Making Hay While the Sun Shines! Life at our Scottish Country House - Slow Living Scotland 

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I remember about 40 years ago, I was doing what you are doing on your homestead on my homestead. Along with horses and cows. We are still here just slower than then. Lovely video.

The new trees and flower bushes will be awesome next Spring. Never in my life have I ever seen hay harvested that way, well done Ladies well done!!🌳🪻⚘️

I live in Canada and years ago,about 40 to be exact ,my Mom and I got a Copper Beech about the height of yours...not knowing much about them, we planted it about 3 feet from our property line, we live in a town...well little did we know it's one of the biggest trees..it grew and grew and towers over most other trees in our town..luckily we found out we owned about 4 more feet on our property line..we have another Copper Beech in town, that's has been designated by our town as a Heritage Tree..and it's massive and over 100 years old..I keep the lower limbs ,even though people tell me I should remove them ,but they are unique and sweep the ground.The tree puts out so many nuts but most are empty..but spikey like very hard chestnuts and hard on my mower..so plant your tree where it won't matter and you won't have to rake the nuts under it for mulch..it's so beautiful and I realize it will outlive me for sure.

Very peaceful and relaxing. So many of us need this. The moon was awesome at the ending. Keep up the good work.

What a beautiful life your family has! I can't think of anything more peaceful than to live out someplace like that how I longed for that type of life.

My favourite bit was the rhoddy flower on the hat.

Watching man shrew in the background while you were gathering, he certainly was in a fowl mood.🤣🥰

Beautiful photography. I especially loved the shots of the moon. Thanks for another great video.

As with all things, you only get out what you put in, and my word you put your heart and soul into your tasks. The outcome will be so colourful next year, and more enjoyable to you and us knowing all the hard work that you two put into it.

So relaxing. I love both of yours soft , gentle, caring voices and way of speaking. I could work all day along side you and it would be like walking through a field of flowers . Well that's what comes to mind watching this . . An almost forgotten gently kinder age before shouting and swearing became the norm. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS ❤

You two work so hard! I can't wait to see your rewards next Spring.

The positive thing about raking is it's mostly cool/ colder there. I'm in Florida and have to wait for Fall and winter for the heavy serious outdoor work. My place is covered with oak trees and shedding shrubs so if anyone likes to rake you are welcome anytime. I have extra rakes and will include a delicious chicken and broccoli casserole lunch😊

What you are doing on your property is glorious!🎉🎉🎉

The 3 ingredients in the Victorian bottle resemble a brownie. 😊 Thank you for sharing your beautiful videos with us! Be well. 💕💕

I love watch the Lost Tower Diaries at the end of the day,so peaceful.Loved watching Man Schwoo strutting his stuff in the background 😊

I was right: I enjoy watching y'all doing anything, from dunking moss balls (which is hard to say, I kept thinking moth balls), to making giant rush balls. When you started laying out the nets, I was really puzzled; it looked a bit like you were going to make a hammock. What a lot of rushes! Your garden is going to look amazing. 😍 Greetings from Texas!

We plant flowers like yours in our summer home in Arizona. And drive 4 hrs away into the hot desert to our winter home in the valley of the sun.

I loved the big blousy pink Rhododendron , and sunlight through a copper beech is the best . Planting trees is such a selfless thing to do , such a gift for future generations 🙏

I hate to say it guys, but I think I love this channel more than your mudlarking channel!! I absolutely love the medieval music and sounds of nature and watching you two putz around. It's so relaxing, yet interesting at the same time. I'm can't get out like I used to so I enjoy living vicariously through you two. Thank you for sharing your lives with us. I can't wait to see things progress. Even when you don't think we might be interested in something, think again! This channel (just like your other two) are so popular because of YOU.😊❤

A weeping copper beech is a magnificent tree!

Excellent taste in plants and flowers!

I had never seen or heard of the mossy spheres before, but I like them. They are rustic and quirky at the same time, and the golden, full moon was glorious Alex! Well done again you two! 🌻

Love the way hou two do things together

There’s a crater on the moon called Love. ❤❤❤

You don’t need to put anything in the water for the Marino moss. You need a larger container.

You have such a lovley, clear complexion, Alex! You should do a skincare routine vid. Im curious how you keep your skin so lovely despite working so hard out in the elements.

Lovely video as always...Usually you need 2 blueberry bushes for them to produce berries...

Can’t wait for next spring! ❤ The moon shots were lovely. Great photography.

