there's people on your property wow

all right guys good morning good morning first  day of work here it is time to get started so  

we've arrived at the property it is a sunday  morning we're up bright and early we were  

just welcomed by some turkeys into the  property the equivalent of having a guard  

dog have a wilderness that the turkeys were  actually better than the guard dog that was a  

that was the first uh layer of defense right the  turkeys signified that we were here and then the  

dog came yes after it's kind of hilarious  so yeah so you grabbed some clips yesterday  

yes and we have some serious tools now to  get some work done yes i'll show you guys  

what we brought this isn't everything we bought  but it's what we're going to be using today  

this is the most important thing we basically got  two of these this one's a little bigger than the  

other ones it's going to be great just perfect  for us trimming the sarsa yeah the blackberries  

right these are just like some heavy-duty pruning  scissors yeah and we're mostly going to be using  

it for the sarsa plant that blackberry bush  that just grows and like crawls and expands  

and also for any shrubs that shouldn't be  there or any branches that are blocking our  

way that kind of thing we also got machetes and  there's other tools we're going to need later on  

but for today we mostly want to clear the  ground because as you can see it's kind of hard  

to venture too far because of this  growth um and it's quite thorny  

and we're just gonna just get out of it really yes  that's the plan precisely so let's get to it guys

so

you want to get the whole house

okay so sam here is working at the door  the entrance to the chalet yeah so um  

this part is somewhat interesting and a tad bit  disturbing too so over here we've got some of the  

the sarsa the the blackberries they're actually  growing inside of the inside of the home  

inside the house y'all we're gonna be dealing with  this and uh working on this as much as we can we  

also have no idea how much is inside right yeah  i don't think that's gonna be when we eventually  

like bust this door open somehow it's gonna be  an absolute absolute surprise what we find in  

there seriously maybe we can run a haunted  house tour you know or there could be some  

some real big surprises when we open that door  but we are making progress i've already cleared  

well let me show you my work as soon as i untangle  myself look at these thorns all right guys second  

time filming this because i keep doing speaking  clips in time lapse mode and that's obviously  

not gonna work um but i wanted to show you what  i've been working on right here we have this plant  

called hydrangea or ortensia in spanish and it is  one of my dad's favorite plants we have several of  

these plants across the property and the problem  with this one is that the sarsa the blackberry  

bush was starting to grow and like suffocate it  and drown it out yeah it was just like weaving  

this crazy web around the plant so i've been  going around carefully with my little scissors  

i'm trying to remove the sarsa without hurting the  plant the plant also needs a good pruning it needs  

a haircut but i'm going to let a professional do  that and i'm just working on removing the sarsa  

so it's kind of hard to see here but like you do  have both plants really intermingled shall we say  

so yeah that is what i'm working on at the moment  uh i've also been clearing the area around the  

house and sam's been working on the steps leading  to the house sam's actually moving really fast  

first time doing this kind of work and you're  pretty talented it turns out actually my second  

time second time here before um what i'm really  noticing is where the bushes stick like this yeah  

i'm doing some baseball swings golf swings  like this making things move a lot faster  

we definitely should take the machete yeah the  next time that's going to be the ultimate weapon  

to kind of clear the thickness of it and then  these guys are for the final job at the root level  

so um yeah kind of learning as we go it's fun  building up a sweat building up an appetite and uh  

yeah it's nice to be doing some like some  physical work outside where you're seeing like  

you know the the fruits of your labor right  in front of your eyes this is also good for  

my shoulder too i've been um probably like two  months into my injury and so far it's been okay  

a little bit sore but um i think this is gonna be  like kind of some decent rehab for it we just got  

uh loads of work ahead and uh but it's it's it's  been fun it's been fun already we don't even have  

to do our daily video workouts that we used to do  back in canada we used to do this video workout  

from the 90s glad bodies in motion that kind of  started out as a winter quarantine routine and  

it just became our daily workout routine but now  that we're doing some physical labor out here  

we're skipping that oh pupper who's  coming to visit who's coming to visit

look who's here sam look who's here pepperoni

go say hi to sam papa

there you go look at this what is this wilderness  guys do i need to mark my territory what's going  

on what's going on so guys we are progressing and  sam is making all sorts of wonderful discoveries  

of random items we are going to call this new  segment the treasures in the jungle treasures  

in the jungles things we find here out in nature  so i'm glad because i've been kind of swinging  

swinging like this and i'm glad i didn't  because look what i just found a bench lovely

i mean it's chipped and it's got a it's in super  rustic condition but but it's got history it's  

got some history for here it is it's got some  character so yeah that's kind of been my i've been  

discovering things the other thing that i found  oh there's a pupperoni a different one a different  

one oh different pepper jeez so i also got to  the edge of this stone wall here yeah it's kind  

of hard to see but there is a stone wall all along  there so it's kind of giving me a target of what  

i'd like to achieve over the next little while  be great to clear everything to the stone wall  

obviously get that bench recovered look at the  dogs trying to navigate through the mess here um  

but yeah it's interesting i think there's  going to be a lot of discoveries like this  

this will not be the only thing that we  discover here in the uh underneath the bush  

yeah yeah i'm also really excited about  clearing this area and reaching the stone fence  

because beneath like the elevation kind of drops  like the terrain drops and there's this big area  

with fruit trees like plum trees apple trees  cherry trees any kind of fruit you can imagine  

and it's not really accessible at the moment no  not at all it's not accessible at all it'll be  

really cool when it is and when we have access to  delicious fruits you know so it gives us something  

