You Both look great!!! Jim sets a great example of how a man is supposed to love and cherish his Wife,,, you both are beautiful folks,,,, have a great week!!!!

@1Waarheid

Ай бұрын

I completely agree!

@lachellesandon4207

Ай бұрын

She always seems so sad and uncomfortable

@franklucero1728

Ай бұрын

@@lachellesandon4207 She doesn't always feel well and has pain all the time from what I understand to be true,,, Jim is very loving and passionate because he understands the ongoing issues...

Lots of hard work! I’d be a little concerned with your two posts on the edge of the stairwell. You can buttress the sides all you want, but you need to secure that stairwell wall…

“To love another is to see the face of God,” Victor Hugo. You two glow and send energy to your viewers.

You can tell me to STFU but you need a quad or tractor. Helps with hauling dirt, saves your back as you age 💝

I wish you had a community of KZreadrs that could help you

@OurHomsteadDream

Ай бұрын

I think that would be so nice for them. They are so hard working.

Please please a garden tour

@ourselfreliantlife

Ай бұрын

Will do!

@inDirect-D

Ай бұрын

Can’t wait to see what foods they’re growing!

Should take the wooden form down before you install the cobb wall. Over time the wood will rot and you'll have a week spot in the wall.

@jewelssylva3738

Ай бұрын

I've been watching folks who build with cob, & it's not uncommon to incorporate wood in the cob for various different uses. Maybe if they were living in a more humid area. But I think it's fine.

@inDirect-D

Ай бұрын

ground termites will use that pole to feed on and end up in the roof trusses. Very common in Arizona.

I love how you just keep plugging along in spite of any setbacks, I know it's got to be disappointing to reschedule the next project but I have to say I'm really happy to see that rock cob wall going up. It's definitely going to make things safer moving around during the rest of your build. Hopefully you'll get some good news about the excavator arriving this week and you can get the next phase underway, fingers crossed for you. So nice to see all the various plants and cactus blooming and the hear the birds singing. Have a happy memorial day and a great week you two! ❤

Just a thought.. On the truss load to the columns. Maybe add blocks under the trusses to the sides of the columns to act like jack studs..

Oh yes! A garden tour would be a wonderful video.

@inDirect-D

Ай бұрын

Can’t wait to see what foods they’re growing.

those columns resting so close to the edge of that stairway cliff... just something to think about

@kyriestrange

Ай бұрын

I'm also perplexed about this , here we bore out a deep hole to pour concrete into for piles, but there's a hole for the entrance to the root cellar right next to it?

@inDirect-D

Ай бұрын

I’m sure the wall (also on the edge) will hold it all together?

@kyriestrange

Ай бұрын

@@inDirect-D Usually wouldnt build a heavy wall on top of a cutout unless it was a reinforced retaining wall.

Looks like she has some pretty flowers there. Lots of hard work. Thanks for allowing us to be a part of it. Slow but sure. Makes me want to get out and do some things that need to be done.

Your pressure-treated 4 X 4 posts will most likely crumble from dry-rot being down in the cement.

I am concerned that you have concrete in contact with wood. Never works out well for me.

Building and finishing your house videos please please please

Y'all are great. Jim I wish you would have loaded fewer rocks on the wheelbarrow. You need to take better care of your back. Do you hear that? The homestead relies on your strong back. Please don't strain yourself. Please. I know your mom would say the same thing to you, if she could. 💜 She'd be so proud of you.

I'd like to see your community come on a work day to help your build. Anyone near there please help out! Thanks.

Jim, seriously, I am sorry for what I am going to say, I have no idea what you are thinking, I have done research on these tubes, tou are killing me and all I can do is watch 😢😢😢😢😢😢

@ourselfreliantlife

Ай бұрын

There is no need to apologize for a different opinion.

Allergies... Try locallly made natural honey. Has helped us a bit in the Northeast 😊

@donnalynne7510

Ай бұрын

Yes! Use local honey. This has helped reduced my allergy reactions for years.

Make a retaining wall starting down below, going 6 or 8 feet high, with concrete and rebar. The internal storage area might survive with those specialized plastic flexible tubes or whatever it is called. The outside the door and a support beam, that can easily fail with plenty of rain.

