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Needle felting. Yeah.
Have you done this before?
Uh my girlfriend tried it. She made like little animal figurines, like really small ones.
And then um I stabbed myself a few times accidentally. Um goes right through.
Yes. Now you can try it.
Okay. Like this. But uh this is uh almost ready for wet felting. So we start with taking short lesson from different kind of wool.
Mhm.
Uh this wool is this um it’s growing about 20 kilometers here to north.
Yeah,
it is.
Good morning, Anakah.
Good morning. How are you?
That’s Tanya. Okay. Um, it is a mix it tel and finish wool. You can try it. How textel?
Texel.
Texel is the uh shape for meat.
Okay.
Growing for meat.
Yeah.
But of course they come wool also.
Yeah. Yeah. And it’s mixing because this tel the woman is texile and the father is swoman l finish.
Mhm.
Okay. This is a mixing bowl. And here you can try. What kind of is a marino wool?
Oh, okay. Yeah.
How it feels your hands?
Yeah. It’s pretty different.
Too different. Yes. Yeah. What? What you what you smell?
There’s like um there’s more like texture in this like there’s like um But hold up. Also, is there like more like like lenoline like oils in this? Yes, of course it contains oils. Yes. Cuz I feel like that on my fingers as well.
Yeah. I don’t know what else is on the difference. Um this this fiber is quite short. It’s really good for for felting. But if I want to do yarn, I have to get pick up this uh smaller length fibers. Yeah.
But you can also make yarn from this if you want. You just
Mhm. make yarn. You can also do this. But and uh this is um like um uh like I have scrolls. This is also scores. But when you look at this marinos, this is
more like hairs.
Yes. Longer. Yeah.
Longer. And they have not add all that. Oh,
okay. Is this why like um marino wool like ones they can make like a finer woven shirt that kind of feels more like a not wool?
Yes. It’s a this is really thin fiber.
Yeah.
This is thicker. Yeah.
And uh
if I use only this kind of wool
for my slippers.
Yeah,
it’s got broken cuz it’s delicate
a couple of weeks. Yeah.
But uh when I’m use this kind of wool,
it takes many years.
Oh, okay. Yeah. So
I have to uh done many kind of protos. What is the good competition? Good good uh combination these different kind of wools.
Yeah, I see. Okay. So, different products.
Yeah.
A different wool is
is better for that. Yeah.
Yes.
You need something stronger for like a sock or something like that.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes. That’s the reason. Uh it’s that color and also this is contains lenoline but this is much uh what is the fiber fiber is uh thicker.
It’s also soft.
Yeah.
And this is quite it is thin but it’s not so soft. It’s like a not heavy but it’s not it’s a little bit uh
scratchier. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And I This is the I don’t know if people in the world if they don’t know that in Lapland the sheep wool is uh much different what the sheep wool is on other way.
Mhm.
So that’s a why wool of northern Sweden and northern Norway is really good that wool.
Yeah. In the socks I use Norwegian
sheep wool they because they have make the really good yarn.
Okay.
Yes.
And um do you ever like um what do you call it? Make your own yarn from the raw product or is
I have tried
Yeah. Here here is my this Yes. I have tried to do
uh this yarn. I have make this from this. I have somewhere his equipment. There it is probably because I don’t I don’t like to do because it comes so much but this u this I have tried to do. Yeah. Cuz it just like use something that like helps twist it. Right.
No, no, no. I have make this only by hand.
Oh, but by hand. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. It’s a so effective yarn.
Yeah. But I have tried because but maybe someday I make this.
Yeah. Cuz like what’s the old school? Is it called a a loom? Is is that a loom? The how how they make the yarn.
Yes.
Um there’s like a you can use like a a petal.
Yes. Mechanical one.
You can you can see those.
Oh, you have those? Oh, okay. Of course I have.
That’s true. That’s true. This is my I I call this place that I’m making some hobbies here. That’s my working place. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
And that’s the reason I have here yarn so I can stitch or needle or knit it or crochet or whatever I do.
Okay.
And this is a place where I felt it because those are small so small things.
Yeah. But the main thing is when get wet felted it al it was if the product product is so small and if the product is bigger one it is the same situation you have to put fiber layers different directions otherwise it doesn’t get um enough uh strong. Oh, okay. Yeah.
So, it helps like when you’re
putting the needle felt through it, it like pulls through the different layers and like crosses them together to make it stronger.
Yes.
So, I’m just going to take my jacket off one second. Hey guys, this is a wool shirt. Marino wool. And if you watch the stream, I am a big fan of wool products. You can try it yourself.
The felting this.
Yes.
Yeah. I’m down to Yeah.
Okay. You can decide how much and what color are you putting?
Oh, okay.
This is if you want. I have put so much, but you can decide if you want to put less or more
something. Um, all right. Where can I put this?
Is it? Um,
I can probably put on the ground. Here we go. You have to put everything to camera. Always have to consider that.
Yeah. Okay. You guys got somewhere. Yes. Yes. It’s okay. I can
take this away.
What we are don’t using now.
Okay. Okay.
So, and take this I I like to do in my because uh if it’s uh too high it comes painful for your
Oh, yeah. No, that makes sense.
Yes. And then you put colors top of it if you want.
You just like
you’ll just take it there.
Oh, just like pull a piece out or like how do you I don’t want to wreck the whole bundle. No, no, just take it thin.
Oh, I see. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Like this one you can put so much you want. But
I do like green cuz this is how you make like the little different color strip.
Yes, I have put green and red because I called this product is a Christmas forest. Oh, okay. Yeah.
And this what I made.
Are you already making for Christmas? No, there’s a just name for the coloring.
Oh, okay. Okay. Okay.
Yeah. And the the other one was natural colors. So there’s only only natural. Okay. Okay. Let’s let’s do that for
just green. I like green. I like green.
Yes. And then you have I should first a little bit put that like here so it stay stay in the place a little bit first. Okay. When I started, I use only one needle and I doesn’t have even that wood uh which go I I started with this kind of equipment. Oh, okay. Yeah. No handle just
Yes, that’s much easier.
Yeah, it’s much nicer. When I tried it with with Sarah’s partner, Yeah. she just had that and we were just holding it in her hand. It was a
dangerous activity. Yes. I started with that and then I buy once and now I’m have
Oh, you got the the real deal. Yes. And then it’s easier put many times.
Yeah. Are we on to this now? Right.
Yes.
I have to show you because I have first uh in the middle.
Yeah.
Thicker. Yeah. Yes. And then have to take break and take it out for a while.
Yeah.
And check is it enough? Well, there is a little bit less. So, we put it here and put two times over that place. So, it so it goes. Yes. Now, we can turn it around. So first middle and then around.
Okay. All the way to the edge or kind of just in the middle?
Yes, middle. Because And you can also put a little bit try with hands how it feels. It’s the Um, and I think it’s needled felt it more because uh when you put the soap inside, so you it has to be quite good felted because when you put the soap water, it goes that the wool away from the soap. You have to put it inside. Yeah. Well,
I put this soap open but because of the bathroom so we you can show this wet felt it.
Yeah.
