Thank you SO MUCH for watching this video! 🧡 Feel free to comment on our increasingly insane ideas and building techniques. We learn a lot from what you all say!
Literally, climbing on the throne. ... I've just stumbled upon your channel. At first, I confess, I thought these two must be mad, but after watching just two videos, I've come to deeply appreciate your infectious enthusiasm and your relaxed demeanor. Your little boy seems genuinely joyful and robust! Hence, I've made the choice to stick around and offer my support.
Hey there! Thanks so much for your kind and positive comment 😀 I think you’ve got to be a little mad to leave the convenience of the city, but once you do, you realise it’s not madness at all! We are so glad for your support ☀️🧡
A masonry tip that my dad taught me: when you make a stone construction, you can take soil next to it, reserve it in a bucket, and when it's dry and powdery you can throw it at the wet concrete. That will make lovely beige joints rather than gray.
Thank you for your advice Flandrin, that's a cool idea we've never heard of! We're not a big fan of the grey but over time the weather makes it look a bit less visible. But we'll definitely try your idea in future!
What a nice comment thank you! It's nice to be able to offer Sage a unique childhood, everyday he learns so many cool things, and he's becoming quite useful digging holes for us... and also herding sheep!
Surely the most elegant tractor driver on the planet with little Sam really growing up.Robbie the Trojan non stop construction machine.Lovely latest blog.keep them coming pls❤
HAHA! Think ‘Robbie the Trojan’ will have to be his new nickname 😅 No need for mules when you’ve got him! Glad you enjoyed the video. Next one won’t take so long to come out! 🤞🏻🌟
The Good Life - Tom and Barbara - best ever tv series ❤❤❤ they had the best sense of humour and dealt with their days in a most unserious manner - you two certainly fit the bill 🤣
Watched a few of your videos very impressed with them those steps are amazing and E was thrilled to bits with them , but the garden harvest was also fantastic love your layed back attitude all seems calm and not rushed 👍 you’re making a wonderful life for the family ,fell in love with you three already 🙏🏽💕Graham
Get some Arnica oil. When you get a deep or even superficial bruise, soak cotton wool in the oil and bandage it to the area. It won't even bruise and it will be far less sore. I've had a 1" blood blister vanish in 10 minutes.
Amazing job you guys on the compost toilet, it's bombproof. Even though it was a lot of work the ring beam or bond beam at the top was necessary from a structural point. It's evident Robbie has some excellent construction skills. And nice work on the stairs, I thought Robbie was just going to dry stack the stones, but you grouted them in place - 5 Star job they're not budging. And the landscape scenery backdrop is stunning. Wish you all the best on the Homestead!
Real off grid stuff in the paradise of the alicantinian alps!!! mountains and quiet landscape, only 25 km from the mediterranean!!!! I am following you guys!!! enjoying your stuff!!! I live at 12 km from you if you need farming advice on the harvest/pruning... whatever!!!! I´m spanish born but lived abroad for some time so there is no problem with the language!!! I WISH YOU THE VERY BEST!!!!!
Beautiul! Now you just need to plant up native ground covers and various holding plants on the sides to keep them from washing down and making the steps full of dirt/dust. It's a fun process, I don't know what species of plants you have that are best for this. I use things like wooly thyme, and succulents and so on. Such a wonderful place you live! Best of luck in all the projects. We just moved into the homestead/house I spent years designing and the build just finished last year. It's been 10 years of planning. My two boys are already 15/18! Now, on to bulbs, (we planted 1800!!) cleaning up the veggie gardens, adding some fencing, this spring finally planting berry bushes and some cherry trees to join the apples and peaches. Never an end in sight. Happy working!
Hey Anna! Thanks for your lovely comment. I like the idea of wooly thyme! Whenever we do these projects, I always think of the plants too late. I’ve just started propagating lavender and creeping rosemary now. We have lots of good succulents too which will be beneficial and pretty! WOW. 10 years of planning - that’s a lot of dedication. Whereabouts is your homestead? Spring is the best time of year, everything is coming alive again. Wishing you all the best on this never ending journey ☀️🌱🌟
We are just in the process of putting in a proper metal fence! We’ve had enough of the wild animals, and we are very committed to this area now + it’s only small so hopefully won’t be too hard! 🤞🏻
Bumped into this channel but, watched a few episoes...ty UA-cam algorithm.. Amazing and happy family, very few of us would be so brave, indeed. Can't even imagine how much time, patience, love and spirit you have poured into all that work. Strange to say but I'm very proud of you :) Wish you all the best and take it easy ;)
Wow, THANK YOU! Such kind and supportive words. It’s true, a lot of love has gone into the project, and hopefully we can keep giving it for the foreseeable future - there’s still a lot to be done! 🙈☀️❤️
Top stuff. Love your new steps and have got serious rock-envy issues about your infinite supply of the stuff. You could build anything you like from solid rock and it will be a work of art with lasting landscape value. What a wonderful place to live..keep going its worth the effort.
We're very grateful to have so much good rock around, it does make things a bit cheaper when building things! Better than wood as well, all our wood is getting eaten by termites! We need to get better at dry stone wall building, would have been nice not to use any concrete on the stairs!
Hi there, the landscape i have only one word for it: WOW! May i ask do you have enough water for yourself and for watering the garden during the summertime?
Hey Harry. We are VERY fortunate to live in such beautiful nature. Since we’ve been here, we have had enough water for all our needs, including watering the garden and trees. Everyone is a little worried now though, as there hasn’t been a substantial rain in a while, and if we don’t get one before summer, the fountain could definitely dry up. Fingers crossed for some heavy rain in March or April 🤞🏻🌱
@@ladyandtheowlman Thx for your reply. A friend of mine, and me - we build together cisterns my friend sells -- or we do construct one from scratch . Over here, after some very, very dry years people often want a water reservoir of their own. I wonder if you can find a "hole", or a cave, or something like that - just to set up your own cistern, without to much work. You seem to have an eye for the geological possibilities of the landscape. The old Romans had a lot of good ideas of "How to build a cistern". -- A given rocky ground maybe is a good thing for once -- also the lesser evaporation come mind -- the IBC's lose a lot of water in your climate, methinks. As always, all the best to you all. H.
