We Regret To Inform You... | @Simple Life Reclaimed| Episode 88| 10.27.22

Good morning everybody. Good morning, good morning. Welcome back to Real Talk with SLR. How are you guys doing today? Well yesterday was a super duper busy day. Yes. We got a ton done though. Yeah we uh we definitely put it in yesterday that's for sure. Yeah so yesterday morning I had to run off to town. Gary and I took two separate vehicles because I had to go to a dentist appointment. Yay right? But I did the thing. I got done and then um while I was in town doing that Gary went over to David's with Come On Homesteading and he helped him out a lot with Drew with Drew's Lens and the boys really put it in over there. Yeah I wasn't able to go over to the dump because I realized what time it was. I was all I need to get over there and I need to be there earlier so that way we can do whatever else needs to happen first before the concrete gets there. So I was like nah I'll do the dump run another day. Yeah it's still on the to-do list but that's all right we'll just keep loading it up. We'll just keep loading it up. I did tarp it down though. Yeah I saw that I was like oh good job that way nothing's flying out the back. Yeah. But man I showed up over there after my errands in town um I did meet back up and went over to Come On Mountain and I helped out um with the filming. I didn't really help out too too much with all the work that was being done. I did a little bit but you got in there with the trial. I did but I didn't you know I left it to y'all and I was like you know what too many cooks in the kitchen type of a situation and I will be better suited with my strong suit and I'll just you know work the cameras and uh be there for cheerleading and moral support. It was a good time. I mean it was uh it was the typical you know guy construction crew banter back and forth it was it was a fun time. It was a it was a really really good time not stressful at all at least for me. I mean poor David. I was like hate my slab. Hey we've been there before man we've been there before uh there were some hairy uh situations that were definitely brought up but I would say that you guys worked it through and you guys worked it and I ended up having to leave before Gary. I got there later than Gary and I had to leave before Gary because I had to come back and you know the kids were getting home from school and I wanted to be here and Anthony you know was sick yesterday and stuff so I didn't want to have all of the kids over on Anthony and Roxanne you know I wanted to be here for them so I did end up having to leave but when I was leaving and when I left it was already shaping up to be looking really really nice and David did send me some text pictures last night like right when they were right after Gary had left and man it looks beautiful. You and Drew and David knocked it out over there on Come On Mountain. You guys did a great job. It turned out really really good. I'm really happy with it. Yeah. The uh man though talk about working it. We probably worked it way more than we needed to but man talk about working it. I cannot say that you didn't put in the work yesterday. I'll just I'll just say that you cannot say that y'all didn't work because it was a lot of work. Man. It was a lot of work. I think the truck left at like 1 30 and we weren't done until like right about 7. It was like that whole time of just all right let's uh work it as much as we can. We're like all right let's just let it dry a little bit. Let's work it some more. Work it again. We kept back and forth back and forth but yeah and my heart goes out to those uh concrete guys that do work anything like that that has to do with concrete like my heart goes out to you guys. It's a delicate process. It's a delicate pain in the butt of uh yeah constantly got to stay on it. Yeah. Which I mean I'm glad that it wasn't you know hot or anything like that or like super it made it to where it cured super quick. Yeah it was a good mix. But it was a good it was a good all around mix. Yeah. And we just had to work it. And the driver was a lot better than the drivers that we have had in the past. Definitely was listening and paying attention and was doing a very good job. So I know David is super duper happy that he can now move on to some of the next steps. He's that much closer to a bathroom. That much closer to having his pump house and everything all complete and all the stuff that he's going to be doing over there. I mean he's got big plans for that area and I can't wait to see him do it because I know he's going to do a great job for it. It's gonna be good. Yeah. It's gonna be I can't wait because that now gives him such a good leg up. It does. And a spot to go and it's he he set that up thing he set that thing up right. He did. So now it should be an easier he'll be able to get that done pretty quick. And his you know his whole area it's not small it's a big area. Like our well house that we're doing is like a micro tiny well house compared to his. His is like Taj Mahal. It's beautiful. It's big. But it's not just a pump house. He's got so much plans for that area. It's going to be like his his whole water station you know kind of situation going on which is going to be great especially for his whole setup on his mountain. It's perfect. I guess kind of going back to our well house and everything. So the Grady's were out here. You guys saw that video. We did get several of the blocks up. We got four up. We have six to go for our well house. So we're actually going to have to be laying some block today. Gary and I are going to fire up old Betsy and get out