But it is that you can dry. Now you have felt needle needle felt. Yeah. Yep. Yes. How do you you just know I guess now off of experience how much it should
I just uh felt it feel it in my hand. Is it something is uh it’s moving easily or is it staying around here is moving easily. So but you don’t have to push it so much because it’s only just the very tip for so just
Oh okay. It’s just tap just put it a little bit.
Yeah. How often do you accidentally get yourself with it? Every time. Do you want honest answer? You got like strong calluses today?
Cuz I’m like you had your hands close. I’m like that looks dangerous. Yes. uh today last time but not not in this way but when I’m putting the felt top of the soap then I okay
easily get my fingers brain okay yeah and then you can Put a little bit more
in the outside. Yeah, that does look a lot thinner. In the outside doesn’t much be so tough than in middle because uh it has to turn over the soap.
Oh, okay. There has to be fiber which can put inside together.
Mhm. Oops. I think it’s enough.
Okay.
Now we just uh turn it around this felt and um it’s good way that these are going to inside these are going to outside. So it comes like this and then you just turn it like this. And now you have to push there and put not that way anymore
on this.
Okay.
Only this is where you get yourself.
Yeah. And you have to be keep your finger over there for a while that it stays. But okay,
you can do it yourself.
Yes. All right. Do not stab my finger.
Yeah. Okay. And turn a little bit here. Somebody says that he said that had a beginning but don’t know. No, we’re just trying to this one. Then we get a felt petted and then we are going to make hat.
Starting with a small product and moving on to the bigger one.
So you can uh this is the reason for that is uh that you can open the directions from your hands and eyes and feelings.
Okay? Because you need all of these when you get felted.
Yeah.
With water and soap. Everything have to fix um work together.
Yeah. Take a little break.
Uhhuh.
I was Is it have to put over this direction? Do I still need to hold it or it’s
No, you can do continue that that way for a while. Then I show you another from start to finish. How long does it take you to like um from this state like make the wool, mix it with the colors, wrap it around the soap and um
I haven’t take time for that.
You don’t?
It just takes as long as it takes. Uh it takes what it takes. Sometimes some sometimes it comes like a very fast I even but oh I have to make 10 and then sometimes it it feels that it doesn’t work at all.
Yeah. I don’t know is the problem in my mind or is problem in my or is the problem but some some every day is not similar. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. Now you can take this uh soap in uh for yourself because here is thicker. You put just and
keep this and you keep your soap
in your hand. But be careful that you burn.
Don’t stab myself.
Yeah.
No stabbing.
Uh you can also use as I show you.
Mhm.
You can put this uh here inside. So you can put few times and a little bit down so it get easier. Okay.
Try that one.
Okay. So do you just kind of go work around or do you stay in a side for a while? Um it is easier than a wet felting if you have needleed it quite tight. That part should be put a little bit down.
Okay. And you you just by stabbing it, it gets put down. This looks relaxing. Exactly. I I have real I am really relaxing feeling now. But how are you?
No, I enjoy this. I like seeing like how that part was like sticking out and then you just like work at it for a second and it kind of like squeezes in on itself.
Yeah. really silence like what do you do you just work in silence when you do this? Do you listen to music? Oh, you said you listen to podcasts. Is that
podcast or radio or sometimes? I am only silence. Yeah.
So it it depends also in the in the mood and the feelings. Sometimes I just want to look outside and be in silence.
Yeah. Uh I’m being in silence when I want to know what my brain is going to do.
Mhm. And then I don’t want that anything outside push me to anywhere. Mhm. I just heard the feeling what the heart says. I like that. I have many things to in to do my list to do what to do when to do I have some deadlines but uh the deadlines are that it’s not anything have to be done today
okay
just a couple of days flexibility so uh I can do them when is the mood is good because I don’t want to make products if they are not coming perfect for me. I have to be satisfied for the products. Yeah. Yes. That
Yeah.
And we are going to wet felting for soap. But it’s uh really easy to keep with that uh wood.
Mhm.
Then that you compared to the metal.
Yeah.
Yeah. So
I I make those these soaps only only few in their one day because uh to me this is um it’s Not so relaxing how it looks because I have to do
step step.
Yeah. So I I make a few probably on the mornings and a few on the evenings then I’m have to a little bit sit down and be peaceful. So okay
that’s that’s why I’m doing the Do you have a type of uh craft that um you find the most peaceful to make if you want something like pure relaxation? This is uh knitting and
knitting
and crocheting. Knitting also
and uh when I have some problem for example for something is broken in the weaving or I have to plan new product or something. Oh,
do I break it or is that No, no, no.
It just comes out. Okay. It’s just like a cork like no I broke something already. Yeah. Uh so then I’m go sitting outside or sofa and I’m knitting socks and my brain comes space for thinking and then I solve the problem and then I go to the my atelier and make that I have I have some some salt and try it is it working or not. So that’s the reason I have socks work everything every time and I have different kind of knitting knitting products so I can take what is the good in each situation.
Yeah. Okay. Like how does
that’s quite good. Yeah. Maybe a little bit here.
Yeah. It felt softer on the sides. Uh I I do this uh because here the soap so have to be little bit careful that it doesn’t go yes through the soap. Yeah. Okay.
But then we can go to fat felting.
Okay. comes.
Wonder who that is. people are online. They are get some comments or
Oh, yeah. No, we’re getting comments. But this is a very relaxing activity. So, if I’m saying more things and or if you’re saying more things, then there’s more of a conversation. But like as you said, like this is pretty like relaxing. you focus at the task at hand and it kind of your mind stays clear of potentially all the other things that might be stirring around in your brain. Cuz I’m just focusing on
Yeah.
bringing this felting together here. It is a meaning that you can en also enjoy really as much as possible in this um journey what you are visiting here.
Yeah, absolutely. cuz um my goal on this trip is to try to experience as many different things as possible. And this is definitely especially like new things, things I don’t understand. And this is definitely in that category of things I haven’t tried. I wouldn’t say I don’t understand. Well, okay. I don’t know understand how to do it yet, but I’m learning. But um
that we can take away the little chunks. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
Okay.
Yes. Yes. You can take it with you and when you go into the uh I have made this I use recycle material as much as possible. Yeah,
this is I have something really good eating for cats.
Yeah,
they have been there. And when I have make the slippers, I have cut the piece off away. So I turned this roll and now I have safety plate for this. There you go.
Because this is the Oh, I pushed it too hard.
Oh.
Oh no. Get some pliers out.
Yeah, but my husband have to take it off. I I used it. It be over there.
Okay.
Take it those away from you and I take this one. Okay.
And you can
Oh, it Yes.
And we are going to the bathroom.
All right.
There we have water enough.
Yeah. [Music] Hello.
Hey. Well, still good morning. Almost afternoon.
I get some towels.
Okay. [Music] There you go. We hat making. We’ll make a hat. Right now we’re making like um soap wrapped in the in wool. So the it’s like soap and alofa allin one.
Yes. Then we get a little bit of warm water. Some warm not warm. Yeah. And don’t not show much.
Yeah.
And if you want you can use this um gloves this uh vinoli. This is a if you want but if you want you can make it your hands. I use this vin
just to start with. I’ll feel just with my bare hands to know what I’m working with here.
