Intro

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Welcome back to Katching Up With Katie. We do have our normal people back,

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except Nate’s not here—just kidding. But Abigail hasn’t been on the last

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two episodes, so welcome back. Cheers. Well, it’s convenient that you chose not to be

Abigail is back

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here for all of the topics we wanted to talk about with you, so we’ve saved them all for this moment.

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That’s not true. We literally talked about everything.

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The Congress topic has been… not overly talked about. Not extinguished. What’s

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the word I’m looking for? Overdone? I don’t know. Great—something like that. Glad to hear.

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But now we’re talking about next year’s Congress. We can do that.

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Oh yeah, we’re going to Christmas in New York. We talked about going to Connecticut.

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Yeah, we just kind of… talk. I’m just not even gonna listen to—

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That’s wild, because it’s like half her body is on the bottom of the screen and

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the other half is at the top of the screen. She’s where she wants to be. She wants to be

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under the blankets, and I am on top of my blanket. She’s where she wants to be—not

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feeling like being on camera today. Yeah, that’s understandable.

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She gets that from her mommy. How about that fall special that’s

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supposed to have happened already? I’m not saying anything.

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Me either—because I believe we even threw out dates. We even threw out dates.

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It just couldn’t happen. Well, and then we also

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mentioned doing it in New York. Here’s the thing: I just suffer

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from not having enough hours in the day and not enough bandwidth in my mind, because I want to

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do that fall special the way it’s supposed to be done. I had all the ideas. I wanted to do

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it—it’s just like… when? That’s the problem. Which is what I will give Abigail her credit

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for. She said, upon the conception of the idea in this room, that we would not

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have time to do it. And you know what? She stuck with it, and she humored all of us.

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She did. I tried. I even threw out some days. At one point, we had the idea of making it

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super YouTube-y. I don’t remember if Lindsay volunteered or if she was volunteered by Nate,

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but what was it that we were going to do? We were going to go to a maze.

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It was great. It was freaking great. Let me tell y’all something—it was great,

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and y’all would have loved it. I don’t even want to say it, because we might do it one day.

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No, we were going to go to a maze, essentially, and Lindsay was going to dress up in a turkey

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costume, and we were going to have to fall—or something scary—like a turkey costume.

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Lindsay in a turkey costume would be scary. She volunteered.

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She was going to chase us and scare us around the corn maze as we frantically tried to find

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our way out. And whoever got out first, I think, was supposed to—like, if she caught you, you

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would be eliminated. I don’t know if that was my item. If she caught you, you’d be out of the race,

Katie is going to pay us $1000?

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and if you made it out, then Katie would pay us like $1,000 or something. It would have been wild.

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I do remember that. We would have had a sponsor, and

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it would have been great. It would have been… it all worked out. I think Butterball was sponsoring.

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That would be cool. And then we do a little Butterball segment.

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What we need to do is, next year, start planning now—like this Christmas special.

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Yeah, like this Christmas special—we should have been shooting that a month ago, and here we are.

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And my cryptic self goes to—never mind. Cryptic? Like if we filmed

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it that far ahead of time? Oh, do you think it would ruin it for you?

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I think it would. Oh yeah, I know. See, that’s the

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thing. We want to have this great produced movie, but we want to have it at Christmas. I don’t want

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to wrap presents at Halloween. I want to dress up. Yeah, and also we did the shop-up last year for

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the Christmas special, and it made things so much more magical. I watched this video last night,

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and it made so much sense and made me a lot more motivated to do holiday

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things this year—not for content, not for the special, but like, “Hey everybody, come over,

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and we’re going to do an activity that’s Christmas-y. We’re going to watch a movie.”

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Because I watched this thing: this guy was like, “Oh, the holidays aren’t special anymore.” Well,

Are the holidays not special anymore?

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maybe it’s because… and it listed everything that all of us do today. There’s no whimsy and

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magic because anytime you want something, you order off Amazon and it gets here in a day.

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Your mind never has time to wind down and want to do an activity because you’re scrolling on your

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phone. You have to create the whimsy and the magic—essentially what the video was saying.

