#226 Finishing Things and Moving On

relocating some screws that are in the way All right, Duncan, if you grab it over there

If you pull it tight, we can be roll it up, a big roll. We got that one off because it kind of grips.

I haven't turned it on yet, but yeah, that's it. Looks like an archaeology site.

It's been put in. Alright guys, it's a wrap!

let's clean all the buckets Cheers! That was uh the good mix Yeah, so we did it in one day eventually. I thought we wouldn't make it but it was pretty fast in the end yea easy work. Easy work. I think we had to trick ourselves into thinking we're not gonna finish, so then we could just do that last little burst.

Just keep the carrot dangling in front of you I feel like the worst, like especially in Iceland , is it randomly every day that like you'd get up for the day, yeah, start and downboard

And you'd be saturated and like kind of got thin tired day wet now. Miserable. Like it's hard to be stoic in that. Like you're just you're in a mental battle straight away. So we're probably right in it.

Right in it in the moment. I think what is it like a million bucks or half a million bucks?

If they reach a certain time frame? You've just got to out survive everyone it's a beautiful layer It's opening up on that side Oh yeah, there you go. Looks lighter than you think. Oh here we go Last summer I was with a group and we were having lunch, and there was a rain storm coming, but it was really impending, like slowly coming in Yeah. And I was saying like We're gonna completely ignore the weather, we're gonna stay here and just sit it out. And it was really just like coming, coming, coming and you could hear the roar, but still not coming And when it came everyone bailed So we'll we'll try it again. Yeah, we'll do it. Just pretend it's pretend everything's normal. One for all. All for one. chemical anchor

Nice sunset. Doors are hanging, locks are in, it's locking well. The only thing I have to do is make a latch to connect the... Top and the bottom together. I had one but it doesn't fit so it's probably going to be something like a wooden latch similar as on the chicken coop door. It will fit with those doors And then that's finished too. I'm happy about it. I think the wood is turned out really nicely. The old floorboards from the second cabin Very old wood, a bit damaged here and there, but it fits beautifully with the stone walls of the workshop. The concrete ring beam is in I had a group of hard working guys quiet guys, we worked quietly this time it was funny, two guys from Australia They've traveled individually, they didn't know each other, but they actually live quite close to each other in Byron Bay.

And they met on the other side of the world on top of a mountain, which is funny. Um so yeah, good week. I want to thank you for all the beautiful comments from last week where I shared about the breakup of Ela and me. You're such an amazing community, so supportive and respectful. I got so many messages and I mean the YouTube comments, There were many. Of course we all go through these moments in life. More than once, and it's an interesting time, painful, grieving, but it's quite a meaningful way of grieving, I think because they are beautiful memories, if you break up peacefully, and respectfully it can be sour as well, but not in our case And um yeah it's really ups and downs... I was watching a YouTube video, of um Louis CK his series Louis, where he also struggles with a breakup and he is he's depressed.

Walks through a park in snowy Manhattan with an older guy walking his dog. And he talks about his grief, and questions if it's even worth investing in relationships when they all break up and you have to suffer so much for it. And the older guy says: this is the good part! The grief of love What's he saying? The sweet nugget of sad love. He's saying the bad part is forgetting and he's referring to his own life being much older and having many years of not knowing love and become quite cynical and there's an emptiness to it. And uh it's a comedy bit but it's there's some truth to it. it's a meaningful time although hard. Time is standing still in a way.

You look back to the memories and try to look forward and see what you can make of it. Yeah, in a way this time of grief is a celebration I think to the good times and the connection that you had. Because it really defines happiness, this type of grief, I think. So it's an interesting time. Sometimes I don't know what to make of it I feel lost and you just let it come over you, sit with it and uh, but then other times you feel better and it's okay, and slowly I think it will heal Misery is wasted on the miserable, is the title of that YouTube video. It's funny. And it's true a little bit.