We Need To Take Care Of This!! This Is Really Bugging Us//Life Off Grid In Portugal.

We need to do something about this, it might be dangerous for our animals and it is also getting more dangerous for us!
We try to live with nature as much as possible, but sometimes we just have to do something. So it is time to take care of this.
We love to live here and build our life, slowly but surely it is all coming together now.
There is just so much to take care of we can’t always move fast. We also try to take time to enjoy the summer and family time.
Thank you for supporting us by your encouragements and wonderful tips and advices 🥰
Blessings from,
Arend, Bionda, Yanick, Thekla & Neorah
🐾 Dutch & Hunter
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About:
Bionda, Arend and children who left there normal day living to move into a motorhome traveling through Europe! We now bought a property in Central Portugal to build our off grid homestead. Come and join our adventure!
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[@AB-so3jv]

wow, nice electrical set up. awesome!!!

[@biondaeliza7751]

Thank you! 😊

[@donaldmackinnon5779]

Great work guys. It’s all starting to come together. Another step forward well done. Bless you all ❤

[@biondaeliza7751]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@susanyates4233]

I sympathise about he wasps. One year I had a bees nest and a wasps nest in the ceiling of my husband`s old workshop. Last year the wasps returned, but I had foam spray, which sorted them, without taking the ceilings down again. I do hope that you can get rid of them. Best wishes, from Susan.

[@biondaeliza7751]

Oh wow! I usually don’t mind them. But when they are coming so close and building their nest nearby it is much needed to do something. Happy to hear you had a good solution to get rid of them. We noticed that we come more to the time where they get easily agitated so we need to control them a little 😊

[@LiLBitsDK]

sometimes a stuck rod (that has been in the ground for a while) can be losened by whacking it a few times with a hammer... even though it goes further down then it also loosen the soil around the rod making it easier to get up when it is so dry

[@biondaeliza7751]

We got it out, indeed with loosening the ground. The soil is concrete at the moment 😅

[@Mydamian55]

Zonde van die batterijen. Milieuvriendelijker waren zoutwaterbatterijen geweest. En voor thuisgebruik heel goed mogelijk.

[@biondaeliza7751]

De eerste keer dat ik daar van hoor. Klinkt als redelijk nieuw. Wie weet komt het er ook in de toekomst.

[@pedrof3364]

love you guys!

[@biondaeliza7751]

Happy to have you here 😊

[@joyce29402]

Interesting video again. We are in central Portugal as well. Can I ask who you used for your solar system .Did the control system come pre assembled? It seemed like it might which would be a great help.

[@biondaeliza7751]

Hi, we bought ours at solar shop. It is mostly pre assembled but now we are trying to figure out the wiring. We haven’t been able to find a manual on that and now we are waiting for an answer. We take you along on the videos on how it is going to work out. Good luck on your journey here😊

[@afrlala3593]

Good to see you are moving forward with the solar system.

[@biondaeliza7751]

Yeah, we are finally getting some power upgrade. Looking forward to have a bigger fridge 😍

[@pennyblack5377]

Hi from NZ, with the wasps I think they will return to the nests at night, so the best time to remove them is to do it at night...otherwise all the others that are away from the nest will just create another nest somewhere else. Also I have found if you deal with a few big nests early in summer then you will have smaller numbers for the rest of the season. Here they will destroy honeybees and butterfly cocoons so there needs to be a balance. The best remedy for stings I've found is making a paste of baking soda and water....best of luck!

[@biondaeliza7751]

Thanks, it is a really helpful tip! For me they don’t have to be completely gone, we also need them. But this nest is just too big and is too close, they come after our animals and us. We have been taking down small nest in spring but discovered this one just recently. I don’t mind if they make a smaller nest, just not in the kitchen 😅

[@trevorwindle8980]

The trouble is each nest creates 30 queens minimum that go and create more my neighbours had a colony set themselves up within the roof cavity and just above the front door I keep bees and they are hideous to them killing robbing they are not native to australia and have no natural predators they make nests 1 .5 metres round excavating as they grow we if no danger of burning your building down take a sheet of newspaper and under the table or where they have attached their nest light into piece at pass it under the nest burning the wings off they drop to floor and step on them, the neighbours I had packing tape around flea bomb secured to the verandah rafters and at night I pressed the bomb trigger and it sprayed into the entrance and fumigated the cavity been a year and no returns good luck

[@evonneanderson7488]

great job happy for y'all

[@josecarloslourenco8576]

Olá ❤ sending Love from Sintra (Lisboa)

[@biondaeliza7751]

Greetings back from Castelo Branco 🇵🇹☀️

[@juanitakauffman6336]

😊😊😊

[@arjanvogel6444]

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you all guys, happy to see you guys are safe good work 👍😁.

[@biondaeliza7751]

Yes we are! It was a big fire, not too far but also not very close. We do know people who were in the middle of it. At night we could see the flames.

