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The final logs are ready on top... I am so close to finish the entire roof. And more important... everything went smooth this year, all fit really nice in its place, without any incident or issue.
I have to say it: without the help from a good friend to carry these fucking big logs through those boulders, it would be a fail. So yeah I called for a small help to carry these 4-5m logs. And I used only the ones from fallen dead trees, not cutting young pines. They were also dry so lighter than young and alive ones. But even so, were so fucking heavy !
Soon a full post about this summer. I still have to finish the last part of the roof to cover it.
Well done on your progress and efforts. Seems like a long time ago you shared your plan.
Great proof of f**king work….
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and for you only... here I was making a deer stew - delicious!
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Let me taste it 😋
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That looks delicious! Did you have a party or something? That’s enough food for, like, seven people!
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yeah it was an exaggeration. We were only 2 people. But I had too much meat to prepare and no fridge, so I had to make it all or lose it and all the vegetables too. It was for 2 days anyways. We've expected to finish the work in 3 days, but in the end was in just... 1 day !
Some deer ribs at barbecue too... fucking delicious. We needed that full energy to carry the huge logs LOL And a lot of beers too.
I usually do not like to post food pictures... but this was a nice moment and really enjoyable
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You have to take a look after storing salted or smoked meat, they last for several days, that's how the ancients did it.
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not yet. but considered
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Fenix 8 Sep
Did you hunt it?
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No. I have a lot of hunter friends that gave me plenty of meat. I mean I could, but I already have plenty of meat to eat, so why killing for no reason?
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I am really tired. Next week is quite rainy so I will take a break. But after that I have to go back and finish the roof putting the isolation and the dirt. I think I will let the last wall (the front one) for the next summer. Cold weather is coming and is not so nice to wash in a 1-3º river's water temperature with the wind on your neck... I am a strong man but not so strong :)
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I really like seeing the updates and appreciate the impact of the weather on your project. Small steps. And don’t pet the squirrels…. they are just miniature raccoons with better PR.
Assuming you walk the trail on your way in and out - has the ‘Bitcoin this way’ treasure been claimed yet?
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has the ‘Bitcoin this way’ treasure been claimed yet?
hahahaha no way! That trail I walk to "my citadel" has like maybe 1 tourist per week. Not so "habituated" so much, is more of a ranchers trail, with their cows. Where I put that "bitcoin" sign it is on another trail, more used by tourists.
don’t pet the squirrels
I have a nice one on my place and I am trying to "domesticate" it. But is not so easy... The wild boar is more friendly now, he came sometimes during the night and eat the scraps I left for him. I like him, he's still shy and not making damages, so doesn't bother me too much. I would like to have him as a pet.
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Squirrels are super smart and can learn some neat tricks…. pretending to be domesticated could be one of them. That’s how they get siggy.
And then they will steal your beer and shit on your porch.
Pet boar would be cool. I couldn’t imagine it without an apple in its mouth rotating on a spit :D
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steal your beer and shit on your porch.
will gladly share my beers with them if they will be my friends :)
meanwhile...
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Blast from the past. I recall Tomas’ tutorial on rendering that image was incredible.
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @adlai 8 Sep
Cold water is survivable, as long as you keep moving. The civilisation's various habits1 have conditioned us all poorly.

Footnotes

  1. standing under a jet of warm water to rinse away soap, marinating in a warm tub, yakking in a sauna rather than stacking in a saloon, ...
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yeah I know, I usually take a bath in cold river and keep my blood flow strong, but when you get out in a fucking chill wind ... trouble is coming fast. And I cannot afford to be sick when I have so much work to do before winter.
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You might reconsider the word "bath"; rivers are not a confined reservoir...
I don't have any better verb to suggest, beyond "dunk", although you probably mean the complete washing ritual rather than just a quick reminder of mortality.
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your replies sounds like a fucking shitGPT. Are you one of them?
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I'll ignore the entire saloon for the remainder of the day; as far as I'm concerned, you're not one of them, either.
People are shit, btw. Bitcoin is no panacea for civilisation being a corrupting influence, regardless of whether your curriculum favored either "Professor" McKenna or Kaczynski.
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hey, first it's a bit of help from a friend, next thing u're cheating by using an anti-gravitic propulsion hovercraft... completely leap-frogging the excavator;
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hahahaha I wish I could use my "darth force" to move those fucking logs and boulders...
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yes, we all have the force, and the magic wands of some sort were possibly used to move big rocks by the ancients, yet we are not taught how to do that in school anymore;
have u trained ur mind to be more at ease with ur past and dire-looking future [at least for the normies], thru this extreme physical challenge? i wud expect so... very impressive work;
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 8 Sep
Woah. 5m logs are tough. The first picture doesn't really show how big they are. The second one clear it up. I don't envy you carry those over uneven ground. But the abode is really starting to take shape. Great project!
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5m long and 20-30cm diameter. Even that were dead fallen trees and somekind of dry, were still heavy. Never thought that will be so hard to carry some logs. I could say that from the whole project (digging the hole, building with bags etc)... this was the heaviest one. No joking, no bullshit. I am fucking tired. Every muscle is a pain today. I've lost 2kg only in these 2 days carrying those logs. Insane!
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I bet that took a lot of sweat! Can you explain why there’s that strip of rocks? Is it just in that one spot?
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this summer I lost 10kgs ! None of my pants stay well on me LOL It was only me and my friend and our hands. Going slowly, inch by inch with each log (were 7 in total). And was fucking crazy through those boulders because you have to be careful where you put your feet and to be synchronized with the one in front to move in the same moment the log. Luckily it wasn't any bad incident, all went so smooth.
Those rocks are from a volcanic fall from millions of years ago,. Is not a long stripe, just 500m long and is next to my place, between 2 small rivers.
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