Thanks! I started making the videos for my son mainly. I haven't talked about this yet, but my father died years ago and I have no recordings of him or his voice. I want my son to have these videos to look back on and hopefully understand something about how I learn and think, document the work done on this project, and share some family history in the process. So the goal is to try and make the videos as immersive as possible, to be able to relive the moment, if that makes sense.
Absolutely, it makes great sense. In my late teens, mid 70s, I took an interest in photography and cine. At that time, it was 8mm cine Bell & Howell and 35mm Hikon F. A brother of mine took the initiative to have all movie films transferred to disk. Today, those recordings are in possession of my extended family. Irrespective of age and many are in their 50s with children. Are facinated and still talk about their content.. Keep well and stay safe
While I am watching your videos to see what ideas I can steal, I am struck by how much your experience resonates, as I’ve commented in a previous video. For example, trying to get work done in a short stretch of time. Noting that the more you do the more you learn about your old house (and the work projects growing almost exponentially into the future.) Moving clay tiles around and the challenge of finding ones of the right dimensions. (Of the structures on our property in Japan there are several roofing styles and tile sizes. We have spare tiles but, uncannily, none integrate with our roof tiles.) …We’re relocating moss too (from an abandoned house “next door”.). And as with you, our wonderful neighbours drop by with fresh vegetables regularly (and we are filled with gratitude.) Even thinking you’ve overworked when really you’ve just caught a bug. It’s a little uncanny. I don’t really need to make videos documenting it all because you are making them for me on the other side of the planet. The truth is, what I do NOT understand is how you manage (or have the energy) to capture this physical and intellectual work on video and edit it! The work alone, though it’s a true labor of love, can be exhausting. Keep it up. It’s worth it! Your videos are beautiful and a great record of this period in your life. You’ll be able to watch these with your grandchildren! [Addendum: I noticed my family has somehow accumulated nearly 40 thousand photos in our iCloud folder… Perhaps, someday, maybe, though not likely, I’ll edit it all together in a montage video capturing it all. :) ]
Your property is so lovely and your views are beautiful. I’m sure you would love to be there for longer periods of time but life obligations take over. You work hard every time you are there. Enjoy your videos. Much love from Hiram,GA 🇺🇸
We had a similar problem with tiles when we lived in Liguria and neighbours were very helpful. If you can't get enough though, use trhe pale ones on the underside and the redder ones on the top. NOt a perfect solution but the cream ones will be largely hidden. Good luck.
It would be a big chore, but if you can’t find any tiles that match color wise, you could get the cream colored ones and mix them in with your existing red tiles and they wouldn’t stand out so much. I’ve seen roofs that have a mottled color pattern and it looks nice. Good luck with whatever you decide to do. And congratulations on felling the tree successfully.👍👍😄
It's great to see your latest video. I hope your valuable time isn't wasted and you can continue to make more videos in the future. Keep up the good work and keep chasing your dreams.
My heart is always in my throat when you take one of these trees down. But you've obviously done your homework. Well done! And good thinking to take down any remaining trees that are a threat to the house. I hope you get to live here sooner than you think. I can't even imagine getting to live in a house in Europe where my ancestors lived!
Congratulations on your expert tree felling. Besides the intellectual puzzle it posed, it was a physics problem. Funny your using roof moss which I have done myself, even in potted plants. It's a indication of an acid soil usually in shade.
I’m so glad the tree fell in the right way for you. Glory hallelujah!Not much in life ever arrives at the right time. Gotta go with the flow. Are u in for an adventure or stick w what u know? That’s all. What r your priorities? Your place is in a lot better shape than some. A good solid brick building.
