We Finally Have A Door On Our Root Cellar 

Hey Guys! Been waiting for you to post... Love Y'all... Continued Peace & Blessings!

So want you're saying is.. Jess is learning to put up with you 😅😅😅😅😅

Good to see you guys get the root cellar rebuilt! It's tough to start over on something after all of the work you had to put into it, but I think the new root cellar is a lot better than the old one. Good work!

Awesome video. Thank you!

I bet it felt good to close that door! I think it's better to make slow progress than to step back later and say I really wish we had done this or that differently. I can almost see your minds working out how you want it to look when a project is finished as you're getting it done. Of course we as viewers don't always know exactly what that is until you finish a project, which makes it even more fun for us to follow! Slow and steady never lost the race, your dedication to your family and the life you're building out there is a beautiful thing to see happening. Thanks for sharing your journey with us ❤

Hey, team work makes the dream work! Great progress guys.😎

Hey buddy how you guys doing today hope for help our little buddies doing okay so I have a great day out there is a little cold out there but it's cold here in California today but the all right guys have a great day and you guys be safe out there

So happy for you that you are as far along with the root cellar as you are. It's all looking good.

Vous êtes tres touchants, tous les trois, au milieu de ce désert. Et très courageux ! Merci de me faire partager l'avancement de vos travaux, vos peines et vos tristesses .👍👏❤️🌹

So nice to get major projects closer to complete. I like the door ☺️ Do you have mice in the desert? Close up every crack. Last year we lost our mousers, 2 cats and our mini doxie, very sad. Also coyotes we being shot by the neighbors. Now we realize how much rodent control they all were doing. We have two kittens growing up now. Be sure to make all tiny holes filled from varmint wanting to share your space. 😊

🎉congrats ❤love the update *edit* also, love your takes on life & liberty. Looking into getting myself one of those Christmas presents, so appreciate you showing it to us.

Good job on the door. I love what you guys are building. I hope I'm watching your channel in 10 years from now and you do a review and this is a highlight moment! Stay warm.

Hello, iam very happy for you and yours progresses. May God continue blessing you ❤

Congratulations on the door 🚪, I know that was one of your goals oh and the back fill!

Question, plywood isn't the best roofing alone, are you gonna cover that with rubber or anything?

Your door frame looks great!!! Jess-your garden is so thoughtful and beautiful. Your discussion in this video about what soulmates are and if they exist was touching. We are on our own off grid dream, years behind y'all, but your honesty and vulnerability gives us so much excitement to keep building what we want in our relationship and our off grid land. Thank you! Question- what are the most prevalent varmints you shoot with the .22? We are looking to pick one up soon. Any affiliate links or suggestions? Happy new year!! Sarah & Cory

It's the journey that matters, folks, not the destination so much. You two look beautiful, because you are. Happy New Year!

Way to go on the root cellar progress! Looking forward to it being finished so you can focus on the dome

Glad to see you back. Congratulations on the rood sellar. Greate job. Now for a great garden to fill te sellar.

I agree, there are people that you can grow with in a positive direction, that help your souls grow together!

A nice commentary on life and commitment to each other..

Love you guys, been watching for awhile now, and I anticipate every new video. Give Crue a hug from me, and a Belly Rub.❤ Y'all are doing a great job. Hard work no doubt, but your doing it. We are your Cheerleaders. GO OSRL. My hubbyband I have 44 years. Yes Bumps but you have to work at it. Compromise and Share . He's my Best Friend.❤

I do agree with you about soul mates. We’ve been married since I was 17 and it’s been 50 years now and I know I’d never have made it with anyone else. It’s a wonderful journey ❤

You both are the perfect couple and as long as there's peace , love , respect , care , happiness , connection and honesty between you I believe that's what you both work hard for and the rest falls into place eventually . Besides what I said you'll still have ups and downs you guys are an amazing couple.Peace be with you both all the days of your lives 💯❤️🙏😇👍

we appreciate yall taking us on your journey! have a healthy and prosperous 2024!

That’s great! What happens to the rain that comes down the steps?

Cuteness overload, there at the end… I can see with my own eyes, the connection of your two souls… the eyes, the smile, the emotions… ❤❤ I can’t wait to see what Jess does with the new door! Great job! 👍

Yes, the door is a perfect white canvas for Jess do do her magic with 😀 Great work!

Congratulations on another achievement towards your dreams. I'm positive you are correct about soul mates and the importance of being compatible, having things in common, and building together what matters most in life. Love and patience endures.

