who you're buying your seeds from. The alternative is the season before you plan to put this bed in, save seeds from all of your beans. I think I planted just over 600 beans in this bed and that was from saving about a pound of beans give or take from my previous crop. And that's only because as you're going to find out, if you plant exactly one packet of corn, that will fill this bed, but you will not get 100% germination. I got about 75% germination. So if I'd gotten 100% and I planted four beans per plant, that would have been 800 plants. I only ended up with a 75% germination and ended up planting 600 beans for around each stalk. The bed is planted now and that is it for this video. I just wanted to mention a few last things about the bed and then some housekeeping stuff and then our time together will be over.  What you want to do is pick it in the milk stage just like you would if you were picking sweet corn. While it's still green and if you puncture one of the kernels, some kind of milky fluid will come out. It's the perfect time to pick it, then you can roast it up and eat it just like you would a sweet corn. It won't be as sweet as a sweet corn, but it'll still be delicious. It'll probably have a lot better and more complex flavor than what you're used to getting in a sweet corn, which is just kind of sweet and doesn't have a lot of other flavors going on. One other thing I want to mention is about climate. In my climate, it's warm, humid and dry during the summer, but it rains the rest of the year, so this bed helps store water underneath it for when we go through our drought season. If you are in a climate where it's hot and dry pretty much year-round, you might need more spacing than this bed allows. The Hopi Native Americans from kind of the Arizona, New Mexico, parts of California, they typically plant other corn six to seven feet apart in clumps. So with this design, you might need to either make the squares more like five or six feet rather than two and a half feet, or you might need to add a little bit of irrigation just to supplement whatever rainfall you do end up getting, but that's something you're just gonna kind of have to experiment with and figure out what works in your climate. If you have to irrigate, it's not that big of a deal. The way this bed is set up, you're going to have to irrigate less than you would. If you didn't set it up this way, so that's still a win, even if it's not 100% without irrigation in your climate. The other thing is if you live in a climate where you get monsoon rains during the summer, which I discovered is the case for parts of the US Southwest, which I did not realize when I started buying corn varieties that were native to there. You might not want the depressions because it might capture too much water and cause root rot, but again, that's something you're gonna have to experiment with in your climate and figure out. You might just dig one little depression for one season and stick a few seeds in there and see if they end up being able to survive with that amount of irrigation, or if it's too much or too little, or just kind of figure out what works in your climate. But that's all I can really think about as far as the actual bed goes. If you guys have any questions, throw them down below and I'll happily respond to anything you guys want to know about this thing. Everything else is kind of housekeeping stuff. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that watched all the way through. I know this was a long one. And thank you to everyone that subscribed after my last video. I was not expecting that money for being my first video. It's still a long shot from being at the top. By YouTube standards, but it means a lot to me that that many of you guys are on board for the kind of stuff that I'm doing out here. I know that the audio isn't that great. We don't have enough solar for me to run my computer, so I'm having to film and edit this 100% on my phone. Unfortunately, I don't have an external mic and can't afford one. So that's kind of just how it is for right now. So I appreciate you guys sticking through it in spite of all the audio issues and whatever video issues there are. I was able to bum a tripod off of a friend halfway through filming this. So hopefully the quality of the shots improves slightly over the next few videos. And I'm certainly getting a lot more comfortable talking to no one. So hopefully it's a little less awkward from here on out. Oh, links. I do have, one of the other things that's a problem with doing this all on my phone is that YouTube does not allow you to, A, add subtitles, which I would like to do because my mother's deaf and won't be able to watch any of my videos. And the other thing you cannot do from mobile is add links to other videos within your video. So I've got links below to my last video on gardening without irrigation, which I mentioned earlier in this video.  And I linked to that timestamp in the video because I thought it was hilarious and would love for you guys to go check it out and tell him that the Stone Dave farmer sent you. I also left links in the description to all of the books that I mentioned in this video plus a few of the others that I really recommend. Thanks for checking those out. Thanks for checking the other videos out. Thanks for sticking with me this long. It's been an adventure and I'm glad you guys were here for it. Until next time.