Yes. Normal when I use only uh cube so I use by hands but yesterday I was making 15 I use this gloves because it is a little bit easier it doesn’t that doesn’t feel so much power Okay. I take one and then you can take.
Sure. First we have to book this. I have uh needled um uh but this have needle few times that we have little bit uh water. Then this is my handmade soap and water and I put this a little bit.
Mhm.
And then I get it just moving.
Mhm. And I need this soap only the first one because here comes the shop so out as you see.
Oh yeah yeah yeah. Then few directions and when this is felted that it stays over over there. Then you just put it around your hands. Pour a little bit water top of it. And this very softly. You don’t have to push at all. Only movement.
Mhm.
And only a little bit more water. So here is the space it did get fed. It’s uh quite a lot. What is this? The space between and wall. Yeah. And uh just a little bit more move it to felt it gets smaller and smaller and smaller. And
when it is um directed to the soap, so that’s then it’s ready. And it’s the warm water that shrinks the the wool in or Yeah. But it’s comfortable to use when it’s of course you can do this outside cold water but it’s not so comfortable. Oh okay. Warm is more for comfort. Okay. Yes. But if you use really much hot water the all good things from wool get over off because the lenoline is liquid for 42° water.
Okay. So not too hot. Yeah. If it is too hot, the lenoline goes out and you doesn’t
get this good vitamins in this wool.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
And that’s a big difference is when you wash your wool yourself or you buy it from the factory
is the factory removes a lot of the
Yes. Because they use really hot water because the lenoline comes out from the wool.
Yeah. And then the cold the water and they pick up the lenoline because it’s a fat. It goes to the top of water. They get the lenoline off and then they put wash it again and put the cosmetics.
Oh, okay. Yeah.
So, but I want the cosmetics in here and really natural uh condition. Uh uh did you know that uh D vitamin are making mostly from sheep wool
D
D?
Oh like also one from the sun. Yeah. Okay.
So like there’s vitamin D in the
in the in the wool. Oh okay.
Which is especially important here in like the winter and stuff when the sun isn’t providing that much. So you need it externally.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And then we just little bit clean the foam away. Now when it’s uh smaller you can push a little bit harder but first so soft that’s possible.
Yeah. And that’s that’s the way how it goes. Now I put a little bit water and then dry away. Then let it dry. Now it’s your turn.
Okay.
Your own soap. It’s temporarily. And let’s see if I can fit this on here so we can get this on and down. Okay. All right. So my soap and then
now you can just just put it over there. Yes. And put it but the other side first.
Other side where we had this and then you’re just Yeah.
And this was just like rubbing it. Yes.
Yeah.
Yep.
Okay.
And you can take more soap and water over there.
Okay. So actually I use only the first one. Oh. And then the rest it’s all from here. Okay. So we don’t
really economic. Yeah. Careful. I think my eyes. We’re making some soap wrapped up wool. Sarah’s jealous. I know it. Put more water. You can also put a little bit. Yes. So it comes easily enough water and soap. And we’ll need also only water and soap movement.
Yeah.
And the felting is And then how do you know? Oh, I guess I can feel it shrinking up onto the soap. Yes, you can feel it when it’s enough. Good like does that feel? Well, I guess you either wash or dried your hands. And then
Yes. And then when it is quite uh shrunk to the to the soap.
Yeah. Yes. You can turn it on your hands. So,
so you were just going like this kind of. Yes. But just scrolling first.
Oh, like just all over but getting it wet first. Yes. A little bit water. Yeah. And then just only shake her like a ball.
Like a ball. Yeah.
All right. No pressure, just movement, you said. Yeah. It’s kind of fun. That is really soft way to make this. Yeah.
But uh because the product is so small and there’s so so few amount of wool, so it’s really soft and light working. And then you get into the outdoor boots and gets hard working. Yeah. Well done. I’m doing it. It’s kind of cool. You feel it all shrink up to the onto the soap. Cuz before it was very loose, just a loose ball of wool outside of a bar of soap. But now it’s all shrunk up onto it. So, I had breakfast before I started the stream. We had um some more of that salmon um mayonnaise, the homemade mayonnaise with the different breads. Um, and then we had some like homemade soup made from those uh the berries I tried that were frozen yesterday. Little orange ones. And coffee of course. Yes. How’s he doing? I’m bike touring through the Arctic right now. Everyone does this when they bike tour, right? Normal bike touring activities. party doing. This is there’s a bar of handmade soap underneath this and it’s wrapped in wool from here in LA. And um I felted the wool around the soap and now we’re I think she calls it wet felting to like have the uh wool shrink up around the bar of soap. And then you have a soap that’s essentially a soap and a loofah allin one. So you don’t need to like scrub. Has the act of putting soap on with this bar. Also scrubs at the same time. That’s what it smell. It’s unscented. It’s just a natural soap. And Anaka started doing this because she was sensitive to a lot of the additives they put in commercial soap. I think is what she told me. yesterday. I feel like that’s pretty a little bit there. smells like something like like if you shove your nose in it, it smells like just like a mild soap. I don’t know how to describe that. Oh, it does.
I think it’s all shrunk up onto it, I think. And it looks nice. Yeah. Yeah, it’s ready.
It’s ready.
Yeah.
I just rinse it and dry it. Yep. Rinse. I make this other some other time.
Okay. Really good.
Hey. Oh, so you can clean hands also.
They’re really clean.
Take care of your skin. You can clean the door. It
was the most thorough hand wash I’ve ever done. Right. If you want, you can make all these. Take me a while.
Yeah.
Yeah. Sure. This is my soap. It’s got green cuz it’s got some green marina wool on it. It’s my soap. I see him.
Yes.
Yes.
So I have started here a little bit and I about about 26 g. this uh rule.
Mhm.
For for each one of these are 26 g.
Each one is about 26. Yes.
Okay.
And this is the model what we are going to the hat when you that what I show you yesterday. The one yesterday hat.
Yeah. That’s the foam.
Okay.
So, we’re turning this into that shape.
Yeah.
Yeah. And then you can form the hat out of that.
Yeah.
Okay. All right. How does that work?
We are going to do it.
Okay. All right. Hat making time.
Hat making time now.
All right.
Because uh my husband goes to the preparing the place with we are going to dry the wool. So, so that’s the reason we are going to do the hat in that time when
while the wall is okay.
Yeah. And uh oh, I put this much more more water. I use this uh mix in which my handmade soap and water. I put this the hat kind of looks like that. Yeah. Please be a wizard hat. It’s in the realm. Here is water and a little bit that my hand makes.
Okay. Yeah.
That is a glue to the wool. And we have to do it quite quite many layers as as many layers as as possible.
Mhm. It’s cool how it splits like that. And uh I first do this this direction. What is the foam?
Yeah.
And never cut that wool. It always has to um make this. You can clip it.
Okay. Yeah.
With a What is sock set?
Scissors. Scissors. Yeah.
So, you have to put a little bit And then uh you have to put a little bit more to the underground because the heat is the where you have to bit more
for the head. And this can be a little bit softer. But only a little bit [Music] and quite a cat was nervous because something scaring. So then just water and soap and the water is like a glue.
Oh, okay.
Like this and make this.