Beautiful cinematography, love the varied vignettes 😊 ♥ watching lovely food being prepared Trees are amazing - I know that water is pulled up the centre so that explains the rot but I wonder how much water bearing fibre is natural. Really interesting to see how you successfully handled it. I don't have a problem seeing modern things like wind turbines on the landscape, but most people do, so I wonder if planting trees with the aim of blocking the view would be an idea. If you play with perspective it could be just one tree per turbine to get away from an unnatural uniform row. Interesting that you own the land we hear the farmer on, great that you're increasing the biodiversity. Wondering how much of the land/view you own but maybe spin that out and reveal gradually. Thanks, as ever, for sharing.
The view of the wind turbines doesn't bother me as much, but the sound does. We'll plant more trees to mask the sound mainly. When the wind blows through treetops and leaves it kind of creates enough natural 'white noise' that it at least helps cover the sound a little, but not entirely.
brilliantly done on the tree felling; the stump would make a nice feature of a plant too once you start landscaping; envy you that you can just walk out & harvest herbs out of your lawn; such a beautiful spot there in the mountain & will be worth the work once you are able to live there in the future thanx for sharing
The herb garden was planted years ago. On instagram I explained that originally we took a cutting from a rosemary plant that was planted by my great great grandmother, in another town (my grandfather's grandmother). It had a trunk that was thicker than my arm. That cutting didn't make it but another was planted and it's thriving now. I might try to go back and take another cutting from that old plant at some point, further north of here. When Rica and I were hiking in the mountains years ago, I noticed that wild herbs were growing everywhere... nobody planted them, they just grow. So I started thinking about permaculture gardening and trying to choose perennial edible plants that don't need help to survive. That garden needed some care to get started, but now it survives with almost no help. Once the roots get deep enough, they can survive drought years just fine. Rica has been studying forest gardening which is an extension of this idea - packing as much edible plant and tree growth into an area, in such a way that the system supports itself without intervention. Slowly we add things here and there and only keep what can survive on its own. Another neat thing is all the chives growing wild in the grass, and other random edible plants all over.
@@SouthernItalyHomestead I don't get into Instagram very often, I do try to follow but am not real good with the phone apps; you could do the same with wild flowers too, get them started on the edge of your forest then let them self seed thanx
@@selinab8532 Yeah we're thinking about maybe Spanish bluebells or something like that for the forest near the house, once we clean it up a little. Bluebells under the trees, and maybe a big moss garden with stream running through it.
If they're up for it maybe I will film a little there. They have some interesting objects like stone door frames, carved fireplace mantles, and such things.
Bel video! Dispiace per la vecchia quercia ma era necessario. Ottima scelta lasciare del terreno per il bosco e gli uccelli che ci vivono. Ciao a presto!
I enjoy this vlog, so thank you. My suggestion is that when you are doing the list for tasks in Italy, the first paragraph is empty. That is the repairs you may expect each time you visit. Factoring in the little surprises we could say. The scary part of this vlog was your hand in the cut, by the way. I’m too old to be calm over that! Regards from Chilly Tasmania. Susan
Bravo on the tree felling. I can't imagine how you felt once you did the first notch and saw the rotten hollow trunk, I nearly shat myself just watching. A lot of Eucalyptus trees back home in Australia are like that always pays to take a higher notch or even do a plunge cut to see what is inside.
Yeah, if you look at when I was making the first notch you can see me checking the sawdust for its color. It looked white to me so I thought I was fine, as rot will come out brown. Turns out it was white because the rot was just air! A plunge cut as you suggest would have revealed the cavity, good idea. Thanks for the tip.
Congratulations on getting that tree down safely, it was not something to go at without the precautions that you took. Very dangerous, but job well done.👍
Excellent job on removing the tree. If it were me, I would remove every large tree within falling distance of the house. You will still have plenty of trees left over.
I've been studying Saihōji as an example! The interesting part is that the moss was unintentional and grew naturally after years of abandonment. I also recall a documentary mentioning that there are over 170 species of moss there, initially I had thought a single species would do better but maybe collecting a variety would be a good idea. So our approach will be to try and find a space where moss could naturally thrive and just create the right conditions there. I suspect if we redirect that little stream a bit to run a little closer to the house and put some stones with moss near it, that could start the process.
