To see Molly have such a big smile is great, Sandra is still ill but she has some new painkillers that are working very well and these ones do not make her feel ill🙏
May the painkillers continue to help , it must be very wearing to have pain all the time and with so much other stuff as well ones mental health can get drag down . Less oh sun and a holiday will help I’m sure and as parents seeing our kids excited at any age is fab 😊.
Hey Yall, Looks likes Sandra is very fast with a pitchfork. Glad to see you up and about Sandra! Burning yard waste, prunings, or brush is actually a favorite thing of mine. All the better if you can place your pile where a new tree is to be planted and dig in the ashes for fertilizer. Congrats on the new solar system. Keep the videos coming. Randy/GA
Hi Randy, Yes Sandra is pretty good with a pitch fork but she did have 6 horses for most of her life. We all love a good clear up and fire, i often drag out the old fire when done and then it gets lightly ploughed in 👍
Is very nice, the girls will making a video for him as he a few apartments for holiday rental..... I, Alex, will be staying behind to look after the goats and had a few fires in the last week close to us so really cant leave the place, so long as the girls are happy, i am happy 🙂👍
I hope you get your opportunity to vacation in Portimão. 🏖 What a beautiful gift! The Algarve is lovely! I know you’ll enjoy yourselves and will be able to relax.😊 Take care you lovely people! 🌷Sam
Aww, bless your kind viewer for offering you a holiday in Portimäo❣ Contact Angela & Abe of Living In The Algarve? they seem to know the Algarve well and i'm sure they can offer great tips to suit your budget. Tell them i pointed you to them as i follow and comment on their channel, too 😄. Great work on tidying the land, ladies. Thatriver beauty spot is quite charming. Sorry some of your machinery konks out in turn, Alex. 😔 Hoping yiou are blessed with smoothly working ones. Wonderful that tou had the opportunity to have solar panels thru an EDP scheme. I think that's going to be so helpful. Move on rattie! Bring on Fred🐈!
The girls probably wont have time as Molly has a fully booked plan of things to do, museums, historical places etc... she is very excited. I get to stay on goat and fire watch🤣
Solar can run a house Alex but you need battery storage for the evenings. I have 10kws of lithium batteries and I'm 100% off grid. I would suggest adding at least 4 more to cover your daytime usage. They have 550w panels at Leroy Merlin for 185€ each and are very easy to string together with your other panels.
They do a system with batteries but it was too expensive for us, we only have a computer, fridges and a water heater on at night and the water heater is now off at night via a timer, so should be very little to pay. The problem is i do not like Lithium and what it is doing to the world, they are starting mining for it here in Portugal and is causing pollution already. later when funds allow we will upgrade to more panels...... those at leroy merlin sound cheap🙂👍
We've got 16 solar panels here in Spain, we also don't have a battery as after paying 10,000 to the solar company we're pretty much broke now. Pity 8 didn't know the panels we're so cheap in Leroy merlin😮
Not necessarily you can have a 3 volt lighting system and really cut down on your night time consumption then do the big jobs like run a washing machine in the daytime. I will be doing that.
Happy to say Eddie is looking better,he had a blood test and they tested for pancreatitis a normal reading should be 190 poor Eddie was over a thousand. he has had 5 injections and been on drips all afternoon..... we have to return tomorrow for more tests 🙏🙏
Hi everyone, great news about you being off- grid. Congratulations 🎉. You have cleared and burned a lot. Wood Ash is good for fruit trees veg etc. The blossom is so Beautiful. The watering spot is so pretty. Great news on you short break girls, have a lovely time. I'll be back in the UK sorting my garden and house. Alex how was the wild boar meat? It is nice to catch up with friends etc. All your goats are looking so fir and happy, anything green goes.😂. Stay safe and sane,have a good week too.
Que óptima notícia a de terem férias no Algarve. Estar junto ao mar e poder ir à praia todos os dias, certamente que vai dar-vos 'uma alma nova' , como se costuma dizer.
