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welcome to think alive we are Sharon and Auntie, just two people with a dream and a vision to restore our traditional stone built country house in the south of Spain to transform it into a beautiful off-grid home and share our journey with you , thank you, welcome back. everyone's back Salmon I'm rocking our um yeah yesterday last hourism on my way back actually Andy messaged me to tell me the t-shirts are derivative so

this

is one of them

this

It's the ladies version, in fact, both are Yes, and at the moment we just made two colors, black and white.

If you

want

other colors, let us know, but for now we'll see how they work. Something simple. So we have four mottos. I think I have and this other job well

done

and um you can't have too many clamps we also have Happy Days and let's move on so just our famous slogans if you like our famous saying and we I have a cup um so think alive . Happy Days has the other slogans too, but we actually made the print a little smaller because he thought it was a little big, but you can see it, we'll put it there. be a link for anyone who is interested in that, we should have a Store link on our channel page on the video page.

I'm not sure how it works but we are still working on it and I will also put a link in the description but yes if any of you would like our new one very nice actually also looking for better quality much better than the original, absolutely yes, I'm very happy with those happy ones. days anyway, so I think we've finished the wardrobe today, like you've seen the last video you'll ever see, so Sharon has an unenviable day and yes, intimidating and beautiful, and I'll be stuck inside sorting my clothes, But it is necessary. Say yes because it will protect them at all, it will protect them and our new doors on the way should be delivered today or just run, I have to make the door, oh, let's put a sliding door, oh, okay, I apologize.

Again you see lost in transit because I was in the UK and he sent me a link and said what do you think of this and I thought it was the door with this mechanism and everything is fine, it's just the mechanism and I bought it. because it's absolutely the cheapest price I could get you for um, so that's going to increase as well. um. I'm going to have a, we have a, if you saw the video a few months ago, we have a little bit. leak in a problem area of ​​the roof. I'll see if I can fix it.

Yes, and I will possibly start a little more on the patio while the weather is nice. We would like us not to forget it. like we did for the

summer

, we've been saying this for 18 months, the temperatures are great, even if at times they keep leaving it, it will be too hot again and we will be in the same bowl, perfect, well, the first one we have. all to be

done

so we better get on with it yeah so if you can see with nothing in the dark here we got a leak in the roof here it's been leaking for hundreds of years in fact I made the whole roof out of above.

This and there was not expected to be a leak or initially after we had done it the whole chimney was still open so I suspected it might have been coming down from there but as we had already done the whole roof it is still doing it. I don't remember a few months ago we were there pouring watering cans of water on it to point out the spot where it seemed to be leaking, which we did, so I did it now. I removed all the top tiles. to expose the gutter tiles underneath and I'm going to lower each of them one at a time and see if I can get it to drip, so far no joy so carry on, this is a part of a very old roof, um, up close like you.

I can see the tap and the foam there just to lay the tiles to keep them from sliding and it makes it better to walk on something so it doesn't crack, but I put a big gutter down there, Gully, but this end is still kind of original . where it meets the wall and I'm not sure if it's bouncing or running somewhere, so all I do is pour water down each of these channels one at a time to see if I can identify if it's just one. or look deeper into what the problem is, it's not what I need, although I'm not getting anywhere quickly, but so far there are six irrigation counters and not only, but we know at least because last time we made the elite I'm going to pour water on it, I think that's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to break up this piece of roof here where it's leaking and see if I can shed some light on it. If I can cause too much clutter, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go again, nothing obvious at all. that factory is still completely dry right now, oh dear, like I just decided which side my health was coming from huh, well, there's no moisture there at all, right? I'll continue exploring then well, I don't know what I'm up to. a little leak, um, it's up there where the general roof is, suddenly a soft roof hits that vertical wall, maybe it's just an inherent design flaw, um, I don't know, but I can't get it to leak now , although we could A few months ago maybe it fixed itself, which is unlikely, so I think we're going to suck it up and see what happens and see what we get with the rain before something that we don't have hardly, um and it might be that be it just when it rains heavily then it just overwhelms the valley um the center takes the water it's there to take the water and it comes back under the tiles I'm not sure, but I'll see how we go with that and um, maybe I don't know, maybe that it goes over the entire ceiling in that section, it's just a section this wide, I don't know, I'm going to sleep on it like they say and try to figure it out, so it's amazing that you forget how much clothes you have and certainly what you have and some of these things don't I've seen them in two years, so it's like Christmas all over again and I'm making my Christmas. gifts and thinking oh, I forgot, but yeah, so I'm leaving anyway, isn't that very exciting for you guys, that has to be done.

I'm going to try not to be very good at organizing, but I'll try to put together dresses, blouses to get the skirts. together, everything is going to need ironing, since I say it's been in storage because it's um, yeah, I'll see you later, so Sharon started a mammoth task of putting all the clothes in the closet, um, I

really

can't do much else inside until we've made some space, but it's a nice day and before it gets too hot we

want

to try to finish this patio, so all I'm going to do, I think today I'm going to try to get all the big things.

