#224 Closing Summer, The First Mushroom, and Roof Work

We roll it up like twice. Just like that. Okay. Fingers go underneath. lift it up, we slide it towards each other. Like that. Keep a little opening here so you can come in with the saw. You can only pull with the saw, so you push it all the way in. Like so. And you pull. Okay, you get it quite clean. but you can't do this Maybe you want the stones more close here?

we need to work here, actually need a bit more here so you can bring things here. But I need to work there as well so we kinda need it everywhere. I'll start actually here so These two.

And you say that one and that one? I think it's a good position, So we need to build up the wall till the top of the lintils Tell me to get some string out of the car.

this needs to go all away we need to add a lot here Basically on the outside mostly. Yeah. That's sloping down. After uh after lunch I get the string out the car. So we're gonna raise the wooden box. Yeah we're gonna take it away. Just quickly. Is it just pressing there or yes? This is nice bread. Did you bring it or no, it's in the freezer. Oh, it's in the freezer. Yeah. But I thought we finished it because there was only like three pieces left.

you're getting really good at making mortar, Martin Because this one is perfect. they told me it should be like ice cream. Martin, all this stone? Yeah. Yeah, you can bring it here. Not there, but more because we'll need more here. Cheers, cheers.

No, no, no. For example, that is the Chateau de la Loire of 2017 It's not, man That's a discerning view, isn't it? You you still saw you did some trips right? You were saying, Iran? Yeah I did a bit like you. I go to Iran when I was 21, so it was already... Five years ago. Oh alright. good experience? Yeah, very formative for a 21 years old. Yeah. That's good. Iran at the coronavirus period so it was rough a bit... which year? Sorry? 2021. So yeah. I was there in 2015 And uh yeah that was pretty funny because uh the first thing that I do it was uh I I didn't want to be vaccined at the time. So to to pass the border I take the vaccination certificate of my father, just change the first name and uh date of birth, and I pass the...

An amazing memory that's... I remember that from my 21 years old, uh young and a bit stupid, I called my father like five kilometers from the Iranian border because uh a guy is named Fabio, an Italian rider, he said he was vaccinated and he said he passed two days before me and he said be careful they really check because uh I think there was one hundred thousand people died in Iran from covid, from the virus. So it was very checking. But me I already done five months of traveling so I say I don't come back, not possible. Bon appétit, bon appétit Alright, we're getting closer to constructing the ring beam.

Today we do the form work. And um steel work. The walls are kind of finished up to this height. you might have noticed the burned wall inside and part of the roof that was burned too. I think what they did is, they smoked meat or something like that, inside because they had a lot of shelves Like the beams for the shelves were still there on day one but I took them away right away because they were very much in the way So I think they they made fires just on the ground, just open fires. Very smoky because there's a lot of creosoot on the walls. That's all the black stuff. I can't imagine it was to heat the home because you're not gonna make an open fire without a chimney. That would be ridiculous. So yeah, it's dirty. We tried to clean it a bit yesterday with a steel brush, and that worked, but they still are darker than the original stone tried to use acid as well.

What was it? Oxalic acid. Didn't work really well. So we might try something else, but, yeah it will be a job to get it nice and clean we'll start here So this part is ready There's already one cage in there.

There's cages of 3 meter and of 2 meter The two meters go here. And the longer one... so I put a short one in there so we'll have 4 corners You'll see it over there. That is like one meter, one meter So in the four corners there goes... So they're already a corner. Yeah they're made corners and I have straight pieces as well to connect this Yeah we can put the cases in first. Basically this is ready. I need to put a few more stones there but then you can start connecting them with uh I place them in here and then I connect them So I'll just show you.... these these wires are double.

So you take, something like that cut it off, Make a U. so I do one each? Just a few. One every two it would. Yeah, just a few, then it's nicely connected And that's with everything like that. Yeah, we're getting really tight, which is why I'm... these are quite short. Can they go half? Yeah, so I reckon I can join them in the middle to do the next side. And then one. This one is quite See if you get the longest one in half. Yeah.

Two, three, fifty. So now the angle, let's check Some big ones on the side Buonasera!

shall we cook for one more? Ahh! Found it on your property so I leave it for you. Okay, wait. So this is like a... a porcino? It's not a porcino. It's birken... Oh, that's German. Birch It's a birch. Same same family. It's really nice, it just came up Beautiful, but early? August, yea... it was so warm and now the rain came I was just about to ask you what we can do the risotto with You probably didn't think it. I was actually I was going to head over to see if any of the the yellow ones were coming up and then I just saw this, on the path Nobody must have passed. bonapetito Oh, we're starting to cook, you want to join us? Oh it's very nice. I've eaten, it's good Yeah. Okay. All right. See ya. Well, see you around Well it's not a joke.

I was about to ask you guys you want risotto. What do you want to do? risotto sounds good ducting for lights and switches

I've got good cover on the gable, are you good? Yeah, I'm good here. It's beautiful the tomatoes, all those colors together. Black, And the tastes very good too. Those dark ones are nice, but then the red ones they need to be red in the middle so those green ones are gonna be a bit harder. Yeah they were a bit harder to cut. I never had the dark one so I just You see them they turn... like at the crown they're red. But the difference is hard to see from the distance. buon appetito, guys Beautiful afternoon.

Didn't spend much time on the doors this week. Focus is on the roof, preparing everything for the concrete ring beam. It's always a lot more work than you think, a lot of stone work. As well as the ducting for electricity I put in. for a fair part so a lot of light points are coming out of the wall so because the walls will be raised a bit because of the concrete that's in there gives an opportunity to put all the the ducting in there for outdoor lights and indoor lights as well. So yeah Next week my parents are visiting for a few days so I'll probably take it a little bit slower but I'm gonna try to finish the doors because Yea, I need to close the building because it's getting... it's becoming slowly autumn. There's more winds... that tarp is deteriorating on the roof and constantly fighting to keep the building dry so it's kind of a double priority.

I want to have the roof closed but also the workshop needs to be weathertight as soon as possible. Yeah, it's always when the first cold weather comes it brings some melancholy with it. It feels like summer is over. But in September there's always plenty of beautiful days so Looking forward to that. The heat is gone. Rain is here, which is nice. So yeah.