It is just what the doctor ordered but i am staying behind, the girls will be making a video for the guy as he has a few apartments for renting. The Solar is saving us over half our bill so far, we can always add more panels later but so far it has been very good.👍
Yes! you are right, i might even lower them myself as there is enough cable under the tiles. We have a huge Douglas fir tree right next to our house and it casts a shadow in the morning so they tried to get the best spot, think they did well but i think lowering them will help a lot.🙂
Hi guy's, Are you selling back the current you don't use to the company of the grid as we do in Sweden?? That way you will make some money as well as you use all your heavy duty machines, washing machine etc during the sunshine. I have 7,2kwp on my roof in Sweden and I'm getting a lot of current I don't need all the time. Excellent Regards Rickard from Sweden 🚐🎸🍻🤠🇸🇪
Our system when we arent using any power is putting it back in the grid but we dont get paid for it on this system, they have larger systems that do they arent expensive but too much for us right now. we get 10% discount on any power we use from the grid. but we can add panels later when funds allow, for now we are saving 50% on our bill so it will help reduce our monthly bills.🙂👍
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you all guys. Good work 👍😁 to bad we didn't see Alex work on the pump from the beginning i like to see it are you also going to repair the other one maybe ask around to your neighbor's for a carboreatot.
Not filming the start was my fault, i started working on it and forgot to film it... i need to get some pipes for it so when i get it ready to pump water i will film it. 🙂👍
Problem with rats is the diseases they carry and in their urine, we dont want that anywhere near our milking goats....... Fred needs to take less naps in the afternoon sun and get to work🤣
Hi Alex, Sandra and Molly. I have been thinking about Solar for some time now, and am probably thinking that this is the best solution long term. Its the cost of batteries that have always pushed me away from solar. but do we really need power 24/7, no. I'll be interested to see how you adapt to power only when the sun is shining. You just organise your life a little differently.
Hi James, we are still on mains power 24/7. We paid to have the best electric brought to our house 9 years ago, 3phase with maximum amps.... here in Portugal you can choose how many amps come into the house and the less you have the less you pay per KW. I feel the same about batteries, some people have told us solar is free, it makes me laugh when in 5 years they will have to buy new batteries , so we see our 30 euros a month once the system is paid off like saving 30 a month over 5 years for new batteries, the only difference is we have full 3 phase electric when we need it and dont have the worry of 'when' my batteries will need replacing.
Bom dia minha linda😍espero que tenhas carregado todas as tuas energias😂espero por ti e tua familia para o ano para novas e merecidas ferias🌅beijinhos😍😍😍😍
Hi, installation is 100% free, Obviously we are paying slightly more for the system than if i bought it but it is interest free and we went for paying over 2years, you can choose longer. Now we are paying 96 euros month for this system over 2 years and for any non solar electric we use from the grid.. and that has a 10% discount for each KW used. they do much larger systems and one with batteries but it was too expensive for us right now, maybe when the goats start making us an income we can upgrade it. 🙂👍
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife You know, i think you're the first amongst the Central Portugal channels i follow who have access to mains power to feature or even mention EDP-installed for free, payable in monthly installments of duration of one's choosing and interest-free, with discounted grid use solar panels! I think everyone else paid for their own panels (as well as energy storage system)! This makes solar in reach for modest-income folks on the grid. 🤯 This is another top "lifestyle" tip to have handy to refer to like your review of Pre-1951 properties & legalities. 🙂👍🏼
On the scale we would need it it really isnt a viable option, it is more for small scale vegetable patches etc.. but i think it is a bit of a 'fad'..... the burning of our green rubbish and wood piles creates pretty much biochar, the only difference between biochar on charcoal is 100 degrees in the burning process👍
Hi Carlos, The girls go on the 8th to your neck of the woods. I will send some details on your facebook message, sadly i am staying here as we have already had some fires close to us and i dont feel i can leave the place unmanned.👍
for what its worth, as a consumer of many different youtube video channels, your channel is not always obvious that its you(your family) . Many of your intro picture shows Molly, some just show a subject. The channel name is not prominent in the intro either, I have missed a few videos.
Not only BS señor, the thing of not having a bill every month that you're totally dependent of is a relaxed feeling. Having more than one energysourse is very intelligent. Regards Rickard from Sweden 🇸🇪🤠🍻🎸🚐
Always nice to use solar energy. Totally off grid is becoming less and less expensive. So maybe something for the future. I'm waiting for the new type of batteries that don't have lithium in them. As we all know that buying lithium batteries means destroying Portugal's nature.
grahamsfarmportugal, it isnt always about being 'off grid' we are saving half our electric bill👍 Our milking parlour will be 100 solar powered, i already have the panels.
