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Makin' Bacon | Smoking Meat, Firewood and Chainsaw Carving
Well, the weather is still on it's kick of being fussy but that can't stop us from continuing on with spring chores. We recently made another batch of pork belly into several pounds of bacon on the smoker as well as started plugging away at restocking the wood shed with firewood for next year. John also finished creating his latest work of art - a chainsaw carving of a great blue heron which he donated in support of our local community. It was able to raise an astonishing $1,000! A huge thank you to that winning bidder on supporting the community and winning his beautiful carving.
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Fool's Spring | Power Outages, Seed Starting and Putting Syrup Season Away
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Mother nature really can't get it together! We've been having beautifully warm and sunny days followed by extreme wind storms, snow and multiple power outages. In this video we experience our third power outage in 3 days, pull the taps on our maple trees and wash up all of the pails. We also get up to a few other things like starting some seeds that I like to start indoors as well as smoke some...
Canadian Maple Syrup | The Final Boil - A Short Film
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We took our camera along to experience maple syrup production somewhere other than our own place! We recently got to spend some time at our friend's Brian and Katrina's homestead where we were able to help them with their final boil of the maple syrup season! We were in awe of the beautiful sugar shack that they worked their behind's off building last year as well as we shared some "sap secrets...
Springtime at the Lake | Processing Venison (Our Neighbour Hit a Deer), Maple Syrup Continues
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Spring is in the air! We are experiencing unbelievable temperatures for March, which means our maple syrup season will soon be coming to an end. The deer are out and active, unfortunately resulting in our neighbour hitting a deer one morning and calling us to come get it. We are always grateful for more meat in the freezer and receiving more food from the land, so join us as we butcher some ven...
First Boil of 2024 | Maple Syrup at Our Lakefront Property - Using a Reverse Osmosis Machine
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Join us as we complete the first maple syrup boil and bottling of the 2024 season. In this video, we get some firewood ready for the syrup season, see how our trees are running and collect sap. We show you how we boil down our sap, testing, filtering and bottling. We also use our reverse osmosis system for the first time.
Maple Syrup Season in Ontario Cottage Country | Tapping Trees, Intro to Our Channel & Evening Fish
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Welcome to our channel! We're John and Rainey and this is our first ever video uploaded to our channel. Our goal for 2024 was to start a UA-cam channel after being inspired by so many others. Join us as we start off our channel with one of our favourite seasonal hobbies - maple syrup. In this video we go around the property and get the trees tapped for the 2024 season. If you enjoyed this video...

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  • @briansaxon2128
    @briansaxon2128 6 місяців тому

    Sounds like you had a “Pam can you call my mom” 😂😂

    • @OurLifeLakeside
      @OurLifeLakeside 6 місяців тому

      I did that night after firewood that’s for sure 😆

  • @mikemckinley1031
    @mikemckinley1031 6 місяців тому

    Hello great video thankyou for sharing it you did a good job with the wood little bit at a time what a beautiful blue heron carving here from Ontario Canada ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦😎

  • @katrinavanosch
    @katrinavanosch 7 місяців тому

    The bucket brush is the bomb!

  • @wendingourway
    @wendingourway 7 місяців тому

    It seems the weather has been topsy-turvy all over this year. We had some snow, days of rain, a nice little stretch of sun, and now cold rains have returned. Looking good...one step at a time! Have yourselves an awesome weekend.

    • @OurLifeLakeside
      @OurLifeLakeside 7 місяців тому

      It really has been! We had a beautiful day at work on Wednesday and the past 2 days here now have been steady rain with zero breaks at all. They’re even calling for a few cm of snow overnight and another potential wind storm. Hoping that light is at the end of the tunnel soon. Thanks for watching and likewise!

  • @mikemckinley1031
    @mikemckinley1031 7 місяців тому

    Great video thanks to both of you guys here from Ontario Canada ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦😎

  • @davelindahl8273
    @davelindahl8273 7 місяців тому

    Adding more stove stack pipes make for a hotter fire, better boil

  • @terrybrown9206
    @terrybrown9206 8 місяців тому

    Good video, showed different pictures of the sugar shack ,and equipment

  • @katrinavanosch
    @katrinavanosch 8 місяців тому

    We loved sharing sap secrets and THANK YOU for letting us use your RO unit, game changer! Every year one improvement (big or small), that's the fun of it.

  • @wendingourway
    @wendingourway 8 місяців тому

    Wonderful...you know you're Canadian when you have a few iconic Canadian Tire buckets on hand in the sugar shack! Oh man, I can taste it now!!

    • @OurLifeLakeside
      @OurLifeLakeside 8 місяців тому

      You bet! The first year we started doing maple syrup all of our pails were Canadian Tire buckets! We purchased 25 of them and ran hoses down into them with lids. Maple syrup is always a great memory making, sociable and iconic hobby for many! Thanks for watching

    • @wendingourway
      @wendingourway 8 місяців тому

      @@OurLifeLakeside Indeed, my last few years of teaching grade 7/8 my class tapped a few of the trees on the school property and made syrup...didn't end up with a whole lot, but I think the kids made some pretty amazing memories.

  • @mikemckinley1031
    @mikemckinley1031 8 місяців тому

    Great video John and Rainey it was last Tuesday was 21 degrees Celsius here in Ontario Canada I thought it was spring here but I was wrong Wednesday it was - 3 degrees Celsius what a change in temperature and today march 16 2024 it was -8 degrees Celsius we haven’t had snow since November that is crazy

    • @OurLifeLakeside
      @OurLifeLakeside 8 місяців тому

      Thanks for watching! It was a very mild winter in Ontario for sure. We got a couple big snow storms here but the snow never lasted for long. It actually has been snowing here all day today! But it won’t stick.

  • @jakesoutdoors8539
    @jakesoutdoors8539 8 місяців тому

    Buy a sawmill and turn the logs into lumber softwood is great for building build yourself a sugar shack out of all the lumber you get

    • @OurLifeLakeside
      @OurLifeLakeside 8 місяців тому

      A sawmill is definitely on the future list! Just not in the cards right now. We have an Alaskan mill for small projects and we sell off any good saw logs to people that do have mills. For now though we don’t have one ourselves though so the softwood gets donated to whoever can use it for outdoor burners, campfire wood or we sell the saw logs. John also is a chainsaw carver so some get used for that! Thanks for watching.

  • @mikemckinley1031
    @mikemckinley1031 8 місяців тому

    What is your names and let me tell you do not swearing on your channel can I share your videos on Facebook Publicly

    • @OurLifeLakeside
      @OurLifeLakeside 8 місяців тому

      Happy to have you share! We’re John and Rainey and we promise we don’t swear on our channel!

    • @mikemckinley1031
      @mikemckinley1031 8 місяців тому

      Have you ever seen a homestead called flat tire farm they are the best in Alaska I love there channel

  • @mikemckinley1031
    @mikemckinley1031 8 місяців тому

    I am a new subscriber on your channel glad to be hear here from Ontario Canada ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦😎

    • @OurLifeLakeside
      @OurLifeLakeside 8 місяців тому

      Thanks, Mike! Happy to have you here. Appreciate you subscribing. Cheers fellow Ontarian!

  • @clintonharper1145
    @clintonharper1145 8 місяців тому

    Keep doing these please!

  • @radio_voice_royce
    @radio_voice_royce 8 місяців тому

    From small beginnings come great things!

  • @katrinavanosch
    @katrinavanosch 8 місяців тому

    Awesome job dudes! Loved the end with the beauty sky and tunes!