My Wife and I are thinking about getting a 10 x10 green house to protect some outside plants when bad weather hits. We live in Waco Texas and we get a lot of different weather year around. So I would love to see a tour of your garden and I will share the video with my Wife so she can see all the great work you have done to protect all of your beautiful plants. ❤ You both work so hard and it really shows. Thank you for sharing all of your videos. I always look forward to watching all of your weekly videos. All the best to you and your family 😊 Rob.

I’m kinda surprised I don’t see more vertical wind turbines on AZ homesteads. I mean solar is main obviously but wind certainly would seem like a great supplement when the sun isn’t shining.

A great project is not how fast to complete it but one that is of quality and thorough research and study. Great projects that I see takes hours of study and questions

I would love to see what you have growing. And it's so nice to see all of the little birds. I'm sure they appreciate the buffet 😊

Of course we want a garden tour!

Please show us a drawing or plans of what your house project will be like

I would like to see her garden wall more closely.

Can you draw a diagram how the earthen energy tubes work? Really interested. The flowers on the chola cacti in red! I’ve only seen yellow flowers. The orange prickly pear flowers are beautiful and the plants look healthy. I have mesquite trees and I collect the beans from the branches to make mesquite flower, they also make a dark look alike coffee. Love the Cobb work, I’m looking forward to experimenting to make a bench and shower wall. I have learned so much from both of you. Right on with a tour of the garden! And the dome. ❤😊

Thumbs up for cob walls!!!😊🎉❤

We havent seen inside your beautiful dome for a while . I hope it is looking good and liveable

Garden tour sounds awesome! I really enjoyed when you used to put the names of the birds, animals and plants on screen. Super cool!

@inDirect-D

Ай бұрын

I’m sure they have lots of veggies that they can for the winter months. Can’t wait to see what they have growing

That cactus is beautiful! Would love a garden tour.

Eco walls like that are recommend to be water proofed

Outstanding work! Doing the "Go Jim" dance right now!

Looks like you are still missing some of the stringers/separators on one of your roof sides, are you still waiting on supplies being available? Are you going to get those bonus water collection surfaces ready before the rains?

hey Jess! garden tour plz, would love to hear about your plans...kindest regards...ps you are awesome!

Watching From South Carolina a day late.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Yes, I want a garden tour. It's so pretty!

You should wrap those posts with water proofing. PT will rot out in concrete. 😏🙂 You’ll should also install knee bracing on the building. I wouldn’t have taken the braces out yet with the wind you get. Ever watch how a box kite works? Buildings can do the same. 😊

I would love to see a garden tour Jess, and how the oya setup is doing.

Yes please 🙏 would ❤ a garden tour.

Local honey has really helped I put it in my organic green tea. Every morning. Last year my allergies were really bad. We buy honey by the gallon. And it never goes bad.

@jewelssylva3738

Ай бұрын

Same here. I'm getting ready to move to a different state & one of the first things I'm going to do is find a local beekeeper. 👍🏼

Garden tour sounds good.

Garden tour please!! 🙏 ❤

Please explain how the house is going to involve the root sellar. Keep going. Can't wait to see the finished product..❤

@jewelssylva3738

Ай бұрын

The roof of the root cellar will be the ground level floor of the house. So it's actually under the house.

A garden tour would be awesome ❤️❤️🥰🥰

Hi Jessica a couple of suggestions. Drink Tea for allergies. Stinging nettles, Rosemary, Turmeric, Licorice root, Ginger were suggested. I found these on the Very Well site. I think a Netty pot once a day may help. Salted water. Good luck.

I definitely understand the allergy situation! Allergies are darned if you do take something, darned if you don't. The only stuff that works for me is the stuff that knocks me on my butt! I hope you guys find something that works for you, and if you do please share this valuable knowledge! I'm begging you lol 🤣 (allergy tears). Give my best to Crew, he's such a good doggo and I know he's not in every video but I super appreciate every video he's in (although I think I understand why he's not in all of them).

Brother you are a one man show.

Would love to see drawings or plans of the build. What the end product will look like.