If all else fails in finding matching tiles for the roof, you could buy the yellowy new ones and intersperse them among the old ones. Or you could do this with new red ones. You'd end up with an overall texture....not authentic, maybe, but eventually the color of the new ones would be closer to the color of the old ones. Good luck!
Great job on falling that tree - bravo! Those roof tiles sure are nice - I can certainly understand why you'd want to keep that look on the house. Isn't one of the drawback of using them that you can't have a high pitched roof, though?
In this area the roofs have low pitch probably for that reason. A little north of here, the geology of the area is mostly limestone that fractures into sheets and up there they'll use stone for their roofs, which also have low pitch for the same reason.
@@nordicislandliving In Isernia that kind of house is all over the place. Up there the limestone is gray and splits into sheets, hence the architecture is different. Down here the limestone is white and doesn't split like that.
Perhaps Make a Nice Seat out of the Stump?... and Look for any Burrs to make some Bowls!....and If you have Any Saw Mills near to you, get some Slabs sawn perhaps for Table Tops and Shelving....Their will be some "good" ..... Great Videos....
New tiles had to be bought at first. The old ones are laid on top and the new ones underneath. The aesthetic result is not bad, but it gets better with time. The new ones turn dark after about 3 years. In northern Italy, handmade antique tiles cost at least three times as much because they are used to restore historic buildings. It's a luxury thing, but maybe in the south the prices are lower. Get the ivy off that tree.
Fiquei torcendo pra tudo ir certo,e voce ficar em segurança, mas fiquei preocupada quando voce colocou a mao na grande brecha da árvore.... tudo deu certo... amem... saudações do🇧🇷 Brasil
You said you required the house not of you choosing how did you acquire it? Hello from New York City! Maybe you should hire some local people to do some work while you’re not there? With the Internet and pictures you could keep a close eye on it. Oh my God, you had me holding my breath while you were taking the tree down so glad you’re safe
If the purpose of UA-cam videos is to gain as many viewers as possible, the trick is to follow the example of "Stories from the cascina". Excellent filming angles, super cuts, mostly work and very little talk. Just a hint...
Any mint can be made into a lovely herbal tea, and used to make jelly. And don't worry whether it will survive - you basically can't kill mint. It's incredibly hardy.
Every time you stuck your arm up the hole in the tree I’m silently screaming noooooo! That is highly dangerous! I live on wooded lot and an arborist once told me that disease in Oak usually spreads in the same species. That has been the case here.
Utilisées en mélange, les tuiles de couleurs différentes pourraient faire l’affaire? Il suffit qu’elles ne soient pas côte à côte; j’ai vu beaucoup de toitures ainsi . Bel endroit ❤
You said you required the house not of you choosing how did you acquire it? Hello from New York City! Maybe you should hire some local people to do some work while you’re not there? With the Internet and pictures you could keep a close eye on it.
You could use the newer similar tiles and swap them out with the old bottom tiles, then use those old bottom tiles as top tiles instead. The new tiles would be hidden from sight and not stick out as much (or at all).
I've watched all of your videos now in sequence and am prepared for long waits between your periodic returns. These videos are not only about a project but about people--your ancestors, your wife and son, and you yourself. And that raises questions. Please understand that we don't know your boundaries (of the land or your person), so do ignore any of these questions that "cross the line". Could you sketch a schematic of the home and of the land? How old are you? (Your life experiences suggest that you are older than your mid-30s appearance.) What other languages do you speak beyond English and Italian? How about your wife's languages? Is your son learning more than English? (My children speak Thai as well as English.) You are in "southern Italy". Without being uncomfortably exact, roughly where are you? South of Rome? Sicily? My biggest question: What are your plans--to restore it and then what? Would you make it your home? You have lots of contact with neighbors. What are they like? Would they go on camera with you? (You seem very lonely, even when your immediate family are there.) Generally, what do you do in the States between visits to Italy? Any or all of those questions would give us a much broader understanding of you and what you are doing.