there and get to work on it today. We do have to wait for it to warm up just a tab because we woke up this morning and it was like 35 36 degrees outside. Yeah. And the old case with the mortar the whole story of the mortar just like last year you can't do it when it's too cold. You have to have it at least 40 degrees or above. So we're kind of waiting for the sun to peek out just a little bit more. Maybe another hour or so we'll be able to go outside and start mixing. It's supposed to be you know upper 60s lower 70s today. So it should be a beautiful day. We'll be able to get it done but we just can't go out right this second. We have to wait for the sun to actually fully pop out because the sun just barely started coming over the mountain. So we just need to wait just a little bit longer because that area is super shaded too. So it's all right. We'll be able to get on it here in just a little bit. Yeah. And we'll be able to set section off some stuff right away like we can go out there and work on other stuff. Oh for sure. Before we start hitting that. So yeah. You gotta get that area prepped too. Two blocks, two rows to go up today. And I know that you know when me and Gary get working on the block we're like a well-oiled machine. We've done it so much with this whole building. So it's kind of just like riding a bike you know. Gary was kind of poking at me when we were working with It's All Grady. He's like you're gonna remember how to do the mix? I'm like it's like riding a bike. I got this. And he was he was watching me eagle eyeing me and then as soon as I made the first batch he was like yeah you got it. I was like yes I do. That was that was a great mix. It was. Both mixes were great. I mean. Well like I said it's like riding a bike man. You do it this much. Yes. For I mean we're not professionals by any means you know. But you have this much practice with it you kind of you don't forget. You don't forget. When the professionals always say it's all about the mud it's not a lie. They ain't lying. That makes the job be able to go so much quicker and easier. And I've learned by making terrible batches of mud. I've made those terrible batches where it's too wet it's too dry it has rocks in it you know. I've made those batches and then I've seen Gary struggle with those batches. And I just you know you don't want to do that. And it just goes so much faster and smoother when you do it right. So I've learned. I've learned what to do what not to do. And again we're not professionals by any means but we do know a thing or two about it. And I'm confident that today when we go out there and slap it all together we'll be able to get those two rows up pretty quickly. No. I mean it's me and you. We got this pretty quick. It's pretty I mean and those two rows I mean it's what nine ten roughly per row. Yeah. So 20 blocks. Yeah you got that. We'll be done in a couple of hours. And I mean the majority of the time is going to be again mixing the mud and you know making sure everything's plumb and level and square. You always got to go off on that. So that's all very time consuming. But once you actually have it mixed and you're slapping the blocks down Gary does it pretty quick these days. Yep. I'll be able to get her going and then I'll be able to cut those pieces get those in and then if they hit it again. Yep. So we're hoping today to be able to finish our part of the work for the well house. I know Anthony and Roxanne they're itching to get over there and cap it off with the roof and the door and get it finished because you know next month it's supposed to start really being cold all the time. At least you know the trending for our area and this winter we're all expecting all over the country I think all over the world because of that polar vortex or whatever we're all expecting an extra cold long winter. So we definitely want to get that done before it actually is here. It's already getting closer and closer. And then we can have it behind us and we can continue working on some of the other stuff that we got to do here inside the basement. The last couple of weeks as you guys know have been great. We've been hanging out with a lot of friends. We've had a lot of company out here like Jaylina came out and It's All Grady came out and then we had Drew's big family get together his welcome home party and we've been very very busy though so and then it was just me coming off of being sick. So now that I'm feeling better we got kind of all the company and visits and stuff kind of out of the way for a little while. I know that we're going to be pressing forward on a lot of this finishing stuff here in the basement because Gary is just like itching to start on that garage. He's like let's do it let's do it and I want to do it too. We're all ready to do it but again we had other things planned you know so. It's coming down the line I mean hey I'm just happy that we've got as far as we did right now. Yeah. You know and now everything else it's going to be able to easily smoothly get done. You know it shouldn't be a huge disaster headache or anything else. Everything's lining up perfectly. Yeah I would say so too. With our timeline of what we want and everything else everything's starting to come down to that nice timeline of yes. And it's so much less stressful now too and I know for me personally like just having the space of being inside the basement and being able to get some more normalcy like with the kids and the routines and dinner times and you know like just just being able to have that has taken such a burden off of me and it's made everything so much more enjoyable. Yeah. Just