Off Grid Life | Easter, eggs and little lambs

Episode thirteen, in which we struggle with some logs and Tova makes easter decorations.
The mosses that I was talking about:
Husmossa, Hylocomium splendens
Väggmossa, Pleurozium schreberi
Kammossa, Ptilium crista-castrensis
This is a vlog about our struggles and joys of living off the grid in the forests of Jämtland, Sweden.
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[@Talasbuan]

Thank you! We agree with you that it can be annoying. But at the same time we recognise that it is necessary for creators to do those kind of things to be able to continue working with what they are creating. We would love to be able to offer some merch to those that are interested, and we probably will do some day, but we dont just want to offer any crappy merch so it will take some time to create and plan.

[@movingtargetschannel]

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[@Dani.Torres]

Tova in her dress looks so beautiful! Next time show us more! I started watching all your videos from the beginning since yesterday. Thank you for organizing them in a playlist. I'm obsessed, I like both of your voices, very chill, very calming.

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Wonderful I just love your little rams. They are so cute. Your videos are so relaxing. That little stream is just so beautiful.

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I am so glad you took time to have dinner with family, it is very important to be with people on a regular basis

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[@sweettony9359]

Good stuff. People out there might not fully realize it but building that cabin is very dangerous work. Falling is the obvious one but crushed fingers and broken bones can be just a slip away when working with wood that heavy, even in ideal conditions. Careful!

[@ArtGardenFoodExpressions]

Oh my goodness, I just LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos SO MUCH. I am so grateful to have stumbled into your Channel. All the nature, and snow, and animals, and your chores. I wish I could live like this. City life sucks.. I have been looking for something like this. Your Sheep are so sweet. They are like little dogs.

[@ItayaArt]

Your Easter eggs and branches are so beautiful! You did a lovely job dying them. 💕

[@enlightenedbranch4994]

The stream sound is so clear and calming

[@kimmurphy6864]

Happy Birthday Mathias 🎂🎊🎉🎈🎁

[@VivianaPerino]

Those 2 little lambs are adorable. Happy birthday Mathias. Beautiful Easter decorations.

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I love your lifestyle. Your channel is amazing! xxx

[@TxgrlnGa]

She’s 1 protective mama! ❤️

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Good Team work! I am so proud of you two. You are building your own 🏡 home. God bless you both and will keep you safe.

[@rsoubiea]

i love the songs of all birds, even clucking of the chickens.

[@paulinewhitehouse2568]

Just love the sound's of the chooks and rooster's.

[@stephanemuller55]

You can also use the peel of onions to color your egg shells or even fabric.

[@Talasbuan]

Yes! Its so amazing!

[@Meluforever]

yess, and use a little piece of lard to make them shine :)

[@jenmcginnis3989]

I love the way mom says back off. So great!

[@lizacopeland2388]

Those lambs you have are so precious. Really adorable.

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I love the little Piglets,so utterly cute beyond cute.

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[@Cumbriman]

Love watching the building projects.

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me too

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[@imaloserdude7227]

That was cool, the eggs, the birthday celebration, the Easter sunrise (brrrr), the icy edges near the stream.

[@crittercosner2877]

The chicken egg, feather and birch branch in milk bottle decoration was very well done and looked nice.

[@peterjones2411]

you have a beautiful wife, home and you make a wonderful couple. love your vlogs. you have chosen a hard life but it will get better eventually. I hope you both fulfill your dreams. and a very happy birthday ! PS you should have drank the wine enjoyed the the afternoon off. you both deserve it ha ha. best wishes.

[@Talasbuan]

Thank you so much, and to be honest, we did take the afternoon off even though we didn't plan it ;) Have a lovely Sunday and all the best to you and yours!

[@stephaniewilson3955]

A ewe that has just given birth is ferocious in protecting her lambs against a lot more than her nosy flock. And sheep milk makes good cheese.

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Every video is pure inspiration ❤️ thank you.

