Upgrades to our $32K abandoned farm in Portugal
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We do some more progress in our stone house renovation. Building more of the stone walls and the concrete block. We plant some more plants and become more ambitious with our crops. Andrea tries to add some more fixtures into the tiny home but unfortunately gets into some challenges and tries to over come them!
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It's going to be beautiful - can't wait to see it finished. Big cheer for Simon! Andrea, the garden is really coming along thanks to you and your mum, and let's not forget Omar, earning the money to pay for the build. Wishing you much love and happiness.
Thank you very much! Omar can’t wait to get back and get involved! 🥰
Andrea....the bathroom cabinet doors look great...better than most ikea packs... be 🎉proud of yourself..
Ah thanks Paula! That’s very kind of you 🥰
I really enjoy watching your progress each week. Simon is working hard and it's so great to see you spending such quality working time with your mom, Andrea.
Thank you, Im blessed to have mum here and she has ben a great asset to the garden. I would have been able to grow as much if it wasnt for her
That small kitchen cabinet and extra counter space is a game changer for your daily life! You are doing so many new things and as you said you will have a chance to use these skills again. What a gorgeous life you are creating together.
Definitely! Every little extra storage or counter space helps when it comes to the tiny house. Can’t wait to add the other doors and the cupboard!
Andrea I'm very impressed with your building skills, so don't berate yourself over small imperfections. You're doing an amazing job of sharing the build. How wonderful it will be to know you both played a major role in creating your dream home. Give yourself a huge pat on the back!😊👍🇨🇦
Your flowers are beautiful! The corn looks good. Corn usually grows quickly. Idea: if you put your courgettes in the food processor, put them in zip lock bags - 8 ounces per bag - then throw them in the freezer. During the winter, you'll have enough to make a sweet bread, we call it zucchini bread, which is lovely to have with tea or toasted for breakfast. Do the same with carrots and make carrot bread. Yummy!
Thanks for the tips! That sounds delicious!
I put chocolate chips in my zucchini bread. Yum
@@katieallen3927Yum! 😋
Simon’s right, as long as it looks straight, what does it matter? Onwards & upwards! 😊
Two little matching knobs on the little bathroom cupboard … measured carefully to be level and it will be perfect ❤️
The garden looks amazing.. your mum looks so very happy there.
Simon is still a genius..
And you , dear Andrea are amazing.
Sending love to you all🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
The outside stone wall/ facing looks very nice! You are a GREAT job despite all the little setbacks.
Thanks a bunch!
wow, everything is coming up nicely!!!! Good job everyone!!!!!!
Well done...keep it up the good work.
Hi, Andrea. I finally got caught up with your journey to a self sufficient home in Coimbre. Now I can comment in real time. Just want you to know how impressive you are with your many skills. As a mother of grown children I can imagine how proud of you your mom is as she watches you build your home.
Don't be embarrassed. You're learning and that's a good thing. Carpentry is hard and all these UA-cam channels that never show mistakes aren't real. Be authentic and keep it real. That's my suggestion. Love the channel and and don't get discouraged.
Thank you! Yes, its true! I think it did came out better after a day or two of reflection! :)
Oh that sounds amazing with the interior wall in stone… it will be so pretty…I love watching Simon work he is brilliant… oh look how pretty the garden looks and very busy….i love corvettes sliced and fried in garlic butter with black pepper…that’s called a plumb Simon… my dad used it to hang wallpaper straight don’t be to hard on yourself you have learnt so much in this journeys…one day at a time my lovely…I think you did very well with those doors… I loved the video and loved seeing your mum she’s such a hard worker that is were you get your work ethics and love watching Simon do the stone work and you can now turn your hand to most things…I love the kitchen…Omar will be very proud of you ❤
Thank you Izzy! Really nice comment. I agree about the stone work but I worry people might find it repetitive! There is so much stone work to be done!! But Im glad you enjoy it. Yes! So many courgettes coming up! I want to try the flowers this year! Apperantly they also taste quite good!
The cabinet extension is very helpful and looks great.