Awesome job. But lord are they heavy! Our little girl tried walking in my snow boots! Such great photos, talk about bumps and bruised legs, arms head feet hands!!😂 last month I got a 15 cm patch of skin and muscle rolled between 2 14 inch logs and my GOD! DID THAT HURT! I could barely walk after, taken weeks to heal and Sunday last the plastic guard on my miter saw shattered and hit that spot, while building a gate 😢 deja vu all over again, I know what you go through, as do I, these may be older videos but very informative on your works. I ❤ that comment "we never know what we're doing"! 😂😂😂😂 but we learn by doing 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for watching Jerome, we really appreciate all your support for our channel and our family! Sounds like you know what we go through haha! Mitre saw guard shattering sounds a bit dangerous, look after yourself! ❤️
2:34 why is the Toilet so far away? Why didn't you build it inside your House? 😅 Isn't it extremly uncomfortable when you have to go to the Toilet at 3am in Winter? 🥶😅 Anyway i still like your Builds an Videos and enjoy to follow you along! 🤗
Hello! 👋🏼 YES - I am so glad you can see how stupidly far away it is 🤣 But alas, Robbie seems to have a terrible fear of 💩 and no matter how much I begged to put it closer, he would not relent. You win some, you lose some.
@@ladyandtheowlman Robbie's going to age, Em...and when he does, he'll bloody well wish he'd listened to you with a tad more earnestness! A black water, and gray water gravity feed septic system just makes more sense, in the long run. Far more efficient, and very little maintenance required, once installed. I've only needed mine pumped once, in a decade. All in all, good show. I enjoy seeing you both work with stone and crete. It isn't easy, but it does look beautiful, and that's it's own sort of reward. Dry-lay as much as you can, as this negates the need to install drains behind walls, when built on hills. This way, hydraulic pressure from water in the dirt or mud behind the rock, doesn't force the rock outward. I'm also enjoying all the shots of the fresh produce being raised on your little farm. Chicken dung makes for great composting, as does sheep dung. Now, if you can just manage to keep the boar out of your garden, you'll be doing well. Robbie's going to wear out the suspension on the Rover, if he keeps abusing it, by hauling rock with it. You need an actual truck, with heavy leaf-spring or air-suspension for such heavy work. I love Rovers as much as the next bloke, but not for the hauling of heavy items... Coil spring suspension is less than ideal for such, and parts for Rovers aren't as cheap as we'd like them to be. I figure that about the time Robbie hits his fiftieth year, he'll be having a wee bit of a re-think, regarding having a commode, as a "scenic-overlook" for the rest of the farm. That's about the time that a man begins prioritizing his comforts... I know from experience. I'm enjoying it folks, Spain is breathtaking in those mountains. Love the work you all are doing, improving the place, and making it your own. Keep the bum shots coming lass, they're even more breathtaking than the mountain scenery. Guaranteed to increase views! 😉
Hey you are amazing, you three 💟!! Can't believe how quickly you did those steps Robbie, and all by yourself... Such heavy dangerous work 😱 Looks super nice now, all rustic, love what you do!!... And those veggies - Emilia, do you deliver to the UK?? 😜💞
Hello Kirsten! Come back to Spain and have all the veggies you want! 🥒 🌽 🍅 Robbie is a heavy-lifting, building machine 🤣😅Thank goodness we have him! Sending our love to you 💖
You 2 are an amazing couple! Keep up the good work. As a geologist, I appreciated seeing the fossils...... hopefully they have been recorded by the Spanish Geological Survey. It still looks quite dry, even though it is supposed to be your rainy season. Will you have enough water, or are you not showing us any rainy weather?
Thanks Steffen! Robbie is very passionate about his fossils, we have a huge collection, still seems very strange there are so many under sea creatures on the top of this mountain! we'll have to look into the spanish geological survey! Our last proper rain was in September last year! We've had 3-4 small rains, but nothing significant, we really hope it rains properly soon so our spring makes it through summer! We're building lots of water stores on the land just incase.
Thanks for the advice! Yes it would have been sensible for us to start with the fence before doing anything else! We're building a new fence in our upcoming video, you can let us know whether you think it will work against both wild boar and deer - we're finding it very hard to build one that can stop both!
I love your editor, he/she/Sage, is excellent with the pacing of the story mixing in broad shots and details. I love the bug/bee/sheep/spider details and the tighter shots of the construction, great story telling. You know I am a fan.
You could have had just two or three campa pottis in the house, and emptied them outside somewhere and put some dirt over it. It turns into soil before you know it....You don't need an outhouse when you have those. You could even have one outside 🙂
Thanks for the advice! I actually wanted to do this exact thing, but Robbie just loves going over the top and building things, plus he says looking at the stars and listening for animals is the most important thing about going to the toilet!
Stunning views, a beautiful stone staircase and a chicken sitting elegantly on a woman. How many hectares of land do you have and how much did you buy this land for?
Thanks so much for the positive words Andrew! Robbie is very happy to hear someone enjoying his stairs! Yes our land is 14 acres, it is made up of around 1,500 dead almond trees at the moment!
I must admit when I saw the legs with the trousers around the ankles at 0:06 I assumed it was Sage about to have a pee. Only when the actual film came up did I realise you were comparing war wounds zand it was Emilia's legs & backside. Emilia may claim a deeper wound but I'm definitely on Robbie's side on this debate! He wins. It was lovely to see you getting back together after 5 days apart! Long may it be like that
Hey Neil! Tbh, my leg was completely fine in the end 😅🤣 Slight over dramatisation perhaps. I will concede the loss on that one. Yes, you despise each other when you’re together, but after some time apart, it’s all love! ❤️🤣
Thanks for the positive words Larry! Haha not sure what you're referring to, for the car or the tractor? We got olive oil on the car windscreen and now it's impossible to get it off!
@@ladyandtheowlman what I meant was the microphone are needs a wind screen so when you are out on the windy days you hear the words, not the wind going by the mic. Love your little human as well.
