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As an Iowa farm boy and now working for the department of agriculture , I can greatly appreciate the desire to grow your own corn. Thanks for sharing Paul and blessings to you and Mae.

I will agree fresh corn off the stalk is amazing

Glad to see things progressing !!! Can't wait to see the build videos......keep up the great work.

Saving this video because one day in 2 or 3 years I may definitely want to have your guy test soil if I go the route of growing in a certain place. The soil comment was funny. It has me think of the scene in Waterworld lol.

Hi Paul... Yes it's raining, Have you looked into the clay in your area. What this means is, will your plot flood. If there are any homes around you that have built up the base before building will give you a clue. A high water table is common over many parts of the PH and now would be the time to build a platform for the house base. If your builder is local he should know this and advise you. If you put a DPM under the building slab, i.e. a plastic bag under the concrete slab, It will stop water being drawn up into the house, and save your electronics dyeing prematurely. It's very common in the west, but Pinoy's seem not to know or are bothered as they wont be living there. Keep the reports coming.😃

The best trick to building a house is the also one of the best tricks to life ...... Just go with the flow. A garden? Look around at what grows well normally, otherwise you are making a rod for for your own back with the amount of nutrients and work that will be required to get a decent crop of a forced vegetable. It is never a one-off application - it may well be year after year. Glad that they are marking out rooms for you. Recommend that you and Mae walk the house imaging getting up, making breakfast etc ..... Invariably, it will highlight something which doesn't quite work and saves you time and expense before the building starts. One biggie ..... Try to make a paper bed rectangle and try it in the bedroom .... Can you move around the room easily? Could you move around if you end up in a wheelchair with age? About 70% of elderly end up with wheelchairs or walkers so plan up front ..... Could you get to the bathroom? Kitchen? Ramp outside? Not being unkind, just practical.

I'm looking forward to the Old Dog Gardening Channel Paul lol

Am enjoying the house build project!!👍

Being a farmer, I noticed "your friendly neighbors". If you had neighbors like those on your property, your dirt is good dirt! And all the trees and folage, I think your dirt is 'good stuff'. Interesting to know about Jim's endeavor!

Paul, another excellent video. Keep it up and hope all will go smoothly.

I love that you’re taking us along on this journey of yours and baby mays! Very excited for you all!! Peace ☮️

NOTHING, and I mean nothing tastes better than fresh picked corn popped into boiling water. Serve with butter, salt and pepper. Delicious ❤

Yes please keep me updated on the build. I soo want to do the same. God bless you and your lovely wife.

The very best of everything in your building project, Have a few questions for you: 1. What is your drinking water source? 2. What does your septic (wastewater system) consist of? 3. Giving any thought to using solar power? 4. What's the availability of a dependable wifi? 5. How many rooms in the house? 6. Are you constructing a carport w/storage area? Be sure to put an ample number of electrical outlets throughout the house, especially above the kitchen counter tops. Philippine homes are notoriously short in that category. Install outside water faucets on the house. Hope you find some of the suggestions helpful, Paul. Thanks for the tour. B😃B

Looking forward to watching your build

If it takes months to get the soil test results back, you might want to try a much simpler, faster method: plant just a few seeds (maybe half a dozen, no need to waste too many if it doesn't work) and see how well/fast they grow? If you're not happy, then the test results might tell you how to improve it - but the soil might be perfectly fine so why wait?

Hipe all goes Well😅

Congratulations Paul and mae your saving alot on rent very smart move.

Life's Little Curves, Happy For You Both.

I'm waiting to see how much work actually gets done on his property since the orange kite group just started that new housing development in Valencia the Valencia Mountain Estates that'll take up all their time good luck with your build

Paul, enjoy & respect the content. I live in NW Michigan. Lots of snow in Winter. I don't do well with high Humidity & Dew Points, [not a sickness, just don't do much when like this]. Don't know if I could get used to the Heat in the Philippines. I have a wonderful gal that works in Manila, & has two homes in Dinagat Islands. She 45, I'm 71.

Cool Paul, glad to see you have plans and are staying busy. I will be going to there soon for work. Primarily working out of the Manila area but hope to have some time off, including weekends, etc. I hope I can meet up with you for some coffee and such. I think I've been subscribed and tuning in now for at least a couple of years. I know you have a pretty big group of subscribers but I'm sure they don't all make it down there. Anyways, good to know you're staying engaged and active.