Very well done, Adrea! I assembled two very large, flat pack (not Ikea) cupboards decades ago. One is fine, the other - well I can get the doors to close, but they are definitely not square. I have lived with that for over 20 years. It's fine. You are just practicing for your real kitchen!
Yes! I keep telling myself that. Practicing for my real kitchen! I can't wait for that!
Simons a real workhorse..1 man crew.
Well done with the doors Andrea.
Your Mom fits in real well
Thanks Collen!
Door looks great!
What a wonderful legacy your multi generation family are making. Well done, beautiful work.
Thank you very much! It is quite blessed, life right now
Thank you very much! It is quite blessed, life right now
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Love this quote!
When harvesting carrots. If you push them down before you try to pull them out, it loosens the soil around the carrot and it is much easier to pull them out.
Great tip thanks!
Your place is looking so beautiful. Love the cabinets & counter top.
The stone wall is so beautiful
Thank you so much 😊 I really want to get more cabinets going soon so the kitchen looks lush!
I think you did fantastic job with the cabinet doors, and since we are human we all make mistakes & as you said we learn. Your counter top & drawers looked absolutely beautiful. Your garden & flowers are so pretty. Thanks for sharing and wishing all of you a blessed week.
Hola Andrea ! Me encanta tu programa ! Quien tuviera tu edad ,realmente al verlos me encantaría involucrarme en un proyecto como el de ustedes,me motiva muchísimo,pero ya tengo 65 años y mi esposo no está muy bien de salud .Gracias a tu canal vivo la experiencia aunque sea por este medio😊 LOS FELICITO!!!
Me gustaría que mostrara más las comidas que preparas ,las veces que los has hecho se ven deliciosas! Un abrazo
You can see under the sink unless you’re sitting or lying on the floor sooo 👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
haha I agree! :)
Such admirable work, lovely kitchen and wow what carrots!!
Your flowers are gorgeous
Thank you for sharing this video❤ Nice wall progress and veggies look delicious! 👍🥰👍🌟
Thanks for watching!
The stringy thing Simon is using at 11:00 is called in portuguese "prumo". It a leveling device we use in Portugal to know if a wall is straight.
And it was exported Brazil too
It's called a plumb line in the uk
Oh wow! That’s for letting me know!
@@JoanneShipston-cl4zj Plumb line in the US as well.
Love ur home great work inside and out..I'm in love with ur beautiful gardens! ❤
Planting corn closer together will increase the pollination.
They are about 20 cm apart, is that too far apart?
I 'm hoping one day for a beautiful 'patio'...between Your houses!
Me too! It would eb a lovely place with lush plants and a BBQ area :)
The build is really moving along great
Veggie garden is great
All looks great 😊
Thank you! 🥰🥰
I love towatch you videos...as elder person I watch every vidio ...much love is sentyour way❤❤❤❤
Thank you! I appreciate it!
I live in a 120+ year old building and I don't think we have a single square doorway, wall, or floor. You just come to accept it as part of the charm and stop noticing it for the most part!
Absolutely! We also lived in a Victorian house in the UK and nothing was straight! haha
You are doing great! Learning all these techniques and tools is hard!
Thank you! I will conquer the circular saw one day as much as it terrifies me haha
Oh my goodness you did amazing. The incredible talent you have is being fearless. From where I sit you approach your tasks believing in yourself and only waver when you see results that aren’t perfect. But you always problem solve out of the dilemma. All of these are accomplishments. Next time realize ahead that you will always see the unexpected. Thats not the same as you making a mistake. You’re making progress which is a lot more than most of us.
Ah thank you so much for this! I have to give a lot of credit to Simon because I was about to rip that cabinet off the wall and try to reassemble it. Glad he told me to just adjust the doors! It worked!
Really been enjoying following your projects whether it be your builds, gardening, decorating. Maybe it might still seen odd tslking to the camera, but i feel i'm right there with you and enjoy our chats and explanations of what you're up to. 🤗 It's even gratifying to me when you get to harvest and eat your own home growns.