[@arjanvogel6444]

@@biondaeliza7751 The Pips had it on the outside of the village and where keeping the ground wet. and the Portugal project could see a big fire next to his village too.😇💓💓💓

[@arjanvogel6444]

Maybe you can make the earth wire next to the life wire so not in the ground for the goat's fence it should not though the fence so if they that's the ground first and then the life wire. Just a idea 💡. 😇💓💓💓

[@biondaeliza7751]

That is an idea. Thanks for thinking along. 💚

[@alanknight7867]

Hi I know nothing about electric fencing but if lack of soil conductivity is the problem you could add earth wires to the fence .( Every other wire ) but to work the goat has to touch 2 wires at the same time . Alan

[@biondaeliza7751]

We really think it all has to do with the drought now. It was working perfectly before. So we have excepted the situation as it is now and hope all will work fine when the weather changes. Thanks for thinking along on this project 😊

[@AlongThePathsOfNature]

The waps that have the nest on the floor are usually more agressive. But I've already had to knock down a nest of the size of my hand, with at least 30 wasps in it and several larvae/eggs. Not easy to deal with them. Try to deal with them at night if you can, because at that moment they're all in the nest. Now that you "tasted" the dificulties of climate here in Portugal (summer, winter, draughts, fires), you're more able to deal with it in the future. But the initial impact (you're really had no clue that it would be this hard, right?) could be seen in your faces. Keep up the good work. You're clearly in the right path. Welcome to Portugal! Ah, and sometimes people ask: why in that country don't use much electric fencing, or some types of materials, and other things like that? Well, again, climate. No humidity, no conductivity. We have a real problem with draughts. That don't happen in almost the rest of Europe. The materials is the same thing. Much of the materials used in other countries are simply destroyed by the scorching sun. The north countries usually talk poorly about the mediterranean countries. They perhaps have to come live in Portugal, feel the heat and the drought and the dificult/rocky terrains to plant. Don't you agree?

[@biondaeliza7751]

That is a good tip, after sunset we will try again. It is already working but we are not done yet. We were a bit tired because we had a visit of a virus, I am still healing from a bronchitis but doing well now. Bit slow but able to work again. This summer is a blessing so far, it is dry but not as hot as last year. We are absolutely enjoying our life here, of course it comes with challenges, but nothing to stop us from building our lives here 💚

[@saeedandalusi7579]

Boiling water's a bit medieval....... Soapy water will do the trick👍

[@biondaeliza7751]

How will the tree like the soap? We do it twice a day now and that would be a lot of soap 😅

[@Natürel-t3j]

Merhaba.

[@andykerr9295]

You must get a heavy duty car battery or better a lorry battery its the only way it will work secondhand may work if it is charged

[@biondaeliza7751]

It also crossed my mind. We have a temporary solution now and will look to it later. It is very time consuming to get it to work and also want to do other projects. Thanks for the tip 💚

[@magicwendy210]

yes wasps are a nuisance but they are part of an important ecosystem as specialist pollinators and get rid of insect pests on crops and gardens, shouldn't really kill them just spray nest with cold water which will destroy it and not kill the wasps

[@biondaeliza7751]

I agree with you, and I wouldn’t have done anything if their not so close on where we live and our animals roam. We really tried and so far it was fine, but unfortunately they start to attack us more and more if we walk to our barn so this one has to go 🥺

[@LA-tw3qr]

Looks like yellowjackets..... get em all.... go out at night.... jar with gas or wasp spray.... cover hole after saturating with gas.... good luck... at night they are all in the nest.. LA

[@biondaeliza7751]

Yes, we changed to the night now. This nest is just too close and they get more and more aggressive towards the end of the season. Other nests we don’t bother, they are a part of nature and it is good to have them. But our safety and our animals safety is important too 😊

[@ronaldvorenhout3144]

Om jullie probleem met de stroom van de geiten op te lossen het volgende. Plaats om de 10 meter een aardpen, liefst zo lang mogelijk. Verbind deze onderling en dan aan de schrikdraad klok. Ik denk dat het dab beter werkt

[@biondaeliza7751]

Dank! Wij gaan er een andere keer weer naar kijken. Het neemt veel tijd om het te doen en willen ook door met andere projecten. Wij hebben voor nu een andere oplossing met een hek. Niet ideaal maar het werkt voor nu.

[@tomprice2501]

Interesting video, but I was wondering why you wanted to destroy your wasps on your farm/plot. A world without wasps would be a world with a very much larger number of insect pests on your crops, veggie patch and garden, as they being voracious and ecologically important predators. Wasps are increasingly recognised as being valuable pollinators, transferring pollen as they visit flowers to drink nectar. Worker wasps are extremely important as they feed on grubs by taking them into their nest, including invertebrates such as caterpillars, cutworms etc, including aphids. They are vital predators (not like bees), and are part of the biodiversity of a healthy garden. This activity can reduce your pest problems in the gardens, especially your vegetable garden in early summer. Remember wasps are beneficial to your garden helping with pollination and keeping other garden pests under control. Wasp nests usually last around three to four months during the summer. The colder weather and lack of food will kill off the nest and the new queens will hibernate, and be ready for the next wasp season. I would rather have wasps than using pesticides and insecticides in my land. Wasps will not harm your livestock and pets, or humans, but will sting you if you fiddle with their nests.