We bought an old farm in Portugal.

[@ddenice963]

He is hilarious jumping and hopping 😂😂😂😂😂. Love your fur babies.

[@lindapowell917]

I do the same thing with thread on quilts that you draw of the clouds. My favorite stitch pattern.

[@milliebanks7209]

Diogo acts more like a Kangaroo with his bouncing around! He's a sweet heart and kind to the other animals.

[@Winnie-hq5hs]

I was just about to write the same thing. Never seen a dog jump like that😂 Happy fellow❤

[@ruthconstantino6861]

Tigger dog 😊

[@joenice5494]

Thanks! For Diogo and all pets treats

[@FrankieOffGrid]

Thank you so much! Look out for toys and treats in the next videos! 😄

[@MsHapless]

Carissa, your voice is so calming, I could listen to you all day.

[@JadjaVanParghove444111]

Happy belated Birthday Wishes Carissa! Have a wonderful New Year full with love, fun, creativity, and 🐕🐈🐔🐦🍷🥂🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉

[@brianclarke7169]

The template that you both have created is excellent, a very pleasant late evening watch. Well done.

[@lujeancastleberry7310]

Happy birthday carissa you are such a kind and gentle soul may you always be happy and healthy

[@SherryClarke-b6m]

Happy Birthday. You are amazing. Love your artwork and your video style 🥳

[@jacquelineabbas9183]

I really enjoy watching you You should have a wish list or a Post office box so viewers can send you things 😊

[@paulinewilson613]

Happy birthday Carissa, I hope you had a lovely day. Your property is looking great, the flowers are beautiful, such lovely colours, the whole place is a credit to you both. Looking forward to seeing the covering of the well, my goodness that's going to be a real task with those heavy concrete blocks and long pieces of concrete.

[@ruthconstantino6861]

All the animals love cuddles with daddy Ewan and kissies from mummy Carissa 😻🐶🐓

[@kathrynmauro8673]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 🎂 Carissa! I hope all your wishes and dreams come true.

[@patriciabrown8301]

Diago is like a Kangaroo so funny watching him bouncing around beautiful dog he is so lucky you found him he loves you so much

[@duncanmcdowall]

praying mantis hey! Always wondered what those are. Lots in mallorca.

[@isabelinhagomes9076]

Happy Birthday Carrisa🥂🥂🥂🎂🎂🎂🎂😘😘😘

[@neutonrenda2303]

Happy birthday, hope you enjoyed your dinner together. ❤

[@elainemcgran8828]

A very big happy birthday 🎉

[@jenniferkelly6450]

Happy happy painting darling. Hope your day was AMAZING. Much love 🎉❤

[@racebanning6390]

GOOD MORNING, THIS WAS A 1 CUPPA JAVA EPISODE LOL.. ALWAYS MY 1ST UTOOB TO START MY SATURDAY. ITS 830 AM HERE IN IDAHO AND WE ARE 34F DEGREES THIS MORNING ALREADY VERY COOL❄❄. OUR HIGH WILL BE 78F TODAY. THE HIGH DESERT AT 4300FT ELEVATION HAS SUCH EXTREME WEATHER YEAR ROUND. WE HAD -10F DEGREES LAST WINTER, BUT THIS SUMMER WAS MUCH MILDER, ONLY 94F A FEW TIMES. THE LAND IN PORTUGAL LOOKS AWESOME, AND GLAD TO SEE UNCLE NICK IS GONNA HELP GET THE WELL COVERED AND SEALED. WILL HELP WITH LESS ALGAE AND EVAPORATION. HOPE THE WEATHER COOLS AND HAVE A GREAT AUTUMN... GOD BLESS, I ALWAYS REALLY ENJOY YOUR CHANNEL. 👍👍👍🙏🙏

[@arturrosa3166]

Diogo's curiosity about everything shows he must be a really clever dog. His energy level is also amazing. 🙂

[@louistorcello3525]

prepare new wine barrels by filling with very hot water to make the wood swell. There are a number of videos on you tube on natural fruit fly traps. I just use apple cider vinegar and a couple of drops of dish soap in a bright plastic saucer. Try a few different ones to see what works best. Maybe try the home-made vinegar.

[@jpennturner]

Great!

[@milliebanks7209]

I am so happy to see that the well will be covered! An open well always scares me!

[@Winnie-hq5hs]

Me too😮

[@jeanrichardson2044]

They have more wells.

