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It's just the way the camera was angled. The snow was actually about 3 to 4 feet away from the house (we have some large rocks out there to prevent anything from running up against it.) Hope you have a Merry Christmas!

Thanks bc... We really love it here. Once you adjust to the different climate, and you know what to expect and know you'll survive, you just relax, do what you have to do, and enjoy. Amazing how easy it is to adapt to a totally different circumstance. And NOW, I get to tease the Canadian about how cold she gets... :)

As long as I don't put you to sleep, I'll call that a win!

😊 thank you

Thanks. I'm happy with the results.

We're very happy with the result ourselves! Sharon would love more company, but when we simply want to relax and enjoy nature, there's no place like home..

She's got enough energy to keep 10 old farts busy! Sealer seems to be the trend. Thanks!

Thanks!

She's a fireball of energy for sure! We have to keep her occupied or she tends to find ways to interact with her, and usually not good ways. I'm thinking I'll teach her Mahjong.

She is, but she's a handful! Her Dingo ancestry is coming out in full force!

Thanks! We're waiting for either a 3 or 4 day soaking rain, or a good deep snow after all the leaves have fallen before we fire up that pile! It's going to burn hard and fast for a while and then probably for another week or so before it's over with. So we've got to be ready to stay here for that time to make sure it doesn't re-ignite or catch anything near it on fire. And thank you for the compliment on the house. We are really proud of it as you can imagine! Two old farts actually DID it (and didn't kill ourselves or each other while we did, Imagine THAT!). Little miss Angel is taking care of any free time we might have, but we're LOVING it! Thanks for the comments!

No, the lines were buried down the middle of the drive and cut through all of the roots. If you'll notice in one of the stump extractions next to the drive, when the stump comes up, it pulls some a root with it that pulls up the dirt in a nice straight line. That's where the trencher had cut the ditch. Besides, Val would have killed us......

You should!

Let us know if you do!

The wife is afraid to have a big fire going at night since we wouldn't be able to keep an eye on it all night (she worries about it catching the woods on fire). but if we can get a few folks together to sit around and enjoy it, I think we could convince her to let me do it.

Thank you!!!!!!

Wish you were here to enjoy it yourself!

What Alan said.

Thank you!!!!!

Thank you for the compliment. Valantine has the patience to do all of the little things that are so important to achieving a good result. We're fortunate to have an endless supply of beautiful wood right from our 30 acres. We just had some beautiful black cherry milled by our local Amish friends for us that the wife wants to use to make all of our furniture. She's already made two queen beds, a dresser, night stands, an oak desk for me, her kitchen island and some of the kitchen cabinets. Oh, and we built the entire house holding it all....

Thanks for the support! We're getting excited to be close to finishing the kitchen. We'll have the Kitchen Island build and our Kitchen Cabinet Build videos up soon. We're getting some nice weather for once, so spending a bit of time outside getting some outdoor projects done. We'll post videos of that later as well. In the mean time, THANKS for subscribing and Commenting! It really helps!

I've got some GREAT Neighbors! Thanks!

Yes it was!

Thanks! We've completed part of the last section and will be finishing up the entire project in the next day or two. We'll post an update once all of the countertops are in place so you can get an idea of how the overall project looks. But yeah, we're pretty happy with how it's coming together!

Thanks ;) hopefully the other 2 go as smoothly.

Thank you! Valantine has a real affinity for woodworking. (And the patience it takes to do the job well.) I knew I'd found the right woman when I took her shopping with me at the local Big Box builder store and she was excited about all of the cool tools!

Thank you so much !!

I'm very proud of Valantine. She's the one who really did all of the work, and she really does put her heart & soul (and based upon the time it takes her to recover, her body as well) into everything she does. You'll love her Kitchen Island project too!

@@alvalonline ok...looking forward to the kitchen island project!!

@@vickiferko23 Starting the planning today. Wish me luck!

Thanks so much! We're very happy with it considering it started out as a tree outside our windows!

@@alvalonline so cool!

Thank you so much!

I'd actually love to be able to do that! We'll be installing a livestock gate on the entrance side of the drive just in front of the creek at some point, but a remotely controlled drawbridge would be awesome!

We're lucky here with some great neighbors near us. And yes, that's a VERY nice tractor! One of these days we'll have one so we can manage these kinds of issues ourselves. Just a little too much to try with just a shovel and rake!

Thanks for your kind thoughts. We're in upstate New York. Thankfully our home is located higher up on the property, so the flooding was well below us down our drive. We'll have the driveway repaired tomorrow morning by some amazing neighbors! And THANKS for Subscribing!

I'm in the early stages of learning to edit videos, so it will probably take me a little longer to get content uploaded, but we've got a LOT of things in progress that should make for some interesting viewing. The wife has become a real craftsperson and is building her own butcher block countertops, a kitchen island, some other furniture, and we'll be restoring a small wood stove to like new. The acreage will always provide a lot of material as well. With 30 acres of hardwoods (Maples mostly) and miles of trails through them, creeks and streams, deer, fox, coyotes, wild turkeys and more, there is always something going on. We're also going to tap the maples for syrup, and we've got loads of Amish neighbors who show us new ways to do stuff. If you've got any ideas or things you'd like to see, leave a comment or 4 and we'll add those to the growing list! And THANKS!

Just take care and be careful! Love ya back! 🙂

It's just me yakkin'

Yeah, after seeing it like that, we decided the new treads should be natural as well.

Thanks! We love it here on days like that. Summers here make up for all that cold and snow during the 6 months of winter.

It's taken a lot of work, but we think it ended up being worth the extra effort and time it took. Good luck with your project!

Thanks! She's determined to get this house project finished and looking the way she wants it.

We've already found out. Two new families with all of their new children have been visiting on a regular basis. Since mommy and daddy aren't afraid of us now, the kids don't seem to be either. Time will tell.....

Running a line to the house would have cost us more than our entire solar system and we'd still be stuck with monthly payments, power outages and keeping corporate CEOs in yachts. I'd been researching off-grid living for a few years prior to making this move, so I'd already pretty much made up my mind to do it. The huge expense just to run a line to the house was just the final nail in the connected coffin. We've never looked back.

You ain't kiddin' brother!

I feel that way every single day! When you're taking it one day at a time, the amount of work really adds up over the course of a couple of years!

We've added a lot more content and I'll be doing some actual video editing as soon as I learn how! I'll keep posting raw videos in the meantime. Thanks!