Yeah. And this is the two options what you like to do when you have put a water in it. You can uh put it like this one. There’s something. It doesn’t. Or you can put this plastic top of it and you can So this is a faster way.
Yeah. But the first one is comfortable when you just want to relax and feel the wool and warm water. This is a little bit quicker and you just put that all wool is wet.
Yeah, there is not enough water. If there if you put too much water, it is here everywhere and make it spills all over. Yeah.
Yes. So to use only that much that you need. And then you just turn it around. And then this wall inside here is dry wool. I I make this first layer so you can continue the second layer.
Okay.
It is a little bit easier than when it’s the wool is over there. I don’t know. There’s a many ways. Oh, cat is going want to go out there. My helper. This is a many ways to do hats but uh I think this this is the way what I have think is comfortable. I have the hand towel somewhere here. Second layer also the same time. So what is the um the the mold uh made out of?
It’s plastic.
It’s plastic. Yeah. Somebody use there some thicker plastic.
Mhm.
But I use I use this quite teen. It’s actually Same plastic which using in the buildings when they are building house and they are
the outside before they put the siding on.
Yes. Yeah. Okay.
For steam and it have been has been left when we have repaired that old naveta.
Yeah.
My I tell you and that’s why uh when we repaired that Naveta you have asked me if I need water over there I said no I have only weaving and uh oh make clothes so I don’t need water over there so
minimum risks so there isn’t water that’s why I have to welt here I bring off the wool over there And okay,
then I come here to for wel and that’s enough. Many steps seems to be. Yeah, it’s warm in here. My phone’s overheating and I’m not even charging it. This could be an issue longer term. I didn’t know that when we repairing that nar the smaller smaller part of that that I can be an artisan someday. Yeah,
I was working somewhere else there and then and it was only my place for hobby.
Mhm. It’s a little bit dry there. Just turn it around. It is now easier put the wool because it’s uh wet under. So the glue glue is working. Okay. So, do you want put
Yeah, I do
those layers. Hey.
All right. So, I need to find this put this. They can be over there.
Over there. Okay.
You can put this over there for a while if it’s okay.
Yeah. Should be fine. This can charge. This might overheat, but it’s going to die. I make those thinner layers ready for you.
All right. So, but now I uh it’s better to put this direction. So, they are coming.
Oh, crossing cuz you already did it the other way. Yeah. Cuz you want each layer to be the opposite direction.
Yes. And here is a little bit thicker. So we can take it outside there.
Okay. And then you tear from
and put it away. Yeah. And then
Yes. And the next one. And put a little bit like this.
Yeah.
And to kind of match how thick it is. Yeah.
And there’s something.
Yeah. Doesn’t matter. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. If if it works, it works. It’s like it’s like a pussles.
Yeah. Or if you turn it around, it goes a little bit better.
Oh,
because it is a length here than sort over there. Yeah. So, it’s fits perfect.
These small pieces.
Yeah. Wait, does it work?
Yes. And you can um put it uh uh No, you can. Yes, you can put it over there. And then
Okay, we should pull it apart and do that
part and part. Okay.
Yes.
And then this is when you add the uh
No, though you have to use all this.
Oh, all of this. Okay.
Yes. All this wall. And now there’s a layer down. So you can put this uh
the other way. Yep. And put this the middle because this the biggest part and they’re a little bit away.
Mhm.
And also they’re a little bit away.
Okay.
And just try to fill the space.
Yes. And try to uh Okay.
Put over here. And when it’s uh it’s quite thick, you have to match the two of this. Yeah. Yeah. Uh it’s that better what’s thinner are the layers
per layer. Okay. Yeah. But it doesn’t matter. It’s too thick, right? And there’s also It works. And if there is something which goes upper than some other day uh areas, you have to take it away and put the worries less.
Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah. And try how it goes.
Try to make it all the same.
Quite a lot, but it doesn’t matter.
Okay. And then this is when
No, you have to put the water.
Ah, okay. Yeah.
Glue.
The glue. Yeah. Healthy glue. Water and soap. Is that like and then
and then you can put your hands on.
I’m curious how this will be sticks to your hands a bit. Yeah. M has to be careful that it pulls it apart. So I use only just the fingertips tips. So little bit and then a little bit more. If he has something turd, you can take it away.
Okay. There always is because you can’t put you don’t it doesn’t sense to get so much time when we are going to garden this wool.
Mhm. And it’s easier pick up here the small pieces away.
Okay. quite a big when we’re thinking this is about 40 cm
45 cm and your head is around about six 60
is it I don’t know the circumference of that no it’s a no it’s 56 I think so Yeah,
probably 57.
You know, you’re
have to take it so small.
Oh, okay. Yeah. And then once it’s there, you can actually use a wider surface area, right? Or you use the fingertips the whole time. Cuz now that it’s wet, it feels less sticky, like it’ll pull off. We can put this for a while and so it is really wet.
Okay. begin ahead. Okay. Do you want turn around?
Yeah. You go this way or this way?
It’s easier
to pull this way. I kind of missed it.
Yeah, but it stay on table.
Okay, that’s good. That’s good. And then we fold these over.
Yes. This has to be
turn not push only
that very very tightly very comfortable very soft movements I pick up water Ready? I need that. Must be enough water but not too much. How about this? It’s good. Okay.
The next layer.
Next layer. So, this one goes starts this way on the side or is it go this way?
Yes, that way.
Horizontal. Okay. And oh, here comes softer layer. Okay. Now have to take your one. Yeah, that small one there. But is it better I try if it goes or not? Yeah, little thinner. Okay.
Because we have to put this
over here. Yep.
Yeah. And then we go this way now. Yes. But we have to take this away and put there with evenness.
Yes.
Okay. And um Yes. Yeah. And this is the quad. This And we try how it goes. There’s a little bit turned. So there is a little bit Okay.
Okay.
Squirt.
Yep. I’m sorry. Doesn’t matter.
Is that a good start? And then
you can put a plastic or you can put
Oh, let’s just go right to the plastic.
Okay. Lightly there. And then start first
just slightly and then you can work it in. When it comes down then you can put
push harder. Is that appropriate or you still go? Really good.
Okay.
But a little bit more water here.
More water. Okay.
So, have to I see. Yeah. And a little bit over there. Then try again. I had a dream that you have here about couple of two or three days. So you have enough time to do many handcrafts but we have only this day
only today unfortunately a little bit relaxing yesterday.
Maybe I’ll have to come back another year and we can do some more. So, so wet. So wet. So ready to turn. Oh, ready to turn.
Okay. And it’s get wet. Yep. Good.
All right. It’s more on the table this time.
Yes. But it comes a little bit. But it we put it back. We put it back. Yes.
And then fold them over.
Yes. And now we turn this wool. I make so different kind of handcraft. So it’s many technique.
Yeah. what you can do here. It depends on the move mood and feels and what people need.
Okay. It’s too dry. You have to put more water. Glue. Water is really good glue for wool. And so you can now decide, are you using by hands or are you going to use this gloves when we are going to start this felting. Uh
now it is water and soap.
Yeah. And a little bit movement soap for hands. Little bit movement. I use right hand because I have ring in the left. So
okay. And and that’s the reason I use these clothes because there’s a diamonds and I don’t diamonds is going but there can be something where wool can Don’t push so much. Also,
just movement just like um how I say that you just you just get the hand to the
Okay. Just just touch. Yeah.