I am thinking that you can’t afford to get anyone to help you, no neighbors either. Will this house last till you can fix all that is needing repairs? Or should you sell it?
Nice to see you back, I'm sure putting these posts together must take a lot out of your valuable time 👏👏👏👏
Thanks! I started making the videos for my son mainly. I haven't talked about this yet, but my father died years ago and I have no recordings of him or his voice. I want my son to have these videos to look back on and hopefully understand something about how I learn and think, document the work done on this project, and share some family history in the process. So the goal is to try and make the videos as immersive as possible, to be able to relive the moment, if that makes sense.
Absolutely, it makes great sense. In my late teens, mid 70s, I took an interest in photography and cine. At that time, it was 8mm cine Bell & Howell and 35mm Hikon F. A brother of mine took the initiative to have all movie films transferred to disk. Today, those recordings are in possession of my extended family. Irrespective of age and many are in their 50s with children. Are facinated and still talk about their content.. Keep well and stay safe
@@SouthernItalyHomestead ❣
@@gaelicd8328 ❣I did a disk from film of my two sons when they were young with both my husband & I voices as well💙
Thank you for caring about the wildlife that depends on your land.
While I am watching your videos to see what ideas I can steal, I am struck by how much your experience resonates, as I’ve commented in a previous video. For example, trying to get work done in a short stretch of time. Noting that the more you do the more you learn about your old house (and the work projects growing almost exponentially into the future.) Moving clay tiles around and the challenge of finding ones of the right dimensions. (Of the structures on our property in Japan there are several roofing styles and tile sizes. We have spare tiles but, uncannily, none integrate with our roof tiles.) …We’re relocating moss too (from an abandoned house “next door”.). And as with you, our wonderful neighbours drop by with fresh vegetables regularly (and we are filled with gratitude.) Even thinking you’ve overworked when really you’ve just caught a bug. It’s a little uncanny. I don’t really need to make videos documenting it all because you are making them for me on the other side of the planet. The truth is, what I do NOT understand is how you manage (or have the energy) to capture this physical and intellectual work on video and edit it! The work alone, though it’s a true labor of love, can be exhausting. Keep it up. It’s worth it! Your videos are beautiful and a great record of this period in your life. You’ll be able to watch these with your grandchildren! [Addendum: I noticed my family has somehow accumulated nearly 40 thousand photos in our iCloud folder… Perhaps, someday, maybe, though not likely, I’ll edit it all together in a montage video capturing it all. :) ]
Your property is so lovely and your views are beautiful. I’m sure you would love to be there for longer periods of time but life obligations take over. You work hard every time you are there. Enjoy your videos. Much love from Hiram,GA 🇺🇸
Congratulations on getting the tree down safely! I liked watching your strategy. Love all the bird chirping
We had a similar problem with tiles when we lived in Liguria and neighbours were very helpful. If you can't get enough though, use trhe pale ones on the underside and the redder ones on the top. NOt a perfect solution but the cream ones will be largely hidden.
Good luck.
That's a good idea, thanks for mentioning it!
A UA-cam master class presentation. Excellent filmmaking.
Best to you, your family, and this project.
It would be a big chore, but if you can’t find any tiles that match color wise, you could get the cream colored ones and mix them in with your existing red tiles and they wouldn’t stand out so much. I’ve seen roofs that have a mottled color pattern and it looks nice. Good luck with whatever you decide to do. And congratulations on felling the tree successfully.👍👍😄
I thought of that mottled look, too!
Brilliant work. It fell perfectly. Also, it’ll be alot easier to turn it into firewood!
Nice job man, tense but went really well. Your abilities really increased on this one.
I really enjoyed watching you making your meal on the open fire. 👍
It's great to see your latest video. I hope your valuable time isn't wasted and you can continue to make more videos in the future. Keep up the good work and keep chasing your dreams.
