 We've been waiting three months for this to arrive, now we can begin creating our off-grid electrical system. We're trenching 800 feet of conduit into the ground around the cabin. These are the beginning steps that will turn our 15 acres into a sustainable homestead. That's the sound you want to wake up to. Is it really happening? I can't believe this. We've been waiting three months for this. Look at our porch. Look at everything. Now everything's going to have a home. We're going to have a space that's going to transform our life at the cabin. No more living with tools. A place to do projects and to work away. Store materials. It's going to make things so much smoother. What? First problem is getting in our driveway. And I think it's coming in the driveway but it's just so close. We've taken down four trees at the mouth of the driveway to try and get it in. We definitely ordered a big building. I truly can't believe this is actually happening. We almost have it straight in the driveway and this was actually the first project we started prepping for when we got back to the cabin this spring and that's because it was supposed to be here in one month and it is the start of when we can actually do the inside of our cabin build because this is the home to our off-grid electrical system. They also just lost one of the chains on the secondary wheels that move it side to side. They're no longer working with two wheels in between the regular wheel set. They're only working with one. It's broken. I don't know why and I don't know how but I don't think it's too good. Do you drink coffee? No. No problem. They don't know they're missing out on the Krista barista. We literally haven't had coffee yet everyone. I'm so excited though. I'm in disbelief to be honest. Think about how amazing this space is going to be all winter. It's the house to our electrical. We're going to be able to do things. It's the next step for so many things. So great. It's so surreal. I don't feel like it's real. Coffee's ready. Their engine's on. Luckily they give you four hours for delivery because they tend to be a little bit tricky everywhere they go. They got it. They got it? They're so good. A success. They finally got in the driveway. It took about 45 minutes at least but now we're smooth sailing coming down. Hopefully for the rest of the way. They were saying they usually deliver four a day. Not today. Not today. Good thing shipping is included at the first billet. Honestly though we're going to have to give them a tip because they have just been so good. Like going out of their way. Like someone could have looked at this and said not doing it. See you later ladies. I'm off to the next job. They have made it all the way down the driveway and they're literally on the last turn to get it in its forever home. The shed garage thing is completely straight and I believe now is the time where they use the slider on the trailer and they're going to just slide it right back. All the turns have been completed. Wow. Zeus and his coworker are literally crushing it. And building it's freaking built. Oh my gosh. So well by the midnight. This is so surreal. Are you crying? It's so surreal. Like this doubled our space. This makes everything so much easier going forward. We have a garage. Can you believe that? No I can't believe that. Oh I'm so happy. They did such an amazing job. Thank you. Come see your other doctors. You miss mama? You guys are good girls. Girls. Guess what? We have a new garage. Whoa. Open the other one. Wow. I cannot believe the amount of space in here. It's amazing. It's tall too, hey? We have a garage. I cannot get over the space in here. I'm so happy we went with this size and we were so excited that we just started moving things in here so quickly. It's already filled up with all the materials that were taking over the cabin and that were scattered around the property. Quite a few belongings that we've gathered over the last year since moving here. But anyway I just had to show you everything that we've put in there already and just how we're making use of it right away. And you're going to be seeing a lot more of this space in the coming months especially through the winter. So it's going to be our little winter workshop. Hey Porter how are you? Guess what? The garage is here. Tomorrow? Six. See you tomorrow. Long minutes later. At least. This is our map. You ready to follow it? Things happen so quickly out here. All of a sudden Porter gave us a call and he was here and now we are doing something very exciting that we've been anticipating for so many months. So everything else goes on hold as per usual and the priorities get taken care of. Isn't that exciting, eh? Finally. Finally. Okay the idea is our electrical system is going to be going in the back that way. All of the conduit and the boxes are going to be coming up through this trench and into the hickory barn. Caution tape, measuring tape. If you can read Jasmine's spray paint calligraphy this says trench. Okay that's aggressive. We don't want to waste spray paint. Trench! Okay. In between these two lines here we are going to trench the electrical lines the two soon to be existing solar rays one and two. I'm the trench line. This means that we are digging up our precious yard and that includes the sod we laid last year. But we're going to cut it nicely. This Porter's idea, he's an absolutely genius and we're going to strategically put the sod back after and you'll