Good job guys. Delighted to see your progress.

Ok you know I’m going to butt in and send suggestions. What about a white wash of the inside of the root cellar? It will lighten the place up making it easier to see and it would be a cleaner look for food stuffs. A pump up sprayer will work and go faster while nothing is in it. We put 5 coasts on my granddad’s my grandmother loved it. It almost seals it up it not really. It’s not a waterproof solution but it keeps the dirt where it is supposed to be. Next idea, is the door solid or hollow? If solid no problem Thompson water seal does that. If if it is hollow we have used expanding foam to fill the voids. A small drill hole a can of foam and the long thin tube and shoot it in. We used it for insulation value it works fantastic! Stay warm, hope Crew is hanging in there. Love and prayers for all of you❣️❣️❣️

The door looks great❤

Glad to see the new door in. Man, I sure miss the more frequent videos haha. I feel for Crew (Crue?, I always forget).

You guys are Awesome!

It's so nice to see couples work together like that! So glad to see the progress! 😊👍

Wonderful spiritual evolution advice. Free will, equality, virtues and values worth persuing. Love is all these things and more. Thank you both, especially jess for sharing. I am filled with joy watching your journey.

Have a good and blessed POSITIVE New Year!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎇⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄

Love it so much keep it up as always 💘

Congratulations on the milestone. Door on the roof cellar. I can't wait to see the new trenches and more bags for the rest of the house.

I would definitely expect Jess to personalize the root cellar door! That's Jess! I'm more plain and simple but, I enjoy watching the ideas and creativity, very interesting!

good for you. i have never found my soul mate....now, too old. keep on truckin you two.....

The 22 LR is a far more dangerous round than most people know. Penetration of a 1.5 in. thick plywood documented at 400 yards. Very effective at dealing with those far off predators.

What'd he get you? A CZ? A ruger? Inquiring minds want to know! Also gotta love Iron sights for plinking. :) (as someone who's got a cowitnessrd red dot on his hip right now.)

Wouldn’t it be great of someone would design a doorknob that you didn’t have to work around the knob to screw the screws in???!!!

Thank you guys for sharing the adventure with us, I have truly enjoyed the ride. Prayers for good health and safety in this new year 🎊

I appreciate the both of you too, i look forward to the next video all the time, really enjoy following along with your adventures

Friendship is key I think helps you enjoy the adventure together.

Your root cellar looks great You guys !

In the Irish language a soul mate is an anam-chara. That is some one with whom you can lay bare your deepest and most private thoughts and feelings. It is someone whom you can talk to daily or even yearly or even decades apart and still pick up as if you had never parted.

Nice to see seller almost completed, I know ya'll have put a lot of time into redoing it , have ya'll given thought on covering the steps going down to seller entrance ?

What keeps the rain from going down the steps and into the celler?

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys.

Prayers from Canada can't wait to see complete.

The way you spoke about the door, it sounds like it's a "hollow core" interior door. If that's correct, it won't be too long before it begins to come apart from the exposure to the weather. Even some of the "solid core" exterior doors don't hold up to the weather exposure. Question: Your Root Cellar stairway appears to NOT be covered in any way nor does the ground water appear to be "diverted" in any way away from it. Since that stairway offers a very nice downhill slope right to your root cellar floor, how do you expect to keep water from following that very natural path down to the cellar???

The cellar is coming along nicely! No one ever compliments you on your choice of music on the videos? This video has GREAT music! Carry on J&J! Thanxz. Much love!

Thanks Jim and Jess, couldn't agree more. I've been with my 'old man' for 23 years and it's still a work in progress. But I am so glad we both have stayed in the relationship and continue to work together with PATIENCE... it takes quite a bit of that and it's worth it. We're heading out to a dance tonight and I couldn't be happier. Happy to see your progress and look forward to following your projects to the finish.

Let Bing can really be difficult even if one is an optimist. Being connected does seem the key to wellbeing. Working with our fellow beings with intent and creativity is powerful. Even if one does not find a soulmate. The Blue Zone studies really illuminate this. Connectedness being even more important than sleep, healthy food, exercise, hygiene

I remember my grandma's root cellar. She had canned goods like sour crout, beans, beets and pickles.. Fresh potatoes, apples, corn, and cabbage. You're going to love it.

well done!..........a door is nice, but there is still a water issue.....the door doesn't keep out water. Do you just expect rain to fall on the steps?.......and then it will puddle in front of the door, until it overflows

It’s in the bag. You built it and crossed the threshold of your root cellar. I appreciate your insights on relationships and building on your dreams. ❤😊

wood and dirt? termites , moisture and critters aint a worry?