Ok I'm really going to show my age here but are you guys at all familiar with the series "The Good Life", by the BBC, from the 70's? I think you're the new Tom and Barbara....
HAHA! We haven’t seen it, but a few people have said the same thing. Think we are going to have to try to find the series online and give it a watch! 👌🏼🧡
Thank you for your support Viajero! Robbie had no experience of construction when we arrived here 3 years ago, he spoke to a few local builders and got their advice, and then learnt the rest from watching youtube videos! It's amazing what you can learn on UA-cam! After a while, once you have the basic understanding of the materials available at the builders merchants, and the basic practices for how locals build houses nearby, you can figure out a lot of it by yourself. He doesn't speak amazing Spanish but he manages to get by speaking with the builders merchant staff with just a few key phrases, and gets everything he needs at a good price! Hope that's helpful!
Wear rubber gloves when working with concrete. We have worked with concrete many times and sometimes received minor burns, but three weeks ago after pouring a new foundation, we burned our hands very badly (most likely it was due to the plasticizer). My wife still cannot fully use her hands and still has scars. =((
@@ladyandtheowlman Thanks! She feel much better now and already helped us at site yesterday evening. Probably we will make youtube videos too, but problem that most of work at evening time (after my work) so it is too dark for shooting
Please, don`t let your kids stay in possible danger area. Once i yelled at my kids (probably they were 2 and 6 y.o.) because they play next to wall i make (height was almost 3m already). Few minutes later scaffolding fell and collapsed the wall where the children were. I slid down the wall and was not injured also. if I hadn't driven them away, they would have been crushed.
What a terrifying ordeal! I’m so glad you were all safe in the end. And thanks for your wise advice, we will definitely stay away from danger areas with Sage in future 🧡
@@ladyandtheowlman btw it is so nice how you communicate with Sage. I wish I had the same nerves and calmness =)) You inspire me and I become better. Now my son is 12 years old and he is actively helping me on the construction of a new house, and I turn a blind eye to some shortcomings in the work
Hi i like your videos - however i would suggest to create shorter videos and more videos. 2 times 10 minutes video is better than a single 18 minutes one. From my humble point of view 😅. Thanks and keep the goood work🎉
Thanks very much for the advice Stephane, it's good to hear what you prefer, we're still figuring it all out at the moment, it's our goal to get one video out every 1-2 weeks, but our editing software/ computer is a bit slow so it's taking us a long time to do everything. We'll get some new equipment soon which will make everything quicker. Bear with us and we promise we'll get quicker with the uploads! Thanks so much for the support!
One of my 2 sons ( now in their 50s) used to walk in Grandpa's boots just like Sage was doing. VULTURES: We live in So. Calfifornia about 150 mile north of Los Angeles. When we are lucky and outside we can see a vulture migration of 100s of vultures going to wherever they gol
Wow that's so cool Bob, 100 vultures, wonder what kind they are? We often see a vulture migration here, never seen more than 20, but even seeing that is amazing, they have 3m wingspan! ❤️
Hola una o varias preguntas,a a que altitud estais ,de que podeis vivir sea ingresos económicos y por último todo un esfuerzo es escalera eres mi ídolo con la refrm de mi masia
Hi 👋, sorry that I missed you 3 days ago, I have been back to the uk to, it sounds like it is very windy 🌬️ out there, your roof construction I think is strong enough to land helicopter, 🚁, on it , 😂, ❤it great work, Lady looks a bit henpecked 🐔😂, Veggies 🥒 are looking 👀 great, hope your veggies 🍆 😂, don’t get mulled by the wild boar 🐗, that is great work building your stairway to heaven, 🧻🎸- Great content, amazing view, ❤, stay safe, from the, ? 😂
@@ladyandtheowlman Hi 👋, It was okay thank you, I am still trying to get the rest of my tools and timber back to my Moulin, in France, if you have not realised, I have had to change my device, Has it had been hacked into?, From what I’ve been told, I so-called friend., It appears that I had left some comments to different people like yourself , and the comments had been removed within two or three minutes of me, posting it, as you probably know, it is very expensive to go back and forward nowadays, especially as I go through EuTunnal, I am hoping one more trip should do it, My basement is filled with tools, equipment, and timber, not enough room to swing a cat, I wouldn’t really do that anyway, 😂, And I’m trying to sort out a problem, I am trying to import my motorcycle , HD, Deuce, I had to sell my original one that I had from brand-new back in 2000, in 2019, I had to sell it so I could come over here, Not sure whether I have said, but I had been scammed by my ex partner, and to make things worse she got my so-called family and friends all involved in it as well, The things that have happened, I cannot put on UA-cam, But I have one loyal friend him and his wife between the three of us had found a motorcycle same model as what I had. This is what true friends are like they purchased it for me, then told me that I’ve got a bike. , I obviously had to pay him for it, which I have done, At present, it’s not rideable it’s got a misfire or something wrong with it, once I’ve got it here, I can sort it out myself it would give my brain something to focus on, Sorry, I am ramping on too much , you all stay safe, Keep up the amazing work, It’s a pity that you are a little bit too far away from me to travel at that present, or I would come down and give you a hand, 🖐️ or 2 🖐️ 🧻🚁😂
@@ladyandtheowlman I am hoping to get my work shop/ garage floor laid this week, because of the cost of concrete €1700+ . I ended up building a timber frame floor, I have a jig to join large beams together where you put a towel joint on the end of the beams and the sides of the beams to interlock them, you might find this interesting. This is the name of the company Arunda , I had an aluminium plate made up as a copy of it many years ago for quarter of the price, Hoping to lay OSB waterproof boarding this week, then might start to sort out my workshop and do some work, Look forward to your upcoming territorial, be safe, Hope you and the family are doing well,
Just a tip from a older guy, when u finish to work with cement, & your hand are dirty, wash them, & put some olive oil on your hands. They will come soft like a baby the next day.
