 been something on our minds that we just can't shake. We are going to try something new and we're going to be leaving the cabin. But first, seems like a good day for it. Although, it's a little chillier than I imagine it would be. Why is winter back? Looks pretty though. It's going to be worth it. It's been a while. Smells like pennies. You'd be rich. It's all iron. So I'm going to give that a wash. Thank gosh you have a hot water hose though, eh? Yeah. It's a shower. Yeah. How does this change? I know. Now it's just for recreational uses. Not for cleaning myself. The hot tub is now forever in commission and ready to use as soon as I get it cleaned up. And that is because we got the proper filters to filter out the iron and the arsenic in our drinking water at the cabin. We've been working super hard to tie up the loose ends. So not only do we have drinking water but it's super exciting because we get to use the solar array and our battery bank to power our well now. So it's like everything's really coming together. It's the best feeling ever. Sparkling clean. So clean. And the water that's going into it is clean. Clean. I can't believe it. I'm so excited to get in there later. Like now it's gonna, you're gonna have a hard time getting me out of here. Kitchen! Life is getting so much easier out here in the woods. What even is this? It's incredible to think that Crystal's using water outside to fill up the hot tub. And I'm using water inside to do dishes. I know that's probably a normal thing in life but I was speechless. This week, every job that is on our to-do list is a project that you start and then you stop and you let it be. And then you start and you stop. It's gonna be quite the week and I'm very excited for it because let's just say, finishing touches, baby. I can't say. Life's looking awfully different these days. I know, right? Daniel! I've missed my sun hat. You're in your passport? I'm in my passport. You shook me like a hurricane. I'm so excited for this. It's gonna be so nice out here today. Fanding over from God and flame. There's nobody else to blame. Fires blazin', about to put some big logs on and it's almost entirely filled up which means in a few hours after we get some work done we'll be able to come out here and relax. And with the longer days here there's nothing better than getting outside and making the most of every day light hour. It's great. I don't mind giving up my time for a minute of your love. Now that we have a kitchen we're trying to make everything from home. Feels good. How's it going? Good, touch it. Maybe a bus or a firehands? Firehands. Not that my eyes is gonna go right in the fire. True. It's good though. Yep. You happy with that? Very. Like I said, everything has to wait today. Next task that also needs to wait. Ready? I've learned that taking time for myself and sharing an hour of my day with my therapist makes me feel better. 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Today we are building our own doors. So these are the door hangers that we want to match the color of our cabin. That way it looks seamless. Standing with a paint gun is a lot easier and then you back brush it with this. All I read on the paint can was that you can use a paint gun and I ran and got my paint gun. And then Crystal read the rest of the instructions and it said you can use a paint gun if you back brush. Okay, BRB, you ready? Have fun. You make it painted. See you later. Your partner doesn't like painting. I highly recommend just getting their paint gun and they'll start to love it. That's definitely what happened to you. Prentice. Apprentice. Get out of here. Professional painter. You're not wrong. Actually, you look like one. Feel like one. But also can we just do a count on how beautiful these are and how nice they smell? How nice they smell? How nice they smell. What are these? Doors. Yeah, we know they're doors. Okay, well, can you set me up there AP? What's AP? Apprentice. We've been living without doors for how many months now? We just haven't put them back up. And I'm absolutely sure that our guests are going to be very happy about that. Yeah, we're having through guests soon. So we have to do this. I have a trick for you all. If you're an inpatient painter like I am, you're going to want to hear this. Ready? So why are you screwing your door, Kazin? The top or the bottom of your door? No. Ain't that the best trick you ever saw? I noticed that the smoke was no longer barreling out of the chimney of the hot tub. Cannot forget about the most important thing today. It's going to be so good. Painting station is now closed. Finished painting the doors. Crystal's finishing up the brushes just to go around the trim. How are they going? They are going good. They look very nice. I told you all, every project is very start and stop today. But I cannot wait to see what the doors look like when they are hung in the cabin. It's going to be amazing. I don't think I'll ever get over how cute it looks when they