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this video keep me alive during this covid lockdown n stranded abroad. thank you a lot

[@cheryljohnson579]

Such a nice couple pure and simple life may God bless your family

[@franmullins3208]

I so enjoyed your awesome video. Such a beautiful place you have with nature all around you. I am excited to see more of your lifestyle and the building of your homestead. Looking forward to the coming spring and the progress that you make. Love from the USA

[@Talasbuan]

Thank you for your kind words! Mathias dad came for a visit so maybe we can do some progress this week with the house :) All the best /Tova

[@kimmurphy6864]

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL IN YOUR DRESS TOVA! 😃🌞

[@timmiecaruso6078]

Your videos are breathtaking. I loved learning about the house building. I also loved the baby sheep and the chickens and the stream video. Thank you for letting us be a part of your life. Oh yes, I also loved the egg dying. Happy Easter.

[@Talasbuan]

Thank you for your kind and wonderful words, have a wonderful weekend! /Tova

[@johnblake3863]

You guys are great! Everything is so interesting. Peg or dowel works fine! Your problems with snow or pegs that are too tight are just normal problems that we all face every day. I enjoy watching you come up with solutions!!

[@SamuliR89]

Sauna mentioned! I wonder if you already have a sauna, but you're just going to build it in future. I think the sauna is really important when living off the grid. Just a opinion of a Finn. Hyvää pääsiäistä!

[@Talasbuan]

Kiitos! Yes a sauna is mandatory! And it needs to be buildilt well so the löyly is great. I've been to so many "saunas" here in sweden that is worthless. I really look forward to enjoy our new sauna, hopefully very soon :) /Mathias

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You guys are so talented. I just started watching your videos from the first vlog. I enjoy watching your lives in the woods and living off the land and doing almost everything by hand. Amazing!

[@patriciamarsden5994]

What an amazing connection with Nature. Many thanks for sharing.

[@petter5721]

Building with Falu Röfärg looks so nice!

[@marthesegauci5718]

I came across your vlog a few weeks ago, and have been watching them every night. You are both very intelligent, calm and amazing. You have skills and I love watching you work together in harmony. God bless you 🤗 from 🇲🇹 Malta

[@ronvroom5920]

Don’t fret about your English skills, you have excellent ability. This comes an American who I am ashamed to admit, I only have one language though I have studied a couple others. I have started watching from the beginning episode and thank you for the endless hours of enjoyment. I am 81 years old and am learning some new tricks from both of you. I have a couple tricks I would love to share with you. I live in north Minnesota where many people are Swedish or Norwegian. My wife Judy is first generation Swede. Keep up the excellent work. How did you come out with your taxes and let me know if you need health. Love Ron

[@asiam7436]

Congratulations on getting that beam on the house. I think your easter tree is so lovely. Everything so well done. I am going to share this on social media with people who I think will appreciate your hard work and care in all you do. Tack!

[@Talasbuan]

Thank you, we are really appreciate your kind support! Have a lovely Sunday! /Tova

[@Moschos1000]

Thank you for your beautiful imagenes of your life in the wood! I feel like I am there!

[@amberspringfield1757]

I want to pick up a shovel and help! Watching your videos is like therapy! I love how Matthias is so calm and patient. You two are such beautiful people doing wonders in your northern homestead! The front room is an entryway, front porch, or mudroom in US, depending on where you live, the purpose and the climate. The wooden pegs are dowels. I love watching you two!

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You're so cute you both You precious couple Thanks for sharing your genuine way of life God Bless You It's too much entertaining Good luck *** Greetings***

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wonderful life you two have built for yourselves !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! soooo happy for you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@geraldkim4801]

🤗HAPPY BIRTHDAY🤗 Mathias, nice job on the timber pegs (dowels), beautiful Easter decorations Tova,very creative. Thank you guys for sharing with us.

[@Talasbuan]

Mathias says Thank you, and thank you for watching! :) /Tova

[@johnkahts7698]

I love watching your videos, because you are not plastic people, but people of flesh and blood, unlike most of the world.

[@MordSid]

Tova, you looks wonderful in a dress! and small piglets were adorable 🤗 so cute. I really admire how you both are building a cabin!

[@melissabeech5104]

Y’all make me so nervous walking on the beams of the house! Please be careful! I love your channel

[@german.gorbachov]

In Russia one of the ways we use to color eggs for Easter - is boiling onion or walnut shells.

[@lindabonomi7274]

Beautiful video!