It's a toss up to say whether your are brave or crazy, living on the top of that mountain as am sure it must get a bit windy so high up. I thought I was high enough but you look higher am 2,164" up but you look more and how much of your 14 acres is workable and can produce anything of value. I see some trees in the distance, can you grow trees on the steep land or is it all rock. Even trees come in very handy, like for firewood in the cooler days. Hope you have a large storage for your water as just ow we are getting plenty and mine is full to over flowing and still raining and heading your way if not already there. See you took onboard my ideas for the toilet, just tell the Mrs not to use and bleach or disinfectant or you will stop it working.
Hey Robert. Nice to hear from you! It’s been an unusually windy month tbh, probably one of our least favourite weather conditions 🤦🏻♀️ We are 770m above sea level. Most of our land is workable, it’s all on terraces. We are planting mostly olives at the moment. Our land was an almond grove before, but lots has been cut down due to xylella. We had a little rain this weekend, but not nearly enough, hoping for a big influx soon. Whereabouts are you again?
696 mtr up next door in Portugal and we have had more rain than we know what to do with and my reservoir is over flowing. Thought you would have got some of it as it came your way as it crossed the border or are you in the N.E. section where they were, don't know if they still. Facing drought situation last time I saw on here. Think I'd be growing something different to olives as you cant eat them or are they just for the E.E.C. subs that they give olive farmers
Thanks for the comment Coevic man! Robbie does lots of back exercises to keep him strong, but yes he has to be more careful with those gigantic rocks! We really appreciate your support in sending us a nice comment ❤️
@@ladyandtheowlman Yep! Hope to make walls, windows and roof this year (have money for it now). Probably will buy material for walls in a week. I think i need around month for walls (because working only after work and weekends)
Ha...thats pretty funny. Believe me Valencian community in Spain is one of the LEAST miserable places to live anywhere on our dear old planet. No frost or snow is a biggie but the quality of the light and the tempo and kindness of local life is beyond compare. Premium tourism destination..untouched wilderness with amazing wildlife..great food..miles of beaches. ....then theres the Valencian culture of music,art,neolithic cave paintings....and if you like castles...well take your pic...
seriously you guys are living my dream…. ive been working full time as a doctor and havent had more than a few weeks off here and there for last 10 years and so the 9-5 grind is losing its shine (not that it ever did)…i cant wait to create a permaculture homestead and break free of this insane and unhealthy rat race we call modern life 🍄🌈🍀
Thanks so much for the kind comment Toby! ❤️ Sorry to hear you're feeling the grind... Robbie and I both had similar situations in our old life, so you know it is possible to escape! Cool you're a doctor though, actually helping people - that must be quite nice at least for the meantime until you start your permaculture homestead! Where are you thinking of starting your homestead?
Ficou top ,seu incrível trabalho,vê seu filho subindo os degraus contruido pelo pai foi bom demais e sua esposa belissima inaugurado foi radiante.... um abração família linda...bjs bem Brasileiro com carinho pra vocês 😊
Thank you SO MUCH for watching this video! 🧡
Feel free to comment on our increasingly insane ideas and building techniques.
We learn a lot from what you all say!
Even the mountain goats are calling you, "Cheater". 😆
Literally, climbing on the throne. ... I've just stumbled upon your channel. At first, I confess, I thought these two must be mad, but after watching just two videos, I've come to deeply appreciate your infectious enthusiasm and your relaxed demeanor. Your little boy seems genuinely joyful and robust! Hence, I've made the choice to stick around and offer my support.
Ɓut mad, yes! 😂
Hey there! Thanks so much for your kind and positive comment 😀 I think you’ve got to be a little mad to leave the convenience of the city, but once you do, you realise it’s not madness at all! We are so glad for your support ☀️🧡
A masonry tip that my dad taught me: when you make a stone construction, you can take soil next to it, reserve it in a bucket, and when it's dry and powdery you can throw it at the wet concrete. That will make lovely beige joints rather than gray.
Thank you for your advice Flandrin, that's a cool idea we've never heard of! We're not a big fan of the grey but over time the weather makes it look a bit less visible. But we'll definitely try your idea in future!
What a great childhood you're giving your little guy!
What a nice comment thank you! It's nice to be able to offer Sage a unique childhood, everyday he learns so many cool things, and he's becoming quite useful digging holes for us... and also herding sheep!
Surely the most elegant tractor driver on the planet with little Sam really growing up.Robbie the Trojan non stop construction machine.Lovely latest blog.keep them coming pls❤
HAHA! Think ‘Robbie the Trojan’ will have to be his new nickname 😅 No need for mules when you’ve got him! Glad you enjoyed the video. Next one won’t take so long to come out! 🤞🏻🌟
The Good Life - Tom and Barbara - best ever tv series ❤❤❤ they had the best sense of humour and dealt with their days in a most unserious manner - you two certainly fit the bill 🤣
...but who is the posh Margo next door?
Absolutely zero neighbours 😂
mr. cement is doing a great job.
Haha Robbie says thanks Antonio! 👊
Watched a few of your videos very impressed with them those steps are amazing and E was thrilled to bits with them , but the garden harvest was also fantastic love your layed back attitude all seems calm and not rushed 👍 you’re making a wonderful life for the family ,fell in love with you three already 🙏🏽💕Graham
That's a very kind comment Graham, thank you for your ongoing support for our videos! Gives us lots of motivation to get nice comments like this ❤️
Fun watching the build of Fort Poop.
Haha Fort Poop is actually a pretty cool name, maybe we should call it this!
Stone staircase looks amazing..lot of hard work well done
THANKS PAUL! 🧡🌟
God bless your family!
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Where has my favorite couple been. Good to see you guys again!
Thanks Mike! 🧡🌟
Get some Arnica oil. When you get a deep or even superficial bruise, soak cotton wool in the oil and bandage it to the area. It won't even bruise and it will be far less sore. I've had a 1" blood blister vanish in 10 minutes.
That's great advice thanks so much Heather! Sounds like magic! We will try this next time.
For an engineer those steps are a work of art - right and left brain working in tandem 👏👏🤩
Now that’s what you call a Brick Sh*thouse😁 Love the style of editing and the humour you bring. Always great fun to watch.
