Yeah, it's taking up a lot of our time and effort to care for them, so we're very happy to see their situation improve and it hopefully not all be for nothing.
One of the best solutions for the septic system is to have the water from everything else bypass the tank and only the toilet uses it. The others tend to fill it with soaps and oils from the kitchen.👍
Yeah, Caroline did think that all the grease etc. was not helping the problem. I had thought of doing this when building a future extension in which we'll have the new kitchen, but that could be far away into the future and I think I need to do something sooner rather than later. Either way, it'll have to wait till summer, as the ground is now frozen and harder than concrete. Plenty of time to plan for this solution. Thanks for the great advice!!
Yes, we really did go far north! The colder climate certainly comes with a lot of challenges, some that we were ready for and a lot that we're learning about as we go. But that's part of the experience that we dreamed of and it sure makes for an exciting experience! We wish you a merry Christmas as well from our cold snowy homestead!
Thanks, will be following your family jorney. Please give my best regards to your wife. Wishing little girls flourish while mum and dad are making their dream life true 🙂😇
I've just found your content and I look forward to catching up on what I've missed. I hope you have some joy with getting the septic going before Christmas dinner. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your beautiful family, nice and warm, filled with love and laughter. Best wishes from Cape Town.❤🎄
Awesome! Very cool to have someone from South Africa watching our channel. Hope you enjoy the other videos. Mind you, there's a noticeable difference between the older videos and the later ones (in my honest opinion 😅) Best wishes to you as well and hope you have great Christmas and an even better start to the New Year!
Hi Vince and Family, whatever the nutrients that Vince put in the water for the lambs seemed to really help the mostly Black lamb stand as he seemed to drink more than the White one. Have to say that it was very perceptive for your daughter Amber to relate the sheep laying down of the sheep to being dead. Even though it wasn't dead it was very weak. The Homestead life can be challenging but what a great environment to raise children. My condolences for having Septic Tank problems. Especially when it is so cold it makes dealing with it all the more difficult. Hope it has been working ok now, since making the video. Enjoy your content. Keep up the great work and videos.
It seems to have helped the white lamb as well, but we found out why she isn't standing (although she does try) and that's because she's got a problem with right hind leg. We'll have more of an update on that in the next vlog hopefully. Amber's a very perceptive girl. She's been like that from when she was a baby, always observing. We're starting to get the flow of homesteading mixed with family life and I think she's feeling that as well and enjoying it more. As one of our subscribers pointed out to me, I was actually quite lucky to be doing it in the cold weather, cause that made the whole ordeal a lot less pungent!! For now it's functional again... Love that you enjoy our content!
What a problem to wake up to. Having lived on a holding since 1987 and only having a septic tank system I think that the biggest problem is too much paper and any type of chemicals. It doesn't handle those two things well. Here in South Africa you can also buy enzymes that you start in warm water, then flush and it gives it a bit of a jump start.😂
It was a tough one. I skipped lunch that day. Couldn't stomach it 😅I've now put chicken wire in front of the septic line, so hopefully that catches the paper at least. There's more I can do, but right now I don't want to go back in there! Thanks for the tip about the enzymes. I'll have a look into that!
Excellently done. If you lose electric will your water freeze? How often do you have a power failure? Hey, I really admire your cooper wood ash pan. !! EDIT: Nice work using what you had to put that window in. It's always good to reuse.
Thank you! The water pipes are all deep in the ground below the frost level. About 1.5 metres down, so those should never freeze. The cellar shouldn't get too cold either for that, but we can help and keep it more insulated by shoving snow against the house, which we'll do now that we have plenty of snow to go around! Last year we had a week around -40 degrees Fahrenheit (which is also -40 degrees Celsius) and we had no problems whatsoever with the water freezing. Quite amazing. Power failures come about 3 to 4 times a year so far where we are. Luckily enough they never lasted too long. Not more than half a day. And then there's different types of maintenance, which means it goes down for several hours as well, happens also a few times of times a year. They have been a good motivation and reminder each time to go off-grid. It feels really good to reuse stuff indeed. It's great to have had so much left behind by previous owners!!
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It's really good to see the lambs trying to stand. I'll be hoping to get to see them both in the next video. 👍❤
Yeah, it's taking up a lot of our time and effort to care for them, so we're very happy to see their situation improve and it hopefully not all be for nothing.