[@paulinebrus7580]

So interesting to see you both building the house! I am happy you filmed so much of the proces and also without music. This way I can hear what say and it feels very calming. Don't get me wrong..I love music ;) also the ones you have been choosing for the previous vlogs. But it is very refreshing to watch a vlog with a little less music somethings. It feels like I am there with you and you teaching me how to build a house :) I love it. Since I was 16 I wished for building my own house by hand. Unfortunatly never did. Maybe in the future, although I am 41 years ..young ;) already. Thank you sharing so much of your life toghether. Bingwatching here is going great :P haha Watching from the first video's, but sometime a newer one in between, just because I am curious to see how the projects have been developing. Love you channel and your lifestyle so much. Makes me happy to see someone live the life I wish for.

[@ladyblacketter1646]

Wow it’s beautiful Mathias!happy Easter to you both love 💕 you

[@terrywethington3054]

I really enjoyed your videos. I'm jealous...... Thank you, Terry Wethington Russell Springs, Kentucky USA

[@terrywethington3054]

I'm watching today as well. Thank you for liking my comments

[@sherry2836]

Your Easter eggs are beautiful. As are your lambs, , your dogs and cats, and your gorgeous black rooster. Even your squirrels are adorable! So glad I came upon your channel. I have been binge watching all day. Thank you for sharing your life!

[@jorisleising]

Beautiful to see how the mother protects her children and also good to see how you guys deal with it 🙏

[@alfaman4113]

With the sheep your doing the right thing. Sheep are just working out the pecking order, and mums just making sure they don’t get bullied

[@AnnetteSimone]

Thanks for showing me how to build a Lafted house. One of my Norwegian friends build one with her father, but I never understood how exactly...and have never heard of those pins in holes in the beam above and beneath. I am learning a lot from you two. Her nå selv kjøpt meg småbruk, little old farm, in southern Norway. I am going to 'klekk høns' from March, going to have chickens. I wish you all the best with your houses and your family and kids.

[@mpizar]

Happy birthday Mathias, I wish you both a lot of happyness and blessing.

[@sroberts605]

Good heavens! 9:46 you never know what's going on when you turn your back for a sec :) Great, patient woodwork, and beautiful photography as ever.

[@michellejaggard9657]

The entry you were describing in a previous video to me sounded like what I have heard called an Arctic Entry. An unheated space you enter, take outer wear off and hang up and also keeps cold winds from blowing into your cabin.

[@spinkyl9559]

aka mud room

[@tomgrantham9992]

Very interesting, especially the log cabin building. Keep up the great videos.🇨🇦🇨🇦😊😊

[@ladyblacketter1646]

Happy birthday Mathias and many more blessings to come your way; I wish I could celebrate with you guys enjoy!i love 💕 you 😘

[@cbwmama8461]

I do enjoy your videos :o) Up home -- Adirondack Mountains -- cold (minus 30F) snowy winters (3-4 ft accumulation) we had houses that were designed like those in Vermont -- because the founders of our town came from Vermont -- called connected farm buildings. From the house you could walk thru a series of unheated rooms -- food storage -- firewood storage -- work shop -- feed storage -- etc -- into the barn. No need to shovel snow to get to your animals -- no need to face the Arctic blast of winter when you had to feed or milk. Due to doors and the distance from the barn -- odors did not enter the house. The snow you have seen this winter reminded me of the winters we had growing up. Good luck to you :o)

[@Talasbuan]

aha! That sounds really interesting! Would be great to see some video footage of a farm like that. This winter was exeptional. From what I've heard from the older people who live here there hasn't been a winter like this in many years. /Mathias

[@cbwmama8461]

This is the best I could find but if you google New England or Vermont connected farm architecture you can find pictures. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5KlfZialqpprMU

[@vonHannersdorf]

Wow, it's awesome look at your old videos and compare that progress at your homestead with your new one. But its still beautiful, Matthias has talent (not only) with camera. But I missed Ivar here. He bring warm shine and smile everything he is in a picture.

[@Aethuviel]

They moved? I haven't watched in over four years, am catching up from the beginning.

[@Eterea2025]

You are my inspiration! Love 💖

[@dpower02]

Another design feature you may need on the house roof is the overhang along the eaves, I have 2 feet overhang and I can walk on the side of my barn and my house when it is raining and not get wet, with the right overhang the snow will slide off the roof and you will be able to walk adjacent to the building. There is also a tool here in Canada it is called a roof rake it is like a long pole with a bend at the roof end and the rake is like a flat board on the end of the pole. The roof rake allows you to stand on the ground and rake the snow off the roof at least the eve end of the roof so that the snow does not build up so high you can rake the roof each or every other storm and the snow from the roof isn't such a problem.