both eat at the island. It's perfection. How's that? Good. Last one. Let's be real. These are so I can spy on Belenizi because they can't come where we're coming, unfortunately. They'll be watching you. Hey, how's this dough doing? Oh, it looks like it rose very nicely. Hello. Like trying to roast the garlic? Reminds me, it's hot in there. Bingsh my bangs. She just stood in the other room. I came in the cabin and I was like, what smells in here? That's why I was like, is this stove on? Oh, my God. Not no more. Our dear subscriber, Randy G. Thank you so much for setting this our way. It is A. Fire blower. A fire blower. I think it's called something else, like a blow poke? Blow poke. I don't know what it is. But anyways, you blow in here, the air comes out here, and you can avoid burning yourself. Oh, let's use it. I can't wait. Game changer. It's amazing. And I'm pretty sure it's handcrafted. Like how cool is that? Yeah, they made it. It got so special and so thoughtful. I know. Thank you. Thanks, Randy. Amazing. It's so cool. Randy, it's so nice. What do you do when the dough ain't that good? Improvise. Any tips on making bread and dough? Because failure community is really big on bread. Really big on baking bread and dough. That's a hard one to say. Really big on breaking. It's like breaking bad. That's what my brain keeps thinking. Try it. Our audience is really big on baking bread. Wow. You just showed me them. Tell everyone about this pie here. What's going on? It's an olive meat rice. Olive meat rice. The roseram peppers, olives, artichokes, and an olive oil base. Yum. Fresh mozzarella. Want to fire them? Let's fire them. Just an update. And in case any of you fire stokers don't have a blowy. A blowy? What's it called? Anyway, they are so sick. They've changed my life. I just use it on the hot tub and the pizza oven and it's just the coolest thing ever. It actually feels like I have a blow torch now. I feel like a real dragon. It's cool. True Canadian trekking out for the maple syrup. You don't mess around in this country. When you run out of maple syrup you'll get some more. Got another leader. Oh yeah, we got one in a week. That looks great. Looks so good. Look at your finger. Are you ready? Because I am ready. Yeah. So hungry. Cheers. How's the crust? Actually good. Morning. Good morning. The clean water hot tub. And it's damn hot. I love it. It now says 43 Celsius. And it was 44 we got in. That's pretty good. I haven't lost that much heat with the cover being off for how long. The sun's coming out now. So nice. Alright everyone, look. You can see your toesies. Wow. It's so nice. It's clear. Yeah. And it stayed warm pretty much all night. It did stay warm. I forgot to mention that actually. I woke up this morning and it was super warm. I had to put one log on and then it was hot. Hot. Keep all the hot air in. I might have a second cheeky hot tub tonight. It looks pretty good on the camera. Does it? Just not in real life. I've been standing here pondering the color for about 10 minutes. It's quite similar but not where we want it. I think it's still hangable. It can still be a door. And we'll come back to it soon. Whether we add a little bit of white to it or whatever we do. But probably having a door is better than no door. Especially on the bathroom. Ready? Beauty. To the beauty. What the heck is that? Her nose is hanging out, babe. The weirdest thing I've ever seen, yeah. But she's so happy about it. Something else. You're a funny dog. We've got this up. The door frame. Hanger. No. Yeah, because that's the frame. We always had the frame. Now we have the door hanger. Soon we'll have a door. But before we do the door we have to finish the bottom trim. We're the two different floorings. Meat. Time to cut this. And it should be snippy. A pixie stick but there's no sugar in it. It even opens like a pixie stick. This is the most adult pixie stick I've ever seen. Wow. Does finishing touches ever look good? Come on. Blib, blib, blib, blib, blib, blib, blib. Oh. Add a girl. I think it's good. Okay, so that brings us to the door. And I mean you've all seen us install doors before. We've learned a lot since. So let's see how this baby goes. Ooh. Something on the corner is our opening, okay? Three fours off that. Five eights. Four three fours on the bottom of the door. I think I can say we. We are much more confident this time around when it comes to hanging a door. Everything's looking really good. But is it going to lock? That's the question. Wow. Doors. It wasn't just in. I have to hinge inside. You just go flat. This is going to be first try. Crystal? Yeah. This is getting pulled out. Yeah, it's going to have it. I'm kicking it. You're kicking it. And you're just letting it pull you back for the same thing. Door stopper. I forgot to buy handles. I know it's a really important thing. So no handles for this door today, but they have a door stopper. I kind of like the push method. Crystal doesn't like it. She told me absolutely