Hey, mom. Are you still at grandpa's house? Oh good. Can you put him on? Hey grandpa, it's Adam. How are you? Good. Listen, are you wearing your depends right now?  I forget you're an old man He's Emmett From the Lego movie. No He's Mario, you know Super Mario the Italian plumber. Yeah, he's voicing him, too He was the one of the monsters and onward He's basically the Terra strong or Nolan North of the movie voice acting community Yeah, Star Lord Guardians of the Galaxy No Andy from Parks and Rec generic guy from Tomorrow War grandpa Grandpa, you hung up. Oh My god, I forgot I was recording if you weren't listening. That's the big news Chris Pratt is voicing Garfield Why so I what John Arbuckle Garfield's owner and a personal friend of mine You think that these people should hit subscribe if they haven't already? Okay. Well, you heard it from John a Real person hit subscribe Listen, I think you and I both know Garfield has had a stellar run in cinema Between Bill Murray's beautiful interpretation of the character in the Garfield movie and the sequel Tale of two kitties any film that has a pun in the title is instantly an A-plus in my book But seriously, no, this is an animated film Sony's producing. They only know of two actors To exist on the planet Chris Pratt's one and I assume Odie the dog is gonna be played by Tom Holland hasn't been confirmed but This is Sony Chris Pratt is really killing it right now in this voice acting gig.  I don't get it. I don't see him as Garfield. I don't hear him as Garfield, but I also don't care. I'm not really a like a big Garfield fan.   It's kind of it I am a big fan of Super Mario though So that casting was perplexing beyond all belief so I would understand if you like Garfield a lot and you're thinking why Chris Pratt Well because Hollywood only has a few bankable stars right now that they're willing to put their weight behind and and he's one of them The Star Lord and Savior himself this time. It's fully animated. I believe it's not doing the whole Sonic the Hedgehog The old Scooby-Doo thing well the old Garfield thing actually where it's a CG character talking to real people and interacting with real things It is Chris Pratt though still doing the voice and that's really the takeaway of this video The film is being written by David Reynolds who did Finding Nemo and it's being directed by Mark Dindle who did Emperor's New Groove Which is fantastic and chicken little just chicken shit I am a little disappointed though that there seems to be three or four people that we're turning to now for movies in General I think they could probably have broadened the horizon for the role of Garfield maybe gone with someone that Isn't Chris Pratt, but you know, we'll see I guess that's where we're at There was a point a long long time ago where an animated film would have voice actors you hadn't even heard of they weren't stars Maybe in in the voice actor community. They were but certainly not on the big screen out on the silver screen Nowadays it's all about who's the most bankable who are the names we can put on this thing to get people into the theaters I think it's incredibly humorous where you get a movie like the emoji movie Or some of that other bottom-feeding crap and you can just tell exactly what they're doing from the marketing standpoint They're like, okay, we got to get as many walks of life into this thing as we can so let's get Let's get a really respected actor like Patrick Stewart and now let's get something for the ladies that are at home watching the cooking channel let's get Rachel Ray, who can we get that speaks to the youth that's been all over the globe a Mr. Worldwide of sorts I heard it Pitbull these crappy animated films will have like an A-lister a couple B-listers someone from like dancing with the stars Someone from CSI They just pull from all these different places so that they can get as much bang for their buck and now we're seeing it with Mario and Garfield not necessarily the talent that's right for the job But the talent that will get people into the theaters and that's Chris Pratt I guess as a person that finds Garfield delightful, but doesn't really need to rush out to see any of his films I don't really care about this. I just wanted to put it out there and give my two cents see what you had to say in the comments So let me know what do you think about Chris Pratt as Garfield the cat and if you like cat puns Maybe you should pause the video for a second and give it a like and subscribe here for more videos I do a lot of stuff movie related. There's also a notification bell up there So give that a good whack too and hopefully I'll see you next time Wow what a perfectly short video that gives you the news how you want to hear it and doesn't overstay its welcome If you like what I'm doing maybe stop on by patreon at patreon.com slash Adam does movies and say here Here's a dollar Adam. Thank you. Thank you for doing what you're doing keep up the good fight Or you can join right here on YouTube via the YouTube join button become a member and You get access to exclusive videos and you get to see a little bit more of me And I think that's making the world a better place For one or two people. All right. 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This is stock number 10490. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2018 Chevy Silverado 2500 crew cab short box. This truck has a 6 liter VA motor and has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Oil and filter change and is 100% ready to go. Black clear coat is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle quality and condition wise before seeing it in person comes with the factory painted step bars. And if you want to check out more pictures of this truck in the upper right hand part of the screen is a link to our website to this vehicle so click that and check us out. It comes with the 20 inch polished aluminum rims, excellent condition on that rim and it has Hercules radial LT275 65R20 tires with right around half the tread left, frame and under body, pretty nice condition. That's exactly how we got it in, projector lamp headlamps, factory fog lights, front bumper is in nice shape, I didn't see any major dents or dings on that, it does have the front bumper parking sensors, you get the chrome trimmed Z71 grille and the bow tie is in nice condition as well. The hood is in nice shape, didn't see any dents or dings on that and it does have the clearance lights up there. Passenger side fender is in excellent condition, no dents or dings on that and the passenger side rim no scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of the truck you can see just how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down you can still see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. There's a UWS diamond plated toolbox in back, in fact we offer a Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen, a link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise a trade, all from the comfort of your own home. You can see it has the LED side lights in those mirrors, these step bars are in excellent condition and the lower rockers are all in really great condition. You can see just other than a little bit of light sand on that frame there, frame and underbody is in nice shape has all the remaining factory exhaust and this back rim is in excellent condition as well. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires and you can see it does have those rancho shocks there. Coming down the back of the truck here, no dense or dings on that, rear bumpers in great shape, no dents or dings or scuffs on that, backup parking sensors has the in bumper steps, full towing package which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring and that tailgate is in excellent condition as well. It is a locking tailgate and a shock down assist tailgate, has a spray in bed liner, you got some nice side box tie downs and I didn't see any major dents or dings back here and it's in really nice shape. As you go down this side of the truck just as clean as that passenger side has the nice mud flaps on there which keeps your lower rockers looking nice and clean. Didn't see any dents on the box there and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Down the rest of this side of the truck very very clean. You do get the telescopic tow mirrors, those LED side lights are super bright, you get directional signals which are also LEDs, LED directional signals on the side and they are chrome trim. They pull out for telescoping there and they also fold in. They're a manual fold and a manual telescope. Inside the LT1 package gives you the black cloth interior, there are no rips, there are no tears on the seats, side curving airbags, really nice condition, power driver seat, 40 20 40 split bench seating, factory all-weather floor mats, auto headlamps, turned out four-wheel drive and factory brake controller. You get the tilt and telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, you get the carbon fiber trim part of the z71 package and you can see that z71 instrument cluster right there. You get digital spinometer and this one has 15945 miles. You get the leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls on the left, bluetooth and information center controls on the right, no scuffs or scrapes, then you get audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. This one comes with the six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift, the Chevy MyLink system, AM-FMN series XM radio capabilities on here and then you also get your projection which is if you got apple carplay or android auto on your phone you can project that to the screen and then it's if you got like ways or google maps you can project your navigation right to that screen and it's like you have navigation on the screen you can use the buttons and everything it's great. So it does have that, it has a cd player, dual climate controls, stability control, those cargo lamp, that cargo lamp is how you turn those side lights on on your mirrors and that's why I got them on so I could show you those. Parking sensors you can turn those off and on and then you do get downhill assist control, you get a powerpoint and then down here is another I believe it's a 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in as well. All weather format on the passenger side, passenger side seat, no rips or tears on that and the headliner is in really nice shape, smells very clean inside this truck. Up here are your map lights and then this button right here indicates that you have the snow plow prep package on this truck. On-star capabilities and SOS buttons in the rearview mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out underneath the hood.  Fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost. Seats are in great shape, you have the all weather format that goes back here and that's in nice shape as well, goes all the way across which keeps your carpeting looking great underneath and you get the carbon fiber on this back door here as well. We will take a quick look under the hood and I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside. Now under the hood we have the 6-liter VA motor and Jambay is very clean, runs very smooth. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. Truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. To see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three quarter tons, one tons, you name it, we got it on our website www.SummitAuto.com Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at SummitAuto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash SummitAuto. 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What's happening guys? It's Shane here. So the career that you decide to go into is going to have a huge impact on your future financial success as well as your overall well-being. And studies have shown that people are most happy when they're making over 70 to 75 thousand dollars a year depending on which study you look at. And it doesn't take a genius to see that making more money means you're going to have less problems and more freedom.  