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And I’m like, I’m going to do it. You’re going to take it?

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Yeah—take it upon yourself. And if there’s anybody to do that, it would be—

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I’m going to do it. But people have to also be receptive and help me, you know what I’m

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saying? If I’m planning it—if I say “We’re doing it; what’s a good date for y’all?”—if you want to

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be part of the whimsy, you have to participate. That never came out of your mouth in regards to

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the fall special. No. Okay, no, no,

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no. We’re talking about Christmas right now. Yes, we’re talking about Christmas right now.

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Yes, we’re talking about sitting down, watching a good movie, and—let’s recreationally—

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Let’s recreationally… ooh… and make hot— Off the clock, together.

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She’s out. She’s out. Together, off the clock.

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She’s out. Never mind. In our free time. I will—on a weekend.

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I’m going to look for some other friends, and then we’re going to—

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What you need to do is just post on your story: “Hey, we’re watching this movie;

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here’s the address; here’s the time. Anybody who wants to show up…”

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You should do like a Discord. No, dude, I would hop on

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that Discord. Dude, you should stream. That would be fun. I’d join from my house.

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I’d watch the movie, and that’d be fun, because then we could all watch it from our own space

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I want to do a Dirty Santa thing—like a $10 or $15 cap. It’s not fancy,

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but we’re doing it. A Yankee Swap, Dirty Santa, White Elephant—whatever you want to call it.

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Or I do like Dirty Santa. We all… I don’t know. And

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bring food—do a little potluck. I don’t know.

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Have a s’mores bar— See, a s’mores bar feels unattainable sometimes.

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A s’mores bar consists of the s’mores ingredients laid out on a table next to a fireplace.

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I haven’t made s’mores since I was a child. Over our little fire pit

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outside—because it’s a gas thing. Would it make the s’mores taste bad?

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No. We had one one time that was like this little burner thing, about that big around.

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You just turned it on, plugged it in. But also—that was electric. There are

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plenty of places where we could do real fire. Throw a couple logs on and have a little fire.

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Or we just do it over the oven. That too.

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That’s not as whimsical. And that’s also gas. That’s what I’m saying—I’m searching for whimsy.

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Yeah—campfire. Then we do campfire stories. Yeah, and then we can sing together.

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I have also been searching for whimsy in terms of decorating.

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I’ve recently been lighting a lot of candles—just trying to feel something.

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I put out some dish towels on the oven that had pumpkins on them.

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Exactly—that’s what I’m saying. And now it just feels a little different, you know? You’ve got

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to create it. You’ve got to set the scene. Those are all things that my wife takes very

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seriously that I don’t care about, but would definitely notice if they weren’t there.

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So we have a fake fireplace at the moment in our home because we did not have a chimney put in and

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stuff like that, and we have yet to use it. Is it gas, or is it just fake?

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I don’t know. But you can have a gas one; it doesn’t have to have a chimney.

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It’s gas. It doesn’t have to have whatever it is that requires a chimney.

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And I’m like, I want fires this winter. I want a fire to be lit for me by my husband—stoked.

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We did that a lot last year. I don’t feel like we did.

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We— Yeah, because it has

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the fake little coal things in there that you— I grew up with a real fireplace in our living

How to catch a Nana

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room, and every night after mid-October, every single night there was a fire in my home: the

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crackling of it, my dad stoking it. Oh my gosh. That’s how we were.

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We had a real one. We didn’t have a real one,

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but real ones are goated. Yeah, the gas—

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I mean, the one that we had was also always on, though. But fireplaces in general—

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Yeah, I did like it. And I remember my dad would tempt my Nana to come over and hang out with us,

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because he’d be like, “I made you a fire.” And then she’d come over and sit in front of it,

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and it was so fun. Before she would come over, he’d bring one of the chairs with

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the ottoman over to the fire and set it right in front for her. It’s like baiting, you know?

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It’s like, how to catch a Nana: put this in front of the fireplace.

