Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles guys look at the turkeys this is better than having a guard dog because the turkey alerts you 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