Hi, nice to see you again.
You did an amazing job felling that tree! Love your videos. From WV 🇺🇸 😊
My heart is always in my throat when you take one of these trees down. But you've obviously done your homework. Well done! And good thinking to take down any remaining trees that are a threat to the house. I hope you get to live here sooner than you think. I can't even imagine getting to live in a house in Europe where my ancestors lived!
Well done with that tree!
Congratulations on your expert tree felling. Besides the intellectual puzzle it posed, it was a physics problem. Funny your using roof moss which I have done myself, even in potted plants. It's a indication of an acid soil usually in shade.
Amazing, Well done on cutting the tree, brave man
I’m so glad the tree fell in the right way for you. Glory hallelujah!Not much in life ever arrives at the right time. Gotta go with the flow. Are u in for an adventure or stick w what u know? That’s all. What r your priorities? Your place is in a lot better shape than some. A good solid brick building.
Beautiful cinematography, love the varied vignettes 😊
♥ watching lovely food being prepared
Trees are amazing - I know that water is pulled up the centre so that explains the rot but I wonder how much water bearing fibre is natural. Really interesting to see how you successfully handled it.
I don't have a problem seeing modern things like wind turbines on the landscape, but most people do, so I wonder if planting trees with the aim of blocking the view would be an idea. If you play with perspective it could be just one tree per turbine to get away from an unnatural uniform row.
Interesting that you own the land we hear the farmer on, great that you're increasing the biodiversity. Wondering how much of the land/view you own but maybe spin that out and reveal gradually.
Thanks, as ever, for sharing.
The view of the wind turbines doesn't bother me as much, but the sound does. We'll plant more trees to mask the sound mainly. When the wind blows through treetops and leaves it kind of creates enough natural 'white noise' that it at least helps cover the sound a little, but not entirely.
brilliantly done on the tree felling; the stump would make a nice feature of a plant too once you start landscaping;
envy you that you can just walk out & harvest herbs out of your lawn;
such a beautiful spot there in the mountain & will be worth the work once you are able to live there in the future
thanx for sharing
The herb garden was planted years ago. On instagram I explained that originally we took a cutting from a rosemary plant that was planted by my great great grandmother, in another town (my grandfather's grandmother). It had a trunk that was thicker than my arm. That cutting didn't make it but another was planted and it's thriving now. I might try to go back and take another cutting from that old plant at some point, further north of here. When Rica and I were hiking in the mountains years ago, I noticed that wild herbs were growing everywhere... nobody planted them, they just grow. So I started thinking about permaculture gardening and trying to choose perennial edible plants that don't need help to survive. That garden needed some care to get started, but now it survives with almost no help. Once the roots get deep enough, they can survive drought years just fine. Rica has been studying forest gardening which is an extension of this idea - packing as much edible plant and tree growth into an area, in such a way that the system supports itself without intervention. Slowly we add things here and there and only keep what can survive on its own. Another neat thing is all the chives growing wild in the grass, and other random edible plants all over.
@@SouthernItalyHomestead I don't get into Instagram very often, I do try to follow but am not real good with the phone apps;
you could do the same with wild flowers too, get them started on the edge of your forest then let them self seed
thanx
@@selinab8532 Yeah we're thinking about maybe Spanish bluebells or something like that for the forest near the house, once we clean it up a little. Bluebells under the trees, and maybe a big moss garden with stream running through it.
@@SouthernItalyHomestead love bluebells & other bulbs...
Awesome!!! You feld that tree perfectly!.....YAY!
Great as always, thanks.
I’d love to see that store with all the used building materials
If they're up for it maybe I will film a little there. They have some interesting objects like stone door frames, carved fireplace mantles, and such things.
Hi, thanks I would be great. I love the way they just pile everything up as if there’s a never ending supply of 500 year old marble sinks.
Thanks for the video. Looking forward to more.