CRUE does a great job guarding and patrolling the homestead and deserves many treats @ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZMt9BM0e4RE.html

The root cellar and new door are great! Your food storage will be secure. That was an amazing gift Peter got you for Christmas. Wow! I bought my eldest son a rifle many moons ago. He had to complete a gun safety course first! It was a lovely .22

I Agree i have had 3 strokes a and not just any one would put up with it so I consider myself very lucky to have Bill by my side!

keep it up, looks like your doing well///////////////

Me and my husband have been together for 24 years and I couldn’t agree more as a matter of fact our song is called made.

What a great recovery from the storm damage! You two are amazing!!

Not much if any progress in two weeks . Must be too cold for you guys

Great job. Wish you posted each week!

How are you going to keep water from entering under the door?

Your vision is incredible....😊

Crew acts with dignity of a king!

Great job well done!! Be safe.

"All the firearms you own?" Did I miss some? I only remember the 9mm. Comin' along

Yay! You finally enclosed the new root cellar

Excellent Job!👍👍

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I don't remember seeing a sump pump in the root cellar. Do you worry about flooding?

AWESOME WORK YALL'S.. "YAY".. proud of ya guys gettin the work done.. 😊 thanks fur sharing 👍👍

I think a soul mate is someone you have known in a previous time / life

Shirley you jest...

It is a door to your new life.

never use that "chipboard" for anything but kindle wood. Water turns into wet cardboard! Trailer industry found that out while using it for floors and discontinued it.

Thank God 🙌🏼 Retaining walls, yes! What about interior water-proof barrier paper, walls? Just asking. We love you guys. God bless you all. 🙏🏼

Haha. Jim said Annie Oakley. Jess is tip top markswoman!! Thanks for the new episode. Glad to hear your stories and getting to the Self Reliant Green Dream

And where is your backstop? A bullet doesn't stop just because you miss the target...just sayin'. Other than that, I love the door.

Great job folks!

Looks amazing, you can always change that door later on good job 👍👍👍👍

😮 Showing all the rock under the cellar platform, will the cob keep out scorpions and snakes, desert critters? The door is a perfect fit. It's gonna keep out squirrels and monkeys, well at least cats, dogs and rodents.😂

You both have worked so hard to get where you are on your projects! Glad to see Crew is doing well! You also have helped me answer a question I’ve been trying to answer after I lost my wife almost 3 years ago. Like your little .22😊

Ive been watching your channel for a while now, from what I've seen . You and you're wife are bad asses. I don't know anyone that do what you guys do. Keep faith, and keep the videos coming.

Nice door, looks good and works well. Big congrats. Ron PTL USA

That is so true Jim for my wife and I are soulmates and we Ben married for 27 years and together for 31 years all together she 14 years younger than me but it’s good for she out last my first wife she cheated on me and we had two kids together before hand and stayed together for six years before we got divorced back in 1987 now I’m happy with love I have now

Just look the half journey ones life begins with,, it took thousands of sperms working together just ta break down the walls of the egg so life can begin...

My Dad always said “Anything worth having is worth working for “.

Jim and Jess, you’ve come a long way since I last watched… the energy the videos bring and the edits you make on the video make it feel so original. Great Job

Spiritually speaking twin flame and soul mate is just a wish to unite with the divine. Very few find that one special person and have that long lasting loving relationship. A soulmate could be a friend or lover but is a fellow traveller that helps you go above and beyond your own limits. You could go deeper into the various types of soul mated and it is possible to have many. The word psyche means soul or spirit. Carl Jung said its a universal archetype it is our ego that beleives it is a seperate self seeking oneness. Having soulmates aka friends ,makes us reach beyond just ourselves.The grass can always look greener somewhere else but if you have internal struggle it will follow you and make your pastures more like thistles. Keep On Keeping On .

When Jess stepped into the doorway, my mind went back to the day you saw the old cellar had failed. I can't even imagine how much joy you feel to have it better than that day. On the subject of soul mates, I do believe in soul mates. Maybe not so much in the conventional sense. The person in my life that I consider my soul mate is my best friend who is a gay male. I am a straight female, so our "mate" status is of the friendly nature. We are so very compatible, I have known of him for about 34 years. We have been close for about 24 years, and in all that time I have never been angry with him.

Something I asked myself not long ago: What are you going to do when you get these major projects done? For my part, we've been in that mode so long, it's hard to imagine anything else.