there could be dead animals in here dead

rodents

it sticks to your body and it gives me

the Shivers looks so much better like

you've really cleared it a lot that

we're going to be taking measurements of

the kitchen

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this was

ecliptic let me tell you

I have to say it just didn't feel very

Christmassy because we're so used to

snow

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hello Hello friends hey guys it has been

a while it's been a while happy New Year

happy 2023 2023 is upon us was 2022 the

fastest year of your life oh man we say

that about every year but yes yes it

certainly felt that way so before we

dive into today's video we wanted to

take a little moment to wish you a happy

holiday season that has already passed

so really we hope you enjoy the holidays

we're wishing you all the best in the

year ahead may you be able to accomplish

all your goals and dreams and pursue

everything that excites you that's kind

of what we're doing that's what we're

doing these days and it's it's exciting

we've been making good progress here yes

here in Argentina it just I'm kind of

amazed every time I go to the property

it just looks a little bit different

we've cleared a little bit more the

workers we've hired have done a good job

yes and yeah we're we're thrilled with

the progress exactly so we are going to

start being a lot more consistent with

the videos the renovation videos you

guys have been asking for those so they

are starting this coming week and yes we

are excited to share the journey with

you because the place is looking like a

proper construction site these days in

all fairness we've been more social than

than we normally are so we have

I spend the holiday season so do forgive

me we've we've met some really nice

friends here in the village we've got

invited out to some nice places and we

kind of got swept up by the World Cup

fever yeah that was the last video I

mean yeah with with all that going on

now things have settled down a bit and

we can just get back to a more normal

routine yeah so like we said we just

wanted to take a little moment to thank

you for being a part of the channel and

also show some appreciation all the

comments you guys leave us like all the

feedback the emails the messages we

really do appreciate you being a part of

the channel and we hope you're excited

yeah for 2023. absolutely we are joining

us so with that being said let's dive

into this week's video

well guys

here we are good afternoon in this video

we are going to be clearing out the

kitchen so basically we're starting with

the big task of clearing out every

single room in this house free of

furniture

boxes garbage anything you can possibly

imagine

um because if we're going to stick to

our schedule of having this renovation

completed by the end of March we need to

start hurrying it up and there is a lot

to do so I already kind of started this

task yesterday I did film a few clips

for you guys uh basically just clearing

out Furniture Machinery uh the spider

webs the dirt on the walls on the

shelves on the cupboards

um but there's more to be done I have

barely scratched the surface worry not

so today I actually came armed with a

mask because I realized I'm kicking up a

lot of dust and I don't know if there

have been rats in there rats mice I'm

kind of suspicious that there could be

some nests and uh some people in the

comments were reminding me of the

hantavirus so yes yesterday I just

wrapped a shirt around my face today I

thought okay let's use a mask

so that is kind of the plan for today

um this is going to be a task that takes

several days little by little

I've got my little flashlight here this

is cool I'm borrowing it from the the

cottage that we're renting and you

charge it via USB I can just plug this

in at the end of the day and I'm ready

to go the following day so that is the

plan it's hard to show you the the

spider webs hanging from the ceiling but

I am going to try to try I feel like I

need a zoom lens or something here can

you see that

like that's what the ceiling looks like

so

Mia lots of work to be done oh man I

don't know if I'm looking at some rat

nests on the ground but there's like

weird stuff there

um

yeah like what is that is that a nest is

that just piles of dirt how did the

piles of dirt get here

how did it get here that is my question

didn't drop down from the ceiling

so

leads me to believe perhaps a critter so

we'll see what we find there could be

dead animals in here dead rodents uh let

us begin

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also I'm kind of eager to see if I can

open this door

that would be

would be nice

oh look at that

oh my gosh

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well well I feel like I'm going to enjoy

working here a lot more now that there's

more Daylight otherwise it just looks so

freaky right so I'm just taking off my

mask for a little bit because I'm not

gonna be a sweeping up dirt quite yet

but I wanted to show you something

because I was actually talking with my

dad earlier this afternoon and he shared

a really interesting fact about this

house that I did not know so even though

this house was built in the 40s and and

people lived in it the electricity

didn't come to this Village until the

70s so that is three decades over 30

years of people getting by with uh like

little lamps like this one that would

have run on kerosene or like some type

of oil and this is what people would use

to like illuminate and get around once

once the sun went down so if you wanted

to read your book by the stove before

going to bed or whatever you would have

lit one of these and and sat there right

next to it so yeah that's that's kind of

fascinating the fact that there was no

electricity here until the 1970s but I

suppose it shouldn't surprise me that

much because I remember when I moved

here in 1994 we still didn't have

telephones there was no phone line no

phone service in this area and I

remember it was a pretty big deal a

pretty big event when it was finally

installed and we got a telephone in the

house and I remember that our our phone

number only had five digits because that

is how rural we are that is how small

this place is

so yeah that's a cool little fact I'm

sure we're gonna find more uh more lamps

like these and of course we're going to

be keeping them as decorations these are

antiques so another interesting thing I

wanted to show you that I kind of

noticed the other day as I was cleaning

up are these um like chair cushions

these were the seats on the wooden

chairs that I took out yesterday I don't

think that's salvageable it's just

covered in mold mold that is too many

colors there's white there's yellow

there's green I don't even want to

really touch it so yeah we'll probably

get some some new seats for the chairs

new material but yeah I'm just showing

you things as I discover them so another

special item that was a little harder to

see the other day but now we've made

some space here in the kitchen is this

old fashioned stove a thing of beauty it

says

industria Argentina so it was made in

Argentina by the brand dompe and Company

apparently it's gonna need some repairs

my dad was telling me that it never

worked because I guess there was a crack

or something so when you would light the

fire you would just get smoke coming out

so it needs to be welded somewhere so at

some point once the time comes we will

have to bring a welder to to look at

this but let's see if we can open oh

there's still wood in there so somebody

made a little fire at some point there's

also plastic bags

but yet this thing weighs a ton there's

just dirt inside just dirt I'll show you

right so now I'm going to continue with

the same task I had yesterday uh I've

got this little I still don't know the

name for this but it's for like mopping

squidgy or something anyways I'm going

to attack the spider webs that are still

hanging I got a lot of them yesterday

but there's still quite a bit left and I

just wanted to look and feel a little

cleaner otherwise every time you walk in

here it just like it sticks to your body

and it gives me the Shivers so let us

clean

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all right I found something really

interesting that I wanted to show you

guys

so when when my family had to return to

Canada and same with like my aunt and

uncle and my cousins when both families

decided that things that weren't going

very well here with the economy both

families tried to sell off as many

things as possible including clothes

um just everyday personal items you know

and on this plastic bag I found uh three

button-down shirts four dollars seven

t-shirts three dollars ten could it say

shorts three dollars I think that's

where this bag comes from just like when

they were trying to to sell off

things they kind of had like a garage

sale

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here we are just shoveling dirt out

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all righty

suppose I can show you what um items are

still left in the kitchen okay so I just

opened up one of the cabinets

found some old pots and pans

some dishes I don't know what this is

coffee maker in the back lots of mold