You're going to have less things that you have to worry about and that in turn is going to make you more happy. Now if you choose a career that doesn't make you very much money you're going to have a lot of other problems that pop up in your life.  And everybody knows that money isn't everything it's not the only thing that contributes to your happiness.  So you really have to find a good middle ground between passion and practicality. So in other videos I've gone over degrees and majors and industries that create the most millionaires. And in those videos a lot of the times the millionaires were created because the people that went into those careers ended up starting their own business. They became entrepreneurs and that's how they made their millions. But in this video I'm just going to go over careers where you don't have to become a business owner start your own business become an entrepreneur. You can just get a job in one of these careers just be really smart how you invest your money and become a millionaire that way. Because let's be honest even though entrepreneurship is a great way to become a millionaire and become financially free it's definitely not for everybody. So the first one I'm going to go over on this list is going to be physicians aka medical doctors. And everybody knows that doctors make a lot of money the average doctor makes over $300,000 a year and certain specialties make a lot more than that. And I think this is a really good career to go into but I also think it's a little bit overhyped and the reason for that is because it takes so long to become a medical doctor.  And not only that but during this whole time especially in medical school and then when you're in residency you're probably going to be studying or working over 80 hours a week. When it comes to being a doctor work-life balance doesn't really exist and it is one of the professions that has the highest suicide rate and depression rates because of that.  But with that being said if this is a profession that's right for you if you do your research and make sure that it's right for you then this is a really really good one to go into. Now the next one on the list is going to be engineers and this one probably doesn't surprise you at all but basically engineers make extremely good entrepreneurs but if you aren't an entrepreneur you don't want to go down that road this is still a really good job to get into. Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful talks about how he loves investing in companies that are run by engineers and hiring engineers because these are the people who have real world problem-solving skills and they're generally very intelligent and very hard workers. And engineers are the people who create or design new products or they actually improve upon existing products and these are skills that basically every company out there wants. Now I will say that getting just any engineering degree isn't as surefire of a degree as it used to be in the past decades. You know you do want to do your research and make sure you're getting a degree that's going to end up getting you a job but engineering is still a very very solid choice. Now I could have chosen a lot of different careers for the next one on the list but I went with financial planner but really this is just overall anybody who's involved in the finance industry and financial planners are basically people who help individuals like you or I decide where they should invest, where their money should go, make a plan for retiring and this is just a very very good industry in general to go into and financial planner is one of the best careers in the industry. Now the next one on the list is going to be investment banker and these are basically people who choose where to invest money that's put into a bank and if you're able to break into this career basically all investment bankers make over six figures that's almost like an entry level salary and a lot of them are making over a million dollars a year. So this is one where you don't have to go off on your own create a business do all that stressful stuff you can just work within the confines of this career and still become a millionaire pretty easily. The next one on the list is going to be still in the medical profession but it's not going to be medical doctors it's going to be one step down from medical doctors and by that I mean physical therapists nurse practitioners pharmacists people who have a professional degree but they don't want to take the time to go through the 12 years or longer that it takes to become a medical doctor the salaries in these careers are very very good and in general the medical field is just a very stable job to get in my opinion it doesn't matter how good artificial intelligence gets they're never going to be able to replace nurses or doctors or anything like that and there's always going to be demand in the medical field because unfortunately people will always be sick and they'll need someone to take care of them now number one on the list and if you've watched any of my other videos you can probably guess which one this is and it is a software engineer or really anybody who's involved in computer science computer programming this is going to be so huge over the next 20 years there's already so much demand right now and the demand is only going to go up as artificial intelligence and technology becomes more and more prevalent and the amazing thing about becoming a software engineer is if you want to if you decide that you're somebody who just wants to be an employee for the rest of your life you just want to live a simple life go to work work 40 hours a week and then go home and enjoy the rest of your time this is great you can go into that but if at some point in the future you decide that you want to try your hand at entrepreneurship this is also an incredible industry to get into you will have insider knowledge and an insider track on creating software that different companies might need one thing that's great about creating a tech company is a lot of them end up getting bought out by big businesses like google or facebook and i think a mistake that a lot of new entrepreneurs make is that they don't have an exit strategy and a great exit strategy is to get bought out by a big company for 10 million 20 million 100 million dollars make sure to check out these videos right here i made them just for you go ahead and smash the like button hit the subscribe button ring a little notification bell and then comment down below what you think about the video or any other video ideas you have that i should make thank you so much for watching and bye for now