[@Talasbuan]

We plan on the "new" cabin to have some kind of roof along the long wall, so i guess its gonna be something like you are writing about. I think we have that kind of rake here in sweden also, we don't have one tough, maybe its a good thing to have!

[@cherylcoder4318]

Yes! I enjoyed watching this very much. Happy Birthday Mathias, and Happy Easter to both of you. It is so much fun to share your life.

[@Talasbuan]

Thank you so much for watching! Have a wonderful day. /Tova

[@bluesanc88]

Love this channel so much! Love from South Africa

[@algs229635]

I watched this video eating green pumpkin fruits bathed in eggs and tomato salad. I never came close to a sheep; in my region there are a lot of fruit and vegetable plantations and sugar cane, some farms have beef cattle but it is not the main focus You have chosen a rather difficult way of life, but I know you love this way of living

[@kristingrounds4163]

I love your Easter branches...turned out so cute

[@richardreimer]

My Dad taught me to use soap on those pegs. But grease or butter would suffice. Not so much oil because the wood would absorb it and the wood would swell, which you don't want to happen. But of course this is a VLOG that's 2 years old & you have already solved the problem. P.S. Your videography is really VERY GOOD!

[@tshirt4086]

Rub bar soap on dowels (pegs) to slide easier. Oil will absorb into wood. I love watching your videos.

[@elviraunwin8364]

Happy Easter to the glorious couple in Talasbuan🐣🐣🐣Tova you look beautiful with the dress❤️

[@Sheddtycoon]

You could use a front loader for your tractor.I have one on mine and it works very good for removing snow.

[@marybethterhaar4200]

You are both so creative ❤! I love your stories.

[@lornaolynn105]

Leaves piled up around greenhouse would keep it warm (could be piped in like underground heating system) and then be good compost for new seedlings Pigeon (bird) poo best fertiliser for onions

[@GrandmasGardenofHope]

My grandmother came to the USA from Sweden. I love to hear the lilt in your voices! It sounds like home! I'm hoping I will come across you, Tuva, making sweet cheese. Im not sure of the spelling in swedish but "soot tost" it was a favorite of ours

[@Talasbuan]

Interesting, could you explain a little what it looked like, or how it was made, or just how you prefered to eat it?

[@annemariemoormann996]

Happy birthday-fika, Mathias!

[@tessahugo5448]

Well done.You have done so much on your Homestead.I cannot wait for your House to be finished.All the way from Cape Town South Africa x

[@juanitasullivan3372]

Sounds like a barn would be in order for all the animals with their private little spots and for the cows. Just what you need. Something else to build! LOL

[@cassityart7001]

Have a wonderful weekend. Your home is coming along well. You are patiently crafting it. Looking beautiful. The little lambs are healthy and strong. Where we live in the US is S E Tennessee. The asparagus is coming through as is the cilantro and basil. We trade with our neighbor their hen yard compost for our garden and we give them old garden plants for their laying hens. They trade eggs for greens they juice. Thank you for your video.

[@Talasbuan]

Thank you so much! How lovely to make some trades between neighbours. Im jealous though of your early growth :D /Tova

[@jordanallen3078]

I'm just going to assume that means "house moss" because that makes the most sense to me. 😄

[@SCHNEKM483BK]

Holy crap, I thought life was hard at the 43rd parallel. Mo' power to ya'!

[@shawndyer8140]

You all work hard with out the te4oist stress ofodern city life I pray and foresee long healthy lives

[@themurrrr]

7:48 I gasped when I saw the chicken right under the snow! But I think Tova noticed too and that was what she said.

[@namuuntengis1791]

Kiitos.

[@neillawson2578]

LOL "But I need to take a shit now!!" VERY funny. They are called 'dowels' or 'pegs'. See, your English is SOO good. I love the sliding door on the greenhouse - great idea. Wine, cheese, sunshine and Tova kisses - what else can do you need? Happy Birthday Mathieu and Happy Easter to you both.