@@frigolero I hate lithium so think being on the grid and with solar also means we are not encouraging the use of the nasty batteries and what the mining is doing all over the world..... i still think lead acid batteries are a good alternative as they can be recycled and re used.🙂👍
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I knew you would get that pump running Alex!
Lovely to see Sandra up and about and her and Mollys excitement . Love your realistic show of life as is as always , thank you .
To see Molly have such a big smile is great, Sandra is still ill but she has some new painkillers that are working very well and these ones do not make her feel ill🙏
May the painkillers continue to help , it must be very wearing to have pain all the time and with so much other stuff as well ones mental health can get drag down . Less oh sun and a holiday will help I’m sure and as parents seeing our kids excited at any age is fab 😊.
Loved the music at the beginning of the video one of my favourite singers
Hey Yall, Looks likes Sandra is very fast with a pitchfork. Glad to see you up and about Sandra! Burning yard waste, prunings, or brush is actually a favorite thing of mine. All the better if you can place your pile where a new tree is to be planted and dig in the ashes for fertilizer. Congrats on the new solar system. Keep the videos coming. Randy/GA
Hi Randy,
Yes Sandra is pretty good with a pitch fork but she did have 6 horses for most of her life. We all love a good clear up and fire, i often drag out the old fire when done and then it gets lightly ploughed in 👍
Oh that was really nice of that person to offer you guys a holiday, I hope you have fun. Who's going to watch the goats?
Is very nice, the girls will making a video for him as he a few apartments for holiday rental..... I, Alex, will be staying behind to look after the goats and had a few fires in the last week close to us so really cant leave the place, so long as the girls are happy, i am happy 🙂👍
I hope you get your opportunity to vacation in Portimão. 🏖 What a beautiful gift!
The Algarve is lovely!
I know you’ll enjoy yourselves and will be able to relax.😊
Take care you lovely people!
🌷Sam
I think the girls will love it, i am staying on goat and fire watch... just glad they are getting a break.
Have a wonderful week Sam and Pedro 🙂🙏
The Falls and Grotto are beautiful.
Enjoy your holiday, the beach is great for relaxation the water, walking on the sand 💜
Im sure the girls will feel the sand on their feet 🙂
Aww, bless your kind viewer for offering you a holiday in Portimäo❣ Contact Angela & Abe of Living In The Algarve? they seem to know the Algarve well and i'm sure they can offer great tips to suit your budget. Tell them i pointed you to them as i follow and comment on their channel, too 😄.
Great work on tidying the land, ladies. Thatriver beauty spot is quite charming.
Sorry some of your machinery konks out in turn, Alex. 😔 Hoping yiou are blessed with smoothly working ones. Wonderful that tou had the opportunity to have solar panels thru an EDP scheme. I think that's going to be so helpful.
Move on rattie! Bring on Fred🐈!
The girls probably wont have time as Molly has a fully booked plan of things to do, museums, historical places etc... she is very excited.
I get to stay on goat and fire watch🤣
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife I meant only to message to ask them for tips on free things to visit or do in Portimão, as Molly requested. 😉
Solar can run a house Alex but you need battery storage for the evenings. I have 10kws of lithium batteries and I'm 100% off grid. I would suggest adding at least 4 more to cover your daytime usage. They have 550w panels at Leroy Merlin for 185€ each and are very easy to string together with your other panels.
They do a system with batteries but it was too expensive for us, we only have a computer, fridges and a water heater on at night and the water heater is now off at night via a timer, so should be very little to pay.
The problem is i do not like Lithium and what it is doing to the world, they are starting mining for it here in Portugal and is causing pollution already.
later when funds allow we will upgrade to more panels...... those at leroy merlin sound cheap🙂👍
We've got 16 solar panels here in Spain, we also don't have a battery as after paying 10,000 to the solar company we're pretty much broke now. Pity 8 didn't know the panels we're so cheap in Leroy merlin😮
Not necessarily you can have a 3 volt lighting system and really cut down on your night time consumption then do the big jobs like run a washing machine in the daytime. I will be doing that.
Lovely work and video. Love the village 😊 take care and have fun 😊
Thank you! You too!