not. But here we are. For the door trim, we are going to be using exactly what we use on all the walls. The cedar shiplop. So it's completely seamless. It just looks beautiful. In order to remove the tongue of the groove, we have to slide each board through the tablecloth. It looks good. Sorry. You don't want it to hang, right? Can you help me with that? Not my vibe. You know what is my vibe? This is my vibe. Really? I yelled again. I always never want to do the trim. I'm always like, oh my god. I'm doing the biggest part of the door trim. But it's the best part. It makes the biggest difference. That's so satisfying. I actually couldn't ask for it. Good job. You too. I'm very proud of this door. It's very pretty. Very pretty. We keep taking a step back and looking at it from afar. It really completes it. It makes it look so good. I'm not going to lie. We're only going to do one door and then move on to another task. But I think we need to bang out the next two doors as well. It will complete this main floor. Let's get it. I'm actually so excited. After a successful first door installation, we move on to the next door. Maybe with a little too much confidence. As we set the door hanger in place, we notice something is a little bit off. This door hanger is wonky-donky. You left-handed or right-handed in hockey? I don't play hockey. With our wood looking like a hockey stick and a small injury. Ow, sliver up my ass. We figure out the problem. We totally gapped that on this door because our bedroom doors are smaller. We had to actually see these little shimmy shins. This door is different than the bathroom door. The bathroom door, the person said to me, are you good at doing doors? I said, not really. They said, it's okay. It takes me four hours. I believe in you. And I said, okay. So the bathroom door is actually harder to do than this door because it had to be exactly perfect as you didn't have any room to add any shims. However, this door is easy peasy lemon squeezy because all we have to do is add shims. However, I forgot about this entire conversation with this person. So, here we are, figuring it out right now. I grade that door a 10 out of 10. Damn. It's straight. It's nice. There is just the right gap at the top, the bottom, and the sides. Very happy with it. And every door we've ever put in has gotten better and better. Hanging the doors feels like it's transforming the look of the cabin. And after a much needed sunshine break, we recharge our batteries and head back in to complete door number three. Wow. It looks good. I love trim. I also can't believe we're at the point of trimming the cabin. One. I always take the suitcases out at the last minute because as soon as I do, Bella knows she's right here. She gets sad. Four ears go back. It's okay. Okay, everyone. Remember the winter plow? Well, it's no longer winter. We made it. We did. We certainly made it. It's spring, baby. And I mean, look at it. It's just sitting on gravel now. So, we might as well get to taking that off and getting it out of here. Spring drops keep falling on my head. No, rain drops keep falling on my head. Not spring drops. Anyway, I'm very proud to say that the snow is slowly depleting more and more each day. And let me tell you, I've been keeping an eye on these piles of snow every day, a couple inches, because of that glorious sunshine up there. All right. Let's get this thing off. You already got it out. Yeah. What are you calling me? Josh and pal canning for. Josh and pal canning. Who are you? You mean that if you're so... Nice spring fit. Fashion. So what, you lost the snow pants in the parka? Yeah. I'm not even wearing mittens. See you later, snow plow. Smell you later. The last load of the season. No more bringing the wood up to the cabin because there's no way we're going to burn through what we're about to bring up right now. I can get used to that. That's for sure. One of the things I'm most excited for to build this spring is our woodshed tarps. A lot of moisture goes in. They end up freezing to the ground. You can't get the snow off them. So you're left with wood that looks like this. I love the woodshed. I wanted to build it last year, but you know, so much other things. Okay. Love me a birch log. What? Love me a birch log. What? Love me a birch log. What? I love me a birch log. If anyone else is a fire master, you'd know that this right here is fire making gold. Love this stuff. LOL. It's spring. Of course it's spring. Just some flurries, you know. LOL. Just took our plow off. What the heck? Yeah. Minutes later. It's a snowstorm. Julia's snowstorm. Those are some flurries. I love you. Be good girl, okay? I don't want to be alone without my mommies. Hi. Thank you. I love you. Love you. Love you girls. I'm going to miss you. The hardest part is always leaving Balinese. But the cabin is all ready for one of their favorite people to come look after them. Shall we go try something that we've always wanted to try? Alrighty. Alrighty. We're about to try.