Ups and Downs of Living Off Grid in Extreme Heat in Portugal
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Living Off Grid and dealing with the Extreme Heat in Portugal can be hard at times especially when a lot of outdoor jobs have to be put on hold or only tackled very early in the morning but it is also a happy time when we think it is the best time for free food
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I applaud you for taking care of Mother Earth!
Oh yay! 🎉🎉🎉 so glad to hear that you're going to start renovation on the ruin. Who knows why the outdoor kitchen didn't work out now, perhaps you're meant to build an epic outdoor entertainment area at the ruin, when it becomes your home. Imagine a stunning pool to go with it. I just love Molly ❤ she's such an amazing little soul 💖 Please give her a huge hug from me, Sarah and tell her how beautiful I think she is 😊❤ 🤗
I love this and will tell her how beautiful you think she is ❤️❤️We are excited to start on the ruin too ,once the weather cools down a little bit.
So glad to see the veg's coming from the garden for you and the animals. Wish my tomatoes ripened on the vine. So dry here the skin is splitting. Removed them and am ripening them in filtered light. Less insects too. So many challenges with the garden because of heat, still worth the rewards for items that produce. Okra has been our best producer this year. Love that stuff. Molly is so precious listening to her howling for you is special. The piggies are growing faster that the water level staying for them.
Yes so very challenging trying to grow anything in this heat , i am loving the morning glory right now. Sorry to hear about your tomatoes , we are having a good year but I still feel they are struggling with this heat
Your van is a workhorse! Your harvest is wonderfully abundant!
I understand that some of the problem of using trees grown in Portugal for building is that they grow fast because of the climate. When trees grow fast they usually have larger growth rings, subsequently making the wood softer and more susceptible to rot/insect damage. 😔
Very interesting Thanks Leanne
Oh my goodness I couldn't believe that you could get that entire tree in the car.
Where there's a will there's a way!
This was a great video, exciting with Luke n the tree---& calming with Sarah in the garden. 💗👍😊🇨🇦
🤣 it is so crazy ..right? Luke loves testing our cars durability🤣
It is sad about the outdoor kitchen, but it will be exciting to start on the ruin👏👏 I live the way Timmy went on he walk with you, Luke. Such a sweetheart 🐱🐱
Yes we are excited to start on the ruin too
So excited for you both, getting started on your ruin! Good choice!
Us too ❤️
Excited for your new plans 🩷💪🏻🙌🏻
I’m glad you guys are well. Animals are looking well and I cannot believe wobbles is so majestic now 😊. Another chapter is happening and I wish you guys all the luck possible.
Can't wait!❤️❤️
Just wholesome goodness packed with luv & freedom ❤️ We ourselves continue to wait patiently as the days weeks months pass by working through pt bureaucracy hopefully one day getting news we can begin our pt journey & maybe finally rest & build a forever retreat.
Enjoy your weekend & coming week 👍 Luv to all
I wish you all the best and hopefully it all happens soon for you ❤️❤️❤️
The food grade diatamaceous earth - the greatest friend of animals and humans. Very under rated !
Our mother feed us the bounty, that keep us happy,! Thank you.mother earth 🌎
Glad you are keeping all of your hard work as a shade structure!
Awe.....that's sad about the tree! But, there is a reason and a purpose for everything!! Hey Luke....guess who bought Nick a new toy!! I told them they better not tell you because you need your road fixed!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 He was giggling like a toddler!!😂 Timmy is just full of love and Molly is the Daddy's baby!! Sarah, what is that stuff you spoon feed the pigs? When Y'all start working on the ruin, they'll be no time for spoonfeedings. Hey, do Y'all have a materials list for the ruin yet? I'm still helping my Mom and I'm not going to make it to Terceira this September for the Praia da Vitoria Fiestas. That's ok. I need time to finish healing. With all the walking and adventurous stuff i would over do it. I'll tell ya, it's a lot different to live there in your late 20s!!!! But i appreciate it more now! Y'all have a BLESSED and Safe Week! ✝️🙏❤🇺🇸🇵🇹👣🎶🎶🍍☘🌻🤗😎
Yes Nick told us a few days ago , we are very happy for them ❤️❤️ No list yet for the ruin , first thing we have to do is clear around and clean the well and get our basic needs met in that area of the land . have a great week to you too Melinda❤️
Amazing news. House build here we come. 💚
So glad you took time off to recover from the disappointment of the wood rot. Not sure why Heaven so tests you, but with great suffering comes great relief.