Bel video! Dispiace per la vecchia quercia ma era necessario. Ottima scelta lasciare del terreno per il bosco e gli uccelli che ci vivono. Ciao a presto!
I enjoy this vlog, so thank you. My suggestion is that when you are doing the list for tasks in Italy, the first paragraph is empty. That is the repairs you may expect each time you visit. Factoring in the little surprises we could say. The scary part of this vlog was your hand in the cut, by the way. I’m too old to be calm over that! Regards from Chilly Tasmania. Susan
That's a good job. 🎉 Beautiful place. ❤
Well done, and quite enjoyable to watch and listen to your thought process.
Bravo on the tree felling. I can't imagine how you felt once you did the first notch and saw the rotten hollow trunk, I nearly shat myself just watching. A lot of Eucalyptus trees back home in Australia are like that always pays to take a higher notch or even do a plunge cut to see what is inside.
Yeah, if you look at when I was making the first notch you can see me checking the sawdust for its color. It looked white to me so I thought I was fine, as rot will come out brown. Turns out it was white because the rot was just air! A plunge cut as you suggest would have revealed the cavity, good idea. Thanks for the tip.
Congratulations on getting that tree down safely, it was not something to go at without the precautions that you took. Very dangerous, but job well done.👍
Impressive, well calculated... bravo 👏👏
So pleased your tree went where you planned I was watching between my fingers
Excellent job on removing the tree. If it were me, I would remove every large tree within falling distance of the house. You will still have plenty of trees left over.
I would hire you any day to take a tree down. Good job!
Você é muito corajoso. Parabéns. Gostaria de ver uma continuidade na reforma linda casa, nesse lindo lugar.
Growing mosses: the most famous moss garden in Japan is perhaps Saihōji (Kokedera) Temple in Kyoto. Visits are only by appointment.
I've been studying Saihōji as an example! The interesting part is that the moss was unintentional and grew naturally after years of abandonment. I also recall a documentary mentioning that there are over 170 species of moss there, initially I had thought a single species would do better but maybe collecting a variety would be a good idea. So our approach will be to try and find a space where moss could naturally thrive and just create the right conditions there. I suspect if we redirect that little stream a bit to run a little closer to the house and put some stones with moss near it, that could start the process.
Great job I was sweating bullets with you😊
I just about died when you stuck your arm in there! 😱
If all else fails in finding matching tiles for the roof, you could buy the yellowy new ones and intersperse them among the old ones. Or you could do this with new red ones. You'd end up with an overall texture....not authentic, maybe, but eventually the color of the new ones would be closer to the color of the old ones. Good luck!
Great job on falling that tree - bravo! Those roof tiles sure are nice - I can certainly understand why you'd want to keep that look on the house. Isn't one of the drawback of using them that you can't have a high pitched roof, though?
In this area the roofs have low pitch probably for that reason. A little north of here, the geology of the area is mostly limestone that fractures into sheets and up there they'll use stone for their roofs, which also have low pitch for the same reason.
@@SouthernItalyHomestead Love those stone roofs though :-)
@@nordicislandliving In Isernia that kind of house is all over the place. Up there the limestone is gray and splits into sheets, hence the architecture is different. Down here the limestone is white and doesn't split like that.
Perhaps Make a Nice Seat out of the Stump?... and Look for any Burrs to make some Bowls!....and If you have Any Saw Mills near to you, get some Slabs sawn perhaps for Table Tops and Shelving....Their will be some "good" ..... Great Videos....
If you can't find the exact tile, I've seen people use the different coloured ones to lay as the underneath tile, and you don't see them are all.👍
That's actually a great idea, we might do that if I can't find others.
New tiles had to be bought at first. The old ones are laid on top and the new ones underneath. The aesthetic result is not bad, but it gets better with time. The new ones turn dark after about 3 years. In northern Italy, handmade antique tiles cost at least three times as much because they are used to restore historic buildings. It's a luxury thing, but maybe in the south the prices are lower. Get the ivy off that tree.