U need Concealed Hinges also known as Cabinet Hinges or Cupboard Hinges, Only with them can you fix this 👍
I just google that and they look like something I could do with! Unfortunately my nearest hardware store has very basic hinges so I just made due with what I could find! I did get some special cabinets hinges in IKEA but I dont have the tool to cut through the wood to place them. Next time
The kitchen cabinet looks great; good job on the worktop! It's wonderful to see you learning so many skills (I'm scared of power tools!). How's Omar doing with his work abroad?
Another great video ❤❤❤
Thank you 🤗
I thought the cabinet looked pretty good to be honest! And the work is progressing well on the rebuild😊
Thank Beth! I appreciate it!
zucchini, onions, potatoes and peppers, can live on that "stew" all summer, as a side or alone. Mediterranean food.
How dare you call our garden a stew! hahaha
OR Can they make a good stew? yes they can!
The work top turned out great! Everything looks so nice . I'm glad you don't get discouraged and give up. Keep meditating . I think it helps with keeping positive.
Thank you, I will. It has actually been quite useful. I’m in my 18th day 🥰
I love your garden, you and your Mom have done a beautiful job. And great job with the cabinets, love the new kitchen counter.
Thank you so much!
You should look into doing a traditional Haudenesaunee style Three Sisters garden! Basically you co-plant corn, beans, and squash in the same plot. They all help each other grow - corn provides the structure for the beans, and the squash shades the soil to help keep it moist.
Yes! I have heard of this but never knew the name! This looks really beautiful as well as being quite efficient. Here is a picture for everyone else to see: www.nal.usda.gov/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/2022-04/Picture6.jpg?itok=ABggv5G2
Excellent suggestion! The three sisters technique is used by many eastern Native American tribes, in addition to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (known to those of European descent as the Iroquois).
I think the door is ok - as the gap is small and can’t be seen if you stand up
Yeah! Unless you are sitting down next to it, you won’t see it
Good for you for over coming the obstacles that came up. I know how sometimes those small pesky things can really take a toll sometimes and seem very daunting. It all turned out perfectly, good job!
Absolutely! Im with you!
Great video
Thank you for showing your struggles with the cabinets - it's very helpful to watch you solve problems, and they came out nice in the end.
One thing you do brilliantly that I notice and appreciate in every video is turning down the sound of the machinery! I love watching building videos, but when the machines are louder than the voices, it can be a struggle for me. Your editing is so pleasant, thank you 🙂
Thank you Maura! I appreciate your comment :) Yes, I also notice the machinery to be quite unpleasant so I appreciate you noticing this little details :)
Thoughts and Prayers.Thank you for sharing. Love and Blessings.
Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
Thank you so much Doris! It’s the weather getting colder over there?
@@TheIndigoEscape Yes it sure is. Winter is here. We had 3 days of frost. One morning we had 0.2C The second day we had 0.8 and then we had 0. We also had 2 days of rain. 2 cm. It was cold during the rainy days. One day was 13 one day and 15 the next day. ❤
Your work was difficult and you did well.
Andrea eres una mujer muy constante y haces las cosas genial.
Me encanta verte hablar en español con tu madre cuando trabajais juntas.
Un abrazo desde España.
aayyy Gracias!! Un comentario muy lindo!
Would be hard to live with those cupboard door's 😉
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you all guys, good work 👍😁.
It was great! Simon is Awesome! Your lucky to have a brother-in-law with wonderful skills! And you did great too! Yes, there is a .earning curve, but, your not going to learn how to do something unless you try. Your Mum is such a big help. She's the Master Gardener!! It's so much bigger this year! I'm so happy your carrots turned out. And the 2 veggies, I don't know what they are or what their cooked with?? I'm sure Omar is so happy with your work!! Y'all stay safe! Tell Omar, Mum and Simon I said hello and Fantastic work! ✝️🙏❤❤❤❤🇺🇸🇵🇹👣☘🍍🌻☘🤗
a top. i thought it was something to hang from the ceiling indoors. 😄😄
Lovely.
Try adding sand to the soil where you grow carrots? It looked as the soil is very heavy and clay-like?
Bathroom is also good!
Put more compost in soil to improve the quality. 😊
Nice sharing that look nice kitchen
You did well with what you had Andrea. Good job.