like even the work that we have to do it's just so much more enjoyable because I'm less stressed out you know. I feel you on that. I feel you on that one. Everything's been working out to our liking and I do have so I regret to inform you. Huh? I regret to inform you guys that we don't have a video for you guys today. That's where I was going to go with that. What? What's going on now? Yeah we don't have a video to post for you guys today because we did work really hard over at David's yesterday and then we got back and then it was the nightly routine of showers and dinner and all that stuff and I just. This week's been a little uh crazy with the weather too. Yeah. And it's just been yeah. A little tidying up here and there. We didn't really want to film that. No I didn't want to film and like a lot of you guys want to see you know like the fireplace and see how everything's all set up and I want to show you guys um but again earlier in the week we were talking about how we had drug everything out from the trailer in here and it was just a big bomb. I didn't want to film when it was just a big bomb because then you guys can't really see you know everything so this week I did clean pretty much everything all up. I got most of the stuff organized and where it needs to be so we will be showing you guys um this new digs here inside the basement in tomorrow's video. Yes. As well as it's going to be a a show and tell so we're going to be showing you guys all this stuff inside the basement but we're also going to be working on the well house. I'm going to try to maybe combine it into one video. I don't know I don't know how it's going to turn out until I actually start editing what we have. Yeah. Because you want it to make sense. You got a lot when you have a lot of random footage and you just try to kind of piece it all together sometimes it makes editing a little difficult. Other times it goes super smooth so I don't really know my brain has been so scattered um I don't know how it's going to go yet but I'm sure it's going to be good and um we'll have that out whatever we get today and mixed in with you know some of the stuff we took earlier on in the week and I'll put it out for you guys tomorrow. I was trying to do and I am going to still continue to try to do three videos a week for you guys on Simple Life Reclaimed um but as as you guys know with all the company and stuff that we've had going on it's been a little difficult for me to put out the three videos a week that's why I've just been doing the two this week unfortunately you guys are just going to get the two you guys got the one earlier this week with the Grady's and you guys are going to get one tomorrow um but I know that we have a lot of stuff we have to do this weekend with like the filters for um the the basement we got to do the filter and the filter house. We got a lot to do yeah so the biggest issue is that we're fighting the weather yeah and today is the only day that we're going to be able to do it so yep we've got a lot to do yeah this weekend it's supposed to be super rainy and yucky so all the concrete mixing and all the mortar mixing and all that kind of stuff that has to be outside has to be done today it's got to be done today and get it all squared away so that way it can cure and do what it needs to do and then we can start building the filter house uh once the weather goes away and everything else and we can start putting those in yeah I definitely want to get the filters on as you know as soon as we can well yeah you know but but yeah we got we got a plan we got stuff going on we got stuff going on we got to do we got to do what it do get it done and we gonna do what it do yeah um the kids this weekend is kind of the only weekend like before halloween and stuff and so like there is a haunted house but the weather is supposed to be so nasty this weekend i'm not sure if we're going to be able to do any of that with them just because it's supposed to be really rainy we'll see what happens with the rain yeah you know i yeah it was supposed to be raining today and it and then it pushed back push back so so who knows who knows what's going to happen wacky weather yes wacky wacky weather but we are going to be doing uh if when we can't work outside there is plenty of stuff that we have to do inside still i don't even want to say it but we do have to do the mudding and the the taping and the drywall inside the bathroom i do have to still paint in there we got to secure those cabinets to the wall like the bathroom really kind of needs our attention um but it doesn't it's still functional like we could go in there and shower and do what we need to do so it's functional we could use it but it's not finished and i do want to finish off that room because that's the only room here i would like to get the toilet paper roll where it needs to be i know the towel hangers and i just haven't hung it because i'm gonna have to remove it to mud it and paint it and yeah yeah we got to finish it we have to finish it it's like i don't want to i don't want to even put it on it i know but i know we got to get that finished there is stuff inside like that that we have to finish and um now that we got that cabinet too it's pushing me a little bit more to finish that bathroom yeah because before it was like well we still need to get stuff but now we don't need to get anything so i just need to get off my butt and do it yeah well we have time this weekend it's going to be raining and i mean with the mudding you as you know you tape and mud and then you gotta wait and then you gotta sand and then mud again it's a three-day