Santa MUST be real!! It finally happened!
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2023
- I have waited 2.5 years for this night to arrive - the night I would sleep in my self-milled/self-built cabin perched out over a cliff, in the middle of nowhere. (well, on our remote 20 acre off-grid property). I now have to drive out the winter route, which is 2 hours each way. So getting out there is a dedicated and special event.
This time Luna, our newest rescue, gets to come with me. She's been with us for a little over 2 weeks now, and is doing amazingly well. She was set to get spayed, but they almost didn't go ahead with it as they said she went into heat - she must have gone into heat that day because no one was interested in her prior to then. Lenny, for reference, isn't neutered (he is scheduled to have surgery soon), but the second I brought her in the door after her surgery, Lenny (and everyone else for that matter) was all over her! For a solid week she was in heat, but recovering from surgery, but Lenny has been IN LOVE! It's been really nice to finally see Lenny really thrive, and feel alive again. He is chronically lethargic, maybe in pain, doesn't wanna eat or socialize with us...he's the only rescue that hasn't thrived in our house (but he has a serious plethora of health issues that are sure to contribute to the problem). Anyway...the hormones are fading as I write this, and he (Lenny) is slowly reverting to his old self again, but hopefully Luna will keep his spirits alive a bit longer here. She has brought some life and spunk into the rest of the old farts in the house, which is one of the main reasons I wanted to add a younger female to the pack. Ya know, sometimes it just takes a younger gal in the mix of a bunch of old men to liven things up a bit, right!?!?!? 🤭😝
My cabin is getting close to completion. I can't believe I spent a night in it you guys! It was honestly a bit of a magical feeling; like a bit of a Christmas gift! Santa came!
Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the wood stove hooked up, but luckily I had a back up plan, PLUS, it wasn't that cold (by our standards). So we managed just fine with a propane heater. I also sealed the cabin in while I was there - so all the windows are foamed in and sealed in. Once I get the stove hooked up, I'm all set to stay a night or two out there and really get work done!
I showed Luna a bit more of the property - took her to the 'meadow', which is the halfway point of the property (which I've talked about lots before), but that is truly the most amazing spot on that property because you get a 180 degree view of the lake, AND, there's more room to roam around than the cliff.
I've been thinking about the next steps on this build, and I think I have a plan!
Thanks for watching, and see you in the next video.
Merry Christmas my friends 🎄
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Wow, you can already tell that Luna is going to be one of the all-time great dogs!
Merry Christmas Michy and Steve. There is a hand tool for crimping the ducts. Even though one end is crimped, sometimes it needs just that little bit of extra. You can also do it with needle nose pliers. You may need only to do three or four extra crimps to shrink it enough to fit. You do not necessarily need the added crimping to run as long as the "factory" crimp. About 1/2 to 1 inch should be enough to get it started. Not knowing your plan, I do advise at least one screw in each joint to ensure no separation, then wrap with foil tape to seal it. WOW, I had not realized how long I have been watching your vids. Again, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Yes! I think foil tape at least (to hold them all together so this doesn’t happen again!). Thanks!
@@michygoss7148 Another great video, you are in your element for sure 👍 I watch all your videos they are awesome 👏 Merry Christmas To you and Steve and your fur babies 😊☃️🎅🧑🎄
you can also use a hose clamp to pull the crimp in enough to get it started. and never forget lubrication is your friend. graphite maybe for this application but there a million things you can use in a pinch. just make sure it wont stink or smoke too bad if it gets a little heat.@@michygoss7148
You beat me to it. I've posted about this before, a crimp tool can change your life. LOL It hurts me to watch her struggle when a $15 dollar tool would fix it instantly.,
Get the crimp tool! or at least you the needle nose pliers. You are an absolute wonder and you do it all looking good!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who struggles with those g.d. stove pipes!
Pure misery EVERY time! 😢
Another great video, and Luna is getting so much better on stairs. Isn't it amazing what having a young female around does to older males. Merry Christmas everyone.
I know, right!!?!? 😜
You are a Beautiful Canadian woman
I just love that Lenny’s so in love with Luna. It’s so heart warming to see his love for her 🙂
Michelle and Steve, God bless you and Merry Christmas. It wasn't until I felt the warmth of tears on my face that I knew how emotional it was for you to sleep your first night in the cabin. I could see it on your face and in your eyes. TY both for all the smiles, love, fun, and friendship. In a world that needs such blessings you both give them abundantly.