to work towards guys one more thing i wanted to  mention i just found out a few moments ago talking  

to one of the guys here but apparently today is a  holiday and it is a worker's day here in argentina  

and it just seems oh say i'm finding more garbage  more treasures but it just seems so perfect that  

we are starting this massive project this massive  undertaking on workers day yeah first of may guys  

happy workers day happy workers day to everybody  here and wherever this is celebrated do you think  

it's celebrated in other countries i haven't no  idea probably probably so happy workers day to you  

all happy workers we are working and we're working  doing fun stuff here yeah we're getting necessary  

gardening yes landscapes it's called  landscape getting dude getting it did

all right time for a progress report progress  report are you pointing it out at me yes okay  

so everything you see here guys can you  pan that camera around pan that camera  

around cleared it all the way to that stone  fence and if you can follow me over here  

i've also made a lot of progress in that  area as well on the side of the home yeah  

and then the last area that i want to show  you is this is actually the thickest area of  

the bush and if we come down here so if you come  down here carefully audrey i can show you exactly  

where i've been able to clear to  we'll just go ahead gently here  

and then we make it all the way to the  path down the hill out to the fruit trees  

to the fruit trees so i mean we arrived here what  what time 9 30 9 30 10. so we'd normally like to  

actually arrive an hour and a half earlier than  this and uh it's time to go pick up some locro  

we placed an order in town and um i can't believe  how much we've been able to do in about three  

hours less than three hours so imagine we  put in a four or five hour shift every day  

we obviously have our online work to do um so  we'll do that in the afternoon but i see us being  

here every morning and getting a lot of stuff done  yeah we did a lot of work and i know this kind of  

looks messy on the ground um but basically we have  chopped down a lot of salsa and just weeds and  

random plants we don't need i have started a small  pile just over my shoulder kind of hard to see  

but a lot of what you see on the ground  is already cut like we just need to  

you know let it dry pile it up rake it do  something with it but basically if it looks  

flattened it's been chopped down we have to let  nature take its course nature take its course  

it's a snack for the ground yeah or like make use  of the compost area up there but i mean today's  

the first day so day one lots of programs day  one that's what we've done so guys i am walking  

through town with my pot full of locro samuel you  think you can grab the camera and show the peeps  

how we walk through town yep i got it with  her pot full of luck that's how we do things  

somebody in town was making it want to lift the  lid and show the peeps yeah sure i actually did  

it all right and you know what else we're walking  with i'll go well that to a gopro with a four  

percent battery oh i know we're running out we'll  show you the meal as soon as we're home right

well guys it is look at the time check that out  we earned it too didn't we yes it's all that work  

so this is a super traditional dish typically  eaten in the northern part of the country but  

really you can get it anywhere in argentina and  it's made with corn it's got beans all sorts of  

cuts of meat like pork skin just had a piece  with a pork skin it's so good oh man sausage  

that's some of the best local i've ever had to  be honest it's great to be able to support the  

business here in the in the community as well we  saw lots of people lined up with their containers  

pots pans i mean it was it was busy when we  went there's a line so great to see the support  

yeah and it was three dollars per portion and  it comes with a loaf of bread so we've got lots  

of leftovers so we at least get two meals out of  this right yeah so a great meal to be having after  

a hard morning of work but very rewarding  that was fun and rewarding super rewarding  

all right guys so today is laundry day out of  necessity because we are officially running out  

of clean clothes we do not have a washing machine  in the house and we haven't been able to sort  

our laundry like doing it somewhere paying  someone to do it like finding a laundry service  

so we are washing by hand and yeah that's gonna  be fun in the little sink so let's see how it goes

do

do

so a little mid-afternoon update i've done load  one probably a five of all the laundry that still  

needs to be done time to turn on some lights hello  husband just writing here what are you up to i'm  

working on my uh my new blog writing um yeah just  keep those fingers moving right clacking blacking

got a goal of writing a certain  amount of words every month and so  

i have to be doing this every day to meet my quota  you've been writing every day like 2 000 words a  

day yeah like i'm i'm amazing actually i actually  have i didn't know i had it in me because for the  

longest time i didn't want to write about anything  but just feel inspired to do this and like  

to get something off the ground you kind of have  to light a bit of a gotta get a bit of a bonfire  

going right yeah i'm gonna get go so well i've  got a fire going in the stove yeah so we'll be  

warm this evening oh good well there's that kind  of fire speaking of fire yeah well i suppose i'll  

leave you to it mister have fun thanks and i'm  going over here i'll be working in the living room  

look at the cats look at the cats i've  been feeding the cats i think we want more  

there's three grey cats that come and visit us  throughout the day so we've started feeding them  

because they look like they could use some food  um yeah so i've got the fire going we're gonna  

warm excuse me warm up the house for this  evening and i have a lot of videos to edit  

and export and upload and schedule for the  coming weeks so i'll be working on that

he's like if you're not feeding  me i'm not coming closer

got the cheese he's like yes i  like the cheese let him eat it

all right good morning guys checking in for day  two of work uh you can see a little bit of our  

handiwork that we did yesterday today we have a  new tool a machete which sam is going to be using  

i'm gonna continue working with the scissors and  yeah we'll see how much progress we can make today  

we don't have any errands or any appointments so  

we're planning to have a bit of  a longer day here on the property  

and yeah feeling good feeling excited cooler  weather so hopefully that'll make the work  

easier so this morning i'm working to clear some  of the sarsa growing on this side of the house  

i've already cut most of it so now i need to use  my trusty little heavy duty gloves and um just