 We've made it home to Nova Scotia! It is a winter wonderland and oh my gosh, did we ever get slammed. Tonight a huge winter storm buries the Maritimes. Communities in rural areas were left with roads that were nearly impossible. We are a few kilometers from the cabin and as you can see there is piles of snow. So there's no way we're going to be able to just rip down and settle in. We've got some work ahead of us. And being the smart humans we are with this big snowstorm that we got we decided to give a local a call and help us plow our way to the cabin. Because the snow has been accumulating for so many months now and it hasn't been maintained it's super important we get one good plow in here. Here it comes! Let's see. Look at all the snow. Look at it. Look at that bank. This was a good call Jazz. We have so much snow. They plowed our roads so fast we already met them at the driveway. Beer be girls plowing is something you have to be on top of. Here we go. Home. Home in the woods. Welcome home. My couch, my couch, my couch. I miss my couch. Did I ever miss this cabin? Oh my gosh it's so cute. Where are the stairs? It's just better than I remember it every time. Taking a step back and coming home makes me so happy. We left ourselves a lot of firewood. Nice guys and Grissel. Christmas. There is a lot to do. I need to make a list I think in my brain. We're on paper police. It's easy enough to think about it when you're not here but getting home. We have so so so so much to do. Days of work honestly. Even though there's a million and one things to do I'm happy to be home. Let's go check on our batteries. I'm pretty scared right now. Not gonna lie. I'm very curious. We've had somebody looking after the cabin and I'm almost positive they've been writing everything down. And hopefully we'll be able to share with you how they've been. But right now we've been without sun for many days. What? Solo. What? 28. Damn. They can't drop below 20. That sucks. I don't think we can move back in yet before doing this. We are buried in snow everyone. Wild. It's really piled here. So let's let's take care of this. Right? You might as well do it right now. Where's the snowblower? It's not fluffy. It's like ice snow. It's heavy. Taking my gloves off for this. I have some pretty interesting news. I don't even know if I want to hear this. Our amazing neighbors have been looking after the cabin every day. Snow is showing in and out of here. And making sure that it's warm and everything is great. Because as all of you know and some of you may not know. The cabin is self-sustaining now and we're not here. It can pretty much manage itself. The power is working. The heat is on. We have our backup propane heaters set to super low while we're gone. Anyways, long story short. They have been monitoring the batteries every day and writing down the percentages. The lowest we saw was the last time we were there at 43%. All over the rest of the times, over the last two months they were here, it was between 86 and 100. And today is officially the lowest the batteries have been. All winter. The day we got back. No, all their life. All of their life too. 28. There is so much snow right here. There is easily a couple feet right up against the cabin and the doors. And that is going to be the hardest part. Winter. This is exactly what I don't want to be doing after driving 40 hours. Hi, Vela. Vela. I love the snow. Yeah, you love snow. You say thanks for bringing me back home, moms. Further update. This list right here is the percentages of the batteries over the last two months. That's good. I'm happy to see this. That's a good experiment, honestly. Great shoveling, Vela. Beat. This is exactly why we were trying to get here before the storm. Because when there's a storm, you have to be on top of it. And we were not on top of that. But the tractor's buried. So here we go. Bye. Thank you. Hey, girl. Okay. I need to go to Clementine. Solar update. As we were shoveling the deck, the sun has been glistening. And we are charging our batteries, everyone. I have a bigger smile on my face now. I was a little worried with that 28%. But as you can see, they are now at 43%. That's a big jump in the matter an hour and a half. And then one panel's bringing in 5,401 watts, which is almost the peak amount that it can bring in due to the solar charging total that we have, where the other one is bringing in 3,525 watts. This is a wonderful thing, everyone. Good news. Good news. I'm going to be able to have coffee tomorrow. I have been craving. Another cool feature that I don't think we mentioned, having Starlink running off our solar system while we're not here, means that the internet was on the entire time. And we were able to spy on the cameras, spy on the cabin through the cameras over the last two