It looks like Luna was reasonably comfortable with the new environment, and curious! 😊 Congrats & Merry Christmas to you and all the doggies!
Yeah she’s doing amazingly well and is very inquisitive!!
It is so great to see you finally get to spend a night in the cliff cabin! Happy to see how Luna is getting along, as well as little Lenny! So amazing seeing him "waking up" in a way. One thing is for sure, no one can say your brood of pups and fluffer are not loved and cared for. You and Steve give so much to them and it is amazing to see your hearts pour into the animals, not only those at home, but all the random pups you meet along the way in your journeys. Stay amazing Michy and Steve. Merry Christmas to you both, hope you have an amazing holiday season.
I’m glad to see what you love!!! You worked extremely hard on your cabin enjoy it and have a Blessed Christmas 🎄 ❤
Hi Michelle , Steve and pups 🐶 🐾👋🏻 So happy for you that you have finally made it to this point on your cabin👍🏻🙂 Great news about Luna adjusting so well, and Lenny getting a spring in his step again😊Thank you , stay safe and take care my friends 🙏🏻 Merry Christmas 🎄and Happy New Year 🎆 God Bless 🙏🏻 Appreciate you
Michelle - May you Steve and the pooches have a really enjoyable Christmas. Good to see Luna adapting to her forever home too.
Now wait just a minute. Santa is real ! I hope you did your Xmas list for a new chainsaw, tools, heels ! 😂
A very merry Xmas from Wales to you both. Nadolig Llawen 🎅🎅😀😀
Félicitations ! Bravo pour ce magnifique travail ! Merci pour le partage de tes aventures
Love for animals, building things, a love story, a beautiful gal, accomplishments, upbeat and positive even when met with challenges, and God's incredible scenery. What a gift this channel and YOU are. Here in America with our country going off the rails and being ripped apart from within, the time I spend with one of your videos is such a breath of fresh air. Thank you Michelle for making 2023 better for the rest of us, and thank you Steve for sharing her gifts with us.
All I can saw is WOW! Love your build, love your location and admire your vast set of skills. Having lived in the California Sierra Nevada for 20 years, seeing your video makes me homesick for the Pacific Northwest, where I am originally from.
Love the recap and the move from shed to cabin! So much fun to stroll down memory lane. Merry Christmas and here's to a FANTASTIC 2024!!
WOW, ma belle made my new year. It's like bacon, and cherries, and cheese cake (and chobani)! Thanx!
Very good Video 👍 👍
Twist the ribbed pipe with needle nose pliers perpendicular to the pipe in the round to make the pipe slightly smaller. Just like how they make small alcohol burners from cola cans. Merry Christmas.
MERRY CHRISTMAS Ketchup Lady! CONGRATS ON CABIN!... ya wood stove piping is nutz!
Michy and Steve and all your paw children have a Merry Christmas and God bless amen.
Thanks for leaving it in the video. Merry Christmas. 😮
the blonde hair looks AMAZING!!! makes ur eyes pop!!!
Absolutely outstanding! 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
Luna is a beautiful dog.❤
Bless you and your hard work and funniness. Can't tell you how many times I've said, "Help her Lord" as I held my breath. Seeing you sleep in the cabin for the first time was actually emotional for a lot of us for sure. God bless you and Steve and the puppies this wonderful time of year. Merry Christmas from Sweet Home Alabama!
Living at north is all about technology. This shows it clearly.
Delighted to see that Lenny has found the love of his life! Go Lenny!! Yet another in a long list of masterfully crafted videos that keep you at the top of my list. Party, long and hard!! -Curt
Thanks my friend! I hope to bring more and more delightful videos to you all this next year 💝. Hope you are well, and Merry Christmas!
thats gotta feel pretty awesome to finally sleep in your bad ass little cabin!
Michelle
You will enjoy the MrBuddy, we use one to heat our shop. I placed 2 convection fans on top of the heat grill, works great.
Now for that hand Rail so our favorite Canadian WoodsWoman doesn’t…😵💫😵💫😵💫You know!!
Love the recap, you’ve made so much progress. Love it❤️❤️👴🏻🧑Wilber & Margaret from the lower 48❤❤
The drive to the cliff cabin takes 2 hours looks very scenic .