Hi guys, welcome to the Thanksgiving vlog. This is gonna be merged with, this footage is gonna be merged with what I get on Thanksgiving. So I wanna show you guys my outfit. I'm wearing this really cute top I just recently got from Lou Lemon. If I can, I'll link it down below, but it's so cute, it's so comfortable.  Cause that's me. Speaking about wearing things right when you get it, Piper's got her little Christmas sweater on. Look at her. She's so cute. I'm trying to get in the car. I know, she's eager to go. We are going Christmas shopping. We're gonna get the Christmas wreath and like garland and stuff. Bye. Sad at the vlog, Valerie. Bye. Look at her, we are all ready to go. I love my pipe. And then we're going to family dinner night. I think we're going to the Margaritaville restaurant that we love. Yup, there's Sherry. We're all ready. All right, time for a family outing. We made it to Lowe's. Here we are. Piper's always so excited to go shopping. Wow, look at here. All the Christmas stuff. We are ready. Look at the cute plants. So exciting. Oh, I already see a reindeer. We got reindeers. Ooh, a peacock. Look at the little dog. I'm loving these. Those are getting traditional Christmas. I love it. I love it. So far so good. We got the wreath going on. We got a big suction cup. We got a lot of warm toned lights, little ties and we love this little truck. We also got the reindeer. We got the buck. We got something similar to him but we got the buck and then we got the baby.  We could not find the fawn. Well, shoot.  I literally forgot to vlog the food but I just had some shrimp asparagus in the fries. I like literally inhaled it so that's why I forgot to vlog it. Always so good here. My family and I, it's always so good. Right ladies? You love it here? Yep, Valerie is part of the clean plate club as well. Hashtag goals. If your significant other doesn't do this then you need to find a new one. And for dessert, we always love to get pralines from this little place. I don't even know really what it's called. Oh, it's called River Street Sweets. Back home now, dinner was so good. Had my little rice, kiss sweet but I wanted to unbox or unbag, I should say. This really fun package from Amazon. If I remember. Oh, all of the stuff will probably be linked in my storefront. I've been working on that. I've been trying to. My scrub caps. Oh, this is so clean and sleek. I love it. These are like little stocky stuffers so I'm not gonna like open any of this. But I do want to show you guys these scrub caps. I'm excited to see them. I hope they're like good.  These are so cute. There is an elastic like that's the type I like. I think this will be pretty good. At least like for the holiday season. I really wanted like the style I liked but holiday style, I don't know. Are they the best quality? Probably not. They serve the purpose and they're cute. They're these little gnomes and then they also have like some gingerbread men. This one it's like trees and candy canes. Santa Claus here.  This is probably my favorite. It's the gingerbread. Looks like that. It has like little gingerbread cookies. And then we have Rudolph like the reindeer. I don't know how I feel about these. The quality could be better but then again I only paid like $15 for six of these. So like what should I have been expecting? But overall I think they're kind of cute. One eternity later. Good morning guys. It is Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. Good morning. Sherry is here making her spinach dip. You know she always does. And Piper is ready for breakfast.  Number one in getting up and number two for breakfast feeding time. Okay, so basically I've been just watching the parade and the dog show just chilling out. Valerie is at work. But I wanted to give you a little outfit of the day. So I have my new top. I think I was wearing this in the last clip. So but I only wore it to dinner. I have my Lulu aligns with my hokas. I'm going for like a casual look. I'm not like getting dressed up cause like it's pretty casual. So I don't know where this is well because it's like 70 degrees out. I can always just take this off in their house. So yeah, this is what we're doing. Sherry, you want to show your outfit? Sure. This is her little outfit. She got new glasses too. I did. No, no, no Piper. Sorry. Black shirt, little short sleeve kind of sweater. Like it's a light sweater thing. Black shorts. Yeah. And gray shoes. Yeah. They look like ballerina flats. You got to show the vlog the fit because Steph and I, we're going to take a picture later. But look, she's got the all black too. And then the similar top. Yeah. I don't know. She just knows the vibes. This Thanksgiving.  Are you okay? He's been working. He's working. It's okay. Frasier, you're so silly. Because I lose it, I don't forget. And I can't take that. We got stover's mac and cheese. That's what we brought. And then we got food cooking over here. It smells so good. She's got ham and turkey in the oven as well. Twist it or something. I was trying to twist it. And I dropped it on me. Harry's big reveal. I thought it was going to be something else. I got a vlog. Not yet. Are you ready? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. How did you make those? It was just a TikTok. Oh. I had to do it. Those are so cute. Those are so cute. That's adorable.  