months, and have full eyes on everything while we're gone. Super cool that we are at this point in off-grid living. I never thought that that would ever be an option that we could be down in the Bahamas looking at our cabin from our phone. Are you coming, Shadow? Ready? Look at little Starlink. For anyone that doesn't know, Starlink has a built-in heater. That's why it's clear. Maybe we should build in a heater on our deck. This doesn't look like a lot of snow, but it's because it's compacted here. So I'm not really sinking that much. Look at all the snow underneath the panels, eh? From them falling? Mound. All right, Clementine. Give her a hug. Shed. I miss this place. Cabin life is a life for me. Okay, Clementine. Oh, no. What are you doing, Clementine? I'm very sorry I left you for this long, but I'm back now. And Clementine, I know you're like a dog, so you don't even care. You're just happy to see us. You know how once I used to talk to your plants, I used to also talk to your tractor. It helps it start up nicer. And Clementine, I just want to let you know this year we're going to build you a shelter as soon as the ground isn't frozen, okay? You're going to be so warm up here. Maybe I'll even take you to Baja. You and my Baja. So thanks, Clementine. It's going to start up. Me. Yeah, so when I put the key in, it doesn't move. How many people in the comments are going to write, told you to build Clementine a shelter before the winter? I know you're all right. This is great news. We're going to let Clementine warm up, and I'm going to go grab some diesel because it's low and that's not good. You don't want to bleed the lines. Give her a fresh drink of that Kool-Aid. You're not coming, right? No. Okay. I'm going to get started. Yeah, well, let me just enter the truck then for you. First things first, I need to find a diesel can that doesn't have snow in it. Nothing worse than water in the fuel. And this is what I'm dealing with, everyone. No one to blame but our own selves. This one might be my best bet so far. What is that? I don't even know what I'm stepping on right now. Oh, oopsie. Welcome back to the cabin, everyone. Joss and I are going our separate ways because there is so much to do. There's a lot to put away in here. We want to get the cabin up to temperature that we'll be able to sleep tonight. And there's lots of mail to be put away. Food, clothing, dog bed. Everything needs to go away back in its home. Listen to that sound. I missed it a lot. We've got a sweet deal. 50% off dog food. Excited. It's been an entire year now since we changed Bellen Izzy's diet to raw whole food ingredients and we've been putting our best foot forward to give them the most nutritious meals every day. If we want our dogs to live as long as possible, we need to feed them the freshest ingredients possible. Something that we wish we did so much sooner. They're only one of two foods available in the US that offer complete nutrition with zero synthetics. No fillers. 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That is by far the best discount we've ever had on our channel. That's half off your first time trying Sundays. Go to sundaysfordogs.com forward slash van wise and use code VanWise for 50% off. These girls are getting so impatient. Oh my gosh. Good job girls. You did it. Turn. Good girl. Leave it. Kiss, kiss. No, no, no. Kiss. We obviously couldn't return to the cabin without stopping and getting tons of food because there's no way once we got here we were going to turn around and drive out of here again. It's so funny. I feel like the start of any adventure there's a humongous packing list and so much to take care of when we leave and it's always the same when we come home. We will be busy the next few days. Thank you, bye dog. We have the diesel, Lena. What's wrong? Hello. That took me about an entire hour but the fridge is stocked. The living room here and kitchen are put away and everything is clean. Yay. It looks amazing and I'm so happy to have this space back. It's so magic. You heard that right. Every time I drive on the cabin's road I am reminded that calling that plow was definitely necessary and one of the best and smartest ideas we both have ever had. What a dream. It also looks magical at the snow banks and the sun coming down and all the snow on the trees. So nice. Look at that cute dog everyone. Hello. Look at those animal tracks. It's like a little birdie. I am going to keep my gas tanks right here. It seems like a better spot I'd say. Warm up, Clem. Go help, Crystal. By the time we're done that I'll be able to hopefully get on the tractor tonight and make some pathways. I don't know. See that little squiggly light right there? Those are the glow plugs and you hold the key in position two. That way they warm up because it is a diesel. You