Two days ago, husband and I had a conversation about how we are almost towards the finish line and how we do not wish to do any work on the house for a bit. And then, the Portuguese storm got us real good. This shed was used as storage space for many boxes, all of them got drenched. We have had many issues with the walls which borders our land but we did not see this coming. #storm #homesteading

We have had a series of storms hit us the last weeks. As a result, it has not stopped pouring down for a week now. Everything is flooded, including the tiny path to our house. It took us a good few hours to manage the flow of the waterfall so that we could walk in the path again. #Nature is so mighty, just a tiny reminder for us again. #homesteading #storm #aftermath

In Nepali traditional kitchen, everything is cooked either in cold processed mustard oil or ghee (ghiu in Nepali language). Over the last decades, we slowly saw a shift from these oils towards cheaper alternatives such as sunflower oil and soyabean oil, both marketed as oils good for heart health. I often wonder if money is the only reason we shift away from things that have worked for our health for so long. We started cooking everything in ghee five six years ago and we are not going back to seed oils. This here is our newest batch of ghee and it smells and tastes amazing!!! #ghee #homesteading

We had a wonderful day today. Although it was not really sunny, we were happy with a dry day. Our daughter loves being outdoors all the time, children don't seem to be affected by rain nor the cold it seems. As I was finishing up some chores, husband took her to see our neighbour's grazing sheep and once he was back, it was my turn to take her outside for a walk as the husband worked on his computer. It's always such fun to see the way she interacts with her surroundings. These are truly "the good old days" the old me will come back to. #blessed #momstr #homesteading #walks

It was a good day! GN everyone. #sky #bliss #homesteading

This brings me back to the happiest memories from my childhood. My maternal grandfather's house was in a remote village, a day walk away from Kathmandu. There was no electricity and no signs of infrastructure at all. Wood was the sole source of energy and my grandfather would always have a big heap of firewood outside his house, safely kept under a aluminium roofed shed. All of his wood came from his own land, we are not there yet but we are working towards that goal. Come to think of it, the life that we have embraced at the moment is do much in line with the life that he had. Although he served in the army for some years, he was a farmer through and through. His day would begin by strolling through his vegetable garden, talking to his beloved plants and sometimes I catch myself doing that too. I wonder what he would have thought of our corner here. #homesteading #nostalgia

Ever since we moved to Portugal, I have been looking for tallow everywhere and unfortunately not able to find it. I started using tallow as moisturiser during my pregnancy and since then I do not want to use anything else. After months of searching for suet, my neighbour got me a small amount of suet and I finally rendered my very first batch of tallow. Will be making some moisturiser in a day or two with some other incredible ingredients. #tallow #skincare #homesteading

Finally our carpenter has started working on the floor upstairs. We know that he has multiple projects running at the same time so whenever he is here we are so thankful and every day is a guess work if he would show up, but we did know that this is part of the work culture here so we are prepared 😉 #buildstr #homesteading #construction

The lower socioeconomic class, who would gain the most from stepping outside of #fiat systems and saving in sats, are unfortunately the last ones who will be able to access information and understand the characteristics of these two systems. If we zoom out and look at nations as a whole, similar tendencies are prevelant. Point in case, #Nepal. I was born and lived there until a decade ago. Although I studied economics and finance, I am ashamed to admit that it took me a long time to understand the real world functioning of "money". And although my knowledge is still sub par, I am convinced that Nepal could benefit a lot if it were to seriously invest in #Bitcoin infrastructure. Nepal has a vast amount of water resources and given the topography of the country, it generates almost 100% of its energy from hydropower. Electricity is really cheap and abundant so even now, stepping into mining would be a significant lucrative investment. Instead, the government has put a ban on individuals owning bitcoins. Nepal would gain such a big advantage if it were to take #Bitcoin seriously. Maybe the issue of massive brain drain would then be solved and the looming emptying of the country would halt.

We have had many conversations with family and friends regarding why we live the way we do and why individual property rights is so important to us. When we talk about #bitcoin and how it solves so many problems created by the #fiat system, we are almost always told that we dream and desire a utopia. Why is there such a resistance to understanding a "new" system while clearly the existing system has failed most of humanity is beyond me. Wanting to live a life where we have an autonomy over our own bodies, our property, our mind and way of life has certainly trimmed our social circles, thank god for #nostr so that we know that there are other freedom living, sovereign, crazy people out there.

Not to brag, but we too have hot water running through our pipes now 😉. After months of trying and mostly failing, after endless moments where we were both stretched thin because of the lack of basic amenities, and that too with a child with us, we feel like we have taken such a big step forward. And because we have running water, we also have a washing machine now!!! I am one happy woman!!!! #luxuries #plumbing #homesteading #grateful

Tears of joy were shed today! After more than eight months of living without the luxury of running water, we finally have managed to welcome our house into modernity. We have also setup the boiler and water filtration system, will post an update on them tomorrow. As for now, we have running water!!!!! #homesteading #water #grateful

This is an appreciation post for my husband. When we build the wall for the deck, seeing the empty space between the house and the wall I had thought to myself that this is an impossible task without some equipments. But my husband kept on bringing the rubbles from all our land and filling it up every chance he got. And look at that, it is finally completely filled. About 25 cubic meters space filled solely by the hard work of my husband. Thank you ❤️ #buildstr #homesteading #grateful

Some of our friends have been asking us recently if we have stopped working in the garden as we don't post anything about the garden these days. Well we do work on the garden but I am too lazy to post about it 😅. We have about 80 bulbs of garlic in the ground and hopefully we get to harvest most of them this summer. Garlics take a long time to develop so the update on them will follow later. The cauliflowers are not doing great. The larvae of white butterfly got most of the leaves so I am hoping to at least get some seeds for next year. We will start on sowing some onions the coming days and sort through our seeds. Will keep you all posted on the developments. #growyourownfoods #homesteading #wintergarden

This used to be our neighbour's cat. Our daughter took a liking to him so we started giving him food every time he showed up so that he stayed longer for our daughter's sake. And now he has adopted us as his family. My husband and I are both not cat people and yet somehow we have a cat now. #catstr #homesteading #pets

Greetings from our neighbour's kitten. He is our daughter's all time favorite creature. Any chance she gets, she goes to find him. #catstr

It's amazing to see how independent and free willed our daughter is already at 15 months. Thankful everyday that we get to spend so much time with her, that she is being raised by us and the upbringing is not being outsourced. Such a privilege to see this tiny human grow. #parenting #homesteadig #thankful

Hello everyone, we hope that you all had a great start to new year. We here at our homestead decided to start the new year with a new, yet very simple compost bin construction. We have a big growth of a type of bamboo in our land so we like to use that for making simple structures. This year we plan to do a bit more than last year when it comes to growing our own food. This should be possible as we did not do much last year. Be our witness to see how our plans shape up this year. #homesteading #compost

And we have a water tank that actually fills up. The floor is still not ideal. We will have to put some work in it in the summer because its super wet now but at least we will have running water in house for the time being. #buildstr #offgridliving #homesteading

Dear family, friends and all of you Nostrians who have been with us this year, we wish you all a blissful and merry Christmas and an amazing new year. May the new year bring new prospects and new opportunities for us all. May love be abundant and support be productive. May we all get to live a fuller life, a life in the embrace of people we love and cherish ❤️ #christmas #festivities #offgridliving