Just touch. I have soap on my hand. So sorry. Yep. And now you can use that for by hands. But uh it is easier to put that uh plastic top of it.
Mhm.
And then clean the soaps away from hands. This is a little bit slipper now.
Mhm.
So you can push much harder.
Oh, okay. That’s uh the reason when I’m use this plastic because it distributes the the pressure so you’re not like accidentally pushing it.
Yes. But whole hands, not fingers. Whole hands and uh first uh softer and then harder.
Okay. Put this over there so it’s not
Oops. bunched up on me. Uh it’s important that you can make many movements in different directions.
Yeah. Okay.
And you can also be like a circle. Yeah. And also it’s important to be felting but these um have to pretend really softy that they can also flow together soft but really much movement. Oh okay. Okay. Pressure much because if you press there comes so scraps.
Okay. So there’s lots of movement.
Lot of movement. Normally I guess rock is coming on the radio and like what type do you listen to? Finnish rock. Do you listen to English rock? Um both probably mostly English but uh Finnish also. Do you have like some favorites? What kind of rock do you listen to? No, I don’t have so favorites. But I never listen classic when I’m felting.
Never classic.
Never classic by felting. Uh but uh I listen classic when I’m uh only laying on the somewhere backyard.
Okay. Yeah.
Close my eyes and they like eggs.
Yeah.
In the ground. How do you know when it’s sufficiently um felted like um you’ve rubbed it enough?
Um it doesn’t feel like this. But when you take it the plastic away, you just go. Is it Is it going with your fingers? Now we we can turn it
Mhm.
around and make the same the other. Now we have to take a soap.
Yeah. And put the same really softly. And now you notice the differences when you here between the sides. Yeah.
It’s really really different. Now here is the wool is moves so easily. Yeah. So it’s really important to use softly movements when it’s because if you push hard so the wool comes whatever direction
you can’t decide yourself if you put so much power.
I see. Okay.
Only a little bit that it’s it goes what the wool want. What the bull wants. What the bull needs? Something has turned something. I don’t know if it goes or not, but soap everywhere.
Mhm. Have you put soap everywhere?
Yeah, I’ve been doing it here. I don’t know if I put enough, but okay. And now with plastic. So it is it’s a little bit um what is say? It is a little bit um easier because the wool stay.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
that’s start very soft,
very soft flippers. So, do you like just go off a feel? Because it’s hard to feel it through the plastic. How? Cuz like when we pulled it back,
you could tell, right?
But is how do you know when it’s done? You just have to peel it back.
When you have do this many years, you notice the difference even. Yeah. Okay. So, do you think it needs much more? Yes. A little bit more. And this is um softly and fast this one.
Okay.
This way.
So, it gets enough movement.
Okay. Soft, fast.
So, it’s only fast but not not so hard.
Not pushing. Just just speed. Lots of movement. Not much pressure. Yeah. Look how much faster my right hand can go than my left hand. So much right dominant. I I was thinking is it help if I have some some um in Finnish it is our day then you have like you are like a little bit nervous.
Oh anxious. I’m naturally shaking. I don’t want to mess up my hat. I don’t know or not. Can’t open the door because it’s quite warm here.
It is warm.
Yeah.
But my hands are getting like dry.
Yeah. But if you don’t use that plastic, you have to do this all so softly. So this is a little bit faster. So that’s the reason why
I use it plastic.
I see. Okay.
At the start.
Then when it felted a little bit
Mhm. Then then I take the plastic away and then I So this is the mechanical process that you said when you get tired from felting like you can only make so many
shoes in a day. It’s this process. Yeah.
Yes. This felting process.
Yeah.
And this I have to go I help you. You can do over there. I help you because there we have to cut out the foam.
Okay.
From away. So this is the we have this. So when I make my first hat, I make it on one in whole day.
Mhm. A whole day. Yeah.
Whole day. One one hat. When I was learning this uh and uh when I have good condition, I can make four hat.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
But uh I have to be good. Yeah.
Well, even from this I like feel it in my like my arms just from just
But uh I I show you I have some equipment but I’m get my shoulders working.
Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. I can show you. I do that every day.
Oh, you exercise your shoulders. Yeah. Okay. Because it doesn’t work if you have pain somewhere.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I try. Is it okay or not? No, it’s not. But uh
keep going.
No, no, we can take this uh plastic away.
Yeah.
And put this outside because it’s so wet.
Uh Arts and Crafts. What we do, we’re making a a wool felted hat from the natural wool. Um learn how this goes. All right. Hat. [Music] If you want to stay there for longer, Trevor, I will simply move other stuff. There is no issue with staying longer. I just need to know. Smile.
I think I think we can we’ll make our hat and then uh have the salmon and then we’ll be ready to go. Um, I don’t know where we’re going, but um, I think it’s okay on our current schedule. Okay, we take a
Ooh,
muscles. This is
This is the muscle mass. I was thinking if I have to buy uh an other but normally I use this
Yeah.
for for a while.
Yeah. So, this is like you make like this. Yeah.
But It’s easier
easier.
So I can make this and you can use that.
Oh,
but is it not much pressure?
Uh no, you don’t have to pressure. It’s
just the again the movement. Yeah. Okay.
Movement is the what have to do and whole area. Somebody says that you have also put a circle when you felt it. But uh
I have noticed it doesn’t matter
whether you circle or if you go straight line as long as you switch it up. Right.
Yes. I use the circle z when I moving soap and water some direction. But
this is relaxing.
Yeah. And you can’t push so hard if you just do this. But this you can also put much more power.
Yep.
Well, continue. Continue. All right.
It’s not good enough.
We’re not there yet.
And other side also we have
needs. Okay. Yeah. Uh don’t go over there.
Not the edge. Okay. Just in the middle. Okay.
Middle. Because the wool is go a little bit out of the plastic. So if you put it down so they felt it together. Roll in the wall. Roll in the wall. Turn around for a while
like this way. There you go. Turn around and flip it over the other side also. Oh no. Yep. And a little bit more soap. Okay. Okay. And now movement with hands and with that.
Okay. We start with the hands or is this fine? No,
I normally use both.
Both multitasking. Multitasking.
But you can do what you want. Okay. But I can say that it’s uh more comfortable working together than alone. Yeah. Okay. Do you you usually work alone then, right?
Yes.
Okay. normally alone.
Yeah,
cats can be sitting over there or not.
Sometimes keeping you company. They don’t help very much though.
No, no, they just as more food and come and scrub me and hold me for a while and
but they are not helping for felting at all. And sometimes when I’m clean the wool and I have open boxes.
Yeah.
For the wool. Uh and and we came and I came back. So I can find that uh one or two cats is laying on the sh. They love it. Is this like when it folds up like that? Is that
Yeah, it’s it goes down. It is quite wet. We have to put a little bit of water away. So I make it like this. Ah, okay. There’s a lot of water. Yeah. So we can
this way.
I take it away. And now you can put a little bit more soap and keep going.
Okay. a bit more. Soap. You need a little bit more soap now because uh it’s a it’s not so much water. Oh, winter comes. I get the equipment for a while.