😅🤣 THANK YOUUU 🧡
Amazing job you guys on the compost toilet, it's bombproof. Even though it was a lot of work the ring beam or bond beam at the top was necessary from a structural point. It's evident Robbie has some excellent construction skills. And nice work on the stairs, I thought Robbie was just going to dry stack the stones, but you grouted them in place - 5 Star job they're not budging. And the landscape scenery backdrop is stunning. Wish you all the best on the Homestead!
HAHA. Robbie does everything to the absolute MAXIMUM and it seems like most of the time, it pays off 😅
@@ladyandtheowlman And it's evident that you and Sage are the reason he does it to the Max. Best wishes to you all!
24:50 moving mountains. Great job. 😊
Love so much that he did all that for his beautiful wife.
He didn’t have much choice! 🤣😅😜
Those stares to the loo are an absolute work of art.
Thank you Colin, what a lovely thing to say, Robbie says he feels very accomplished hearing this, and says thank you for saying it! ❤️
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Your welcome.
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What a gorgeous location!
Isn’t it just! ⛰️☀️🌲
Real off grid stuff in the paradise of the alicantinian alps!!! mountains and quiet landscape, only 25 km from the mediterranean!!!! I am following you guys!!! enjoying your stuff!!! I live at 12 km from you if you need farming advice on the harvest/pruning... whatever!!!! I´m spanish born but lived abroad for some time so there is no problem with the language!!! I WISH YOU THE VERY BEST!!!!!
Thank you Fernando! Wow so cool you live near us! You have great English. What kind of things do you farm?? ❤️
Beautiul! Now you just need to plant up native ground covers and various holding plants on the sides to keep them from washing down and making the steps full of dirt/dust. It's a fun process, I don't know what species of plants you have that are best for this. I use things like wooly thyme, and succulents and so on. Such a wonderful place you live! Best of luck in all the projects. We just moved into the homestead/house I spent years designing and the build just finished last year. It's been 10 years of planning. My two boys are already 15/18! Now, on to bulbs, (we planted 1800!!) cleaning up the veggie gardens, adding some fencing, this spring finally planting berry bushes and some cherry trees to join the apples and peaches. Never an end in sight. Happy working!
Hey Anna! Thanks for your lovely comment. I like the idea of wooly thyme! Whenever we do these projects, I always think of the plants too late. I’ve just started propagating lavender and creeping rosemary now. We have lots of good succulents too which will be beneficial and pretty! WOW. 10 years of planning - that’s a lot of dedication. Whereabouts is your homestead? Spring is the best time of year, everything is coming alive again. Wishing you all the best on this never ending journey ☀️🌱🌟
Nice Job.your hard work is paying off
Thanks Steve, for your positivity! 🌱☀️
You should get some electric poultry netting or some sort of electric fence to put your around the perimeter of your food forest and gatden
We are just in the process of putting in a proper metal fence! We’ve had enough of the wild animals, and we are very committed to this area now + it’s only small so hopefully won’t be too hard! 🤞🏻
Stairways to heaven :).. good luck and pls do more video..
Thank you - and we will! 🌟🌱
Bumped into this channel but, watched a few episoes...ty UA-cam algorithm..
Amazing and happy family, very few of us would be so brave, indeed.
Can't even imagine how much time, patience, love and spirit you have poured into all that work.
Strange to say but I'm very proud of you :)
Wish you all the best and take it easy ;)
Wow, THANK YOU! Such kind and supportive words. It’s true, a lot of love has gone into the project, and hopefully we can keep giving it for the foreseeable future - there’s still a lot to be done! 🙈☀️❤️
Love, love, love this channel. Wish you could post more frequently but I'd take quality over quantity. The stairs 🤌🤌🤌 love them!
THANK YOU! Robbie is a perfectionist and everything takes FOREVER, but we are trying to post more regularly 🤞🏻🌟
wow four days to build amazing steps
He’s a machine! 😅
Top stuff.
Love your new steps and have got serious rock-envy issues about your infinite supply of the stuff.
You could build anything you like from solid rock and it will be a work of art with lasting landscape value.
What a wonderful place to live..keep going its worth the effort.
We're very grateful to have so much good rock around, it does make things a bit cheaper when building things! Better than wood as well, all our wood is getting eaten by termites! We need to get better at dry stone wall building, would have been nice not to use any concrete on the stairs!
Super job on the stairs!
THANK YOUUUU 🌟🧡
The scream from the spider 🤣
Hahah yes, think Robbie was genuinely shook up after that experience. We had no idea the spiders here actually bite!
After Long time, l am with you ❤❤❤,
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Damn bro em stairs looking great ,please post more often you guys
We are trying! 🤞🏻🌟
Hi there, the landscape i have only one word for it: WOW! May i ask do you have enough water for yourself and for watering the garden during the summertime?
Hey Harry. We are VERY fortunate to live in such beautiful nature. Since we’ve been here, we have had enough water for all our needs, including watering the garden and trees. Everyone is a little worried now though, as there hasn’t been a substantial rain in a while, and if we don’t get one before summer, the fountain could definitely dry up. Fingers crossed for some heavy rain in March or April 🤞🏻🌱
@@ladyandtheowlman Thx for your reply. A friend of mine, and me - we build together cisterns my friend sells -- or we do construct one from scratch . Over here, after some very, very dry years people often want a water reservoir of their own. I wonder if you can find a "hole", or a cave, or something like that - just to set up your own cistern, without to much work. You seem
to have an eye for the geological possibilities of the landscape. The old Romans had a lot of good ideas of "How to build a cistern". -- A given rocky ground maybe is a good thing for once -- also the lesser evaporation come mind -- the IBC's lose a lot of water in your climate, methinks. As always, all the best to you all. H.