[@FrankieOffGrid]

I’m not sure if we’ll cap the other two.. but we’ll certainly secure and build up the edges and add a solid fence - this also complies with Portuguese law.

[@magicwendy210]

hahahaha when you said you were going to cook a birthday dinner and then your next edited clip was to the chickens LOL made me laugh hehe, great video as usual ☺

[@Neilhuny]

Ditto. made me laugh too

[@RedPhone-mz5lv]

Happy birthday Clarrissa from sunny South Wales

[@myitaliantherapyginafiore4414]

Lovely Filming and editing as usual. Love following along. Thanx for an inspiring Journey. Cheers. Gina in Upstate New York moving to Portugal.

[@SunraeSkatimunggr]

Both your dogs are cute, but I love the leaping one most, jumping around just because it can!

[@ginacrusco234]

Your drawings are incredible. The clouds may have inspired that one, but it feels equally like the heart of a tree, the waves of the ocean, the topography of a plot of land.

[@RuebensTravels]

Happy birthday Carissa. Love your channel. You guys do a fantastic job.

[@neutonrenda2303]

That driveway is sure paying off.👍

[@vickieparkhill5899]

I have so enjoyed watching your videos!!! I live in White Hills Arizona USA. I am familiar with the deadly heat. I survive by tieing a bandana or scarf wet down around my neck. Packed with ice is better!!! Best of luck to you dear people!❤

[@mariabooboo6753]

So admire your commitment and determination. As a portuguese immigrant your blog has brought memories back from my childhood. Hard work pays off, you've built a calm and beautiful life, kudos. I would have called it a day at the first snake.

[@FrankieOffGrid]

Thank you!

[@arturrosa3166]

Olive trees have what is commonly called "alternate bearing". This is a natural phenomenon and you should expect it and plan for it. If you have a plentiful crop this year, you can already probably expect a not-so-plentiful one next year.

[@mm.6991]

A big Happy Birthday Carissa 🥰😘🎉

[@neutonrenda2303]

Your raised beds are looking great, the height of the cosmos is beautiful.

[@peterwhite9261]

Yes, I think Diogo jumps around like a kangaroo. So sutr. All the fur babies are in heaven. Your vlogs are so calming. Congrats on your new launch. You are an awesome artist. I hope your wine turns out good for you. The garden looks beautiful. Good luck with that well. It looks like a lot of hard eork.❤

[@Winnie-hq5hs]

Happy birthday❤❤❤ Your animals are so lucky, not left alone all day. This is how is should be, but not always possible.

[@polgarauk5606]

Belated Happy Birthday Carissa I hope you had a lovely day. Lovely relaxing video yet so much going on really. Hope the beeswax works for you Iwan. Garden beds look lovely. Uncle Nick will make aure well capping will go off seamlessly I am sure. Really hope you shop is doing well Carissa 😊

[@carolbulmer8253]

Happy Birthday, Carissa❤️🎂🎉🎉 Lots doing on your homestead this week. I’m glad that you were able to deal with the cracks in the wine barrels, Iwan. It sounds like the other beverages are looking good. The pumpkin is gorgeous. See you next week❤️❤️

[@dorothymoller566]

I absolutely love the serene portions of your videos, with the clouds, and animals and nature. I look forward to watching them on Saturday morning. 🙏

[@terryevans5476]

Happy birthday Carissa. Love from Cornwall

[@diogonpbrito]

This guyis legit at making and repairing barrels!👇

[@arturrosa3166]

I always love the bucolic moments you show in your videos. So relaxing.

[@projectportugal]

Leaping Diogo, cloud drawings, barrelled wine, block delivery, pumpkins, courgettes, cloud time lapses and beautiful scenery ❤ this video had it all❤❤

[@projectportugal]

We'll do the beams together on the day

[@FrankieOffGrid]

Can’t wait! Need to come and see you first!

[@mariajoseguerreiro9119]

Happy Birthday Clarissa.🥂💐❤

[@tinastill5850]

Happy birthday, dear girl.💚 I'm a recent subscriber and am enjoying your videos. 😊

[@calypso4554]

The wine making, well, also the vinegar process, are very interesting to see. So sorry for the barrels, I hope the bees wax is working! Are the grapes you use all Portugese varieties? And I am glad you cover the well!

[@projectportugal]

❤❤ will watch later

[@leoniekrijgsman7792]

Happy (belated) birthday Carissa🎉

[@sheilakerr-jones4345]

Another lovely, calming video. Of course a cat and a box, any box! The gecko is just precious, ooh!😊Calm Lines…best of luck. I’m in love with the lines in feathers and tree rings.