Regarding your vegetable garden, I would suggest that you apply some mulch to it. It will help with weeds, retain soil moisture and overall help condition the soil. Also, look up 'The Dutch Farmer' on YT. He and his family now reside in Portugal. He is a wealth of information. His latest video would really point you in the right direction for your property.
Saúde!
The Dutch Farmer is an excellent UA-cam channel, he is such an expert! Thank you for bringing it to my attention, I will for sure look at his latest video!
Good try on the cabinet doors but you need to drop the right one a bit.
Plumb Bob! So very old but my husband used his all the time
Old always works!
You are doing so well 😊
Hi Andrea I saw an old video of you with two fantastic carpenters Josh and Manuel. Another YT Make Do Grow are looking for carpenters and somebody who can do roof tiling. I know they are also in Central Portugal. Maybe these two carpenters can do the job. Have a great week to all of you. Granny South Africa❤
I'm not sure if Jos and Manel would be able to go as far as Serta, where MDG are based. That would be a 1- hour drive one way. You could mention it to them and see if they want to seek contact.
It's all coming along nicely. The stone wall in the kitchen will look great. I'm just a bit confused though, will you have to go outside to get to the bedroom ? There doesn't seem to be a door leading from the kitchen.
My Mom had a cookbook that was just zucchini. Most often she used it in zucchini bread, or chocolate cake. My aunt makes them into "noodles ". I have also made a custard pie with zucchini. And of course there's always vegetable soup, and stir fries. Fruit leather I would blend with another fruit, like plumes or strawberries. I'm trying to remember what exactly went in the apple, tomato, zucchini muffins; I want to say apple pie spice? You could probably add carrots and zucchini to the tomato soup cake? That would be good with snickerdoodle hummus. Dehydrated as chips, and as pickles were my other thoughts, but I don't think I actually liked them, but everyone is different and your family might.
Anyone else have zucchini recipes to add?
Wow this is amazing! I will be definitely experimenting with some of these! I have heard of zucchini added in cake but I have never tried. I guess it’s like carrot cake but it may need more flavours
@@TheIndigoEscape, we were especially fond of it in chocolate cake! And the tomato soup cake tastes more like a spicy fruit cake, not how we normally think of tomatoes tasting. There was an ice cream up in Washington state years ago that was tomato, and I thought it tasted more like strawberry but not quite? And carrot puree works well in Mac and Cheese. Grow the next carrots in the sandiest soil that nothing else will grow in. Do you guys eat coleslaw? I have a good sauce if you want the recipe.
I was wondering if you have anymore old roof tiles. If you do, you could just keep adding them on top the ones you have in your garden beds to heighten them and keep building up your soil. Add all your sawdust to your soil as well as it open it up more
We do but Im not sure if I will use them for the beds anymore because when it rains, the water sits for ages as you have to bury the tiles. Brilliant for the summer, not so much during the spring. Some plants died like that :/
It is also frankly a lot of work to place them. Im thinking more in the winter to raise the beds with heat treated wood.
When you plant try to put water on the earth before you put down the plant not after. That way your plant get the water and not the seeds of weeds. If the ground around the plant is loose and dry on top the weeds wont grow as good as if you water after planting and you put water all over the place.
Thank you! I will do this next time!
cant wait fro more building wrk done
Cut One measure twice is the law and you could put the wood on top and mark it under
Bom dia vai ficar muito bom mão na massa obrigado ❤
🇧🇷Seu marido está de Parabéns, a parede está ALINHADA, RETA, aqui no Brasil os pedreiros usam esse objeto chamado PLUMO para as paredes não ficarem tortas.
Você é INSPIRADA por todo trabalho que executa, Parabéns, tá linda sua hora 🤲💐
Obrigada Vitoria pelo comentario!
@@TheIndigoEscapeGratidão por PARTILHAR todo trabalho, é A CERTEZA que somos capazes quando nos propomos REALIZAR.
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I have been wanting to ask this for a while. Are those oranges/ citrus on the tree edible, because every once in a while I see a bag of oranges on the kitchen counter. Made we wonder. But also want to say at 19.17 in this video you can really imagine what your new part of the complex will be like. Looks lovely. Good job all four of you.