You can see that it is growing like the donkey did. It's the best, but um, yeah, it's growing too much again, so I'm going to put all the decent stones. There are many reasonably sized, large stones here that we can use. I'm going to take all of these out and then put some in. rest of the mat down and um, I have a bag full of gravel in there, a ton of gravel and I try to finish it at least to try to keep these weeds out, thank you, thank you, my appearance is already a hundred times better.

I'm going to start bringing in some gravel now, we need to cut it up a little bit, but we want to put a little weight on it to keep it in place and because from the looks of it, we've almost got enough. foreigner, thank you, okay, we have enough weight on that now I'm just going to trim it back and use the excess to fill our space at the bottom and then, um, and continue, before we continue, um, this is our The vine that we have been growing must be in its third year and is just starting to come to life.

He's going to bury here so he can climb this wall. We have a little ring there that we can put on. some rope or wire or something like that and then you have something to climb over and, but obviously before you put the stones in, you need to get in, so we have to dig a hole here in the floor and I don't think it's going to be like that. easy because the soil is now hard as a rock, but we will try, we are just going to break up the soil a little, we are not going to take it out of the pot because it wants to be at the level of the floor, so like we did with the other one that is in the wall over there, we'll just cut the bottom of the pot off, stick it in and, um, it should be fine, then he can grow as deep as he wants, but this is actually quite beautiful soil, it's quite soft, the only place in the whole the terrain that's great, okay, let's pour some water on it and then let them fall into place.

I don't even need this. I could have used a small trowel. We have to go. Put them in a little bit of the pot because it will be above the soil to bring it to this level just to give it some support, but if we remove the bottom, the roots can grow three layers. What they want is not to insert the standard knife. your leg is done once there, we go another route behind it. I'll put it in there, all right, we'll fill the hole again, give them a good water and we'll be very happy there too after a little more gravel.

I have decided Take out the other one, look at the roots of it. Hopefully everything is okay, but I want him to come in every once in a while and they can start to settle down. Unfortunately, it's not that easy to dig here abroad and flip through and stuff, but I think it was necessary. to do because it was in a bad place where it was anyway um so let's keep our fingers crossed that everything is okay and then continue now thanks, there we go, it's a fun gravel um yeah, it's pretty covered, pretty good about that actually and we have to decide that we're going to finish it so fancy over the stones, um, yeah, but at least this part is done, the weeds are gone, as long as the cats don't decide to use it as a giant litter tray and we will do it.

Be well, the closet is working, there you go and I still have all the shelves to fill. I have a lot of places for t-shirts, sweatshirts, and things that can be folded on the shelves, um, but the rail works great and, like I say. It was nice to rediscover my clothes after so long. Well, it's a beautiful day on a finger this morning. Predicted temperatures are 25 26 Celsius 77 78 79 Fahrenheit. They are almost perfect. I want to try to break one of these walls. because we don't want them to fall out because they're pretty bad on both sides and there's a big hole up here that we can almost see through so they need attention.

Maybe I should have made them before putting on some Vine. but I can work with it and it doesn't exactly seem to be affected by the transplant yet, anyway, you can see it has beautiful, its beautiful leaves, they are all green, all new, all the buds open, um, fabulous, so, What I need? Do what you've probably seen before: pull all the loose stuff out of the joints. I'm just going to give it a brush to remove anything that's loose, get rid of your vacuum with the old Henry, and then start rebuilding it. Yeah I'm at the bottom too, it's not so bad afterwards, but at the top guys you can see fists and there's a big hole there where things fall and there are holes everywhere, most of these are loose, they don't turn to put in. big holes behind them so yeah it's in bad shape and again we want to do the walls before we start finishing the floor there's another three or four inch hole to go up on the front of the 100 Mil at least so any part that we obtain. talking about this right now doesn't

really

matter because it's all going to get buried anyway, so, yeah, let's get out the brush and Henry and clean ourselves up a little bit, as you can see at the top.

I've made it up to there. I stay at the top so the mess works its way down and this isn't that bad, a lot of holes just want to get whatever is loose in the air off the vine of course so you're bad it's actually not that bad bad if it's solid. It can look wonderful, yes, there is not much to clean, although everything has been washed away by the weather and now we give it a good vacuum, so we have Henry suspended from the ladder and we are only going to do one square meter at a time. time because it takes forever, you want to get all the loose stuff out because obviously that's not conducive to getting new whitewash out as well, as you can see in this part, we've got some pretty big holes going right into the wall, another one over there, if you can make it out. , if I'm putting it in the right place, um, there are big spaces there, so what we need to do next is take our bucket and fill it with as many raid-sized stones that we can find and the idea is that what you do anywhere is get a stone that just fits, hit it with a hammer, it's called setting and that should touch the other stones there putting enormous amounts of force on the wall, so I have my cube.

I'll probably need more than a bucket full and I'm going to go for a walk, actually pick them up. Clean stones from the floor. We certainly do not lack raw materials. Let's keep pumping and coming and coming. I have a lot. one of the bigger ones inside which I'll use some long skinny ones um I don't like that one great I have it full the next thing we need is our sprayer suffered all we have to do um now it's all clean um wet We lower the wall as we go and we started filling it with stones and mortar, so this is ready to go, so I just had to repair it, take it apart and clean it, we've had it for years, it's a mom too.