Awesome job. But lord are they heavy! Our little girl tried walking in my snow boots! Such great photos, talk about bumps and bruised legs, arms head feet hands!!😂 last month I got a 15 cm patch of skin and muscle rolled between 2 14 inch logs and my GOD! DID THAT HURT! I could barely walk after, taken weeks to heal and Sunday last the plastic guard on my miter saw shattered and hit that spot, while building a gate 😢 deja vu all over again, I know what you go through, as do I, these may be older videos but very informative on your works. I ❤ that comment "we never know what we're doing"! 😂😂😂😂 but we learn by doing 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for watching Jerome, we really appreciate all your support for our channel and our family! Sounds like you know what we go through haha! Mitre saw guard shattering sounds a bit dangerous, look after yourself! ❤️
@@ladyandtheowlman yes dangerous but the saw is 24 years old, and you get to look at a beautiful home and live in it, it must be very quiet up there?
Yes it's nice and quiet! Lots of eagles making noises in the sky! ❤️
Great job done on the stairs. What lovely scenery you have to look out on truly at one with nature. Well done on how far you both have come.😊😊😊😊
Hey Donald! Thank you so much for your kind words 🌟🧡
2:34 why is the Toilet so far away?
Why didn't you build it inside your House? 😅
Isn't it extremly uncomfortable when you have to go to the Toilet at 3am in Winter? 🥶😅
Anyway i still like your Builds an Videos and enjoy to follow you along! 🤗
Hello! 👋🏼 YES - I am so glad you can see how stupidly far away it is 🤣 But alas, Robbie seems to have a terrible fear of 💩 and no matter how much I begged to put it closer, he would not relent. You win some, you lose some.
@@ladyandtheowlman Robbie's going to age, Em...and when he does, he'll bloody well wish he'd listened to you with a tad more earnestness!
A black water, and gray water gravity feed septic system just makes more sense, in the long run. Far more efficient, and very little maintenance required, once installed. I've only needed mine pumped once, in a decade.
All in all, good show. I enjoy seeing you both work with stone and crete. It isn't easy, but it does look beautiful, and that's it's own sort of reward.
Dry-lay as much as you can, as this negates the need to install drains behind walls, when built on hills. This way, hydraulic pressure from water in the dirt or mud behind the rock, doesn't force the rock outward. I'm also enjoying all the shots of the fresh produce being raised on your little farm. Chicken dung makes for great composting, as does sheep dung. Now, if you can just manage to keep the boar out of your garden, you'll be doing well.
Robbie's going to wear out the suspension on the Rover, if he keeps abusing it, by hauling rock with it. You need an actual truck, with heavy leaf-spring or air-suspension for such heavy work. I love Rovers as much as the next bloke, but not for the hauling of heavy items... Coil spring suspension is less than ideal for such, and parts for Rovers aren't as cheap as we'd like them to be.
I figure that about the time Robbie hits his fiftieth year, he'll be having a wee bit of a re-think, regarding having a commode, as a "scenic-overlook" for the rest of the farm. That's about the time that a man begins prioritizing his comforts... I know from experience.
I'm enjoying it folks, Spain is breathtaking in those mountains. Love the work you all are doing, improving the place, and making it your own.
Keep the bum shots coming lass, they're even more breathtaking than the mountain scenery. Guaranteed to increase views! 😉
Thanks for this comment Curtis, really interesting stuff! We really appreciate your support and ideas!
Hey you are amazing, you three 💟!! Can't believe how quickly you did those steps Robbie, and all by yourself... Such heavy dangerous work 😱 Looks super nice now, all rustic, love what you do!!... And those veggies - Emilia, do you deliver to the UK?? 😜💞
Hello Kirsten! Come back to Spain and have all the veggies you want! 🥒 🌽 🍅 Robbie is a heavy-lifting, building machine 🤣😅Thank goodness we have him! Sending our love to you 💖
The stairs look great ! That spider had a serious bad disposition.
HAHA. Poor Robbie.
You 2 are an amazing couple! Keep up the good work. As a geologist, I appreciated seeing the fossils...... hopefully they have been recorded by the Spanish Geological Survey. It still looks quite dry, even though it is supposed to be your rainy season. Will you have enough water, or are you not showing us any rainy weather?
Thanks Steffen! Robbie is very passionate about his fossils, we have a huge collection, still seems very strange there are so many under sea creatures on the top of this mountain! we'll have to look into the spanish geological survey! Our last proper rain was in September last year! We've had 3-4 small rains, but nothing significant, we really hope it rains properly soon so our spring makes it through summer! We're building lots of water stores on the land just incase.
Greetings from Chile! Love your epic adventure!
Thank you Rodrigo! Greetings to you too!
Great video.. Hard work and love for family. Regards
Thank you Muhamed! ☀️🧡
So impressed with the bog stairs. The grafting you put in.
Robbie is very happy to hear your kind words on his stairs! Thanks so much for being a subscriber Mark your support means the world to us! ❤️
Nice job on the steps. That was a darn attack spider!!
That spider meant business 🙈
First things to do: a fence closed also above for hens, a fence for the garden resistant to wild boar and deer,
Thanks for the advice! Yes it would have been sensible for us to start with the fence before doing anything else! We're building a new fence in our upcoming video, you can let us know whether you think it will work against both wild boar and deer - we're finding it very hard to build one that can stop both!
well I have liked your stairs
Thank you Asgeir, I told Robbie and he is very grateful, he is also very happy you watched all our videos too! ❤️
I love your editor, he/she/Sage, is excellent with the pacing of the story mixing in broad shots and details. I love the bug/bee/sheep/spider details and the tighter shots of the construction, great story telling. You know I am a fan.
Going to have to hide this comment from Robbie (the editor) or his ego will shoot through the roof! 😅🤣 Thank you for your very kind words Larry 🧡
Sorry Robbie, gret work.@@ladyandtheowlman
Família linda
Obrigado Paulo! ❤️
You could have had just two or three campa pottis in the house, and emptied them outside somewhere and put some dirt over it. It turns into soil before you know it....You don't need an outhouse when you have those. You could even have one outside 🙂
Thanks for the advice! I actually wanted to do this exact thing, but Robbie just loves going over the top and building things, plus he says looking at the stars and listening for animals is the most important thing about going to the toilet!
Stunning views, a beautiful stone staircase and a chicken sitting elegantly on a woman. How many hectares of land do you have and how much did you buy this land for?