One of the best solutions for the septic system is to have the water from everything else bypass the tank and only the toilet uses it. The others tend to fill it with soaps and oils from the kitchen.👍
Yeah, Caroline did think that all the grease etc. was not helping the problem. I had thought of doing this when building a future extension in which we'll have the new kitchen, but that could be far away into the future and I think I need to do something sooner rather than later. Either way, it'll have to wait till summer, as the ground is now frozen and harder than concrete. Plenty of time to plan for this solution. Thanks for the great advice!!
I did not realize you were that north 😮
Certainly it must be incredibly hard to manage such weather. Wishing you blessed Christmas 🌲
Thank you ❤
Yes, we really did go far north! The colder climate certainly comes with a lot of challenges, some that we were ready for and a lot that we're learning about as we go. But that's part of the experience that we dreamed of and it sure makes for an exciting experience! We wish you a merry Christmas as well from our cold snowy homestead!
Thanks, will be following your family jorney. Please give my best regards to your wife. Wishing little girls flourish while mum and dad are making their dream life true 🙂😇
@@renata-s5b That's so nice to hear. She sends her regards back! ☺
I've just found your content and I look forward to catching up on what I've missed. I hope you have some joy with getting the septic going before Christmas dinner. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your beautiful family, nice and warm, filled with love and laughter. Best wishes from Cape Town.❤🎄
Awesome! Very cool to have someone from South Africa watching our channel. Hope you enjoy the other videos. Mind you, there's a noticeable difference between the older videos and the later ones (in my honest opinion 😅) Best wishes to you as well and hope you have great Christmas and an even better start to the New Year!
Hi Vince and Family, whatever the nutrients that Vince put in the water for the lambs seemed to really help the mostly Black lamb stand as he seemed to drink more than the White one.
Have to say that it was very perceptive for your daughter Amber to relate the sheep laying down of the sheep to being dead. Even though it wasn't dead it was very weak. The Homestead life can be challenging but what a great environment to raise children.
My condolences for having Septic Tank problems. Especially when it is so cold it makes dealing with it all the more difficult. Hope it has been working ok now, since making the video.
Enjoy your content. Keep up the great work and videos.
It seems to have helped the white lamb as well, but we found out why she isn't standing (although she does try) and that's because she's got a problem with right hind leg. We'll have more of an update on that in the next vlog hopefully.
Amber's a very perceptive girl. She's been like that from when she was a baby, always observing. We're starting to get the flow of homesteading mixed with family life and I think she's feeling that as well and enjoying it more.
As one of our subscribers pointed out to me, I was actually quite lucky to be doing it in the cold weather, cause that made the whole ordeal a lot less pungent!! For now it's functional again...
Love that you enjoy our content!
Very true statement about the cold weather helping subdue to Septic Tank odor.
Certainly!
What a problem to wake up to. Having lived on a holding since 1987 and only having a septic tank system I think that the biggest problem is too much paper and any type of chemicals. It doesn't handle those two things well. Here in South Africa you can also buy enzymes that you start in warm water, then flush and it gives it a bit of a jump start.😂
It was a tough one. I skipped lunch that day. Couldn't stomach it 😅I've now put chicken wire in front of the septic line, so hopefully that catches the paper at least. There's more I can do, but right now I don't want to go back in there! Thanks for the tip about the enzymes. I'll have a look into that!
Excellently done. If you lose electric will your water freeze? How often do you have a power failure? Hey, I really admire your cooper wood ash pan. !! EDIT: Nice work using what you had to put that window in. It's always good to reuse.
Thank you! The water pipes are all deep in the ground below the frost level. About 1.5 metres down, so those should never freeze. The cellar shouldn't get too cold either for that, but we can help and keep it more insulated by shoving snow against the house, which we'll do now that we have plenty of snow to go around! Last year we had a week around -40 degrees Fahrenheit (which is also -40 degrees Celsius) and we had no problems whatsoever with the water freezing. Quite amazing.
Power failures come about 3 to 4 times a year so far where we are. Luckily enough they never lasted too long. Not more than half a day. And then there's different types of maintenance, which means it goes down for several hours as well, happens also a few times of times a year. They have been a good motivation and reminder each time to go off-grid.
It feels really good to reuse stuff indeed. It's great to have had so much left behind by previous owners!!