Summer Heat Wave And Doing Maintenance On My Cabin! 

It is HOT and I am trying to do some well needed projects and maintenance on my cabin. In this video I walk you through what I have done and what I still want to do to get my 20 year old cabin looking good again! Many more videos of my cabin build and homestead on my channel. #cabin #offgrid #gardening

Who else kept hitting pause when Lamar was outside talking about his wall to see if the cricket was on video or in their house?😅

LaMar … Has been interesting to see all the changes and different things you’ve done over all these years.

It seems there's no end to the projects. I have several I need to do, too. Thanks for the motivation, LaMar. All the best to you.

Dumpster diving making your own compost is a great way to garden affordable.

The garden looks really good. Great video, keep cool 😎

I was sure glad that you were there to secure that ladder because I was awful nervous up on your roof! Haha!

Glad to see you back at the cabin!

I live off grid in Western Australia and our summer time we get temperature's around 40 - 43 degrees C (around 100 F) It's a Mediterranean climate so it's dry heat and bearable compared to humid climates. My biggest challenge in summer is keeping plants alive. I don't grow a veggie garden in summer due to the heat, only garden in winter. Last summer I lost a lot of plants on my property due to the heatwave we had and didn't see any rain for around 8 months, only started raining about a month ago. But that's all part of living off grid 👍

kool video keepm comming......................peace

Over here in Lucerne Valley Ca It's 100° Degrees Today at 3,100 feet from Sea Level and 20 miles north of Big Bear Lake Mountain Resorts Community

Mr. Cabin, you might already be well aware of a product or way to renew the outside of your cabin but I'll run this one by you. It's basically plasti-wood (wood filler). It comes in different colors or natural tones. You can use a sander to take off a minimal amount of material on that outside wall, maybe like an air sander would be recommended for survivability (electric ones are short lived). Then you just spread the plasti-wood on with a flat scraper or applicator, maybe even a stucco applicator tool. The plasti-wood would bond to the outside wall very well and you could go over it again with the sander after it dried. It might not need to be sanded at all depending on how it comes out, the look. Usually that plasti-wood stuff has to be ordered if it's like a gallon or five gallon bucket. There are many brands available and the soft, mushy paste stuff is the type I'm referring to, not the hard stuff. You can even put a little water with it to soften it up more if needed. Maybe even follow it up with water sealer for decks. Thought I'd run that idea by you.

You should get some stackable 3-tier or 5-tier planters. Google says you can put four planter pots on each tier.

AC is a must in the south. I turned it on in April.

It was 98°F here today, 100 tomorrow. I had to start siphoning water 💦 out of the first of five barrels. The tomato vines are shading the ground now. They're loaded. My watermelon vine is blooming. I can't use metal here, it burns the plants when it gets over 100°F. I had a dozen large cherry tomatoes 🍅🍅 that were red, and there's a couple of tennis ball sized ones that are turning orange. My cayenne pepper 🌶️ plant is still blooming and has several peppers on it. I thought the freezer went out, so I went and got another one, same thing. My uncle said it's too full. The new one will just continually run unless I turn it off manually. So I guess I will try to get the old one checked out tonight and maybe split the load, so the freezers can turn off. I don't want it to run and burn up. Heat index of 107 tomorrow they say. But running two freezers, and the air conditioner, Im going out to move 400 watts of solar panels to a different place. They're only getting sun ☀️ a few hours, and my uncle's ash tree is shading them all afternoon. It just now getting cool enough to work outside. My oven went out three weeks ago. Well hopefully everything is new enough now, lol. It gets too hot here by 10 a.m. to do anything outside. I've been wanting to move the weter barrels into the greenhouse anyway, and they have to be pretty empty, so it'll all work out.

96 feels like 105 here in north east Arkansas

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Hey Lamar! I am not a builder and my friend wants to add an 8 by 12 addition onto the back of his tiny house. Very simple with a shed style roof. Probably three windows and an exterior door. Do you have any plans that are something similar to that that has the plans and material list etc

i been using speaker wire for my solar it seems to work fine or as good as my pure cooper wire some say this is bad any idea lost in florida by the way for cooling in florida im using swamp coolers even tho it is high humidly here i can run it on my solar its hot in FL

That cabin will last 100 years with a little maintenance