Hi family..thats the 2 people, the 2 dogs X the birds and the garden the home,the cellar..must I go on ? Miss you all. Me and my pal Moodich .stay safe be well..from Australia ☆

A garden tour, and what kind of birds frequent your new feeder?

yes please gar den tour.

🌹 🌸 🏵 Yes, We all would love a tour of your garden Jess. 🌵 🐦 🐦‍⬛ the wall you built is very cool. Good job to jim on his cob wall and framing. You guys rock!!

Garden tour

Put some rebar stacks through the ground it will give it more support looking good , I think you should just get the tracter from your neighbour cost you less money it might take time but it will get done before that guy comes

yes.. put me in for the garden tour, TY

China is getting into permaculture, I hear that they are planting a few billion trees, in their desert. Planting trees and bushes, are ways to hold water, in a desert. I would go with berries. Elderberry starts, takes off quickly, and quick is what you want. Underground cisterns are common in Africa, where they have made great progress. Imagine the flora and fauna, that would show up?

Eating local honey is the absolute best way to help your body combat seasonal allergies ❤

How about a garden tour?

You guys are doing great!!! Keep it up while your young cause as you age it gets harder and harder, so do it all now while your young.

The active ingredient in benadryl is dypenhydramine and you can ask a pharmacist for it ,and a bottle of 100 is way cheaper, and it is just as good

That wall is a fall waiting to happen!!! It 's so low! I have fallen over walls that short and if there had been a drop I would have been in a bad accident! You won't always be young or able to get around so while your building think about that!

@MrFozbear69

Ай бұрын

not if they turn the wall into shallow flower box or indoor plant area, problem solved.

@ourselfreliantlife

Ай бұрын

This is just the start of the wall.

@monikawienert2813

Ай бұрын

that post reinforcement at the start looks dodgy mate. just inform yourself about basic structural standards . do you want your family to get hirt when it all falls down?

@ourselfreliantlife

Ай бұрын

@@monikawienert2813 it won't fall

Love a garden video

Yes please‼️Spring into Summer Season Garden Update❣️

my fav couple, God bless you both

Hello my dearest couple. Those 🌵 are very beautiful. May God continue blessing you all ❤

Yes definitely have a garden tour descriptions and intentions of what you want to do with the plants . I'm here in Connecticut and whenever I built decks and set up footings for a building we had to go down 40 to 45" in the ground for any Frost heaves. Not telling you what to do but I was concerned about those two posts being on top of the soil and not in it. Through the years of cold and hot Weathers the soil will expand and contract, as you know, my concern is that it's going to move and settle down into the ground . Will your structure be stable enough?

It's great seeing how y'all are getting things put together. This is exciting.

Hey ya'll absolutely love your dreams ✌✌✌💚💚💚

I take NAC and glycine. I have horrid allergies, especially at work lol. No but truly at work with electronic dust and air from day I suffer. I just added Methylene blue, only 5 drops working up to higher dose. You both get plenty of D3 being outside but K 2 helps greatly. I used to take medication for fibromyalgia, now with these vitamins I am off all medicine and I am 63. I have jyst this year, after years of having given up, because I hurt so. I now have a garden again. Jess, the Methylene blue and lions main help so much with the fatigue and brain fog, I also use the Methylene blue with vit C on my skin for sun block. It is worth investing. ❤🙏🙏🙏

Hey Jess and Jim, I love what you guys done there. You got a good idea of building that wall over top of that centre entrance so nobody fall over and all that beautiful plants your wife makes putting out she does very nice. May God keep on blessing you too out there God sakes keep safe out here.

Good Morning. How you doing today? Looks like everything is coming together just sweet and fine. I guess you guys have a great day and God bless both of you.❤❤❤❤❤

Consumption of local honey helps deter alergys, at least that is what my granny always said when I asked about her hives. 🐝🍯🐝

Second hand used roofing iron is a lot cheaper to buy most of the time. Silicone with a caulking gun could be used to fill any existing holes in used roofing iron. (If it can be found and building inspectors or inspections are not a problem. Often the side that was facing down when previously used looks newer and has less corrosion if used facing up.)