Keeping your soil covered with mulch really brings it alive. It holds the moisture, and attracts worms who prey on the decaying mulch at soil contact, and with worms come worm castings which provides an excellent food source and bio activity for your plants. My soil was as course as cheap short strand denim, but after treatment, it was like cashmere.

good luck Paul ... thanks for the look .. takes me back to 2005 when the wife and I built our home. as for the soil, around our home, we pulled up enough rocks to make borders around everything the wife came up with for landscaping.

It's my understanding that you want good separation between your septic drain field and your garden. May want to consider it early.

Good luck with the house building project , im going to be very intrigued to see how this turns out

Paul, Life your style of communicating with your viewer. Have you made plans for wife, if you get ill or seriously ill or dieing one day. Have you made sure she will be okay. I Pray you and your wife will have a long, caring and loving life. Don't wait until it too late to make these necessary plans. Just Joe

I enjoy that you do these videos. No rush when you do it. Enjoy your retirement and don’t stress about anything. Always a treat to see your progress and hope things go smoothly. Be well

All very exciting planning your home and garden . Plenty of good advice in the comments …..good,luck .

I grew sweet corn in raccoon country. Then I stopped growing corn. Would love to grow corn again. Interesting topic.

yes keep with the house updates...looking fed to more..thanks

Thanks Paul...can't wait to see your house build video.

One of your original crazy people. I am pleased to see that your making headway.

Love the build videos Planning to build a house Haven’t seen anyone else do this 👍🏻

Paul...I remember a few years back when I started watching you, and decided that there is where I want to be for the end game. You told me..( I say as if you where only talking to me) don't buy nothing you not will to walk away from in and instant. Please help me find that or understand when it time to walk away from walking away...if that makes sense ..

Great video Paul. Hope all goes well with the Build.

Good evening Paul! Thanks for the update on the house. 🌽

Did Mae's dog eat the Yellow chicken? The chicken on the couch has left the building! Good luck with the build. It is going to be a nice home.

Make sure to plant non-GMO corn when you do. Filipino sweet corn is delicious!

Congratulations, you deserve it and more! Stay blessed

Grow what the locals grow. The plants are acclimated, and the folks know how to care for them.

Hey Paul, what a nice lot you have! Since you're starting from the ground up, have you heard about the ground-coupled heat exchanger, also known as an earth tube system? It's an effective natural cooling solution, especially in the tropics. It doesn't require energy and is really low tech, which means no maintenance. Since you're going to do some foundation work, planning for an earth tube system won't increase the building budget significantly. And as you plan to get a photovoltaic solar system, having a low-tech air conditioning solution should drastically reduce the energy needs. What do you think?

Helped keep doing this! This is a major event. If this screws up your screwed,if it gods we Beck yeah please keep us posted as to overruns,change orders,good and bad. This is a life,commitment event.

nice flat land to build on. And now, heeerrrrrreeeesssss Paul. Our little old Farmer Paul. I imagine there will be many changes to your property design by the end of build. Man, to enjoy bbq corn on cob, the best. plus, you can use the corn to feed all your chickens, hahaha.🤣🤣🐓🐓🐓🐤🐤🌽🌽🌽

Test your soil? Just look around .. all the vegetation flourishing… zero need to test. Spend the money on good scotch. :)

Looking forward to the building updates Paul.

Exciting stuff; thank you from Australia.

Following this. Nice lil house series going on.

I for one would be interested in your life on the farm with your grandpa, I enjoy hearing you talk.

give us update every now and then paul, tnx

Keep us updated Paul.

Congrats in building a house... I sent my Wife budgets each month for 3 years to build us a house here in Northern Luzon before I came here... renting is tossing money out the window... we save so much money now 😂😂😂

Please make more videos of the house construction. We all understand that this is not a house build channel, but I for one love seeing the progress. Stay cool. 😎

good luck with it! hope for no hiccups! especially when it comes with construction! believe me I lived it more the once, you have a beautiful wife!God bless both of you and again good luck with everything, xo

I`m totally interested in the build. I'm currently acquiring land, the Mrs. has made many trips to the BIRs office. always a problem. I will not start building until we have title in hand! (land is relative's land (deceased grand parents. never gone through probate)

I would recommend keeping the coconut trees. My family finds many, many uses for the coconuts in food recipes. I personnally like the coconut water from the green coconuts.

Good piece of land, Paul! 👍 You should be able to do a lot of fun gardening projects on it, once the house is completed. We're shopping land, houses and possibilities, ourselves. But we will never be able to get a lot as large as yours. I'm happy that you and Mae were able to get the land, and begin building your dream home! ❤️

Looking forward to the progress updates

A weekly update sounds nice.