Happy y'all. Look at him go. Oh, oh. Where's the shirt? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Look at him go. Zoomies. Yeah. Zoomies. They don't hurt Remy. Aren't you cute? Remy the Papillon. Ooh, hey buddy. Love the fit, Harry. Cute, cute. Brock changed pants so he could join the black. Oh yeah. Some of the black changed. I was a bit black. No. And the tree is off seizure mode. Ooh. It smells so good. Sarah's, wait. It's kind of dark. There. This is much better. This is fit check. Sarah, go first. You know, it's honestly gonna be kind of, like I can't really tell you where anything's from because it's all thrifted. Okay. So good will. I don't know how to describe what it's like. You can see it yourself, but we got some boots. We got the little bluish velvet, a little belt. That's a good accent. Best sweater. Cute. All the rings. Detail shot. Bracelets. Love. Follow her on Instagram. She always does these outfit videos. And I like the ones that I like. I give it the heart.  I got this shirt that Sarah bought. Oh, this is nice. Nice. I got some dockers on. Yep. And then my dog wearing boots. Oh yeah. Classic. I have my pocket desk.  I have my blue but yuck collab fingerboard. I have Sarah's weed pin because my weed pin is charging. I have to write things down. Sensor. Yeah, that's pretty much what we're working with, dude. What are you trying to do, all right? Yeah. That's what they do about their tickets. I'll show you my plate. Definitely going to get seconds. But I got it this whole turkey leg. I love these. Deegan, happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. Look at that. We're all eating good. Happy giving. How did you get it? What did you get? Christmas. Yeah, we can all eat. We've got to start out decently. You've had ad-bat calendars all this time and we've never known about it. That's funny, though. I'll share my Polly Pockets. No, it's OK. All good. Polly Pockets, ad-bat. That's hilarious. Show us your grabby patties. Woo! Pistols, oh my god, that's perfect for you. All right, so Perry got this curling iron on TikTok Shop. So Sarah's going to do it and I can't wait to see this. And she says it works really well. Yeah, it works pretty well. This makes your hair look super curly, like naturally curly. I haven't used it. Like curly temple? Yeah. Oh, there's a wand. Yeah. This is, I like this oddly shaped wand. Oh. It's a double U-lead. Is it ready? Kind of like texture a little bit. Yeah, OK. So I'm going to grab it. So you can like, yeah. Have you seen it on TikTok? No. OK. So how are you supposed to do it? So do you go like? Kind of like you work with a round brush. Yeah, and just like mess with it however you want. Yeah, I guess curl up like in the blowout where you can try and actually curl it out. Oh, so you could do whatever you want. Yeah. Do you like go all the way up? I did that and then you like kind of like go like that. Make sure you twist it out. No, I feel like you've got to like. I've only used it like hair, literally three times, so. I mean it curls up like the end, but I'm like, I have such long hair. So like really, really work it up. I would pull up the TikTok and you can see it. We brought up a TikTok. Yeah, it's kind of like the middle and then she works her way up. My hair won't stay like that. Kind of like wrap it fully around. Do you have any hair in your hair or something? There you go. Yeah, that's good. OK, wait, wait, that was a good. I think that was where we were wanting to be. Yeah. I think you almost as a kid. This is Perry's Beauty Shop. Perry's Beauty Shop? Yeah. Perry doesn't have a shirt on me. No, it's OK. All right. All right. Let me, I'm going to take like a back, kind of like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good spot to try it. But see, your hair is even longer than mine. So I'm like, it's not even the curious. But her hair is a different texture than yours. Yeah, my hair is so tangled because I bleached it for so many years. I think I use it like my curling wand. Yeah, I mean, I guess. Mine kind of got stuck in it though, so warning. So I used it more for like a blowout look and then I took these and I just curled the ends of my hair on the curls to get it like. Like, because this is how I would actually like curl my hair. But you still want to like brush it. Yeah, I know. It's not going. That's the problem. You have to like make it have slack. OK. I don't know how to do it. OK, there's no. But as you just want this.  Like that? You got to like really brush it through. Look at the girl.  And then have you like be bird. OK, I'm kind of just brushing through my hair now. OK. I think that's how I was doing it. Like up and then twist it around and just pull down. Oh, this girl, Alexandra. Thank you so much for your shout out, Alexandra. And then she kind of brushed down through. I feel like you're here. My hair is so straight. Like not working. I was going to say, your hair is so silky straight that it's. And it's clean. Well, yeah, this is going to be any like hairspray before. Or like texture spray. I have texture spray. OK. It's a beauty of review. I need to try another piece. I really do. Wait, I need to do. OK, here. Maybe I should hold it for like two seconds and then start. Yeah, you got to hold it on there. I'll just, Alexandra doesn't deserve all that. All right, so. Thanks for your help once, but like. Here, and then like this. Don't move onto it when you're here. OK. I know.  Oh, it did, it curled in. Do like a long one. Do that flip around thing. That seems to be working really well. Yeah. I need more slack. You're right. Yeah, you do. I have the slack.   