Hey! No, unfortunately they are ornamental oranges. I dont understand the function of an ornamental fruit tree... but here we are. The smell is delicious but dont be fooled! The insides are of a light orange to yellow and has the worst taste ever. I think a Lemon would be better to eat it right up than one of these oranges...
Try Okra
Cuppla comments, which you *might* not like....so apologies in advance. Andrea I understand you need to feel like you are doing stuff, and you need to produce footage for the weekly videos, but rushing in where fools fear to tread will always end in tears. As you've found.
That 'burned' edge of the table extension could simply have been planed with a hand plane or an electric planer. Pretty sure you've got at least one of them..?? If not, I know you have a belt sander, so that would have done a better job quicker than that lightweight finishing sander you used. If you worry about rounding the edges over, using the big belt sander, an old chippies trick is to clamp the job piece in between two bits of similar size scrap, so the wide bed of the sander goes out at each side onto the scrap, keeping the main part flat, without rounding over the edges on things like that table edge.
While that aluminium extrusion (was that the word you were looking for) is ok for the job, you could have installed it a bit better, making it flush with the surface. Not sure if you'd be brave enough to do this yet, but it is simple enough if you set it up carefully in the shed, on the bench, and measure everything very carefully, but what you need to do is to use a small router to cut a small amount out of the surface of the benchtop so the 'T' of the extrusion can sit down flush with the surface of the bench. You probably still could do that.
And now I've pointed it out, every time you look at it, you will curse!
The bathroom cupboard...?? Shit happens. Simon was of course correct, make the doors fit so that when you look at them from the other room, they look square.
But it helps before you start on such a job in future to double check that the sides are parallel to each other and that the internal corners are square. You "assumed" they were, and so the door didn't fit. And every time you "assume"......you make an 'ass' out of 'you' and 'me'..!
Finally, something to show off to Simon. He was giving you a lesson in the use of a plumb bob. Did he tell you why it's called a plumb bob?
Because back in the day, when the Roman engineers (who invented it) made theirs, they used the most available metal - lead. And lead in Latin is plumbum. You will note lead's abbreviation in the Periodic Table is 'Pb', which is also from plumbum. So plumbum, over time, became 'plumb bob'. And even though Simon's is made from brass, originally, it was a lead weight.
And the 'straight vertically' that you check with a spirit level is called getting the surface 'plumb', while a horizontal surface is made 'level'.
And the term 'plumb' comes from..??? You guessed it, the Romans 'plumbum'.
So, ask Simon if he knows this, and if not, show off a bit.... [wink]
Hi Mark,
I appreciate the comment. To be honest, it was more to get some more things done before Omar came back. Yes, it is also about making content and do want to feel valuable as well here by doing the smaller jobs I can do myself. Im unlikely to achieve 99% first time around and Im almost okay with that. Unfortunately, We don't have a planer and we also don't have a belt sander. We brought one from the UK but it doesn't work. If I did, it's very likely I would have used those tools instead as they are much better. The burn marked it's almost gone but I really don't mind how little it shows.
I think if we had more tools some of the finishes can be a lot slicker.
Thanks for the Roman fact, I will be sharing with Omar and Simon tomorrow!
Are you allowed to make the roofline higher or different that the original buildings if you desire, or are you limited as you are with the building's footprint?
You need to ask permission, we are going to do the height at the same level as it was. It was pretty high before and it needs to match my mums room
So nice to see your progress. I'm just curious, is there a reason why you don't have a door between the two new rooms?
Because one room is a bedroom and we wanted to keep separate for privacy and the other room is a dining room/kitchen. We could have added a door inside towards the room but then the layout would have suffered.
@@TheIndigoEscape Okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. 😁
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Personal question. When are you getting your braces off? You've had them for years.
haha no worries. Possibly next month :) I had my bottom ones taken off a few months ago,
29:06 When you talk about things... maybe stand next to the "thing" and point it out and show it clearly ?
The burn mark that I later sanded off a few minutes later?
why are you planting so late? Love gardening, for me it's the easiest thing to do to be self sufficient. Your mom knows, she has the connection to the earth, you can see it.
Corn can be planted in June in zone 9. We have been planting since February 🥰