process so we might as well start that three-day process yeah you're right you know you're right i know it just sucks i don't want to be right about it i don't want something i don't want to be right about oh we'll get it done i wish i could just go and have it done i know but trust me i wish i could do that it doesn't work that way unless it's going to be a little interesting unless you put the work in no it'll work yeah it'll work out we'll get it it'll get her going one way or another yeah it'll be done yeah so we definitely uh will be filming today i'll be editing tonight you guys will have a new video on simple life reclaimed tomorrow um we're gonna keep filming this weekend and you guys will be seeing us again um on tuesday so i did change if you guys didn't notice i mentioned it before in past real talks that we changed our uploading days so usually what what i would the schedule i would like to be on is i would like to be uploading on tuesdays thursdays and saturdays uh just so that way it keeps my weekends off and it gives me time to actually work physically doing the labor and then also work at night doing the editing and stuff and it keeps me having plenty of family time and weekends and everything with the kids and all that um this week obviously is going to be a little different because instead of making y'all wait till saturday i'm going to post it tomorrow so it's going to be friday but then next week i'm going to try to get back on that tuesday thursday saturday and i'm going to try to keep it that way to the best of my ability um when we have company over and things get kind of jumbled around well you know that's life and we got to kind of post accordingly yeah kind of go with the flow go with the flow no stress i'm not stressing over it i know you people watching this video right now you guys ain't stressing over you guys love us and tell us you know don't worry and you know so i i take your guys's advice i'm not worried i'm just informing i'm just i'm just letting y'all know so um i am a little hungry though i want to get a bite to eat before we get out yeah and we have just a little while because i can see the sun starting to well i have a feeling it's probably at that temperature now yeah it might be maybe because all it's got to go to is 40 yep so we're talking about four degrees you know it might be that sun is perfect i know when i was driving over to kermans you could see all the frost on the grass and everything turning into steam it was pretty cool yeah it's all like whoa that's neat i didn't know what was going on i was like something did somebody like start something on fire like i got closer i was like oh i know what that is yeah i've seen that before it's a steam the sun's hitting it just try it yeah we got a lot of stuff to do though yep and anthony and roxanne so you guys thank you so much for sending prayers for my brother um i know that they are going to be doing a daily vibe today so if you guys um did not know anthony and roxanne with country road cure they also have a little side channel where they update you guys on what's going on with with their build what's going on with their day and then they call it uh the daily vibe with roxanne yeah and um you guys should go check it out but i know that he's planning on doing one for you guys today they did put out a video for you yesterday he edited yesterday even though he wasn't feeling well um like he last yesterday night yeah or yesterday before there's a video i think it was the day before yesterday night and then he like worked himself too much because we were talking with him this morning and then he was like oh man yesterday was just so bad he was just like hunched over just feeling so bad so but he is feeling better today he walked down to the bus stop with us and we got to have our 41.36 morning meeting and discuss all the things that each of us are doing that's something that we do um together every morning we all get up we all walk the kids down to the bus stop and then as us adults are walking up from the bus stop we all have like our little powwow and we talk about like what me and gary are doing they talk about what they're doing and we talk about what we need to do together and i know that they're excited to get to work on the well house too but they are also trying to get themselves sleeping inside their house yes because they're still sleeping inside the trailer and they're close they're really really close so i'm super excited for them they're right there but i know that they want to finish up their portion of the well house too so that way none of us are left without water water is life so yes it is yes it is so they're going to be busy with that but i want to send you guys over there and check them out this morning send them some love on their new post they're going to be uploading soon if it's not already up um and i want to thank you guys for all the prayers and well wishes for my family and for my brother for his speedy recovery because although he was down and out for three days it you know could have been worse and he's feeling much better now so send you send him all of the love and prayers and good vibes i'm sure they're having a good vibe this morning on the daily vibe heck yeah but me and gary are going to get out of here i got the rumbly and the tumbly and we've got a lot of work we got to get done today so i want to thank you guys so much for watching today's video stay tuned for new posts on simple life reclaimed and we will see you guys tomorrow so until then guys we love you all and we hope you have a good one and we'll catch you on the next one bye you guys