I know, I was really afraid. Oh, it's not even that hot, is it? It does. Yeah, it came in the glove, unless I left it. Oh, it is. You do a montage. OK, so she was using the same hand on the same side, which I'm not used to. All right, that's about it. Well, goodbye. The next day. It's the day after Thanksgiving, and I am headed to Cycle Bar. And I'm going to winter parks because there's a teacher there, Jen. You guys know I love her classes and stuff. So I'm doing a drop-in ride because I just, I don't know. There's just something about group fitness and a fitness boutique rather than just working out alone. I don't know. I'm debating, and I probably will get the four-month ride pack so then I could just go once a week. Even though that's not really that consistent, it'll still just be a touch of going to spin either at Hamlin or Winter Park. It isn't fun, but I'm in my mom's not start. So I'm going to have to call Triple Light again and have them come out. This is like, well, luckily I didn't have to work. I don't know what's wrong with it because my battery, I literally just got a new battery. Not, oh, it's only a few months old, probably. I think I got it before I started working. Either I started working or clinicals.  So the battery itself is not that old. So I don't know what's going on with Gary's car was home. So I could just take hers. I must say too, I'm super excited that I get to use my new little bag. I already got to stand on it cause it's coffee, but happy to use her. It's so nice to be back.  And also too is since it's Black Friday, I'm thinking about doing the four rides a month for like $69, like reoccurring. Like honestly, that's a really good price. And that means like I can just go every week like I was saying. So it's a sign. Hold on to that beat. At a half. So I'm in the Starbucks line and I want to talk to you about this iPhone case. Oh my God. So I love this case, right? It's super cute. But I don't know if you can tell, but there's just like black lip. Like it's to protect the camera. I get it, but you see how it's like kind of raised. Like look how, you see where like the phone is and then it like raises up. I might do a whole review, but this case is so cute, right? And I really like it. It's durable, but I can't stand the way it feels in my hand. Like look how thick. Part of the reason why I didn't get Cased 5 was because the case was like way thicker than the phone. Well, the sides are way thicker than the back glass. Well, this is like plastic, but the phone itself is like a thin, as you can see, but like there's this big black border and it's so hard to get used to. Like I've told you guys are like the third people I've told, but it's like, I like this case, but I also hate it. So I've been going back and forth with like just my black case. That's like super slim. And like on this forum, I posted about this wildfire case, like, oh, I love it, but I don't know, knock on wood. I don't, I'm not hard on my phone. Hold on, let me get my stuff from Starbucks real quick.  So basically I've been going back and forth. I might just put my black case on it. It's just not comfortable to hold in my hand and it's not conducive in driving and like using the phone in one hand. And that's like what I kind of need sometimes, like when looking at the maps, directions, all of that. I don't know, do you guys have this issue? I know this is like not really Thanksgiving vibes, but you know, I thought I would chit chat with you guys.  I love like the people behind it, but this is my first wildflower case and that's like what I'm experiencing with this case is like it's very hard to hold in one hand because of how thick this part is. On other people's cases, because they have different models, the lip of the black part isn't that high like this one. So I think it's really just this phone because the other cases I've held are not bad at all. So like maybe I got a defected one, I don't know. But all I know is that I got this size phone because I can hold it in my hand and easily like use it one-handedly. But with this case I can't, but I really like this case. That's my dilemma for today. I gotta mail something real quick and then I do want to edit this video today. So I think I might just end the vlog here. I hope you guys enjoyed this fun vlog. I don't know, I feel like my Thanksgiving vlogs are always so fun to like make and edit because it's like my YouTube anniversary. So I started in 2015 like my YouTube journey and I don't know, it's just been a wild ride. And it's super fun. This allows me to like get extra non-necessary goods and clothes and phone cases because I do make some fun hobby money. So I wanna thank you guys for always like supporting me and watching my videos. This is truly like my passion obviously or else I wouldn't do it because I don't get paid that much, but yeah. So if you enjoyed this video, give it a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.


Hi Please introduce yourself Hello, I've got you today is the last day in the MWC Barcelona and this year we after the COVID Bring our most latest Mainchip is a RK35 HA. This one has been a huge success for many years now Exactly. It's a very great platform. This is a successor exactly and then this the latest one It's using the quad core A36 from ARM base and with the ARM GPU We use these chipsups for the application like Low book. So it's actually inside here. Yeah, exactly. So this is a what is the software? Software is a I think is for the Android Android and Linux. Yeah, you can run Ubuntu. Yeah, Chromebook. Yeah Chrome OS? Yes, Chrome OS also. Windows? No, Windows. Yeah Mac, Macbook? And then this one for AR VR We are targets in the future utilized AK resolutions. Yeah So this is gonna be the RK35 AA. Exactly. Where is the CPU? There or there? The CPU right now is an external box, but in the future we're planning to build in. Yeah. Yeah. So you have the RK3588 inside this? Yeah, at the moment The chipsups are wide by the external box, but in the future we're planning to embed it in the host cell Because when you go from a 72 to a 78 it's more performance But that's also lower power at the same time. Exactly because this one we are using the I'm better with eight nanometers. Yeah, eight nanometers. Yeah before it was Before is I think this one's a 14. 28 22. 22. 