[@neutonrenda2303]

It's adorable how totally absorbed Diogo is with what you guys are doing. ❤

[@ruthconstantino6861]

🌻Very happy birthday,🌹Carissa🌼

[@annadaurie2435]

The chicken are beautiful, and Diogo runs like a kangaroo. So sweet all the animals are.

[@SJC49]

Happy Birthday, Carissa!😍🇨🇦

[@Aotruba]

Hope you had a very 🎂🎉🎈Happy Birthday🎉🎉🎈🎉🎈🎉 I love watching your videos. Diogo brings me a smile when he jumps. 😅 Kitties are adorable! Do you still have the new kitty? 😻 Thank you for sharing your adventures and tips 👍🥰👍

[@FrankieOffGrid]

We actually found the kittens owner! So he’s back there and very happy, we get weekly updates haha

[@kailand3056]

Happy Birthday, Carissa🎂 you have your heart’s desire, a beautiful garden where you grow your own food. Good luck on capping the well - I can’t wait to see next week’s video!

[@sandramcelrea1842]

I so love watching your animals at play and at sleep. They are such a happy healthy family.

[@ruthconstantino6861]

Can you spritz those fruit flies with a water-dish soap-vinegar solution? An old spray bottle gets a broader spray for me to soak their wings -- they can't fly and drop. They need to be then squished so they don't fly again once they're dry. Maybe leave out the drops of dish soap if you want to collect fallen flies for a lucky baby 🦎?

[@uppanadam]

With the long concrete posts!! Lift it up and carefully it on its end and move it inch by inch to where you want them by flipping them!! So long as you don't break them you should be fine!!

[@mezanian]

Happy Birthday Carissa from Australia, its my 65th on the 7th. 😊 Bon dias.❤

[@neutonrenda2303]

We also have Jeropega in South Africa but we call it Jerapico. There is also a lot of second and third generation Portuguese families. Most of them still speak Portuguese at home, I love that. ❤

[@mikecorcoran6834]

Sending you two much ❤

[@elisabethshuk4302]

I must tell you i enjoy your show so much. Keep up the great work your doing and thank you for sharing a portion of your lives with us!

[@FrankieOffGrid]

Thanks so much

[@neutonrenda2303]

It looks so peaceful in the evenings with the animals following you around the garden.❤

[@niggel33]

Diogo is your homestead security dog, protecting you all. 🙏🌞🌻🐝🦋👏

[@DerekHNorthants]

Your videos are so well put together. Peaceful music. Long relaxed shots of nature. Interspersed with parts of your lives. Please don’t change. UK viewer.

[@slowly_radish8374]

Watching Diogo run & bounce around now is so satisfying, knowing his history & watching his progress. So happy you guys have made SO much love & caring for your pet-friends. Well done! 👍👍

[@meglange3595]

💐🦋Happy Birthday Carissa!! Just a thought, would it work to put carrying straps around the ends of the beams that would go over your shoulders? The garden looks so nice. Mine is all but done. We get brutal winters here. It can get below 0°F, so only hardy perrenials survive. It's sad to see all the lovely annual flowers go at the end of the season. I don't complain about the heat here anymore, but I do the cold 🥶. This morning it's 56°F inside. That's just not comfortable!! I stacked the bed high with blankets last nite, like a cocoon 😄. But I refuse to turn the furnace on yet. A wood stove would be SO lovely. 🔥👐 Looking forward to seeing the well capping operation. Take care. 🍂🥰🌾♥️

[@donaldmackinnon5779]

Nice soothing sounds. Nice work the garden looks good. Looking forward seeing the well capping.🎉🎉

[@rosaribeiro6336]

Olá que animais felizes e fazem a função deles afastamento de répteis brincadeiras que é tudo muito bom para o bem estar animal, esse lugar é um autêntico paraíso tudo em sintonia com a natureza gosto dos vossos vídeos.

[@AleeshaSattva]

This is my second fav. piece of art I've seen of yours - I love the little heart (do you see it?)

