This is a beautiful and encouraging expression.

Good thing I have read Marcus Aurelius. 🤣

@@SouthernItalyHomestead gret come back 🇮🇪

@@SouthernItalyHomestead Strength and Honour !

Thank you!

Extremely impressive! He’s so talented & knowledgeable in so many areas. Big kudos to you.

I had hoped to keep the tree and just prune it as needed, but looking at the damage it was evident it's in worse health than I realized. Sometimes these problems are hidden and don't reveal themselves until something happens. It's kind of sad because my son loved that tree, and having a shady area next to the house was nice during the hottest parts of summer. We'll plant another oak nearby, but a little further from the house, I think.

That schould definitely have been seen by an arborist ​@@SouthernItalyHomestead

@@SouthernItalyHomestead When your grandparents lived there, all of those trees were much smaller of course, and posed no danger to the house. Sometimes a tree just can't stay healthy and has to be downed. It's sad but better than having it crush your house or someone in it. I live in central Italy and the storms and fierce winds just seem to get worse each year. Better safe than sorry. God bless you and your family.

Scares me as well, had to turn off during tree trimming, it was so scary. You are a brave & very skilled individual.

That's why I like to read the comments, there's always someone who brings an interesting view, I'll look for information.

Pollarding is a common practice in the area I where I live and over the years I've seen good jobs and bad. In my view, so much has already come off that tree that it will die, even if what's left is healthy.

@@dottiebaker6623 I don't where you live but here in Eastern England it is common for ancient pollards (that were typically cut back repeatedly to between 2 and 4 metres) to be completely hollow in the centre but still healthy and an excellent wildlife habitat. I was merely trying to make a potentially useful suggestion that might be worth considering.

I'm sorry if I sounded less than motivated by being helpful. I need to work on my tone in writing. I live in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, and have recently seen several 50 -75 year old beautiful and healthy trees killed by less than skillful pollarding. It breaks my heart. Here pollarding is done for aesthetic reasons, not for beneficial landscape management. I'm sure people in your area, where pollarding is an old and venerable rural tradition, are much more knowledgeable.

@@dottiebaker6623 Ah well, yes,sadly, butchering happens here too but tha's not what I had in mind. There is a good Wikipedia article on pollarding it if you are ineterested.

It can be really hard to find those people in rural Italy, let alone specialized arborists are pricey! And letting people do the work while you’re not around requires an additional person to hire to coordinate things… difficult.

Agree!

I think the wind turbines are beautiful, they look like they are dancing. Much more attractive than a hideous coal or oil fuelled power station.Better for the planet too.

@@karenashworth5743 Agree!!

You have done a great job with that tree. It looks also others need pruning, they are attacked by ivy which is always a bad sign!

@@karenashworth5743 I find the turbines mesmerizing.

Those horrible wind things might just help save the planet from runaway heating

So there are multiple ways you can use it, one is just spray and do nothing, or you can spray and scrub. We choose to spray and do nothing and just let the weather handle it because we're not pointing soon anyway. What I have noticed is that the most sun exposed part of the building has faster results, I think what's happening is that the heating and cooling each day is kind of popping the dead lichens off of the wall. On the shady side of the building, the lichens are dead but kind of clinging mechanically to the stone still. Even gently touching them, they just fall off. I will also say that there are a few species of lichen that seem to attach very strongly and don't come off, even after they die, but they're very few. Where there is plenty of sun, it seems to work faster. I do think the shady side will end up looking the same as the sunny side, based on what we saw years ago with the small sample we did, but it may just take longer to get to that state. If you look at the first video we posted on this channel, during the part where Rica is using the chainsaw (around 19m13s), you can see a clear line between sprayed part and non-sprayed near the corner of the building, and that side is in shade for most of the day.

non è sfiga è gravità.... il braccio da staccare andava vincolato al braccio di porto e doveve restare appeso invece di precipitare, lo ha legato proprio male purtroppo... ma non ha fatto troppi danni, tutti quegli alberi sono troppo vicini alla casa, vanno eliminati perchè ormai sono pericolosi quando le querce iniziano a rompersi così e presentano vasto marciume in alto possono essere molto pericolose specialmente quando sono così grandi. Se fossi in lui noleggerei un cestello idraulico oppure chiamerei un manutentore con cestello e farei tagliare tutto in una sola volta. Molta buona legna e finalmente rischi eliminati per casa e persone, così potrei dedicare tempo alla casa e alle murature che stanno andando in malora. :_)

Near the border between Campania and Molise.

@@SouthernItalyHomestead. Beautiful territory!

Per aprire un lucernaio non serve nulla, se realizzato a filo tetto è edilizia libera e non richiede nessuna autorizzazione, però è meglio evitare e non per la questione normativa ma perchè su quel tipo di tetto un lucernaio fa solo danni e comporta problemi continui tra condensa sul vetro, infiltrazioni e ponti termici. Meglio evitare di farlo proprio. :_)

Yes, the original plaster is hot mixed for sure. My grandmother told me she remembered seeing it mixed on site. You can also see lime clasts (quicklime that didn't slake fully before mixing) in the mortar. I have Nigel's book and follow him on social media, as well as David Wiggins and many others. For me the hard part is actually getting quicklime around here, I'm not certain I'll be able to. It's also not clear to me how the aggregate was sourced yet. The NHL we used last summer is extremely hard. Due to the high humidity from rain last summer, the hydraulic set was much faster than we expected, and within a day I wasn't able to knock it out with a plugging chisel. Very hard stuff.

@@SouthernItalyHomestead I live in Southern France and its a bit difficult here too; but I now get it from agricultural merchants. You have to watch out for extra magnesium content (which makes it go like a rocket!) but apart from that it works well?

@@florentinalily Maybe I will try that approach, thanks for the suggestion.

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Penso di avere visto i fiori nel campo, potrebbe essere che sono lampascioni. Grazie per questi indicazioni!

I don't think risk works like that at all. Clearly it depends on the person, their capabilities, their thought pattern, habits, and self-awareness. Two different people doing the same task will have different risk profiles. So clearly it depends on the person. Unless you know the person in great detail, it's impossible to assess the risk of a given act for that person.

Who ever said it's too much? Putting in effort doesn't bother me one bit.

@@SouthernItalyHomestead sorry you act like it does bother you. Guess I misinterpreted

I am a very neutral person by nature. Maybe that comes across in a way that I don't intend. Truth is I enjoy working hard. I do wish I could spend more time on it, though.