Beautiful video! When you unwrapped the moss balls, my first though was they looked like Tribbles, from that original series Star Trek episode. Good work with the haying. Is this for poultry bedding for winter? I live in a city, and in fall we gather full brown paper lawn and leaf bags from where people put them out for yard debris pick up, they make a nice bedding for winter for my chickens and ducks.

Hey from South Africa. Love watching your videos. So peaceful and feeding my soul. Would love to see what kind of food you eat and how you prepare it.

I wonder....do you ladies discuss what tasks you're going to endeavor each day while taking you morning tea?? You are two very hard working individuals.

I LOVE ❤watching your mom and you working together making your place BEAUTIFUL 👏👏👍🏻👍🏻 Thank you so much for sharing with us 😊✌

We live under the same moon sweetheart. I love seeing you both doing what you love.

Alex you really are an individual woman of great style. Your fashion sense is amazing.

This was great love The the Back ground Music.❤

Thank you ladies, l love it!

Hi Ladies!☺️ Patience is a virtue Alex! And you have it by the shed load! Great team work! 👍 thank you for a lovely relaxing video. It’s nice watching someone else doing all the hard work.😂

The flowers and the moon were both beautiful.❤ Deb C. Pa. USA

❤Luv ya bunches @Kate and @Gayle❤

I’m hoping to acquire a tri-colored beech in the spring. This channel is a balm for my soul in this over stimulating day and age. Thank you.

Nice plant and flowers 🌺 🥰🍀

Music at the end was beautiful ❤

Another beautiful video. Thanks.

Love this channel so much ladies❤ so relaxing. It's helping me wind down right now, after putting the girls to bed. Best wishes from reiverlarks

What a beautiful day x

The one thing I miss the most is the harvest moon, we don’t get it very often in the Southern hemisphere. When doing hanging pots thee best trick I learnt was to add a small disposable babies nappy at the bottom, it acts as a water reserve for the plants, I find it better than using water crystals mixed into the potting mix. The gardens are going to look stunning come next spring.

Wonderful

Lovely vid Gail & Alex. I love the Rhodedendron you bought. Always liked these Been patiently waiting for the next vid . Thank you for sharing. How I love this sort of lifestyle.

Nice selection of plants. Cooper Beech tree will look so regal on your property, good choice.

Beautiful plants, love the copper beech.

Thank you.

I absolutely adore you and your mom and the bond you share being creative together , enjoying life together through nature art and music... very peaceful and sweet. Do you grow a vegetable garden ?( you would be awesome at growing a garden ), ...I love your music choices ! Yay, harvest moon. What animals do you own ?, I love your Peacocks Shwoos.

😊😊😊😊 beautiful.

Alex is the only person I know that can work with dirt and still have a clean white shirt. Love y'all.❤️

Take care… Bless you both from Canada 🍁🌸💕

Another special Lost Tower Diaries, hard work tying up all that hay ! Love the flower choices, some of my favorites 😊when they all bloom in the spring, glorious ! Thank you so much for sharing, this channel was such a great idea, I really love it. Also, I wonder if you could tell me the name of your opening song, I would love to have it, makes me all happy inside. Love the flute too ☺ Hugs to you both 🥰🥰 xx

Beautiful video, love the ending, swoon moon. ❤❤❤❤

Loved this video. Thank you!!

Beautiful!

I really enjoy your videos! So fun to see everything you’re doing.

My favorite thing to shop for, a new plant. Great video Ladies Thank you!

Stunning flowers shrubs and tree ladies, that rhododendron is so beautiful, they can grow very big too, tfs x Julie

Another beautiful video! I could watch these for hours! So relaxing and beautiful and inspiring 💖

Your Rhododendron will go through alternate years of blooming spectacularly, then the next not so much. These alternate years they put out actual bush growth. Don't be surprised or think something is wrong with it if it doesn't bloom much next year, the year after it will be popping again...