I had a idea what about a second porch roof line at each side of the roof covering the porch to shed the snow to the ground. If you use plexiglass it will still allow the light through. And for your chimney pipe use a large screw hose clamp to reduce the diameter to get it started. Then remove it. Have fun 😊
Thanks for sharing the build from start to finish. By far the most photogenic picture of them all was you sitting in the open window frame. My wife has a very similar black and white of our Autistic son Brayden and he looks so content
Wow, Luna just loves it at the cabin. Poor Lenny, probably misses his sweetheart. Merry Christmas to all.
So no stove chimney for Santa to slide down. I figure a nock on the door and dads home made cookies will get you Santa's blessing
Try pinching one side of the pipe and rolling it into the other if that doesn’t work, switch the pipes around and try to get them to go together that way, and if that doesn’t work, you may need to get a crimper and crimp the knurled end of the pipe also make sure that your seams are lined up with each other… good luck, but I know that you have this you can do it… 🇺🇸👊🏼👊🏼🌷
Awesome that you're on your first night.👍
Don’t worry about carbon monoxide as you can fun that heat buddy in an inclosed space, I do it in my van all the time you gorgeous lady.
Very impressed with your project.
I think you might find that once the woodstove is up and running, you'll have less condensation build up on the windows. The process of combustion combined with drawing of air from inside the cabin to burn the wood will act as a natural dehumidifier.
Luna sure looks like she's enjoying herself, and you too.
Merry Christmas to you and Steve and all the four-legged friends.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Michelle & Steve!🎄
BTW, I loved retrospective of the build. Great work!
Merry Christmas beautiful hope you and Steve had an amazing day..
OMG that photo story at the end.. You are Gorgeous girl.
Love from The Land Down Under 😘 😘 😘 😘
Merry Christmas Michy, Steve, the dogs and the cat from Finland, the land of Santa Claus! (And to the chipmunks, and the bear as well)
Have a Merry Christmas sweet girl 👍🏼☕️☕️🙏🎄🥗🎅🏻🎁🇺🇸🇨🇦
Yes it has been a long time and we have enjoyed every minute of it the cabin on the cliff is beautiful🎉 and your whole family is beautiful you have been blessed in life🎉❤ Merry Christmas to you and your family🎅🤶🎄 and a Happy New Year🎉🎉🎉❤ see you on the next one😂❤
Hey Michy, thanx for the "Meadow" view, and for the Image of You at 17:30. That Image says so many things in so many ways about Your Character and how You see the World. Thanx for that also. The Meadow would be my choice for building, looking forward to what will happen there.😃
thanks for another great video beautiful michelle....xo
I still find it hard to believe you still havn't got a rail around that terrace! Especially taking "newbies" down there.
Congratulations on the first night! What an undertaking mostly accomplished by you. You should write a book. What an adventure ots been
Proud of Luna 😊
always a pleasure
Have a super Christmas & a Great New Year, cannot wait till all the videos of 2024. Stay safe & well. x
Hi again Michelle....i am a retired plumber of 30+ years and as far as the smoke pipe as we call it,they make a set of special pliers that crimp the factory crimped ends even more so that it is easier to slide into each regular end.Then you get what we call self tapping zip screws that lock each section in place.Just a thought.We used the same tubing for water heater vent piping.Hope this helps.
Michelle,
Your family is truly blessed and reaping benefit from yours and Steve’s hard work. Best wishes for you Steve and those pups in the coming new
year.
Your videos are a great “pick me up” for old engineer down south rebuilding a life after a crushing divorce. I just need Santa to bring me a clone of you for Christmas to help with all of my damn projects, lol.
Merry Christmas from Texas
Как же я обожаю ваши видео !!!
Congratulations on your accomplishment. I know you are really excited about getting it livable ♥️🌹
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Merry Christmas to You , Steve and All the Pets. All the very best for 2024 on land and sea from Steve UK 🇬🇧
Looks nice and cozy and will get much nicer once finished. Was definitely worth all your effort.
Michy, What a fun ride to have watched you start with a book and a dream and now sharing your first night in the cabin with Luna. She hit pay dirt when you and Steve adopted her. What a life Luna will live now and what a sweet girl she is. Perfect! Merry Christmas to you and your pack and of course Steve. Thanks for sharing your many adventures and dreams with us. Love Waldo
Way to go, Luna and the snow.
Bravo!! Well done.