Yeah. Oh, you go with that.
Now I start. Was it low coming fiber out or not? Then I can push.
Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. But if the And that’s the what I’m going if I do slowly it comes
ready on the day but when I’m have this one
okay a little bit faster so I think it’s also you can use also
okay
power [Music] power felting
so that’s I was thinking if I buy other than so I can put whole hands But when you since you are doing this all the time, whole day, it get a little bit physics.
Yeah.
For your legs, your back,
everything.
The whole body. Yeah. And your mind. Yeah.
Yeah. And you can do this so fast or so slow. What you want.
Okay. I’ll try. You were like [Music] You will be felted. Yep. Yep. And we can do this the same with the
but here is soap for it’s enough soap.
No.
No soap. Oh, there you have move that
with power. with power. You can This is quite quite good. And you can notice the sound is uh diff different
when you put pressure. Yeah. This we have to do a little bit like this.
Yeah.
Because we have to
get the edges away. Yeah.
So have to make a se thicker.
I see. Okay. Try Which is it?
What? This or the this thing?
No. No. Like this one?
Yeah. Compared to Oh, yeah. Okay.
Yes. Okay. Yes. And now we take the foam away. We have to cut it away. This is I try to make some small hole.
Mhm.
But I can’t get it.
Oh, I see. Yeah. And this starter point also. And now have to put hands both side.
Mhm.
And uh felt it for a while like this.
So the edge doesn’t come loose. Yeah. like that. Is is that
approximately? Okay. Yep. And we turned it around. So you the same
on this edge. For some customers I have make hat for this own um hunt h what is it?
Yeah dog dog. Oh, dog. Yeah.
Yeah. Do the dogs like wearing it? Yes. And they are wearing. Have you made one for your cat?
No. No. For ducks, but for dog for I have make the hat.
A with dog fur. Oh, okay. I thought you making a hat for the dog. That would be cute. If I have dog, I think that they’re wearing felted hat.
You’d have the most fashionable dogs ever. They could have the little slippers and the hats. Yeah. And uh I have to do one slipper more to my customers because um they dog was eating one slipper. I think you need a little bit soap. Soap? Yeah,
the glue. And I turn you a little bit water over there.
Okay. Yeah, that’s better that you have bigger area when you felt that.
Yeah.
Round so it is easier. I think we are taking the foam away. Okay, that we don’t lose anymore. And then I we have to turn it like this that we can have to put this uh really away. What is a put
the get rid of the seam?
Yes. And because we haven’t felted this
much. So we have to felt it now when we take the foam.
So we have to put it away.
Yeah. But now you just has to that’s the reason why I have only t-shirts or Oh yeah.
So because here is wet but I can do this. So
I can it’s just soap and
Yeah.
This is wool too. It’s like, you know,
and it’s right. I have once tried to felt outside, but uh then there was too windy and my wool doesn’t uh stay there while I have put them. Then I tried again that I make this uh this far inside and then I go outside for sunny. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Uh so when here comes hot so it’s a little bit easier outside when it’s a little bit windy and turn around. And now you are making bread. Some people have said it’s like
it’s continue.
Wait, just this
just Yes, we’re just
Yes.
throwing it around.
Turn around.
Turn around
different directions and
Okay. Like you kind of knead it a little bit or more just to not just just for we are going to uh rinse it little bit and then we are going continue this felting. Okay. I play this. Look at my hat, guys. It’s a nice hat, isn’t it? hat looks a little soggy. You don’t like having a soggy hat. Okay, now I’m going to rinse it. All right.
Sorry.
That’s good. This was the easy part. What’s the hard part? Doing well so far. I’m doing it. And I made a soap, too. A felted soap. Doing well so far. No death yet. That’s fair. Embroidery spam. The spam museum is going to hire me. I’m going to start making them wool felted spam hats. How you sleep? wake you up early? No. Uh, well, I slept really good. First part of the question, uh, part two. Uh, they didn’t wake me up. I didn’t get up till like uh 9 something. They said I looked tired last night, so they’d let me sleep. Will you diet? I don’t know. Yeah, I’ve seen her make Yeah, I’ve seen a few different colors of like her um slippers and stuff. So, no, I have rinsed it.
Okay. And now we just try to turn this this way with the now soap and same
and same more felting. Okay. O there we can a little bit mismatch. with clipping.
Yeah. Is that an issue or it just happens? Sometimes it happens.
Yeah.
But it doesn’t matter. It’s a unique.
Yeah. I know. Everyone will be different. So I kind of like that.
Yes.
And the same thing just light pressure.
Yes. And now you can just Oh, both sides some other side. And this is uh what is the this side when we have the foam inside. So this have to felt
much better. So we start okay
here
and we start it here for different directions because uh uh wool have to move anyways and so the other side always a little bit one side and then for a while an other side.
Yeah. And uh you have to
turn it turn it many times. Okay.
And now you just when we put it over there. So we have now here
you have to put this. You can use this again while same thing on the on the seam. Oops. You want to flip it?
Yes. As you notice, it’s not difficult. It’s quite easy.
Yeah, it just is like a longer process, but I could see this being very enjoyable. long form creation process. Yeah. And now we are going to make a about the one and third over here.
Mhm.
And uh do this do the same.
Yep. And right now we can use a bit of pressure. Yes.
Yeah. And when we turn it
down. So now we can And now just turn third. Oh,
thirds. Okay. Yeah. And if you have uh some different u kind of models that or shape your hat, you This is the situation that you can make it. You can put over there if you want. Oh, this is when you can start stretching it to to the shape you want. Yeah.
Are we um making one like the one you showed yesterday?
Yes. Yeah. And then it’s like
that there.
Here. Wait. How does it? Yep.
Kind.
Yes. Well, yeah. something. Yep. As you notice, it’s always goes smaller and smaller and smaller.
Yeah. But it is much easier with that with this than than using the hands. Yeah. Yeah. But we are probably using hands for a while.
We will be.
Yeah.
Yeah. I have made this kind of equipment also for this hat.
Oh, to form it.
Yeah. When I can make the shape.
Yeah.
For the hat. Are we switching this now?
Uh yes, we put it only for a while because I want this one comes. So I put a little bit otherwise I got a big inside but this is easier. I I don’t want to be [ __ ] this is easier to get this uh what was the shape in the hat.
Okay.
Yeah. For a while. Yes. And now we are going to scroll this uh like this. And then okay,
it’s kind of
Yeah.
And then we are uh I put this away for a while, which actually doesn’t need it. Rolling it. This feels weird. I don’t know if I’m doing this right. I don’t know if I’m doing it right. It’s cuz it’s unrolling. Yeah. Yeah. It’s like a croissant when you bake it. Do we bake it? I’ll just wait. get baked. I don’t think any of the Nordic countries allow that kind of situation. Got to go to Canada. Check what’s up. Yeah, I see. Uh, okay. What am I looking at? Get breaks in your hat making job. I was about to make a horrible working conditions joke, but this is Finland. You get like Oh, did he like any of them? The pictures. I was looking at the other stuff. What are they for? Okay. Sorry. Are we still um rolling this like?
Yes. Yes. And we also take this um out and turn a third.