[@1dkappe]

I love me some Frankie footage! ❤

[@jeanettenicholas2863]

Happy birthday sweetie hope you have a lovely day

[@peixotoagostinho8792]

Video Genial J'adore.👍👍👍👍👍🇲🇫

[@vonderdornburg]

It's nice to see your place so green 😊

[@sharondoust5002]

Happy birthday to you thank you for your videos and your art work it's inspired me to have a go love seeing the animals especially Frankie and Diego greetings from Australia

[@joannecanetti7481]

Happy birthday Carissa 🎉

[@BrendanClark03]

Happy birthday also

[@MarianneInmarsilia]

Happy Birthday !

[@paularthur1451]

New casks can take 7 days to 2 months to soak before filing with wine according to the Internet 😊

[@FrankieOffGrid]

It’s quite a large gap isn’t it? 😅

[@arjanvogel6444]

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys,Diogo love's the chicken not for eating and he jumped so funny behind his ball it was a good choice for keeping him Frankie loves him and the cats wonderful, it's beautiful your garden good work guys 👍😁.

[@idelsiurquijo7259]

Happy Birthday Carissa!🎉🎂🎁

[@heidihughes8806]

Another beautiful, calm video. Off loading the beams and blocks from the lorry looked like really hard work in the heat of the day! The garden is looking in tip top condition, it's so nice to be able to harvest this late in the year. As usual, the animals were very entertaining 😊💕💕

[@HeidiPriest]

belated happy birthday clarisa❤

[@memeannasvegetables497]

Happy birthday 🎉!

[@lindahernandez7768]

Plant a cabbage plant for the chickens and make compost tea to feed you beautiful garden. Also Electroculture helps keep your soil healthy and your harvest larger.

[@christine3358]

Happy belated birthday! The gardens look great!

[@jamesseltenreich652]

Good Morning Guys love seeing your new videos, can’t wait to be off grid, your Alaskan Brother ❤️🙏🏻

[@markstrahl5399]

Thursday 32 c. Saturday 8 c My dad made wine . It was delicious. Good luck with your wine.

[@FrankieOffGrid]

Thank you!

[@margaretbacon7874]

Happy birthday 🥳 🎊

[@tomprice2501]

Wonderful video again, but I noticed that you guys were struggling with those concrete beams. A good idea would be to get yourselves 2 wheels, make a frame and make two handlebars and a meter of chain (small links with a hook on either end. The centre of gravity must be in the middle of the two wheels with a larger linkage at the top of the triangle (highest point. Then build another the same, if possible twice the size to carry a half ton rock. This saves injury to your back/body. These devices will be very handy to carry very heavy beams, logs, even very heavy stones from A to B Now the one end of the chain hook it onto the centre link of your triangle frame, the other end of the chain take it round the concrete beam, lift it off the ground at least 5 inches, and hook the other end to the centre hook. Now with the other device do the same again. You need two people to do this (one in front doing the pulling and the other person doing the pushing. This is so much easier. Hope this gives you other ideas for other chores on your small holding.

[@KwPaMiles-lf7lu]

Happy birthday ❤ love Ken and Pam keep up the good work X

[@annalinekennedy1027]

Thanks for an interesting, relaxing and beautiful video

[@abigailgerlach5443]

You might consider finding two sets of axles with wheels you could attach to platform to haul things around the property. Think of it as a much larger kid's wagon.

[@19bigred55]

Happy Birthday Carissa!!! I love listening to your voice along with the great music you play. I can't tell you how many times I have drifted off to sleep sitting in my chair just relaxing to your voice. If you guys mix 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar with 3 or 4 drops of liquid dish soap in small containers and place them around your wine barrels it will attract and trap your fruit flies. Also works great in the house when they get pesky. Bless you both

[@junco477]

Thanks for this.

[@FrankieOffGrid]

Thank you!

[@leafside]

Happy birthday Carissa 🦋🌿🌻 xx if you are anything like me they are odd days.. mine is coming up this month too and it’s usually always a time of anxiety and stress but over the last few years I have been working really hard to just see that day as a day to contemplate life and to take from this past hear of life the things I like and to learn from and leve behind the things I don’t.. to do gentle things like drawing and gardening and going for quiet walks. Your garden is looking lovely as always and yes this heat will it ever stop!! I was so happy when we got those days of rain and slight chill in the air but now we are having another summer it seems..please Autumn arrive soon! Xx

[@AnthonyWamsteker-lv7gq]

When lifting ANYTHING, use your legs to take the strain. Like squating. I see that your supervisor/land-surveyor/manager/safety marshal is always on site àka "Diogo".

[@livinginthealgarveportugal3357]

Happy birthday Carissa hope you had a fantastic day 🍾🥂🎂🥰🇵🇹🌻