What a great friend Ian is. Very happy you have a new stock of logs! His property looks interesting... think he'd let you film around his place a bit? His retaining walls look nice, and the corner of the house? looks like its geometry is unusual.
Loving you and the aninals enjoying the bounties of the season ❤. So many wonderful fruits and veg.
The food grade diatamaceous earth can cut/scratch eye tissue, too, so please protect your eyes as well as mask around that stuff.
Haha, the kuneboarlets are getting more and more synchronized. The game of tug of war with the corncobs looks fun 😄. Their fur looks really nice, like its softer than kune kune or boar hair. Is it soft?
Ah! Timmy is their workout trainer! He leads them around their habitat to get their steps in, bless Timmy!
Luke is so industrious and smarty. I love him giving that potential mother beam the attention it needs if it's to serve purpose. Go on with your log surgery, Dr. Luke! Ah, sorry the patient is unsuitable. BUT clever pivot to tarp the existing columns & posts to still bring forth your: Compostible Outdoor Kitchen❣ It's sure to serve your needs well for the next few years that you need it. Looking forward to your finishing it and to your tidy of that particular build area. Way to reciver, guys❣🤗 So proud of you and ever appreciated of all the work done so far, nothing is for nothing. It's for something, and it's just a matter of recognizing it as you have. 💖
The boar fur is very coarse but I still love how it feels😁 Thanks for the advice of Diotomaceos Earth I will be more careful with the eyes❤️ Thanks so much Ruth
So sorry about your wood, Luke. Have you considered using rammed earth columns instead? They could be joined by lower walls which could act as seating around the circumference & you're not limited by the size of the material to make it structurally sound
We are definitely moving on from the outdoor kitchen and will just put a tarp on it and use it as wood storage for now, at least it will be used for something
.OMG..The ruin..will begin.❤ And you will have and outside kitchen for Christmas ✅💛🌈🌤🇯🇲
Another fabulous video, starting and ending with your beautiful animals ! Sarah your hard work has certainly paid off with your abundant vegetable crop , you have done so well! Seeing you both and Mollie having a swim was great as it showed you having a bit of you time rather than constantly on the go at various projects! As always , looking forward to next week's catch up... Keep cool if you can🥵x
Thank you so much!❤️have a great week too Nicola
Very exciting news.👏🏻
Wow, great harvest!!!
Waaawww the piglets are almost as big as Peppa 😍 and still eat from the famous big spoon 😉 Luke.... if your car could talk, I wonder what it would say 😜 but we are all looking forward what kind of magic you will turn the ruin in a wonderful home 💪💪💪
Many thanks ❤
Love your updates, interesting to see Luke's expedition to cut the fallen trees.
Looks like disease and water gets into the wood more easily than thought. Something to bear in mind.
Keep up the great work both of you!.
Yes we will be a lot more careful for future projects x x Thanks Fionn
Listening to Molly yodeling made me think of your neighbor, how is she doing? Great video.
Sabrina is doing well , Thanks for asking Marlene ❤️
Yay - the ruin! Excited :)
That river looks so refreshing ❤😅. I’m such a wimp with the heat… love seeing your garden progressing x
Thanks so much 😊
You are amazing in your garden with all your beautiful veggies
So nice of you
I look forward to seeing your renovations that's super excicting!
Us too!
You guys are resilient, lovely people! Thanks for your video and I hope my viewing support encourages you too as you build your channel!
Absolutely! Thanks Vicki ❤️❤️
Love all your little succulents ❤. Best of luck on the ruin. Stay as cool as possible.
Thank you! Will do!
“The car that thought she was a truck!”
🤣 or the owner of a car who thinks he has a truck🤣
you could try framing the center column by drilling some holes in the wood sticking a bunch of rebars steel and pouring cement in to incase the column in cement and make it stronger - then put lime and stone on it from the outside to look nice
We are definitely moving on from the outdoor kitchen and will just put a tarp on it and use it as wood storage for now, at least it will be used for something
Great positive thinking guys - you are inspirational -lots of love
I so glad you were able to acquire wood. It’s only going to get better sweet friends . All challenges are positives we get smart with each trial. Where the lord close a door he opens a window. 💕💕💕live and love in your best life 💕💕💕
Yes! Thank you!