Happy to say Eddie is looking better,he had a blood test and they tested for pancreatitis a normal reading should be 190 poor Eddie was over a thousand. he has had 5 injections and been on drips all afternoon..... we have to return tomorrow for more tests 🙏🙏
Hope other tests go well
🌟💗🐾💖 to goodest boi Eddie 💕.
@@victoriabodenham6736 Thank you, he seems brighter this morning but still not right.🙏
@@ruthconstantino6861 Thanks Ruth, he has pancreatitis, it can be fatal and poor Eddies was very enlarged, he seems a little brighter this morning🙏
Hope Eddies still improving .
Nice
Hi everyone, great news about you being off- grid. Congratulations 🎉. You have cleared and burned a lot. Wood Ash is good for fruit trees veg etc. The blossom is so Beautiful. The watering spot is so pretty. Great news on you short break girls, have a lovely time. I'll be back in the UK sorting my garden and house. Alex how was the wild boar meat? It is nice to catch up with friends etc. All your goats are looking so fir and happy, anything green goes.😂. Stay safe and sane,have a good week too.
Thank you Helen, the wild boar was amazing as always, soft and extremely tasty, they taste even better after they destroy half your farm 😁
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife May you be blessed with eating many more🐗 then.
Nice video 😊👍🏻
Thank you 👍
It's a nice day for the lathe.
I got so much to do on the farm before the heat and bans come in but i am desperate to get back on my lathe, wont be long😉
Thanks!
Thanks so much 🙂
Noice to see the colours of spring 😊
Nice to feel some warmth too.... been a long chilly winter👍
Que óptima notícia a de terem férias no Algarve. Estar junto ao mar e poder ir à praia todos os dias, certamente que vai dar-vos 'uma alma nova' , como se costuma dizer.
Obrigado Maria 🙂
What a fantastic gift. Have a great holiday. And good on ya' for the solar system.
It is just what the doctor ordered but i am staying behind, the girls will be making a video for the guy as he has a few apartments for renting.
The Solar is saving us over half our bill so far, we can always add more panels later but so far it has been very good.👍
34:54 ;-) a little bit lower. But great start !
Yes! you are right, i might even lower them myself as there is enough cable under the tiles.
We have a huge Douglas fir tree right next to our house and it casts a shadow in the morning so they tried to get the best spot, think they did well but i think lowering them will help a lot.🙂
Hi guy's, Are you selling back the current you don't use to the company of the grid as we do in Sweden?? That way you will make some money as well as you use all your heavy duty machines, washing machine etc during the sunshine.
I have 7,2kwp on my roof in Sweden and I'm getting a lot of current I don't need all the time. Excellent
Regards Rickard from Sweden 🚐🎸🍻🤠🇸🇪
Our system when we arent using any power is putting it back in the grid but we dont get paid for it on this system, they have larger systems that do they arent expensive but too much for us right now. we get 10% discount on any power we use from the grid.
but we can add panels later when funds allow, for now we are saving 50% on our bill so it will help reduce our monthly bills.🙂👍
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife Excellent!
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you all guys. Good work 👍😁 to bad we didn't see Alex work on the pump from the beginning i like to see it are you also going to repair the other one maybe ask around to your neighbor's for a carboreatot.
Not filming the start was my fault, i started working on it and forgot to film it... i need to get some pipes for it so when i get it ready to pump water i will film it. 🙂👍
When we move to Portugal. I would love to have goats, pigs and chickens.... Oh and some alpacers😂❤😂 love your channel.
Looking good, enjoy the holiday
Hazel ☘️ …
So happy you are going on holiday !
Congrats on solar !
🙏☘️😘
Thank you Hazel ❤
Ratatoni has moved in. The Cat and your dogs. But they have babies too.
Problem with rats is the diseases they carry and in their urine, we dont want that anywhere near our milking goats....... Fred needs to take less naps in the afternoon sun and get to work🤣
Hi Alex, Sandra and Molly. I have been thinking about Solar for some time now, and am probably thinking that this is the best solution long term. Its the cost of batteries that have always pushed me away from solar. but do we really need power 24/7, no. I'll be interested to see how you adapt to power only when the sun is shining. You just organise your life a little differently.
