I had a go at the #adirondack chair. I used our old stock of scaffolding planks so not all the angles came out great but I am really proud of this chair. Making things for yourself is so gratifying, I am so glad that I get to try #woodwork and see if I can get better at it. #buildstr #photography #makeyourownstuff

Some fresh greens from our garden. Although most veggies have just started sprouting, we have some lovely spring onions and coriander leaves. #growyourownfood #homesteading

It's not perfect, but I am so proud of my work. We really needed a bench and I decided to have a shot at it myself. Husband is now asking me to build some chairs in similar style, so let's see if I can make those in the coming weeks. #buildstr #makeyourownstuff #furniture #proud

Good morning people! We finally have an oven and what beter way to celebrate this new luxury in our home than a batch of fresh chocolate chip cookies. This morning is sweet 🌞 #baking #cookies #lifeisgood

This is a simple show rack that I made with scrap scaffolding planks. Making stuff is so gratifying. #PoW #buildstr #woodwork #learning

I wanted to have a small chair for our toddler when she is outside with us. This is the very first piece of furniture that I ever made and I am so happy the way it turned out. It really feels great to make things for your loved ones. And the best part is that our daughter loves it. She has been constantly coming back to this chair while playing. One happy mom here. #momstr #buildstr #furniture

Spring is here. We have been working hard each day to start our #garden. We have planted potatoes, some radishes, fenugreek seeds, mustard, beans and carrots. We have also planted marigold, calendulas and nasturtiums as companion plants. Let's see how this season goes for us. In the meantime we are blessed with beautiful blooms. Hopefully you all are having a great start of the season too. #growyourownfood #homestead #flowers #photography

Husband has built me my very own AI agent for my #garden. It's such a great tool for planning patches and finding the perfect timing and companions for plants. And now thanks to this agent, my husband does not have to listen to me go on and on about my ramblings about the garden 😂 #aiagent #gardening

We are working on connecting our back porch to the side deck with stairs. The basic structure will be done in a day or two, then we move on to fixing the joints between stones. #buildstr #homestead #construction

More colours are returning back and with them, our beloved bees and butterflies. #almostspring #flowers #garden #homestead

Before being a mom,I could never imagine having all of my major emotions being directly correlated to someone else's emotions. And now, her happiness dictates my whole mood. Today was a great day. The weather was perfect and she enjoyed visiting all her animal friends 😊 #momstr #happy #belssed

Spring is just around the corner. After months of grey skies and weeks of storms and rain, colours have started making a comeback in our garden. Hopefully it will be a good growing season! #flowers #homesteading #garden

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

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

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

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