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Anyway, we’ve kind of rambled this entire time about nothing. We do

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need to actually catch up on what’s been going on. So, you know, we got back from Congress last week,

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and then we had a week of catching up—essentially with calving season—

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Bo’s been hurting, and we’ve been trying to figure out what’s going on with him.

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We’re still kind of in the midst of all that, and building the new barn, and just kind of settling

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into the winter as it’s starting to get cold. Has anything crazy happened this past week?

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I got a haircut. Halloween party.

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Yeah, Matt got a haircut as well. As crazy as it got for me.

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Matt got a haircut; didn’t come to the Halloween party. Neither Matt nor

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Nate came to the Halloween party. I did have a fun weekend, though.

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If it makes you feel better— Lily’s back teeth are coming in.

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Well, that doesn’t make me feel better. I don’t want Lily to be in pain.

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Well, you also didn’t bring her last week when you said you were going to.

Our Halloween Costumes

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What if I bring her one day next week? Don’t say that. I won’t bait you.

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You are, though. If it’s a day that we’re not doing a

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Katching Up With Katie, I can bring her. We’re not going to do one on Friday,

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and we’re filming on Friday. I won’t be here Friday.

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Anyway—okay, the Halloween party. It looked good. Your costumes were great.

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We were Khaleesi and Khal Drogo. Put a picture up. Put it up—quit putting your hands over there,

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because that’s— Put it up over here.

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It’s not out of frame. Put it up over here. So, Jonathan—

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It took until yesterday for him to get the eyeliner off.

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Really? Yes.

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I didn’t notice that, but it was necessary. So necessary. I did the waterline and everything.

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I was trying to be as gentle as possible, and the whole time he was like, “You do this every day?”

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He was freaking out with me touching his eyes. Oh, I can’t do the—

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Yeah, like that—yeah, no, I’m out. I was like, “We have to do your tightline.”

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Your tightline? No, no, no, no, no, no.

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And then I just smudged so much black on his face, and honestly, it was a vibe. His blue eyes—

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Without the wig on. The wig killed it.

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The wig killed it for me. Without the wig, I was like—

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It was so annoying. It was like a— It was like a Caesar flicker—

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Yes, the like— Oh yeah. He looked—

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I didn’t know that was his last— So he had the braid and everything. For a moment,

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without the wig, I was like, he looks so hot, because he had on the shirt. Everyone’s always

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like, “Why does Jonathan have to be shirtless?” You don’t know a sweaty man until you’ve met

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my husband. That’s nasty.

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I’m so sorry. But he gets hot at these parties—he’s hosting, playing cornhole,

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doing all the things. He just prefers to be shirtless because it makes him more comfy.

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Okay. So I try to find

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costumes where he can be shirtless organically instead of having to just take his shirt off. So,

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Khal Drogo—the costume is shirtless. I was like, he looks hot without the wig.

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And then I caught a glimpse of him scootering off with the wig on down the driveway—I don’t

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know what he was going to do—but he was on his little scooter, and it just gave me the ick.

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Ick. So much ick. And he knows that. I told him. And that’s fine. If your

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husband never gives you the ick, you’re lying. So, Maddie looked at me last night and was like,

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“I hate the way you breathe sometimes.” It’s fair to say.

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It is. It’s fair. I hate the way you breathe sometimes. Sometimes.

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I was just watching my father. [Laughter] That’s love, baby.

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Who was your favorite costume from the night? Did you go?

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Yes, she came. [Laughter] Who—what did you go as?

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I haven’t seen a picture. I don’t even know if I follow you on Instagram.

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Oh my gosh. I didn’t post.

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You do follow me. What did you go as?

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I was a fox. It was a good costume, too.

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Do you have photos? Yeah.

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Did you take photos, or was it just my video? I have photos.

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It’ll be a screen grab—just a screen grab. So she was a fox, and then Lindsay was a

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cat—which was hilarious because Rebecca’s littlest girl, who’s obsessed with cats, was like, “I like

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Lindsay’s costume.” She went as Sabrina. Lindsay wasn’t a cat.

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She’s Catwoman. She was Catwoman—but in Kinsley’s head,

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she was Sabrina, the black cat from the barn. So she’s like, “I like Sabrina’s costume.”