never just want to crank a diesel. Not even a gas for that matter. Treat machines nice. And I'm going to do a few cycles. The key out. Just because the last start was pretty rough. That was a perfect start up. I'm so proud of Clementine. And there's no glow plug light on the dash anymore. So Clementine which is cold y'all. Oh I smell a fire crackling. Next on my to-do list check our propane tanks. We've been running the cabin on propane heaters. They are very efficient. They're off-grid ones. They take absolutely no electricity or anything. However they haven't had any other counter heat to help it out. So I need to check these tanks. Because we might need to get the propane people here. Number one is that 20 percent? 30 percent? 25? 30. That's super good. They have a lot of propane left. Check these propane tanks. And in here is only a propane heater. But now that we're here. Propane is our last source. So we'll be stoking the fire and all that jazz. Wow it's steep snow. There's the heater. Here's the tanks. Oh my gosh. Out to my knees. And obviously we're using the propane heaters because we were away. So they're really good to have as a backup. To give you a sense of freedom. But also it's just so important to have at least three ways to heat your house in Canada. While living off-grid because you just never know what Mother Nature is going to bring you. 20. And they weren't full when we left so. 25? 20. That definitely didn't make it in time for plowing. By the time I get the tractor unstuck. Out of this huge snow pile the sun is going to be gone. It's already below the trees. Night time already. There is nothing like waking up in your own bed. I can't even explain to you how good it felt to open my eyes. Even in the middle of the night just to. Nothing but silence and the views of the woods. It's so quiet. And this bed is so comfortable. Crystal I don't think we're the only ones happy to be home. Look at the girls outside. We all know what happens after coffee and especially that coffee machine. Speaking about Mav when he stayed at our house and had coffee from our coffee machine he called himself Outhouse Man. Okay here we go. This is why you build a cantilever over decks. Outhouse. Oh my gosh there's snow inside of here. What's going on? Oh my gosh Jasmine and Crystal. I have no idea where this 2x4 came from. Nice. Have you seen a prettier view? Hi needy girl. I think I forgot how much I actually like the outhouse and tell them out here. Okay goodbye everyone and if you're wondering why we're using the outhouse and not our incinerator toilet well that's because we no longer have. An incinerator toilet and that's a whole story on its own. Do you like to hear it? Let us know because I think it's a story worth telling. Big breakfast I might need two hands. Good morning. Well yesterday we spent hours upon hours shoveling snow. It is a full body workout and we were absolutely exhausted last night. Today Clementine has started once again and we are going to attempt to move Clem and start moving some snow. I feel like Jasmine is quite doubtful that Clementine is going to be able to get out of that right now but I think with a little bit of patience she'll be out in no time. Trying to get the tractor end buried is going to go I don't even know what way right now. I'm going to first just try to see if it will move. Slowly bucket the snow out from in front of me and see if I can gain traction. I wasn't too sure about it. Our first plow and Clementine is in the ditch but let me tell us to be able to walk. To the garage the greenhouse and the solar red. Absolute beast of a tractor we love her and if I could sum up today it would be the perfect winter day back home in Canada. We've got a beautiful fire going here in front of me. The girls are napping in the soft snow. The sun is out. The solar is charging. Jasmine is in her tractor. I would say everyone is content and very very happy to be home. And I only dinged the shed. Half the battle has been just being able to walk certain places. We can now get our tools which is super exciting and we are no longer. Well our pathways are no longer buried in snow anymore which is a good feeling. Feels nice to walk with easy but what is still buried in snow is our roof. I'm not going to lie we totally gapped on putting up the snow. What are they called? Snow guards obviously. Snow guards up on the our bedroom window. We didn't have these windows before so you didn't really need a snow guard. We just have one right here for where we walk. So this door is danger and so is that door. Danger when walking out or especially when Belle and Izzy are walking out. Because that is a lot of snow and if it hit you you could probably get concussed. And I don't think it's too good for the new gutters. It's like an ice rink.