much more!

Infinitely better. Binge Cali chasing her toy in the woods.

Yup

The best.

Much better. Netflix is terrible now anyways. And they make you pay for it 🤦‍♂️

I bet Alaska would buy them too, good news!

@ArcticAcres. Wonderful comment, true to every word. Feeling inspired and alive, about the increase of sustainable living too, thank you!

Well done

Love to watch NATURE more beauty than television.

The world is just fine. Dont believe everything on the idiot box.

thank u very much as well how are you doing?

@@mattbuckley7083 well thank you

@@christineserafin393 nice meeting you

@@christineserafin393 Get ur pants off and put them on your head.

I am genuinely curious, wouldn't animal fat turn rancid?

@@tremperj Rendering the fat removes the majority of contaminants and other materials that allow the fat to turn, thereby slowing the process down. Much like one boils jellies, etc. So eventually, yes, it will turn, but most likely not at the rate he uses it, and not if properly kept.

Loved those books as a young girl. Reread them at 30.🇨🇦

@@ashleighjaimaosborne3966 I reread them nearly every year. When I discovered Shawn, I sent the link to all of my siblings with the tag line, "Pa lives." They all immediately made the connection. Those books are my touchstones and lodestar. Just love them.

@@michaellyons5208 I think that fat will not have the chance to turn bad. Shawn will use it up. 😊

He should do a coffee table book of his photographs! I would buy it!

Sorry just thought if something else. If you have a form of grass around your area, grass contains Nitrogen, every plant needs it. Compost us one thing Nitrogen reduces yellowing of the leaves make it grow better, an over abundance causes Squash beetles or other bugs for your outdoor garden.

Start getting your tools together you will need!

80% of Canada’s population live with 200 miles of the US border. Lots of wild spaces thankfully. 🇨🇦

@@ashleighjaimaosborne3966 It's beautiful but *so cold* 🥶 ...I need a cabin in the tropics - would that still count? 😁

Hi I would like to thank you for all the beautiful pictures of natu0re tat youlsre so fortunate to live in.I no longer csn get out into the woods to enjoy the natural beauty so I am living through you and i really enjoy all you are doing. Be safe and continue the awesome filming that you and your family are doing.

old school Geodesic dome .

He is a powerhouse.

Someone in Germany build a house inside a Greenhouse. Pretty cool if you ask me.

Or eat.

S McKee Your comment brought a tear to my eye and caused me to choke up. What a heart-warming anecdote about your father. My Dad just celebrated his 98th birthday, but I wasn’t able to be with him as he lives overseas. I sooo miss him. As soon as travel restrictions are lifted, I am off to see dear Daddy.

May your dad R.I.P. 🇨🇦

@@florencediaz7713 , If your father is 98 you need to find some way to go see him now ! The Democrats have their teeth firmly sunk in and they have control . Freedom is never going to return ! Or at least not for a very long time. It took over 70 years before the Russian people regained their freedom. Those that have the dictatorial power are very reluctant to let go of it.

@@donaldmiller8629 All correct, in terms of history. I'm Eastern European, living Canada for 31 years, watching in horror what's happening now in North America and worldwide, neo-commies taking over..! With the tech today (especially the injectable one!), the lockdowns are the globalist forever commie prison... UNLESS the white hats get help and neutralize the genocidal pedovore khazarian mafia now! God help us all!!! I'm not losing hope. Also, with men like this one in the world, humanity will always have a chance to recover!!!

@@katnip2u pls remember, Jehovah God has the last say. He's either getting ready to send His Son Jesus back to rapture us outta here or maybe allowing the ppl to see what can happen unless they repent & turn back to Him. At times He allows the ppl to suffer under a heretical ruler in order to see what they can lose.

Wish he would at least say what he is doing and for what then record sawing an sanding stuff.

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I couldn't have said it better! I'd LOVE to be this man's apprentice!!!

She probably got some good bits before the scraps got buried, but I had similar thoughts. Almost torture to toss them on the ground in front of her 😕. But she's SUCH A GOOD GIRL to leave them alone! 😍

Yes, I expect Cali loves to cool off after heatwaves and wavewaves (wagging her tail) 😊

yeah how are you doing?

Oh, and canoes.

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Cali is a girl dog.

Ann Jones , " Paradise " comes at a great cost. It is truly hard work to live as Shawn does. It is easy to watch in a video but very hard to do for real. I am watching a man building a log house for his mother. He slipped and fell against the trailer hitch of his truck. Broke four ribs ! He had help nearby. What would Shawn do if he slipped and fell onto a rock and broke four ribs ? Help for him is a long way away as well as a long time away. It could be a long time before he had any assistance and medical treatment.