I use on my plants,roses for beetles.but it is good for bugs,insects.iv also put in bottle with water and sprayed on my flowers.good stuff.
Thanks for sharing
Hi, I am Totally amazed by what your Dear Little Var can carry!!
Us too!
Wow the garden is amazing. I tried two years with no luck for tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini 😂😂😂
Oh no Denice I wish you better luck next year ❤️❤️
Hallow Luk,and Sara.Onlly put firnaj for bube ,laca in the tree,and dont worry,been good for your life it the stay.
Amazing how the wiring manage to survive hehe, calling EDP to fix it can be such a drag if you are in an isolated place! they treat users like the man on the iron mask hahah. Glad i found this channel, keep it up brother and welcome to Portugal :D
So happy you found us too 😁
Here is an idea, but check out its feasibility. Replace the center column tree with three trees that are bound together with metal bands. Rope is made stronger when three strands are wound together. Thus, maybe three tree trunks that are smaller in circumference could become just as strong when bound together. It’s an idea but check with a person who knows about wood working.
Thanks Jeffrey
Maybe if you try it again you can preserve the wood with Shou Sugi Bann so you won't have to ever worry about rot or termites?
This is the reason why life gets easier in handling unexpected things that make us get depressed.
It always seems to be that blessings are given in abundance. It was a blessing that the bad wood was discovered before someone could of ended up under it all
Look a blessing of a tree that fell.
God knows all things best!!
These events in sequence is there to remind us "don't worry and trust in the lord " it's all a test of our confidence in him and to grow stringer in that. ❤❤❤🎉❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤
Thank you x
Love you guys, love your videos! Keep up the great work and god bless...😊
Thanks so much!!
Great video
Sad about the tree but I’m so excited for you to start the ruin
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Us too we cant wait for the cooler weather so we can finally get super productive again
Very good video
Don't forget to peel off the bark from the timber. You will get insects in your timber again.
CONGRATULATIONS EXCELLENT WORK 🍿💕
Thank you so much 😀
Hi luke,, a crazy sugestion,, what if you took the main beam down, split it in to two on the long side. cut a 15cm "V" in the middle of both of them from top to bottom. Treat the inside with some nasty stuff,, motor oil,,,etc. Now you can put up the two half's,, and you have a 15x15cm empty spaces inside, where you can poor a concrete beam,, with rebar and all. It's a lot of work 😕
Great tip! But we are definitely postponing it to start work on the ruin area as soon as the weather cools down
Good Afternoon !!!
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I understand that the wood grows fast in the country where you live and that makes it softer than in other parts of the world. Something about the growth rings are too far apart making it weak.
Thanks for sharing
I always look forward to your vlogs - your life is so inspiring. The background music on route to the ruin was hauntingly beautiful. Does it have a name? By chance is it in a movie set in China about a young doctor and his reluctant wife?
Thanks so very much . The song i got from artlist by Bishara Haroni- Gnossienne No 1 - but no idea if it was in the movie you mentoned
on the wod put,insekticid first,and second laca for bout.And finsh.
It’s sad that your timber frame is all invested with insects and rotten. I am going back to the 1960’s in Rhodesia farming days (now Zimbabwe) all our fence poles were wooden and we painted them with creosote to protect them and they are still standing today after 60 years. Today you have other chemicals one could use. I would then purchase a 5 ton truck of stone (the Portuguese use this stone for making roads) I would build a square stone columns around all your uprights. By adding strength, I would rap bird mesh galvanised wire around the upright poles, so when you use cement that will help to strengthen the stonework. Plan B take down the whole structure and use that wood for your “Rhodesian boiler- or a Rocket Stove System “ (hot water for your home). Then look for a company in Portugal that make telephone poles made out of re-enforced concrete poles (they always have damaged poles which they cannot get rid of them). Just some ideas
Thanks for all the great ideas Tom😁
I got DE to control the ants infesting my compost bin. It's slow to work on that problem, but I'm patient. I wear a mask when I use it because I'm a smoker trying to give up and I don't want DE to make it harder with my lungs.
