Today he went out to buy the metal structures and he is spending the afternoon putting them together.
This is so important before the rain and the cold weather come strongly. We want to make sure that we have all the power that we need for short days coming.
Dear all, here we are again!
I am just on the sofa, inside of the Tiny House!
Yes we have moved in... last week.
Can we believe it? Yes! Very much!
Here are the last videos that we recorded, few weeks before moving in:
A lot more has happened, but for now, I would like to share our experience living here.
1 week and 1/2 has gone by and we are living a dream.
Dreams come true.
Around October of 2016 we started the building of our home and going back to the first post of this blog, we started with gratitude.
And we continue in the same line.
Everytime that we turn on a light, lay down in bed, cook a meal, get dressed, move inside of the Tiny House, sit on the sofa looking at the landscape, sit on our meditation cushions to meditate, wash our dishes, look at the cats sleeping in thei step houses, everytime we open the entrance door and look outside we feel and we are grateful for this house.
For all the time that we spent designing and building it, for all the friends that helped us building it, for all the family support, for the resiliency of our souls and for the house itself.
We are in total bliss.
Even with so many things to finish yet, we are blissed out.
There is a deep knowing of being right that takes me to tears.
It is the path and the goal and both are the same.
The path is still happening and the goal, who knows what is it?!
It doesn't finish with moving in.
It's life and discovery.
It's change and transformation.
People keep saying that they don't know how we, as a couple, survived living for so many years in a BUS and then in a Caravan.
Well, nobody says it was easy, but what we know is that we look back and we laugh and we remember the challenges and what stays is gratitude - for the previous homes.
the BUS is gone as you know and the Caravan is turning into my work space.I started moving things and turning it into a beautiful workshop.
I will post pictures of it soon.
I want to acknowledge David's love and persistence during all this time so we could get to this point of the journey. Without that, without you my love, this couldn't be possible in this way. I love all that you have put in this house so far.
We would like to share more pictures from these last months and a tour of how the house is now that we moved in.But you have to wait for the next post.
For now, I am just going to listen to some music, brew a delicious tea and seat on the sofa.
Wishing you all a wonderful week and sending a big hug,
with love,
Yes, the house is still in the same place, as things took longer than we expected and meanwhile we had the 10 day retreat here at the Quinta.
Just come with us and see what happened from the 9th until the 11th of August:
David proped up the walls for the moving, screwing some eucaliptus posts on them
This was the view on the 9th of August, on the way to the land to wait for Sr. Ângelo to arrive
This is the entrance "path wanna be" to the land and David walking through it
Natural beauty at the entrance
And here is our man! Sr. Ângelo ready to start the day just digging it all out of the way!
The machine
Starting to open the way
Gathering organic matter for future vegetable beds
Just seeing it work when we were inside of the nearest forest
And there it goes
So much dust!
We kept taking pictures and filming to register everything
And the path was starting to be wide enough that the machine could turn the other way around and continue the work of literally breaking rock. Right ahead of the machine it0s the area where the Tiny house is going to be. wait until you see how it is now!
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I could show more pictures of the machine doing it's work, but I am more interested in charing my experience with these 3 days.
It started on the 9th of August and it continued until the 11th. It was a mix of feelings, but at the end I was just with things as they were. Happy because we could enter in the land through a path and not through what it seemed to be a jungle! But that jungle was so beautiful and sacred and pure! Happy because we have a place to put the Tiny house and so sad because I saw some trees going down. Happy to see more of the land and sad because so many plants died. Happy because I discovered so many cristals there, but sad just because everything was so different.
There was a sensation of human beings invading the land and destroing the place just because we wanted things in a certain way.
I learned that things change and I know that Nature re-regenarate itself. It looks like destruction, but I know we are working together.
I know and I have in my experience that there is no separation between people and Nature, in fact people is Nature.
I rejoice with the change and Nature as well, as Nature has cycles and loves to work together with people.
This land has so much beauty and magic that we are very much looking forward to see and discover it. To see it with all of our senses. To be with it. To be it. To be with what wants to be created there.
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Right now, rain is falling from the sky, reminding me that life is change and ever new.
That nothing is forever and yet spirit is always alive and free.
Tomorrow is another day and Sr. Ângelo is coming to finish the path and to finally move the house.
Again, we don't know how this is going to work, but what we know is that anything is possible! And that "the fat lady didn't sing yet"!
Yes, we are preparing everything for Tuesday!
8th is the day!
CORRECTION: we just called Sr. Ângelo and he only can make it on Wednesday! 9th at 8h30 the work begins!
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David, Marco and Alex have been working for a couple of days in the house (last Thursday and Friday and over the weekend) so everything is ready to move: emptying the inside, finishing the last bits of the cladding, giving the final coat of wood treatment, taking the supports out and planning the move.
We still don't know how it is going to work, but the first thing that Sr. Ângelo is going to do is to open the path up there, at the entrance of the land, and then is a complete surprise. Even, opening the path we don't know how it is going to work, because some places have a big strong xisto rock!
So, cross your fingers and come with us in this new adventure.
For now, I just leave you with the pictures from the work that was done is these last 3 days:
View at the beginning of the day
Marco happy to help
Planning the next tasks
Moving the scaffolding and a physical challenge: 500 push ups in one day!
Measuring the space and measuring the wood
Cutting the wood
Sanding the wood to take bits of mold
Happy happy!
Taking the windows out so the trailer gets lighter
At the end of the day - wall nearlly done! Just one board missing!
The part of the wall that is missing the cladding
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During the weekend, while I was working fot the weekend meditation retreat, David was giving a second coat of treatment in all the walls:
David took everything that was under the house
Meanwhile, David went to the land and stayed with it for a while, talking with her. Telling her that we are going there very soon to open the way, moving soil, rocks and plants; disturbing some of the wild life. It's not a gigantinc job, but it's good to warn the land that these things are going to happen.
I hope you liked the pictures and the progress!
Stay tuned!