@@donaldmiller8629 Definitely agree. While I am not as isolated as he is, out in the country with 1/2 to 1 mile between houses, gives one a taste of that isolation. Case in point, I sat down in the shade of a tree to cool off and a limb broke off 25ish feet up and landed on me. Called for help - no one could hear me. Took me an hour to crawl out from under the limb. Tried to walk and found out something was very wrong so I sat down and called for help. This got the dogs barking and after a half hour or so my husband finally heard me. Had a broken Clavicle, broken Rib, and three broken vertebrae. Yes, sounds like its out of an "I Love Lucy" episode. Paradise always costs something.

I agree! This man is so versatile it boggles! He's not just super skilled, but AN ARTIST with an eye for aesthetics, spacing, placing, timing, composition, etc. I'm in art and design and can tell that this man's multidimensional work and talents reach beyond the ordinary!

@@katnip2u not counting his intellectual skills, esp for only barely graduating high school. He didnt care for formal training. I think he should have gone to a Montessori school to highlight his hi IQ. He really is a genius!

@@dlspiritdancer9548 Agree.. Montessori, Waldorf, homeschooling.. all better options than the putrid leftist brainwashing I had subjected myself to, gaining a "masters" in frkn nothing useful (environmental studies), with one of my 3 supervisors literally dosing off during my thesis defense!

Bob Blossom , Really ? My brother-in-law , a native southern Californian once said, " The only rain that he wants to see is that which comes out of the end of his garden hose . " He was a fairly typical southern Californian. Wants no rain coming down ( rain at 3 A.M. might be acceptable as long as it stopped at 6 A.M. ) and no snow.

Ken Bowers, Ken, nowadays kids think that we live in the past when we talk about what we did when we were young. And they’re partially right, I enjoy looking back at my youth and remembering what I did that was fun and the not so fun things. But that’s where we learn and get knowledge from, we learn right from wrong, how to do and make things, what not to do (there are plenty of those lessons). It’s great being able to draw from those lessons and apply them to what we do in life, from tying a knot to learning to fish, to learning how to sharpen a knife and to clean a fish, to learning how to cook that fish. And all those skills and others that we use through out our life’s, we get to use those because we had great memories of when we grew up. Sure, some of those memories are thinking of things that we reminisce about, but they are still our memories that we can look back upon. I feel sorry for some of these kids today that will look back at their youth and will only remember playing a video game in a dark basement, they’ll have very few memories of useful knowledge that will help them through life. I hope I’m wrong and that somewhere along the path they’ll pickup some useful skills and have those memories in their older ages. Sorry for the rant, just what I was feeling. Have a good one!

@@Hoaxer51 Absolutely! Those of us with grandchildren can introduce them to these experiences and give them a good time away from technology.

@@Hoaxer51 , You know , things are relative. I was watching a movie a few days ago. About a space pilot dodging asteroids. She was asked how she learned to do it. Her reply ? I am a video game master. It does lead to great eye / hand coordination. Plus guiding drones from a remote location thousands of miles away is very much like playing a video game. Except that it's real ! So , there are modern day life applications. On the other hand , could they survive if stranded out in the remote forest ? Probably not.

@@donaldmiller8629 Application because of 2D digital screen overuse are very limited! In fact, the excessive use of computer screens, especially in early childhood, rewires and shrinks the brain in size and capacity, never to recover! If you don't use, train, exercise, ALL of the senses during certain developmental stages, they permanently atrophy!

@@Hoaxer51 but you are so right!

@@earthangel8730 you have such a sinister outlook. You might want to think about renaming yourself

I could be wrong but I believe he made a living for a while in sheet metal.

@@duanewilson3941 well that would make sense... I have had some Boeing old timers just giggle at stuff I did with my snips and big reds... told me I should go work for Boeing...lol

Yep he was a sheet metal tradesman. He owned a commercial roofing business.

Absolutely right! Great channel name.. lol I'm also thinking about moving to Russia!

As a Canadian I love old bay seasoning I put it on alot of things my favorite seasoning 🙂🇨🇦👍

...sold everywhere, -- Texas

really? u are welcome my dear how are you doing?

It is very comforting!

Your life is about to get 1000x better.

@Loving Off Grid- Congratulations on your upcoming bundle of joy!🧡

🤗 oh you are going to ❤️ it! I’ve had 5. My female had 2 litters of GORGEOUS baby goldens! 11 in the second litter. That was SO MUCH FUN! 👍 Enjoy! My favorite dog. So good natured, smart, and loving!

I’m surprised he doesn’t use it more when he’s cooking, he could fry on top of it and use it as an oven. He would probably use less wood but the oven part might leave things with a smoky taste, such as bread. Might taste really good too, at least to me.

He uses it when he boils down his maple sap for syrup.

Living free is a luxury we all need to strive for!

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