Unbelievable, it still works, but it's a testament to its quality. So what I'm going to do now. I'm going to paste a mix. I won't wet this wall untilI'm ready and have my mix. to go um so that's a good thing so I've got everything um I'm using a four to one sand and lime mixture we're using white sand on the outside because that's what we start with um this is my little Can we break jog what IFill this with sand and then a quarter with a stick of lime in the bucket, mix it dry, add water to get the consistency we want, let's do it right, so if Sam is so dry it's like iron, let's put some.

First he produces a little bit of water and just to break it down a little bit, he doesn't have any big chunks of sand, that's what you need, thanks then our line comes in now that we have all the chunks of sand. breathing this thing is not pleasant it's not so bad if we do it outside don't shake it too much. I'm going to mix it by hand first just to moisten it a little bit, too much dusting, then I'm going to gently add water and mix it in slowly. Ideally you want to mix it for about 20 minutes and get it to the right shape, fattened up and then correctly, so I'll start a little bit. of water at a time and then start mixing so that it is not too dry or too wet, quite hard mix, you get used to it when you start doing it, what sticks to the wall and what doesn't, but yes, very happy with it . no, it's not very limey, it's not clumpy or gritty, oh, nice and semi-creamy, it will stick to a wall, so I'm going to start where I left off last time, unless they throw it at the wall. um, I have the first big hole here.

I have a stone of the exact size that will connect and that is what takes the most time to find the correct size stones that will connect correctly and then set the surrounding stones. instead so let's get it in ah oh, I forgot, I need to get it wet, stupid boy, getting out of me now. I'm going to do this little by little, um, because it dries very quickly. I'll do it from here. because that's what I've done before there, I'll keep the same level all the time, okay, let's put the stone in first and which way it went up like that, I think it happened that I locked them all in like that. that and then continue I'll have to move my ladder but I'll continue that's the first mixing gun as you can see it's going to take a while it's that time of year again I better think about planting and no We're going crazy this year um we use a lot of water and B we didn't have much success, a lot of things died due to the extreme heat or late frosts last year, so we had success with tomatoes um we had success with peppers and onions, so I'll probably stick with those staples at the end of the year. day and at the end of last year.

I don't know if you remember I almost killed my tomatoes by recycling some water that had chemicals in it and I didn't realize it at the time and I woke up one morning and they looked practically dead so in a panic I used this here which was where the cucumbers were last year, and I threw in a bunch of seeds and hoped for the best and then it was really too late, but they grew amazingly, they were huge and we got some lovely tomatoes, so I'm going to try again here and obviously, The compost has been used, so I'll turn it over and here.

I have some fresh compost mixed with some of our donkey poop. God bless you. I've soaked it with a little bit of water, so I'm going to turn this all over. Put the new compost in the donkey poop and turn it again. moisten it well because it's very, very dry and then I plant my seeds and, yes, the thing is the bark, we will have a good crop of tomatoes this year, well, okay, so I came to the corner, there is not much to point out in those holes. big and so deep. I just got through the last couple of mixes just putting stones in the deep fire in what it's about, but if I point out now I should make it a little simpler, the rest of it isn't that bad, but yeah, particularly about that one.

I was right, I'm going to see how Sharon does with the tomatoes, so her final one didn't take long. This is my cat pad because, good fresh compost, they'll use it as a toilet, so I'll just leave it on top. up and take a couple of stones in a minute to waste them just until they start to appear and set and then once I know where they are I can place some strategically placed stones and that usually works too but for now that will do and in this I just planted some basil, we still have mint there from last year.

I just cut it off and wait for it to reappear, it usually does and it's hard to kill mint for those of you who have grown it, you'll know um so yeah there's basil in this one so exactly the same. Now I'm just going to put some fresh compost and some manure on top and cover that as well and hopefully we'll have a good start to our growing season this year well I just got some fantastic news we've got you going to do, you want to tell them, I can hardly believe it, we just received a phone call from there and inhumia to say that our registry.

Now it's ready to be picked up and we can go tomorrow, we can go tomorrow formally like this and anyway, so yeah, on that note, we're going to ban, um, we have our day of celebrations, yeah, our, um, our runner, should be there for the walking war dog door. Yeah, it should be that my clothes have been resurrected and are now hanging in the HP closet after two years, so it's exciting, the world is less likely to fall, yeah, and don't forget, if you want your finger to be live, there will be a link somewhere we can. should have a link to the storefront apparently via YouTube um in the video maybe or certainly on our page um we don't know yet, we're not going to go that far, but it will be there somewhere where you will be in your face somewhere um so yeah, thank you so much for watching um happy happy days right now yeah get your Happy Days t-shirt and mug um I have one um so yeah, thank you so much for watching, thank you so much to everyone who Supported the channel um see ya on thursday thursday thank you foreigner