Thanks I will wear a mask next time I use it too x
OMG IM SO EXCITED FOR YOU GUYS! This is soooo exciting… I got a question about the garden! Will you still use it? Or eventually make one closer to the house?not sure how far away it is❤
We will keep everything here but make it more manageable but Everything we do we on the ruin area we will have to start from scratch , clear around the well and clean it for starters and then electricity etc etc etc 😁 the ruin is 3 to 5 minutes walk but the water is further down
Hi Luke..did you ever read KonTiki ..book by Thor Heyerdahl...About the building of his Balsa Wood Raft. This episode brings that book to mind. The muisic fits my mood 😢
No I haven't but I will check it out 🙂
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Happiest pigs in the world!
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OMG that car 😂
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Don't do it Luke, that tree is already rotten😮
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Why not make forms and pour concrete to make your outdoor framework?
We are definitely moving on from the outdoor kitchen and will just put a tarp on it and use it as wood storage for now, at least it will be used for something. But thanks for the tip Mike
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife after all these yrs, I'm sure all would like to see you both work on your ruin and build an amazing home to feel warm, relaxed, and cozy in. Not to mention, your views & subscriptions would double. Wishing you both the best,
@@mikecorcoran6834 that would be great for sure . yes we are really looking forward to the cooler weather so we can get working on the ruin area❤❤
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Can't compare the lakes and rivers to the Mediterranean though
luke, why can't you use two smaller in width poles for the central column? strap them together somehow?
It's not only the central column that's rotten unfortunately.. pretty much all of it. Hopefully we'll get a few years out of it as it is just as a shelter for fire wood and other bits and pieces
Happy pigs❤
Are you keeping all of your pigs? That's a lot to feed in winter months! We just have two girls, I've thought of finding a new boar but keep talking myself out of it 😅
No the pigs will be going to a farm in September probably and then the Kune kune boys will join Peppa in her enclosure.
We too cant afford to feed so many pigs they are eating so much right now i can imagine how much more they will eat in winter
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Hi, where pigs wallow, they "seal" the ground from leaking
Yes it is called gleying that is why we have the pigs to try and create ponds using them
That tree looks beetle damaged too? Missing bark etc
Yes unfortunately
Why don't you contact Project Kamp. They're also in central Portugal and have sooo much mimosa that they have cleared they can't use all of it.
Mimosa is not a good tree to build with ,in fact we have some on the land and will only use it for small projects in the garden
Of that wud makeing sink in kichen
Peugeot should sponsor you guys with a new car for promoting the durability of Peugeot...😄
🤣 so true
Luka other three that nothing beter.Hej dont du det,onli makeing uourself so many works.
To gain more success on your channel, shorten youre vids to half time, i dont wonna spend 40 minutes here.
Some people do 😁 they are as long as i want them to be sometimes 25 sometimes 40 it all depends on how much we want to share each week
I really like your channel but i have to advert you about your Chainsaw works.
Its completely reckless
I'm a professional Sapeur and i say to you that you shoudn't be neglecting your safety like that.
Why?
Like i tell my colleages when they work like that, do you wanna your love ones to be taking care of you cause of your reckless behavior, eating from a straw for the rest of your live its no good.
Take care
Bé safe
Could you specify why you think I'm being reckless?
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Its all about safety
Working with a weapon like a Chainsaw you should allways wear Helmet, Glasses, Gloves and Safety Pants, that's the minimum
Then i could go to the way you aproached the cutting of that hanging pine, you should never had touched it, hanging on a power line that's a job for a professional, the owner should have called the firedepartment or the 112
I'm not trying to be mean
I advocate that Strimmers and Chainsaws should not be sold to anyone that wouldn't have a license to use it, when i say license its not a online course or a basic one like they "sell" in some instruction companys.
These machines are weapons and they should be treated and handled as such.
Agricultural accidents are a big thing in Portugal but the numbers are hidden to the public
Once again i just want your good not the opposite
Disagree about the pants as I never stand in a dangerous position where my legs can get hitt.. always wear glasses. Thanks for the concern though
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Position has never to do with wearing Safety Pants.
Most accidents are on the left leg and on the head.
Be good
Be safe
go ruin work.