Tears of joy were shed today! After more than eight months of living without the luxury of running water, we finally have managed to welcome our house into modernity. We have also setup the boiler and water filtration system, will post an update on them tomorrow. As for now, we have running water!!!!! #homesteading #water #grateful

This is an appreciation post for my husband. When we build the wall for the deck, seeing the empty space between the house and the wall I had thought to myself that this is an impossible task without some equipments. But my husband kept on bringing the rubbles from all our land and filling it up every chance he got. And look at that, it is finally completely filled. About 25 cubic meters space filled solely by the hard work of my husband. Thank you ❤️ #buildstr #homesteading #grateful

Some of our friends have been asking us recently if we have stopped working in the garden as we don't post anything about the garden these days. Well we do work on the garden but I am too lazy to post about it 😅. We have about 80 bulbs of garlic in the ground and hopefully we get to harvest most of them this summer. Garlics take a long time to develop so the update on them will follow later. The cauliflowers are not doing great. The larvae of white butterfly got most of the leaves so I am hoping to at least get some seeds for next year. We will start on sowing some onions the coming days and sort through our seeds. Will keep you all posted on the developments. #growyourownfoods #homesteading #wintergarden

This used to be our neighbour's cat. Our daughter took a liking to him so we started giving him food every time he showed up so that he stayed longer for our daughter's sake. And now he has adopted us as his family. My husband and I are both not cat people and yet somehow we have a cat now. #catstr #homesteading #pets

Greetings from our neighbour's kitten. He is our daughter's all time favorite creature. Any chance she gets, she goes to find him. #catstr

It's amazing to see how independent and free willed our daughter is already at 15 months. Thankful everyday that we get to spend so much time with her, that she is being raised by us and the upbringing is not being outsourced. Such a privilege to see this tiny human grow. #parenting #homesteadig #thankful

Hello everyone, we hope that you all had a great start to new year. We here at our homestead decided to start the new year with a new, yet very simple compost bin construction. We have a big growth of a type of bamboo in our land so we like to use that for making simple structures. This year we plan to do a bit more than last year when it comes to growing our own food. This should be possible as we did not do much last year. Be our witness to see how our plans shape up this year. #homesteading #compost

And we have a water tank that actually fills up. The floor is still not ideal. We will have to put some work in it in the summer because its super wet now but at least we will have running water in house for the time being. #buildstr #offgridliving #homesteading

Dear family, friends and all of you Nostrians who have been with us this year, we wish you all a blissful and merry Christmas and an amazing new year. May the new year bring new prospects and new opportunities for us all. May love be abundant and support be productive. May we all get to live a fuller life, a life in the embrace of people we love and cherish ❤️ #christmas #festivities #offgridliving

GM nostr. We harvested the last of the squashes today. We cleared some of the garden space to prepare it for the next season. We have had loads of squash curry the last month and they taste so good that we want to save these for Christmas to make some more. Right now we have about 80 garlic cloves in the ground, planted at intervals to get a prolonged harvest. We have some cauliflowers growing and some long turnips. Our land is generous and we are forever grateful!! #homesteading #growyourownfood #offgrid #foodstr

What a few days of rain has done to our small waterfall. #rain #autumn #offgrid

This has been a bittersweet development for us. On one hand, having insulation and the dry walls done on the roof means that we have taken a huge step forward but the quality of the work leaves us bit dissatisfied. After consulting three different companies we chose to work with someone who seemed to fit the best with our needs. But maybe it's the lack of command of Portuguese on our end or the difference in work culture or both, the difference between what we wanted, and what has been delivered is a bit too big for our liking. The dry walls are not symmetrical in any angles in the corner of the house. The wall in the kitchen side is also not a straight line, rather a curve. We are in no position, neither financially nor with time to redo the ceiling so we have to accept this asymmetry. #buildstr #offgrid #hiccups

Is anyone else having trouble posting pics on @primal? I have checked the app permissions and have looked at zapstore for the latest version but somehow I cannot load any media using Primal, that's why I resort to #asknostr.

And the bathroom is ready!!!! #buildstr #construction #offgrid #homesteading #happy

The ceilings for the downstairs are finally done. Upstairs is going to be a long time still but at least we can now start on the floating floor for the downstairs. The shed where we are living since 6 months has been rendered almost inhabitable because of the rain. So we have decided that we will start living in the house as soon as one room downstairs is complete. But one step at a time, for now it's one more step closer to having us a home! #home #homesteading #buildstr #construction #offgrid

It has been raining a lot lately, so I am not sure how well our fall garden will do. We have some garlic, some cauliflowers and some radishes going at the moment, trying to #growyourownfood. We have left some flowers for the pollinators, hopefully these help them in this chilly weather. Husband has been working hard all day trying to fill the deck area with the rubbles. Our daughter took her first steps yesterday and since then she just wants to walk all the time. And our spring water tap is back to it's full strength now. All in all, it has been a great day. GN!! #offgrid #homestead #fall #garden

As promised, the progress pictures from the bathroom. The plumber is coming somewhere end of this week to fix the water outlets and everything else. Let's see if this time things will work out as per the planning. #buildstr #offgrid #homestead #construction

Sometimes when it feels like things are not moving along, it is good to look back at the pictures from before and compare them to how far we have come now. It has been tough to get this project going. We have been living in a small 10 de meter space for the last half year with our baby daughter. We have no running water, no facilities and every chore has to be done by hand. So survival in itself takes up half a day each day. But slow and steady, we are moving forward. Hopefully we get to move into at least the ground floor before Christmas this year. #offgrid #homesteading #buildstr #building

We found this cool so sharing with all of you, our house under the blanket of autumn mist! #homesteading #offgrid #nature #autumn

Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have doors and windows in our house. What a difference these make!! We specially love the glass door which overlooks the valley from our house. I can already see myself sipping my tea, sitting there by that door. Super happy 😊 #buildstr #homesteading #happy #progress