Rock crusher would be an asset gravel walk ways would be a plus but that’s another project

Beautiful flowers in your garden and even the cactus flowers look great. Birds obviously enjoying all the seeds you put out for them.

Dang, that is looking good. I love watching your channel and learning interesting ways to live sustainably . I especially love Jess' garden tips

Is this wall your building part of the original plan or is it likely to take up room you didn't want to lose?

@ourselfreliantlife

Ай бұрын

It's part of the plan.

Hi Jess and Jim, good to see these updates. I am looking forward to your cooling being installed and later, to see how it works for you. I have seen several KZread’s on this style of cooling but still not convinced. I am thinking outside the box a bit with it though, that you could use a heat chimney as the outlet vent for the hotter air. I recall seeing one of those chimneys in an old house made from mud. The fellow made it out of 44gallon drums and painted 2/3 Matt black. It vented at ceiling level then out through the chimney. I used to think it was odd but in summer that kept the heat down too, not just the mud walls insulating. It made me wonder why we still persist with timer framed walls as exterior walls. Stay safe and healthy and enjoy life.

I've been wondering, are you guys living in the dome now?

On the Central Coast of California I have experienced excessive allergies and congestion. Thankfully from the added rain we have experienced for the garden yet unfortunately there grow a lot of weeds. I've noticed more new weeds that haven't here in the past 20 years and no natives. I feel this is attributes to not being use to this level. I usually take a T 3-4 X a day of raw local honey. It must be local to your area so ingest the natural pollen around you. I do like it with some lemon and heavy cayenne or ginger on the tough days. I hope you feel better. Love watching your process.

I was taken back a bit while watching you pull your gorilla cart of cob to the new home. The background looked like you had real cliffs and canyons. But when the camera changed angles, your “canyon vistas” were not that big. But your excavations are creating an interesting landscape. I like it. Keep it up, you will have a canyon for a back yard.

Honey is supposed to help with allergies, there are two types of benadryl. One is traditional which is sleepy time the other is time released that you take in day, that will probably be what you need! I would love a garden tour! You are quite creative Jess! ❤ would love to see a video on the earth tubes! You both make me tired looking how much you toil! Amazing you both are!!! ❤️

Lovely cactus blooms.!

Everything is coming together greatly Garden tour 👍

I just love your videos. Look at all the progress you are making. Keep it going we are seeing incredible progress ❤❤❤

Good to work slowly but surely 🎉🎉. You guys are a great team xx ❤

❤wonderful ❤

I would never drink Iced tea in any jug but they sure are good containers.

I love those beautiful Cactuses, and your house is going to be amazing 👏 🤩

I have an allergic reaction to coffee. It makes my eyes water and my sinuses which affects my breathing. I wake up in the morning coughing and hacking and you can imagine how my wife enjoys that. I found "mullein" tea relieves those symptoms. I use whole leaf, not powder. just trying to be helpless. Best wishes.

@kennethwikert2841

Ай бұрын

No I haven't given up coffee.

Hi guys hope all is well Haven’t seen a new video for the last week so just wondering if everything is okay?

Why leave the wood forms in place. They will just rot.

Are you going to add a rocket heater to heat the pole barn?

@ourselfreliantlife

Ай бұрын

We might!

It's looking great! Don't worry about the delay,there is always something to do, you guys know that.Keep up the good work!

Local raw honey each day in your coffee and/or tea is one of the best thing you can do for allergies.

One other thing, Jess. I know that you know that getting local honey from local beekeepers helps with seasonal allergies. Because they gather pollen from the local flora & that pollen is what triggers your allergies. But to innoculate your system with the local honey you need to consume a tablespoon (or a little more) all year long. Well 5 or 6 months prior to allergy season, which is both Spring & Autumn for me. So I take a tablespoon on toast or in my tea Daily. 🍯 Natures medicine. Everyone ought to know, Honey has more benefits to for your immune system, & it is a natural antibiotic plus it can help balance your blood sugar. Ask your nutritionalist if you are already Diabetic some diets can include it & some can't. ... Okay, I'll stop. I'm feeling very motherly today. 💜

Sweet work guys

............G'day, progress continues, upward and onward. Cheers and God bless, Malcolm.