Wow, your new rhododendron is so large it needs its own postal/zip code! I love rhododendron flowers. They want their soil to be on the acidic side. I liked the leaves of the copper beech tree - they're a very striking color. The footage of the moon is beautiful. I was born under the Cancer Zodiac sign, so I'm a moon child. If I could go to the moon or into space & see our beautiful home planet from the sky, I would die a happy woman. Bucket list! Alex your moss ball pets are cute. You and your mum are so industrious and you literally made hay...is it for the chickens & shwoos to nest in? You lead such interesting lives. I think it would be such fun to hang out with the two of you ladies. 😊😊 Good wishes and stay well ladies. Enjoy the blueberries when they come into season. Greetings from eastern North Carolina, USA. ❤

Hello from Canada! I am really enjoying your new channel! You gals work so hard and it was difficult to watch when you were both still really weak from being sick. I just wanted to fly over there and help you. You have a lovely house and property and I look forward to the changes and plantings you will be doing. That copper beech tree is going to be fabulous one day!

That was lovely, so relaxing (for me lol) 😁💖 x

Hard work, but rewarding

Fantastic moon footage 👌🏻🌕

This must have been filmed a few months ago as those are summer flowers.

Your land is so beautiful and seems so peaceful. Enjoy!

Wow that flower 🌸 pot is absolutely beautiful l love it & the trees are gorgeous too l can imagine how stunning they are all to look , l not long planted a blueberry plant 🪴 but unfortunately l think it has died it didn’t look too good in Morrisons so l brought it home & thought I’d give. It a lease of live but l was too late , ile have to get another hopefully with berry’s on!! Love your little farm it’s idyllic ❤❤

Lovely update! Just watch with the Rhododendron as it likes to spread into woodland habitats sadly despite being non native, but it's great to see you both being green fingered! Those giant teabags you both made are HUGE! You'll need a sport's direct mug for sure 😮

Another amazing video ladies. So relaxing. The hay nets are new to me. Our 8 year old granddaughter was just with us for a few days and she was working with a few plant pots that died and doing a lot of raking. I will have to show her this video. She will love it.

You two have way more of a green thumb than I do!!! Great to see all your hard work coming together. So calming and relaxing to watch 🥰🥰🥰

Love the episode but I need close caption ladies, hearing impaired.😊

Do you girls have a composting bin. With all your planting, compost would be a great benefit.🎍

Wonderful 🌻🌼🌷❤

Where is the beech going to be planted? When you had the hay all netted I noticed boy schrew was chasing the girls around. You have so much to do. Can’t wait to see what happens next.

The flowers are gorgeous.

The plant that produces that miracle grow potting plant soil is just down the road from my place here in north Texas and in late winter they have acres and acres of palettes of that stuff waiting transporting and I guess it’s world wide.

Beautiful video! Is there anything you two can’t do yourselves? I’m so impressed that you even bale your own hay!

I wish I loved to garden but alas the gene petered out by the time I came along. I love to watch others do what they love as you two clearly do,thank you for sharing it with us all. 🙂🐈‍⬛🐈🌈💖

What beautiful country side as well as all the lovely plants Alex you and your Mother work so hard on your farm Thanks for sharing your awesome video and the wow what a ending 👍👍👍🍂♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🗝️

You girls never have to worry about your figures, you work your fannies off around the Tower!❤

Copper beech will be glorious As will the rhododendren

Wow you Two wonder women amaze me on how hard working and determined you are to get your jobs done. You should listen to some music to help you along with all your hard work. Thank you for sharing your beautiful home and all the work entailed to keep it up.

How wonderful to live in the country!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 I actually spent 4 hours yesterday in the country and got to see them making hay! Watching the Milking cows and goats grazing!!! It was awesome! I envy you!!! 💖💖💖💖

Absolutely loved this video. Extremely soft and serene.

Gail has drippy shoe game going on. 😅

Beautiful and soothing to watch. The rhododendron you bought reminds me of one I had at my precious house that was as tall as the two story house and as wide. It was glorious, and the bees and butterflies loved it.

Hi Gals :)

Awesome video keep up the great work

❤️ your show. 💤 From NZ

I really enjoy these videos!

You need two different varieties of blueberry to get berries

@TheLostTowerDiaries I am so enjoying your videos and watching you pottering about. Can I ask where you get your trousers from (!) the ones with the white square on the bottom! They look so comfortable for working in.

You will need two blueberry bushes next year if you want them to produce fruit

HI GAIL AND ALEX!! I LIKE ALL THE FLOWERS AND PLANTS. YOUR HOMESTEAD IS GETTING MORE BEAUTIFUL. WELL KEEP STRIVING AND THRIVING. LOL HAVE FUN, HOPE THE SHREWS FOLLOW AROUND SO THEY CAN TELL US OF THEIR TALES. THANKS AGAIN AND STAY SAFE AND HEALTHY ❤️ 🙏