Fiquei torcendo pra tudo ir certo,e voce ficar em segurança, mas fiquei preocupada quando voce colocou a mao na grande brecha da árvore.... tudo deu certo... amem... saudações do🇧🇷 Brasil
You said you required the house not of you choosing how did you acquire it? Hello from New York City! Maybe you should hire some local people to do some work while you’re not there? With the Internet and pictures you could keep a close eye on it.
Oh my God, you had me holding my breath while you were taking the tree down so glad you’re safe
❤ О вы так на долго пропали 😮 что я и не поверила что я первая вас смотрю ❤❤❤
Quel luogo è meraviglioso
Once getting there it must be so hard to leave.
If the purpose of UA-cam videos is to gain as many viewers as possible, the trick is to follow the example of "Stories from the cascina". Excellent filming angles, super cuts, mostly work and very little talk. Just a hint...
Any mint can be made into a lovely herbal tea, and used to make jelly. And don't worry whether it will survive - you basically can't kill mint. It's incredibly hardy.
Every time you stuck your arm up the hole in the tree I’m silently screaming noooooo! That is highly dangerous! I live on wooded lot and an arborist once told me that disease in Oak usually spreads in the same species. That has been the case here.
Utilisées en mélange, les tuiles de couleurs différentes pourraient faire l’affaire? Il suffit qu’elles ne soient pas côte à côte; j’ai vu beaucoup de toitures ainsi . Bel endroit ❤
You said you required the house not of you choosing how did you acquire it? Hello from New York City! Maybe you should hire some local people to do some work while you’re not there? With the Internet and pictures you could keep a close eye on it.
Bravissimi 💪💪👋👋
Great work and great video. Your voice over audio seems to be in left channel only.
You could use the newer similar tiles and swap them out with the old bottom tiles, then use those old bottom tiles as top tiles instead. The new tiles would be hidden from sight and not stick out as much (or at all).
Hello
Can't you mix a quarter of the tiles to buy from your supplier with the existing ones?
Maybe put the new tile underneath and the old on top
Where in Campania is your property ? My grandparents were from Ginestra Degli Schiavoni in the provincia di Benevento
Yay your back
Bentornato, anche se credo che questo video lo hai girato almeno due mesi fa...qui fa un caldooo e l'erba cresce cosi velocemente. Buone ferie
I've watched all of your videos now in sequence and am prepared for long waits between your periodic returns. These videos are not only about a project but about people--your ancestors, your wife and son, and you yourself. And that raises questions. Please understand that we don't know your boundaries (of the land or your person), so do ignore any of these questions that "cross the line". Could you sketch a schematic of the home and of the land? How old are you? (Your life experiences suggest that you are older than your mid-30s appearance.) What other languages do you speak beyond English and Italian? How about your wife's languages? Is your son learning more than English? (My children speak Thai as well as English.) You are in "southern Italy". Without being uncomfortably exact, roughly where are you? South of Rome? Sicily? My biggest question: What are your plans--to restore it and then what? Would you make it your home? You have lots of contact with neighbors. What are they like? Would they go on camera with you? (You seem very lonely, even when your immediate family are there.) Generally, what do you do in the States between visits to Italy? Any or all of those questions would give us a much broader understanding of you and what you are doing.
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Old style are named "coppi".
Please, please don't walk in front of your notch cut, nor put your hand into it.
Youll have to kill the vines on your trees or theyll die.
You look 10 years younger with short hair 🤭 Easy to clean, good when working hard
Which Stihl are you using pls?
Ho la vaga impressione che sarà un lungo cammino ...... troppo lungo. Tempus fugit.
To much talking to camera, makes it boring.
I am thinking that you can’t afford to get anyone to help you, no neighbors either. Will this house last till you can fix all that is needing repairs? Or should you sell it?
They do have a neighbour who watches over the property and helps out.
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