Hey Paul when I making Pottery on the reservation when we go out if it’s a new area many times we taste the dirt if it’s your taste sweet we know will make some good pottery but if it taste salty Pottery will blow up in the fire

Awesome 👍 I'll try to keep up 🙂

Paul good luck with the house. Watched your success video. Success is different for different people. I did well in my life, worked hard, paid for college for kids , etc. Met my filipina wife 3 years ago , married now and she in in the states now for 7 months. I have never been happier . Financially fine, want her to be american citizen to give her more options in life when I am gone . Same as mae. Life is very hard for average people here. Next summer returning for 3 months. Hope to visit dumaguete . For me success is simple life, came from lower middle class family . Didn't have much but great parents, never hungry and so much love. I was blessed as I am now with a wonderful woman to share my life. Hope to see you next year

Best of Luck on building your house!

Dag Paul!!! Looking at those yellow lines, that house is going to be huge!!

What month do you plant corn in your area of the Philippines?

Crazy person checking in. Very interested in the house build would enjoy more videos. Dig what you do sir.

Good luck on your project, I'll be following closely. I believe this will be done in another province.

Congratulations on your exciting endeavor….I hope to see baby Mae’s father as I’ve never seen him…

I have seen coconut decay very fast and understands it makes excellent fertilizer. You might put them on the corner of your property and make some good compost.

Good luck.keep it rollin

Getting close to that 100K mark, early congrats Uncle Paul!

Crops, very smart ❤

You said that the soil is sandy in Valencia. Where abouts did you buy your new property?

Congratulations 👏👏 guys.

Oh no… you’re going to regret not having those trees later. 😮😢🌴🌴🌴

Interesting...eventually Mae can do corn cooking videos. Definitely interested in seeing more of these.

HEY CUZZIN PAUL , NOW THAT YOU TWO FINALLY TIED THE KNOT ( CONGRADULATIONS TO THE BOTH OF YOU ) , WILL YOU FINALLY SETTLE DOWN AND START A FAMILY AS IN KIDS..TO MAKE THINGS COMPLETE..BLESSINGS AND TAKE GOOD CARE !!

love the updates

You see need to have your architect prepare a detail set of plans and cost breakdown. Make sure your certificate of title with registered of deeds is complete. Probably showing vesting as your asawa a married woman to you as an America citizen. Zonal value and property taxes paid. Look at north south exposure. Material cost in the Philippines has skyrocketed over 30% since covid. Good luck.

Thnx for sparing us your corn story! 😉

Paul, the American Indians use to place a small fish under there corn crops. Maybe you can so some research?

I am looking forward to these videos Paul! Can’t wait for the 100k celebration video! 🎉

Love your videos! however I am jealous of your awesome head od hair! LOL

Very interesting that Mae's father tasted the dirt and knew it was good. Sad that we have lost knowledge that should be passed down. ❤

I know you are excited...trying to sound cool. Yay!

How big is the land and how much did you pay for it? Thank you for this video. It’s very interesting.

Very interested in this Paul, i will be doing the same except it wont be so grand as your house and it will be by the sea.

I'm a city boy but cannot help ask why try to grow corn in the tropics? Why not stick with the native plants already there like coconuts, mangos or other veggies? Good luck on farming.

Please continue I like yawls videos.

Thanks for the video and chance to see you project. Seriously considering expat thing in PI. Traveled to Panama, Costa Rica and Belize and stumbled upon english, higher elevation PI. Belize is currently the front runner selection. I am an avid DIY guy and want to build my own house. Got all the skills but concerned about local culture zoning, codes permits and trades thoughts about a foreigner stealing their jobs. Anyone doing the DIY thing that you know of locally to you? I am an electrical engineer but started out as a licensed tradesman... Enjoy doing the hands on thing...

thank you for this video! Can you give us the address where you sent the soil samples to? my wife’s property cannot grow veggies plants will grow in pots but if you put them in the soil they die🤷🏼‍♂️. would love to solve that mystery.

You are doing God's work. 🇺🇸🗽

That is exciting!

How exciting!! Is this property in Dumaguate? Yeah! I’m your probably only Jewish 70 yr female who follows u.

Nice Paul! Chateau Mae is going to be great!

awesome to see your neighbors

Sounds like a good soil test.

Why didn’t Jim bring a shovel if he came to collect soil?

Great Video Paul , I Hope You , Mae And The Puppies Have A Great Night ! 🙂🙂🙂🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