never know anything happened. Kind of fun. It's a man to give my pogo as a kid, you know? You gotta get you a pogo. Can I get one? That's good exercise. Does anybody know a pogo maker? Yeah like do they make them for adults? Porter's managed to get around the waterline. He's made it all the way past the hickory barn here and he's working his way towards the sod. I'm very impressed. Justin's doing a fantastic job and I just have to say one more thing. I am so happy to see that cat back here. I love an excavator. It just makes me so happy to see it here because the excavators here, we're doing so exciting things. This is actually going much faster than I thought and a lot smoother than I thought. I can't believe it. We are through the sod. It came out perfectly. That way we can lay it back after this. This seems like a lot of laps. Well it is. We have to go from there to there to there to there to there to there to there. Yeah and there to there to there to there. You catch it? You got it. Yikes. This is conjue queen. Hey. Well I can't say we. Porter trenched all the way from the back of this hickory barn to the solar field. It's entirely trenched and ready for the conduit. All that planning we do with Porter that you saw so many different electrical lines and even some blank ones for the future. Just kind of future proof. You never know what could happen down the road. No stress I'm living my life off. What you doing there lady? This is an expansion joint. We live in Canada and this is an expansion joint because we live in Canada and our ground is constantly moving. So that's neat. This helps it not rip out of the place I believe Porter taught me. And dirt tastes good right? Oh my gosh. Stop. Just having a snack. You're like going ham at it. You're so gross. How many feet are we doing Porter? 920 feet. Ready to go everyone? And we're starting at oh only four o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah but Porter there are nowhere else you'd rather be working isn't that true? Nope none. We're the most fun are we? Everyone take a big guess what you need right here. You need a great big snack. And that's why Porter loves working with us. That is so impressive. Can you imagine trying to do that? I wish. Porter needed to jump back into the excavator to dig out some more dirt so our electrical lines would be flush with the garage because we're installing up to six lines on the back of the structure. It's important that they're all perfectly straight. We've gone one full length. We've got quite a few more to go but I'm just celebrating the small wins. We've made it one full length from the first trench. Look at that. One full length. Go team. Go team go. We're living without electricity. It's September which means winter is right around the corner. Although we're hopeful that we're going to get our main system installed before winter we decided to do a little bit of research of something that would be powerful enough and also easy to install for the just in case we don't make it. That's how we came across EcoFlow. This is the Delta Pro with 400 watts of portable solar that we actually mounted on the roof and 4500 watts output to power heavy duty devices and appliances. The best part is you can customize your setup by connecting them together like regular batteries and that means you can double your power. We can run our 240 volt well pump and all our lights and charge our devices and use our power tools. Toothbrushes, coffee maker, our fridge, our laptop. A few of the features that we're already loving is the fast charging capabilities going from zero to 100% charged in 1.8 hours using an outlet as well as the ability to use the app to monitor and control our Delta Pro. All right check out how awesome this is. It's a portable home battery system. It's truly unmatched for its size all in one inverter solar charge controller and batteries. We have so much peace of mind knowing we have this at our fingertips. We're super impressed with the technology that EcoFlow has and if you've been wondering what portable power station you should get we highly recommend EcoFlow. We love it so much we even put the panels on our roof. We can't wait to try more of EcoFlow's products head to the link in the description so you can see all the portable power stations that EcoFlow has to offer. Back to charging! Line number two. Okay so we've made it from the Hickory Burn all the way to the solar array and we've done that three times and we've done that three times because well one you need solar to your solar charge controller because then you need to go back that way and then into the house. There is one blank one just in case one day we want to run something else in the future and that way we already have the conduit in the ground so it will be as easy as just fishing the wire through and no more trenching. Right on. No more trenching! Oh yeah. That was so good. Dinner for glue boy and pipe girl. Thank you. Dig in! Whole day. We'll be back here tomorrow. I was cleaning out the yard. Take your boots off. Good. Welcome to day two of trenching electrical lines. Right now Porter is back filling our trench that we made last night and today we're going to be trenching from the garage to the greenhouse and if we don't chat so much we can even trench from the solar array to the cabin. Wish us luck. But basically these boxes need something to hold on to and guess what I get to use my torch so it's a win-win-win for everything