Yeah.
And scroll it. Ah, okay.
Many many times. And we just And when you’re doing this, you’re just going like this, just back and forth or you like flipping it? It’s uh we are going that way that we can put it to the uh for already shape. I put it um this kind of uh hat. Oh yeah. Okay.
Shape it.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
We have to do it so much that it’s a right size.
Okay. But have to put a little bit more soap. Yeah.
More soap. And then you scroll it. Let me turn it. Was it this side? No, it was this side. Scroll it. Oh, it doesn’t matter, is it?
It all get there eventually.
Yes. And you can put a little bit more soap and then scroll again. Scroll.
Yeah. This way. Just roll it. Yep. Feels weird rolling it.
Yes. It’s important that that you don’t push so much because it’s not so hard.
Yeah. Yet. Just only movement.
Okay. And uh turn the
roll. Okay. And then last
it was this way.
Yep. Yes. Just hanging on.
Okay.
Yeah. And more soap or just That was enough soap.
No, it’s okay. That’s okay. Because if you put it too much, it’s foam is everywhere.
Ah, okay. Okay.
And then I have to use lot of water and rinse it away.
Okay.
I want that it’s only enough for felting.
Yeah. And here you is a little bit uh easier the scrolling because the felt it is coming harder.
Okay. But you can also use this like when you make pegging. Okay.
So,
but just not without pressure just moving.
That’s just moving. Yeah. Now you have to turn it again. Yep. Maybe a little bit more soap. or so because here looks that
okay
because there was the underside when you was okay so it’s okay when it’s loose it like a
you can take it out and put a little bit uh uh thicker Oh, just tighter.
Tighter.
Yeah. Okay. And then
And then it rolls. Okay.
All right. That’s how you do it.
I check if the coffee is ready.
Oh, coffee. Nice. Rolling my head like a croissant. Tight roll on my hat. I hat for Smurf. You guys are going to love this hat when it’s done. All right. Have you changed it?
Yeah, I’ve rolled it. Yeah. Yeah. Is it okay if it gets a crease or
Yes, but you have to take it away.
Yeah.
This direction.
Okay. I think we have this sixth time after we have take a six this third.
Okay.
Have we?
Oh, have we? Uh, I haven’t been counting. I’m just going. I’m still one.
Okay.
I think so. This a Okay.
Yeah. I’m sorry I haven’t count at all.
That’s okay.
But
I didn’t even know we were supposed to be counting. It makes sense when you’re doing thirds that you can count and and get through them, but uh Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
that’s looking good. You can come to work with me. I’m retiring from this, guys. I’m going to work here. I’m going to make lots of hats and
and Yes. And now we are going to do this uh on the then we just start there with the half in the middle and then we are going to turn it like this.
Okay. And this is a little bit difficult because here is much more than But first slowly really slowly and then you just take it. What is this better? Like this one?
Sure.
Okay. And you just scroll it. Okay. Your turn. Just movement. Not so much pressure. Only movement.
Okay. Softly, carefully. Movement.
Okay. Ah, someone made a song. It’s not a breakfast burrito. This is a hat. All right. [Music] This one feels harder to get it rolling. turning you down. We don’t need breakfast. Is that This one feels different. Do it a third.
Yes.
Yeah. It’s like this. Okay. Burrito. Not a breakfast burrito. [Music] We have only coffee break. Only coffee rags. Yum. Yum. Yum. and put it also that that goes everything up inside there.
Okay. Yeah. And this is like six times again because of the third situation. Yeah. So
you can make more movement.
More movement. Less. Okay. Yeah. Now you can open it and turn a third measurement from your head.
So I need how much we have to do this. But you have this glass. I can take Yeah. All this. Is the hat. Okay. You want the hat off? Without hat.
Without hat.
So we can find it. How big your head is? It’s 58 and three.
58 and three.
58 and three. How it is when it’s count part two. 58. This is 80. This is 78 now. And 58. This is a 50 52 54 This is 60.
So this is 58. So we have to small it 9 cm. Okay. Is that from all this rolling? It shrinks.
Okay.
Rolling. I just put these away for now. Uh, good. Don’t forget that.
And you now you can turn it so tight than you can. And then faster but not so bigger.
Okay. Just short back and forth. Short back. So it’s go a little bit quicker.
Yeah. And here we can smaller this. No. And third over there. Your turn.
All right. So,
white cheek. Yeah.
Is um my since you do make a lot of hats. Is this like an average size head that I have on my head? What’s 58 and and
3/4? It’s almost average. Most are 57 58.
I have 56 small head.
Okay. My husband has 57.
Yeah. But I have made hat with 62.
62
big hat and it was a poor hat. Okay. Okay. Big hat. Oh, sorry. It was like
it was making directly to customers. It was the taxi seal and uh fox from our backyard. Yeah.
Wait. Fox.
Fox and back seed steel.
Oh. Wait, wait. What’s that? This the other one back.
I I can show you what is still. You can continue. I miss my Oh, you can go back to the noted average head. No, I’m slightly above average. Okay. Average is 57. I’m 58 and three. All right. Don’t even I have pieces left from back. The end here comes undone and it doesn’t roll. I show you only small pieces which I have left when I have this is a seal. Oh, seal pelt. Okay. Yeah.
And this is a fox.
And that’s fox. Okay.
Yes.
Huh. This is only pieces left. And it’s what is this? Ha. What’s coming?
Oh, the tail.
Tail. So you you make those onto the um under the hats.
Yes.
Yeah. And mostly directly to customers measurements.
Okay.
Kind of colors what they want.
Yeah. See this end I can roll fine but then this end I like roll it up tight. Feel like it’s getting smaller. move plastic from earlier. No, that was uh removed um a while ago. Yeah. Oh, how it goes.
I think it’s going okay. Like this one I feel I have to do it in like two parts cuz I’ll roll this but then this gets loose and then I have to reroll it and get this end rolled. As you see, we get much more water in the beginning because it is to glue the wall. Yeah.
And now now you don’t it’s No, we don’t have to use so much water anymore. Okay. Cuz it looks like it’s getting
Yes. shorter.
Yes. And we have to instead we can turn it like this. So we have to take a measurement about here.
Oh, okay. All right.
And I check I check how
All right. Our progress is two more. It’s uh 62. So 64
62 64. So
So we need another
other four cm.
Okay.
We were quite quick. All right. I think you have to next time put a little bit more soap
soap
over it.
It seems like that it’s broken. Doesn’t matter. This attic and water water attic. Ettic. It’s a ethic acid.
Oh, okay.
And water. Then um I if there’s some problems to get enough soap away from the well. So I use attic and water.
Okay. Oh, I think it’s vinegar.
Vinegar. Yeah, it’s take a soap away from the fibers.
I see. Okay. So that’s why I use that vinegar also in my washing machine when I wash my clothes.
Yeah.
I don’t I I use vinegar for rinse.
Yeah.
The clothes.
Okay. And like more soap as we go around or just a little bit there. No, it’s okay.
It’s okay now. Yeah. Okay. Oh, it’s radio for my I was wondering what
I heard some uh some guitar going on out there.
Yeah, my husband is helping me and he’s uh putting the oil.