When it gets warm, maybe build railings for safety. :)
Michelle your a trouper, very strong, good common sense, Steve is blessed, and you as well with Steve. Love the videos, i personally do not know of many woman, that can do what you have done. I know a handful. You have what i call "THE HEART OF A CHAMPION" what is that you ask, glad you did.. LOL Everyone, i mean everyone gets knocked down sometimes in life, losers quit, those that no matter what keep getting back up, they ultimately WIN! That is "The Heart of a Champion" always getting back up... Tell Steve we said hey from SE Texas Bear ❤💯🙏
Thank so cool you got to stay at your cabin you built! Congratulations on getting as far as you are on the build. You are a hardworking girl. You are still inspiring me and help push me at work. I love building things. Also. You were in my dream last night. I was showing you the deck with a roof over it that I just completed. Thank you for coming to see me. I felt honored. You were so nice to me in the dream. I will never see you in person. That makes me sad.
❤Looking mighty fine there Lady
Have a peaceful and contented Christmas! Also, I think you are entitled to feel proud.
I'm glad Michelle that you adopted Luna, she will be a great company on your adventures, she will give you a lot of energy and you will find the qualities of love of an inseparable friend and she will give you the love that you deserve, sometimes Loneliness is much better with a friend like Luna!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year¡¡¡¡¡🎆🎄🤗
The fogs not too bad,you can still see the nipple on boob mountain over there. 😂 MERRY CHRISTMAS
Merry Christmas to you and yours. This video was outstanding, congratulations to getting to the first night in the cabin. What a project, have enjoyed watching it being built. Luna looks like she is getting comfortable out in the woods.
💚 ❤ Kudos n Thanx for sharing ...
Merry Christmas, incredible canadian lady friend of ours!
Good job!
Another wonderful video. Michelle, seems you’re having problems with your stove. I hope you can resolve it soon. Good luck have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.🎄
Love the ending of this video too! You’ve come a long way for sure!
Congrats. Quite an accomplishment. Thanks for taking us along for the ride. :)
Hi Michy, w hat an amazing woman you really are......How you learn your skills is how it really is, try and try again, until you are happy with the result, which is what you do........Take good care.....😘
Beautiful!
You are just plain awesome…
Luna is happy dog, good job with her. Let me know when your going to Wear your chain saw pants , jim
Bravo, mille fois Bravo.
Well done!
What you have accomplished, single handed is true phenomenal! A very rare breed of women ..hats of to you ..Wishing you and husband Steve a merry Christmas from sunny South Africa..ps love Steve's motor sailer ..😊⛵🎅
That's amazing puppy
And have a wonderful Boxing day❤
I love the cabin and your property is simply awesome. All the best in 2024!
All the best for the holidays and 2024.
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OMG at least she knows who's bed is who's. Please be careful out on that ledge.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, and Happy New Year , to the Both of you, and your fir babies....🙏✝️🎄🎆🎊🎉🎇
Oh, my gosh Michelle.....that snowy ❄️ road makes this Southern boy clinch up 😬. Merry Christmas 🎄 from Georgia.
Merry Christmas to You & Steve & all your Quad-dropeds🌟🎅🐕🐾🤶🏻Blessings For an Adventerous NewYear(as always ).
👍👌👏 2) Merry Christmas 🎄🌲 to all of you. I wish you all to have especially a great time during the Christmas days.
Best regards, luck and health in particular.
Michelle,
In your latest video, to get the chimney pipes together, you need to compress the crimped part to make it a bit smaller. If you can’t push it hard enough with your fingers, you can try anything you have on hand. Easiest is a hose clamp with a screw (or several of them connected together if you don’t have a long one) or you can use a piece of wire and twist the connection or even a shoe lace tied around and put a stick through and twist.
Hope it will not give you as much grief the next time.
Good luck!
Great video (as usual). There is a crimping tool you can use to pinch in the male end of a stove pipe, HVAC duct, or gutter downspout, to make it slip into the female end more easily. I think you just need one pass with the crimper to pinch in the existing convolutions and your pipes will go together much more easily. Look for a "duct crimper" at your favorite store and it will do the trick. It's an inexpensive hand tool.
Better get them 4x4s up there! I believe in you
The meadow is beautiful!
The video you shared is very interesting in life and the dogs are also very lovely, wishing you a Merry Christmas 😘😘😄😄😊😊😃😃👍👍😍😍
Dear God, put a railing on that deck. Love ya .
Merry Christmas to you both.
And all your Fur Babies.. 🎄🎄🎁🎁
God Bless
Congratulations on your first night in the cabin.
Another great moment to savor .