Hello lovers of Italy! Property series based from Le Marche. My renovation progresses with me learning how to build a natural stone retaining wall. My fantastic neighbours show their hospitality and gifts plus I find something unexpected buried where I was going to plant a bush. This day was full of adventure and stories! T-shirt weather in November. Perfect.
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Richard
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CHAPTERS
00:00 A loud awakening
00:35 Stone Walling
07:13 meet the neighbours
12:43 Is this your type of dream lunch?
20:10 what I found buried
22:43 into the night
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20 Comments
You could have drenched the ground to soften the soil to take out the plant.
Interesting to me is that in New England ( NH, ME, CT, VT and RI) are the common type of stone walls are simply stacked stone..no mortar. .In this area of the US there were lots of stones in the fields…left by glacier activity I believe….so farmers just used those stones in their walls to designate the boundaries of their lands. I’m told that indentured servants were able to lessen their obligations based on how many feet of those walls they built. Obviously, in Italy there it is a totally different story.
Just be sure not to fill in too much soil close to the tree…it will not be good for the root zone.
Great job! One step at a time! How rewarding it must be!
By the way, I’m watching you from Hamilton, Ontario near Toronto, Canada, but my family roots are jin San Lorenzo in Campo and Marotta, just a few kilometres away from the house you are renovating! Visited a few months ago and hope to return again next summer. Great area: the best food, wine and scenery! And people of course!
Wow,Richard, I can’t believe you guys continued on digging that bush out. I was laughing so hard because that’s what it’s like digging anything in my yard !!Honestly, every time I try to put a shovel in, I’m hitting up against a rock. I have to pickax everything and it’s hard clay too!! But you guys had quite the tenacity there❤ I would’ve given up a long time ago and gone to the greenhouse!
It's the small things we achieve that keep us going 😊
That was a lot of work! Good job on the video too
I thought you were invited to lunch, not to work! 😮
Great amount of work Richard. Well done and so rewarding ❤
Hard work with Awesome views , best wishes
Hi! It’s the first time I’ve accessed your YouTube channel, I'm italian from Genova. Personally, I use dish brushes with water when the concrete is starting to harden, so you can also clean the stones from splashes and excess cement. Be careful, oleander plants tend to grow significantly and, as you can see, they are very demanding, anyway, you have plenty of space, so it won’t be a big problem.
Hehe.. You need to learn how to use a spade and how to keep it sharp. It should be so sharp that you can shave yourself with it. 😉 And a little advice, please do not play music while the camera is on normal speed, only when you do timelapses and things like that. 😉
These are so entertaining
Beautiful day for the second of November. Good days work with good friends.
Tip: Remove all the ivy from the plant & keep removing it until it's gone, otherwise it WILL smother everything before you know it.
I've been battling the stuff for a decade…
Hi Richard, thanks for again a great and funny video. And you are too strict on yourself because everything you do is hard work that is needed to get to a finished job. Every step in the proces is important 😊
PS hope you don’t use your fingertips to identify yourself on your computer or anything 😂
Youve done a good job there Rich wish i was there be in my element !
Every stone has a face that marries itself to the one next to it ( I’ve done a fair bit of dry stone walling and it just takes practice to see it)… I’ve lived in my village for 35yrs here in France and we all get along really well … it’s a pity the world can’t do the same!
All jobs we do on our 1.5 acres are broken into mini-finished, progress level 1/2 – finished, and actually finished. This just means that the adjoining project can now commence. You can also safely break jobs into gloves intact, some of gloves intact and, I know what the family can get me for Christmas again.
Two years, one job done. Sounds about right! Happy days 😁