Self-sufficient 14 acre HOMESTEAD |
Thanks so much for the positive words Andrew! Robbie is very happy to hear someone enjoying his stairs! Yes our land is 14 acres, it is made up of around 1,500 dead almond trees at the moment!
I must admit when I saw the legs with the trousers around the ankles at 0:06 I assumed it was Sage about to have a pee. Only when the actual film came up did I realise you were comparing war wounds zand it was Emilia's legs & backside. Emilia may claim a deeper wound but I'm definitely on Robbie's side on this debate! He wins.
It was lovely to see you getting back together after 5 days apart! Long may it be like that
Hey Neil! Tbh, my leg was completely fine in the end 😅🤣 Slight over dramatisation perhaps. I will concede the loss on that one.
Yes, you despise each other when you’re together, but after some time apart, it’s all love! ❤️🤣
we always pour concrete from the concrete mixer directly into the wheelbarrow...
Yes 🙌🏼 Good idea 💡
invest in a wind screen, love your progress
Thanks for the positive words Larry! Haha not sure what you're referring to, for the car or the tractor? We got olive oil on the car windscreen and now it's impossible to get it off!
@@ladyandtheowlman what I meant was the microphone are needs a wind screen so when you are out on the windy days you hear the words, not the wind going by the mic. Love your little human as well.
🤣🤣 OOOHH! Got you. We’ll have a look into that - great suggestion, thank you!
Ok I'm really going to show my age here but are you guys at all familiar with the series "The Good Life", by the BBC, from the 70's? I think you're the new Tom and Barbara....
HAHA! We haven’t seen it, but a few people have said the same thing. Think we are going to have to try to find the series online and give it a watch! 👌🏼🧡
Great job on the work and the video. Cheers.
Thank you so much Jason 🧡☀️
has Robin worked in construction before ? It seems like he has a lot of experience.
Thank you for your support Viajero! Robbie had no experience of construction when we arrived here 3 years ago, he spoke to a few local builders and got their advice, and then learnt the rest from watching youtube videos! It's amazing what you can learn on UA-cam! After a while, once you have the basic understanding of the materials available at the builders merchants, and the basic practices for how locals build houses nearby, you can figure out a lot of it by yourself. He doesn't speak amazing Spanish but he manages to get by speaking with the builders merchant staff with just a few key phrases, and gets everything he needs at a good price! Hope that's helpful!
Wear rubber gloves when working with concrete. We have worked with concrete many times and sometimes received minor burns, but three weeks ago after pouring a new foundation, we burned our hands very badly (most likely it was due to the plasticizer). My wife still cannot fully use her hands and still has scars. =((
Your poor wife! I hope she feels better soon 💖 Will remember all your great tips Andrey, thank you! 🌟
@@ladyandtheowlman Thanks! She feel much better now and already helped us at site yesterday evening. Probably we will make youtube videos too, but problem that most of work at evening time (after my work) so it is too dark for shooting
Please, don`t let your kids stay in possible danger area. Once i yelled at my kids (probably they were 2 and 6 y.o.) because they play next to wall i make (height was almost 3m already). Few minutes later scaffolding fell and collapsed the wall where the children were. I slid down the wall and was not injured also. if I hadn't driven them away, they would have been crushed.
What a terrifying ordeal! I’m so glad you were all safe in the end. And thanks for your wise advice, we will definitely stay away from danger areas with Sage in future 🧡
@@ladyandtheowlman btw it is so nice how you communicate with Sage. I wish I had the same nerves and calmness =)) You inspire me and I become better. Now my son is 12 years old and he is actively helping me on the construction of a new house, and I turn a blind eye to some shortcomings in the work
Hi i like your videos - however i would suggest to create shorter videos and more videos. 2 times 10 minutes video is better than a single 18 minutes one. From my humble point of view 😅.
Thanks and keep the goood work🎉
Thanks very much for the advice Stephane, it's good to hear what you prefer, we're still figuring it all out at the moment, it's our goal to get one video out every 1-2 weeks, but our editing software/ computer is a bit slow so it's taking us a long time to do everything. We'll get some new equipment soon which will make everything quicker. Bear with us and we promise we'll get quicker with the uploads! Thanks so much for the support!
One of my 2 sons ( now in their 50s) used to walk in Grandpa's boots just like Sage was doing.
VULTURES: We live in So. Calfifornia about 150 mile north of Los Angeles. When we are lucky and outside we can see a vulture migration of 100s of vultures going to wherever they gol
Wow that's so cool Bob, 100 vultures, wonder what kind they are? We often see a vulture migration here, never seen more than 20, but even seeing that is amazing, they have 3m wingspan! ❤️
Hola una o varias preguntas,a a que altitud estais ,de que podeis vivir sea ingresos económicos y por último todo un esfuerzo es escalera eres mi ídolo con la refrm de mi masia
Muchas gracias por las palabras positivas José! Estamos a 760m!
Hi 👋, sorry that I missed you 3 days ago, I have been back to the uk to, it sounds like it is very windy 🌬️ out there, your roof construction I think is strong enough to land helicopter, 🚁, on it , 😂, ❤it great work, Lady looks a bit henpecked 🐔😂, Veggies 🥒 are looking 👀 great, hope your veggies 🍆 😂, don’t get mulled by the wild boar 🐗, that is great work building your stairway to heaven, 🧻🎸-
Great content, amazing view, ❤, stay safe, from the, ? 😂
Helicopter port for sure! 🤣 Robbie overdoing it as usual. Did you have a nice time in the UK?