right now. If you're new here a couple weeks ago we started experimenting with a traditional Japanese technique charring wood called Sasugi ban and Jasmine absolutely loves it so we are doing that to this post because it's going to be going in the ground and it's going to prolong the life of it. What I like most about this is yes traditionally you do that on an open fire but you can easily get one of these torches at your local hardware store. A lot of people have a propane tank from their barbecue. You hook it up and you can do this so if you're building garden beds at home or you're building like a shed and you want the base of it to be preserved and last longer literally 150 years and then 50 years you you you re-burn I mean like I feel like anyone can do this. Porter just said you probably have the worst land in all Nova Scotia. So many rocks but because there's so many rocks you have to dig them out and that's literally why you need this machine out here to do this and I'm so happy we have Porter's help because this really is a three-person job of the digging and laying the pipe and bringing the pipe and all of that and not only are we trenching but we've been joining Vitaly and Madison and Bowie and we're so so happy it's going to be such a great week. She's like good I have another one. Oh the pinky. This pinky is better. Wow you love it. That's so good. Yeah I mean obviously it's earthy. This looks unbelievably delicious. This is the first of many good meals of these two. I'm salivating. Thank you. Thank you chef. Have fun staying dry. Thanks. Well this is fun. It's coming down harder. It really is. So basically what we did from the garage to the solar field three times last night we are now doing to the cabin so we're trying to make the least amount of turns as possible even though there's a lot of turns happening. Anyways we got the crew the trenching crew back. We definitely didn't chat too much but we got rained out. Morning sweetie. Good morning. Morning. Morning Bowie. Good morning. Got your work food. Oh my goodness these are fries. Time to get to work. Day three of trenching. It's a beautiful day. How do you reckon we're getting this water out of here? Porter? Just gonna drain it into the woods. Yeah with the bucket? Yeah. Go team. Go team. Go team. I'm on vacation. Let's go heavy dog. Okay so not only did it pour rain last night and kick us off the job site but we have filled up our trench and it is now a moat. Jasmine's gone for a paddle this morning already. We're just enjoying our coffee with our visitors and Porter has a genius idea of making this moat float into the forest and it's slowly draining itself so hopefully that'll get most of the water out of here and our paddle board is not too happy to hear about that. My river. My river. Trench is being filled in. Thank gosh there's no rain today. Then tell Bella, kind of Bowie, are you even watering the greenhouse for us? Oh my goodness it's so nice to have extra hands out here. There was a trench here. We have now trenched from the solar field to the cabin successfully. Time for a cabin shower. Okay we've come back from our cabin shower and we've been told there is a lot of soup obviously due to the rain. This is complete soup. It's all the trenching we can do because the next part of the trenching is going to be from the garage to the greenhouse and we are missing a couple 45s or 90s. Both are missing 45 and 90s in order to finish it off. We had to use a little bit more than anticipated. We even got extra so but yeah basically that's all the trenching we're going to do. No more trenching means we get to prepare for a fun night with some friends. Both feet on the clouds right back around me can't slow us down till the sun goes out bring it right down. This is the best place I've ever been. Oh I'm dating a 12 year old. SPT you've ever had. Don't get ready too quick. Drop your bag. Maybe change out of your dress for a second. Come here. Are you ready to drive the excavator? You know Porter likes you in because I've been feeding him. It's funny to see someone else in this because I feel like because we've done it so much excavated it's like neural but I forget how challenging it actually was to learn and now it's like second nature like riding a bike or walking but when you put someone in here that hasn't done it you're like oh my goodness that's coming one way. Oh my god I can still see how you're like addicted to that. You're just like so funny. Excavator rides turned into hot tubs and delicious meals turned into late night talks. With our friends Tal and Mads there is no shortage of laughs to be had. The next day we welcomed more friends and family to celebrate the end of summer. Let's just say it got pretty wild. I'm going to be upset. Crystal actually her eyes are a little watery. What an amazing feeling to have all of our friends and family here and host them. Not them all we got more friends and we're family. We'd love to have everyone. They're going to get mad especially Momager. She wasn't even invited. Thank you to all of those that did come and this is exactly how we envisioned this space a place to host and just share. Share everything that we've created and although we're not quite at the finishing stages it's nice to have everyone here for the in-betweens. Yeah I like it because I get to see it at all the stages. Me too. Because next year 2023 summer bash September weekend. It always gets better. See you Sunday. Drop back.