Hi James, we are still on mains power 24/7.
We paid to have the best electric brought to our house 9 years ago, 3phase with maximum amps.... here in Portugal you can choose how many amps come into the house and the less you have the less you pay per KW.
I feel the same about batteries, some people have told us solar is free, it makes me laugh when in 5 years they will have to buy new batteries , so we see our 30 euros a month once the system is paid off like saving 30 a month over 5 years for new batteries, the only difference is we have full 3 phase electric when we need it and dont have the worry of 'when' my batteries will need replacing.
🌅🌅🌅🏖🏖🏖🍹🍹🍹🍹😍😍😍😍😍
ola bom dia🙂🏖🍹
Bom dia minha linda😍espero que tenhas carregado todas as tuas energias😂espero por ti e tua familia para o ano para novas e merecidas ferias🌅beijinhos😍😍😍😍
We'll be back!! Lovely to meet you 🍹 🐓 ☀ 🏖
How much does the solar panels and fitting cost ? And how much do you pay EDP for the installation ?
Hi, installation is 100% free,
Obviously we are paying slightly more for the system than if i bought it but it is interest free and we went for paying over 2years, you can choose longer.
Now we are paying 96 euros month for this system over 2 years and for any non solar electric we use from the grid.. and that has a 10% discount for each KW used.
they do much larger systems and one with batteries but it was too expensive for us right now, maybe when the goats start making us an income we can upgrade it. 🙂👍
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife You know, i think you're the first amongst the Central Portugal channels i follow who have access to mains power to feature or even mention EDP-installed for free, payable in monthly installments of duration of one's choosing and interest-free, with discounted grid use solar panels! I think everyone else paid for their own panels (as well as energy storage system)! This makes solar in reach for modest-income folks on the grid. 🤯 This is another top "lifestyle" tip to have handy to refer to like your review of Pre-1951 properties & legalities. 🙂👍🏼
Make biochar
On the scale we would need it it really isnt a viable option, it is more for small scale vegetable patches etc.. but i think it is a bit of a 'fad'..... the burning of our green rubbish and wood piles creates pretty much biochar, the only difference between biochar on charcoal is 100 degrees in the burning process👍
Do you get credit from your power you put back into the grid?
With the system we chose no we dont but they have others that do, they just cost more than our budget but we are saving on our normal bill🙂
I have an 11kw system while connected to the grid. Pay no money for electricity now.
Wow that is a big system, we can add more panels to ours at a later date but so far these are saving us 50% of our bill🙂👍
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife wonderful!
hi, have u been already to portimao or am i too late? cause that's where i live and would to get u a glass of wine :-)
Hi Carlos, The girls go on the 8th to your neck of the woods. I will send some details on your facebook message, sadly i am staying here as we have already had some fires close to us and i dont feel i can leave the place unmanned.👍
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife okay await your message,would be lovely to see them...should b busy down here cause its easter weekend 🙂
Is this the same place as with the nightmare builders?
Yes it is the same place
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife is the court stuff still on going or there is an end to that nightmare?
for what its worth, as a consumer of many different youtube video channels, your channel is not always obvious that its you(your family) . Many of your intro picture shows Molly, some just show a subject. The channel name is not prominent in the intro either, I have missed a few videos.
Muffin, I expected better from you!
So did we 😂
🤣 Not guilty! 🤣
So 320w panels. No one is off grid as they all use propane or generator in winter, it all bs really.
I'm 100% off grid.
Not only BS señor, the thing of not having a bill every month that you're totally dependent of is a relaxed feeling. Having more than one energysourse is very intelligent. Regards Rickard from Sweden 🇸🇪🤠🍻🎸🚐
Always nice to use solar energy. Totally off grid is becoming less and less expensive. So maybe something for the future.
I'm waiting for the new type of batteries that don't have lithium in them. As we all know that buying lithium batteries means destroying Portugal's nature.
grahamsfarmportugal, it isnt always about being 'off grid' we are saving half our electric bill👍
Our milking parlour will be 100 solar powered, i already have the panels.
@@frigolero I hate lithium so think being on the grid and with solar also means we are not encouraging the use of the nasty batteries and what the mining is doing all over the world..... i still think lead acid batteries are a good alternative as they can be recycled and re used.🙂👍