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How far did you go with your fox? Not very far. I had a full tail, ears,

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this fur wrap thing. I drew on a nose. You didn’t go bodysuit?

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No. I had some furry boots. That was kind of it. It was like “cute girl fox” costume—not full

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literal, but readable. You knew who she was. Painting your face to look like

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a fox would be cool. I’m just not very good

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at makeup looks for Halloween. I never go that route because I simply can’t do it.

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I had a lot of anxiety because I waited last minute. I got this costume off Amazon because

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I genuinely had all the good intentions to build a costume, not just buy one,

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and then it got to three days away and I was like, “Crap.” So I was very happy that it all fit,

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because in years past I’ve had to throw something together because nothing would fit.

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I’m trying to think—oh, Alyssa. Alyssa’s costume was fantastic.

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I think Alyssa’s was my favorite. Alyssa works in the barn; she’s worked

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there for a couple of years, and she came as a scarecrow. Her grandma handmade her scarecrow

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costume—patchwork little cuts of fabric, yarn with straw mixed in holding her hair up. It was really

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cool. Her makeup was good, too. So we had our Halloween party.

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We’re weaning—we had to wean off the Honey Baked Ham.

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Here’s my thing— Wean off the Honey Baked Ham?

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Yes. What?

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So Honey Baked Ham is my favorite thing in the entire world. It’s so good. My entire life,

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Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Christmas all warrant a Honey Baked Ham. My Nana, growing up—she’s where

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we would go for our holidays, and she always lived super close to us; during the last 10

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years of her life she lived on my parents’ property—she would always get one for before

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and one for during, and we’d have leftovers. So we’d literally have a pre-Honey Baked Ham,

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a post-Honey Baked Ham, and then a month later do it all over again, and a month later all over

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again—because it’s just so good. So I was gnawing on the ham bone,

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weaning myself off of it, being like, “Okay, I’ve had Honey Baked Ham for the last five

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days. I should probably not anymore.” On some Hawaiian rolls—my gosh, yes.

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I’m just like a little scavenger sitting there, gnawing on it. It’s so good.

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The other big thing this week has been just trying to maintain Bo.

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And Bo is my 25-year-old gelding. We just found out this morning that he has torn not only his

How is Bo?

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suspensory—which is a ligament in his back leg—but also his deep digital flexor tendon. Those things

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are very hard to fix when they happen at the same time. So we’re doing what we can. Right now we

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have a course of action we’re taking, and we’re hoping it works, but we’re kind of being faced

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with some hard decisions here soon if it doesn’t. So that’s—like, I hate to end this on a down,

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but that’s one of the realities of this week. We’ve had a lot of ups.

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How was the happy Katching Up With Katie? We’ve had a lot of ups, you know. My dad

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bought six more cows today—he was like, “Hey, I bought six more cows.” So I get it from somewhere.

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Yeah, I do. We have a couple that are going to be calving

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soon, and calving season’s not done. And honestly, we’re only like two and a half months away from

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foaling season, so there’s lots coming. That’s also crazy.

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Yeah, I know. He just rested his head like—

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Yeah. I’m ready, though. I’m ready to bring the Meta back out. I’m ready to hang out with

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y’all again—because we hang out so hard for like three months straight. It’s awesome.

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There’s a good two weeks of us being like, “Board games meta. Let’s play.”

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I love the phases of foaling season, though, because there’s always something

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different every week. Yeah. And this year—

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This year there’s not— What we need to do, I think,

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is lean into the whimsical side of things. We should watch movies.

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How about you don’t interrupt— We never watch movies.

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We always watch movies—we just turn it on and everybody goes—

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Yeah, maybe you are Miss Lights Out at 8, dude. We need to watch movies.

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You’re not— Can we start the movie before like 10:00 p.m.?

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Yeah. I will say,

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they try to stay home as late as possible with their babies, and then they come over—

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That’s not my problem. If you want to watch movies, be there early.