22 nanometer. Yeah 28 and 28 and 28 and 28 and yeah That's a big benchmark for us. It's a big jump. Yeah, very big jump and when you work on a new platform like this You like to bring For many years support. Yeah, so I think at least this one takes Egg technology maybe more than five years. Yeah, five years support. Yeah. Exactly. So At least five years. So when people work on this stuff They can be confident. They can sell this product for many years. Yeah, we do this one with some like Samsung. Yeah, and ASUS. Yeah as soon as customer. Yeah, and These guys want to have product that will have software updates for many years. Exactly. You want to have Upstream of all the patches. Exactly. Full Linux support. Exactly because we have all very good Relationship with Google also. Yeah That's awesome. So this is actually real if I click here for a little bit something will happen Exactly, you will come into Android Even you're Colonel. Yeah, if we want to use Android, yeah, you have to pay the license that we can use If people do some Linux if what they want to play with a bunch of both there for example, yeah Yeah, this is a Linux one. Yeah, and do they have full GPU? acceleration is it full speed Performance, yes, everything you want. Yes, exactly So you have a good access to is it using? What is your GPU? Mali? Yeah, there's a GPU Mali 610 All right. Yeah, beautiful GPU. Yeah, one change this one is it looks so cool. Can I buy it? Who can buy it? Where is it available? How soon is for sale? I think the sales are in this year. So we're going to a mass production. Yeah This year, but few months later. Yeah In the market humans. Yeah, maybe Amazon in some soft or not and when people have this they want to have a lot of RAM Can you support 32 64 whatever? Yes. Yes. You're very good. Everything is possible. Yeah, I'll be DD or DD is free something like that DD are free. Yeah. Yeah, and here says You have all these RAM supports. Yeah, you have fast. Yeah fast memory. Yeah a lot No, so in the face. I owe available and how is it optimal to use for this market? What is special about this for for the arcade 3588 this one for the AR VR? Yeah, you you can use for the light feel or your powerful GPU.  Yeah, and then this one if you're for some People you want to use for educations. Yeah for the locations. Yeah for some night night feel. Yeah Yeah, what is this? This one right now is for the four 4g Yeah, 4g LTE is a baseband. Yeah, baseband and Computing come a high high speed high speed computing with 40 antennas. Yeah 5g's Wi-Fi a lot a lot of the interfaces and then TBI oh, yeah, and then and then supporting the car bus What is it you see 3558 exactly the same thing so if I made it and then you have a like a low version Two versions are one is 3588 s because 3588 s is no input HDMI Yeah, so this one will be cheaper But a lot of the functions are available for many different kind of applications So if you want a laptop without HDMI capture, it's cheaper cheaper. Yeah without HDMI input No, yeah, but it's quite cool to have HDMI input, but when you have HDMI input You're not allowed to Record the HDMI right or yes, but I mean Something like if you want to using for some special cameras, you want to uncoding video from other Cameras. Yeah, but can you encode AK? No, I'm okay Maybe to check later h264 h265 Okay, 30 FPS Depends on the fundraiser what's a fundraiser you want because if uncoding For the 3588 K maybe the fundraiser like 16 pages or 32 So And how about the AK here, can you play back 8k 120? No, what's the limit for play decode? decode 8k 60 FPS Decode 30 FPS Encode. Yeah, so Maybe you can also decode 2034k at the same time. Yes or four or something maybe We can support a light like this four to six at this place in the same time. So maybe a device like this Yeah, potentially could have HDMI input output. Yeah, or type C. Yeah to one or two display Maybe you can collecting like before this one. You're collecting like full Displaced for display. Yeah, at least You can support a seven display Seven seven seven two K display All three four K display under one two K display, you know, that's a that's a real arm CPU where you have so much performance. You need seven display so you can use your chip That's crazy. Yeah. All right So is this mass production? Yeah, of course on the TV for a really young and already products Yeah, already part of one. What is the products on the market so far?  Yeah, hi on the tablet Hi and tablets. Yeah. Yeah, and not only in China But when is this gonna sell more than this I think we're going to developing something latest but still under development so that and Some cups I saw asking us for some custom make and some special Technology and technical support. We still are available. Yeah, and the quad a-55 is very good for low low power consumption Exactly. And on this wall you're talking about mashing vision. So the same chip for that Yeah, industrial. Yeah, all kind of all dog. Yeah, I need applications. Yeah, if you think you already have some cars with a rough chip Yeah for already talking about that for inside the cabin the copy you can collect change For cameras or for this place. Yeah, you some you have set in behind the seat so you can watch different movies your example you have two children left-sided you can watch A spider-man the other side you can watch Marvel life Superman different movies Maybe the children in the back. They can play video games together and together with a passenger and they're not the driver Is something different? Yeah navigation all in one time. They uncutting from the outside. Like I ate us Yeah, but you don't do self-driving. I Think not on your chip. Look the look that's a different ship, right? Yeah, different one. Yeah in the future We know that. Yeah, cool. All right. So looking forward to some amazing Linux Chrome OS and More yeah, I'm working with Debian Ubuntu everybody. Yes. Yes. We got an open source. Yeah At the moment, I think it's not yet open so but we are going to you're planning to yeah, we are going to yeah All right. Yeah, you have more support. Yeah, thanks. Thank you