@@ladyandtheowlman Hi 👋, It was okay thank you, I am still trying to get the rest of my tools and timber back to my Moulin, in France, if you have not realised, I have had to change my device, Has it had been hacked into?, From what I’ve been told, I so-called friend.,
It appears that I had left some comments to different people like yourself , and the comments had been removed within two or three minutes of me, posting it, as you probably know, it is very expensive to go back and forward nowadays, especially as I go through EuTunnal, I am hoping one more trip should do it, My basement is filled with tools, equipment, and timber, not enough room to swing a cat, I wouldn’t really do that anyway, 😂,
And I’m trying to sort out a problem, I am trying to import my motorcycle , HD, Deuce, I had to sell my original one that I had from brand-new back in 2000, in 2019, I had to sell it so I could come over here, Not sure whether I have said, but I had been scammed by my ex partner, and to make things worse she got my so-called family and friends all involved in it as well, The things that have happened, I cannot put on UA-cam,
But I have one loyal friend him and his wife between the three of us had found a motorcycle same model as what I had. This is what true friends are like they purchased it for me, then told me that I’ve got a bike. , I obviously had to pay him for it, which I have done, At present, it’s not rideable it’s got a misfire or something wrong with it, once I’ve got it here, I can sort it out myself it would give my brain something to focus on,
Sorry, I am ramping on too much , you all stay safe, Keep up the amazing work, It’s a pity that you are a little bit too far away from me to travel at that present, or I would come down and give you a hand, 🖐️ or 2 🖐️ 🧻🚁😂
@@ladyandtheowlman I am hoping to get my work shop/ garage floor laid this week, because of the cost of concrete €1700+ .
I ended up building a timber frame floor, I have a jig to join large beams together where you put a towel joint on the end of the beams and the sides of the beams to interlock them, you might find this interesting. This is the name of the company Arunda , I had an aluminium plate made up as a copy of it many years ago for quarter of the price, Hoping to lay OSB waterproof boarding this week, then might start to sort out my workshop and do some work, Look forward to your upcoming territorial, be safe, Hope you and the family are doing well,
Just a tip from a older guy, when u finish to work with cement, & your hand are dirty, wash them, & put some olive oil on your hands. They will come soft like a baby the next day.
Thanks for the advice Avner we'll definitely do this!
Yes sir, the cement, grout, mortar can wreck your skin quick, olive oil is sooooo good!,👍
It's a toss up to say whether your are brave or crazy, living on the top of that mountain as am sure it must get a bit windy so high up. I thought I was high enough but you look higher am 2,164" up but you look more and how much of your 14 acres is workable and can produce anything of value. I see some trees in the distance, can you grow trees on the steep land or is it all rock. Even trees come in very handy, like for firewood in the cooler days. Hope you have a large storage for your water as just ow we are getting plenty and mine is full to over flowing and still raining and heading your way if not already there. See you took onboard my ideas for the toilet, just tell the Mrs not to use and bleach or disinfectant or you will stop it working.
Hey Robert. Nice to hear from you! It’s been an unusually windy month tbh, probably one of our least favourite weather conditions 🤦🏻♀️ We are 770m above sea level. Most of our land is workable, it’s all on terraces. We are planting mostly olives at the moment. Our land was an almond grove before, but lots has been cut down due to xylella. We had a little rain this weekend, but not nearly enough, hoping for a big influx soon. Whereabouts are you again?
696 mtr up next door in Portugal and we have had more rain than we know what to do with and my reservoir is over flowing. Thought you would have got some of it as it came your way as it crossed the border or are you in the N.E. section where they were, don't know if they still. Facing drought situation last time I saw on here. Think I'd be growing something different to olives as you cant eat them or are they just for the E.E.C. subs that they give olive farmers
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He-man stone mason 🧐 take care of your back please. Great project your family is doing.
Thanks for the comment Coevic man! Robbie does lots of back exercises to keep him strong, but yes he has to be more careful with those gigantic rocks! We really appreciate your support in sending us a nice comment ❤️
Brilliant vid…again! … but… the 🕷️🕷️?!?!?!?
Thanks so much for the positive words! And yes, no one told us that Spanish spiders actually attack you!
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Thanks for your videos! You inspirate to make our channel! ;) Andrey Polyakov
Hey Andrey! That’s super cool 🌟 We enjoyed watching your video, and seeing your family. Looks like you’ve got plenty of work to do too! 🙈🌱
@@ladyandtheowlman Yep! Hope to make walls, windows and roof this year (have money for it now). Probably will buy material for walls in a week. I think i need around month for walls (because working only after work and weekends)
Where guys do you live in Spain, is it far from Barcelona?
We live in the Valencian region. It’s further south than Barcelona. About a 5 hour drive 🌟
hola no me deja unirme en patreon ,porque.
Hola Juan! Lo siento, pero no lo sé que es el problema con patreon. Tenemos un subscripción en UA-cam también. Es el mismo.
what's the name of the town you are at please? ty
We live near the town of Tarbena, it's a beautiful place to visit with lots of nice walks nearby!
@@ladyandtheowlman ty so much for replying
I watched so many off grid life but yours looks so miserable. you are fighting every element on the property.
Ha...thats pretty funny.
Believe me Valencian community in Spain is one of the LEAST miserable places to live anywhere on our dear old planet.
No frost or snow is a biggie but the quality of the light and the tempo and kindness of local life is beyond compare.
Premium tourism destination..untouched wilderness with amazing wildlife..great food..miles of beaches.
....then theres the Valencian culture of music,art,neolithic cave paintings....and if you like castles...well take your pic...
Haha we appreciate you honesty! We do often wonder if we should try and make things look a bit more fun!
Too deadly
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seriously you guys are living my dream…. ive been working full time as a doctor and havent had more than a few weeks off here and there for last 10 years and so the 9-5 grind is losing its shine (not that it ever did)…i cant wait to create a permaculture homestead and break free of this insane and unhealthy rat race we call
modern life 🍄🌈🍀
Thanks so much for the kind comment Toby! ❤️ Sorry to hear you're feeling the grind... Robbie and I both had similar situations in our old life, so you know it is possible to escape! Cool you're a doctor though, actually helping people - that must be quite nice at least for the meantime until you start your permaculture homestead! Where are you thinking of starting your homestead?
Meditative episode
Thanks for the love Toby ❤️
Ficou top ,seu incrível trabalho,vê seu filho subindo os degraus contruido pelo pai foi bom demais e sua esposa belissima inaugurado foi radiante.... um abração família linda...bjs bem Brasileiro com carinho pra vocês 😊