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I do think you’re going to be able to hold your whimsy a little bit better having Lindsay

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to swap out with this year. Maybe we could play more board games, more movie watching.

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I was thinking food, too—bringing food. I would bring some food—like a

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baked… like some pizza rolls maybe or something. I would say we’ll have better luck if y’all plan

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on cooking it at my house, because the amount of times that you’re going to cook it and then bring

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it—that’s not going to happen. You can’t tell me—

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Regardless, I’m talking about having food, for sure. We did cookies and ice cream.

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You did come in clutch with stopping to get cookies and ice cream on the way.

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That was the one thing. We had so many cookies.

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Oh gosh, we can’t do that again. That was the one constant.

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We could do that again, though. They made cookies almost every night in multiple batches.

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What if we prepped now? And what if we—

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Well, now we’re getting into the holidays— Jonathan bought so much ice cream.

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Oh my gosh, the amount of ice cream. We ate it.

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There were times we were low. There were times we were out.

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We had to order it to the barn. We did.

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I will say, we tried to cook dinner a lot of the time and have dinner if everyone was

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coming over, so it’s a little less of a sting. What was it—the old steak, mashed potatoes,

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and broccoli? No, that was—

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No, the other one. Don’t hate on my steak.

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I’m not hating. I thought that was the usual. That was a break from the other one.

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The pulled pork. Poured pork—

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Pork. I didn’t make it hardly at all

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this past year because no one wanted it. So that’s the thing—you’ve manifested

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this into an idea that nobody likes. We love it. It was just, for one time

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like three years ago— Not only did it—

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I just remember us eating it out of bowls—microwaved by itself.

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No sides. No sides.

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There were times we didn’t even have buns. And then it turned into anytime you opened

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your fridge, there was always going to be some remnant of pulled pork in a glass container

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from however long. It was also chili.

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Yes. Ever since then,

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the joke has stuck. But you’ve made so many other things since then. We don’t joke about the chili,

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though—that’s not funny. The chili’s fire.

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Chili was fire. I know.

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We need to get a couple deer so we have— I liked when you kept experimenting with

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the Passionate Penny Pincher stuff. Yeah, you always had different snacks.

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We’re almost into that season, because I don’t really cook a lot during the summer. We do stuff

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outside until 9 p.m. Now we’re in pastry season; we’re in cooking-bacon season. It’s cold out—I

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want to make potato soup. Potato soup.

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Tomato soup—everybody— Potato soup is a thing. It’s good.

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Yes, it’s fire—so good. With some cheese. Potato soup is so good. It’s like potatoes,

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bacon—it’s pretty much baked potato soup. I think Jonathan’s mama made that once for us.

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Taco soup, cheeseburger soup— I’m going to make a lot more soups this

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year. I’ve decided maybe we should have a segment of Katching Up With Katie where we don’t have to

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talk to each other as much or come up with— We’re just mic’d up in the kitchen.

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Yeah, we do—“Hey, this is a little—” We’ve been experimenting with live streaming

Should we do live-streaming again??

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a little bit. We did that at Congress for the meet and greet, just to see how people liked it,

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and a lot of people tuned in. So we were like, foaling season is a perfect time to livestream

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some—if we are in need of a video or we want to do a little extra. Livestream chess and stuff.

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Yeah. If we livestream—“Hey, we’re

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going to cook dinner together, and we’re going to make this—everyone’s going to make something.”

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We’re all on the Meta glasses or sitting on the couch.

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Now you could actually show that screen, though, and that could be cool too.

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You can show the screen. Yeah, it would be—

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I don’t know if you could do it on Facebook Live, but I know you could on Twitter.

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We’ve been doing it on YouTube Live. Maybe. I don’t know—I’m sure.

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That would be cool, though. I don’t know what just happened outside. But all

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right, we have to go film another video. Hopefully it’s not raining. We’re trying to catch up after

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being gone so much. And I think our next trip is the middle of November—the World Show—so that’s

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going to be super exciting. I am excited for that. Hope y’all enjoyed. Let us know what you’d like to

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see in future videos or any questions or things like that, and we will see you in the next one.