Oh, okay.
I was doing yesterday.
Yeah. have to do now when the weather is good. Yeah, it is nice today.
Have to think what’s the weather is.
Take a measurements so we can
Well, I’m not going very fast now.
No, no, it’s go f uh slower and slower.
Oh, as a
it’s about 60 to 60. Yeah. Okay. Just make a movement. Quite many times you have movement your hands back and it’s a lot of movement. Yeah. But I don’t know what kind of machine I make that it helps me a little but have to turn all the time. So I was thinking it’s not I don’t know what kind of machines are in the factories. So I haven’t
I’m I’m yeah I’m sure there is like a
21st century invention to do this without physical labor but um I have said many times that if my husband have to do this he has to immediately make some kind of machine for it. He has a back hand because uh when I was starting this garden this wool
I started with hand carton yeah like this then I have a hand machine drum carton by hands
now we have drum carton by electricity when my husband have to help me
so he put it a motor Yeah. That’s not so relaxing.
This one is less relaxing. But like maybe if you you’re a little angry about something.
Yeah. Yeah. Now you understand what I’m saying. What I what is the feeling when you are doing something probably I think so that you can understand me
I think and why I help this rock music and this is a soft one but when make a big outside hs so it’s a wool is thicker the wool is about
700 g and water to puff it so it’s about 7 8 kilos when you turn it this many times when you
car way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it’s quite quite close. Yep. It’s 58. Now we’re going to rinse it and Here we go. The hat’s getting closer.
Almost ready. Ah,
we should size comparisons. Uh, yeah. I’ll ask her cuz I’m curious as well how much it shrunk cuz it was bigger than the blue thing when it came out because it was wrapped around it. Still was stuff on the edges. Cute pointy heads. It will have a point on it. Yes. Yeah, like that. But so like we didn’t have the sun shining in my tent. So like when I put my eye mask on so I’m talking about my sleep last night now. Um I don’t set an alarm. I just like let my body sleep as much as it wants to sleep. And I’ve been tired. I’ve just been sleeping great though. Oh, and we’re actually almost at coffee time, too. I’ve already had Ow. Okay, leaning on that table is a bad idea. Here, looks like you could use some felting. I don’t know. Been there for a while. Use this um hand to over here. Take mostly away. If I have too much water, I have to clean it many times. But now it’s okay. Then I get couple of towels. Sh like folded a rim around a little bit. So I don’t think we can measure it. So has to sit and dry like that for a little bit. That’s making some What can I say? some kind of when we put it top of this.
Oh, this. Yeah. Okay. And I have checked this is
the right circumference.
58 and was it three?
Three. Yeah,
this is a 58. Now, because I have to a little bit take the shape first. And now we’re going to take this one at the back side. What we saw cutting that. So this is quite good. How much you want this? The the brim. Uh your hat looked good. So
I think it’s quite quite good. And here we just put the shape. You just squish it down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just put it down. And then we have to put this a little bit thicker. So this um soft that it’s go a little bit thicker. Okay. I was thinking how much you have right
how tall my head is.
Yes.
Where would
Yes.
Yeah.
It’s not so important because you can put this little bit if you want
cuz Yeah. You’ll be able to when you wear it just move it a little bit, right?
Yes. And you can if it’s not it’s not too hot, you can put a little bit down while you pull like you said in winter mode. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. That’s it. Now we just let it dry. And now this back side is here like upside.
Oh yeah. Yes. Yeah.
And uh it’s comfortable to use, but in
it cold you just put it all down.
I see. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I take a little bit equipment also for that because I have this is a some kind of uh per um electricity cable. Yeah. can go inside over there. So,
and we use it Oh, use it for
Yeah.
interesting. Everything’s multi-purpose.
Yeah. This is a like finishing. I have to go this side because I’m so right-handed. Yeah, I’m the same. Probably I should had to learn use both hands. Well, yeah. I really realized that when I was doing the um felting and I’m you’re moving fast and I’m like, why is my right hand like three times as fast as my left hand?
Yeah. Yep. I have to put it comes down here. We can crush a little bit water away so we dry easier. How it feels?
Look at Freddy product. It’s really cool to actually make something with your hands and see it come to together into an actual recognizable usable. Exactly.
Yeah. Yep. Coffee break.
Cafe break. All right, I’m in. Yes. And this I have to clean, rinse, and take this away. And new experience.
Absolutely. Got to look good. I don’t want to have to be like fighting the ladies getting them off me. Get away from me just cuz I got a nice hat. All right. And I’m talking. Who are you? Who’s a big bumblebee? I’ll save you, bumblebee. We’ll get through this together. Oh, you’re huge. Go pollinate somewhere. Not here. There’s no flowers in here. No. Go over here. You can do it. [Music] No, go to the side. I opened it for you. Don’t go up. Oh, actually, there is an opening up there. No. Okay. No, don’t go down. Go up and then over to the the edge. Oh, bumblebees. No, I’m a big bumblebee fan. Come on, dude. We can do it just up here. Cup and paper. Well, he’s kind of like inaccessible to Oh, we’ve been soap and water the whole time. Maybe the wall though. So, I’m trying to save a bumblebee. Oh, it’s gone. Yeah. You’re so close. You’re so close. Oh, he’s free. He’s out. Wait. [ __ ] There’s a second window. I’ve just No, there’s a second window. I guess How do you open the second window? I’m trying to get this bee out of here.
You want Oh,
I like I love bumblebees, so I’m trying to get it out.
You want to get it out?
Yeah, bumblebees are good. But uh how it comes on the between the thing.
Well, I thought there was only one window, so I opened the window so it could leave. And now it’s stuck between the windows. It opened the other side. The small one is open when you
Oh, that one.
Yes.
Oh, okay.
But we have to put some Oh, it comes it have to comes out. [Music] I just made this worse. Very nervous.
Understandable though. I don’t know. I have to almost feel you. When have I done? All right. It’s just stunned. It’s walking on the the swatter thing. side quest. I I didn’t realize there would be two. I made that so much. I thought there was just one layer of windows. So, I opened the window. I’m like, “Be free.” And then it got stuck in the
But now it’s free. Oh, you came outside.
Okay. Yeah, it is nice out. Yeah.
First, I bring water. Do you want water?
Uh, sure. Yeah.
I think this was your class.
Yeah, that was mine. You’re welcome.
Thank you. And your coffee.
Mhm.
My husband’s coffee. And there’s my coffee about sugar. Could you help me? Yes. Got the mugs
coffee.
Yeah.
Do you need milk?
Uh, no. I should be okay. Let me go outside for
Let’s do it. Coffee. of Do you want to take socks off and
Oh yeah. Yeah. Barefoot in the grass. Yeah, that sounds nice.
That’s the way what I want to do. My sunglasses though is bright.
Is it exactly?
I’m just taking my socks off. Yes. I was um thinking is this dry or not?
Oh yes it.
Okay. Forgot you’re oiling everything.
Yes. And also I think these are dry but I’m not sure. They are great.
Got a nice oil staying on my butt.
New model of spouses. I have to go and watch what kind of um result is there when my husband has put oil. Is it
if if he did a good enough job? If if it’s Two products you have get ready today. Yeah. Made the soap, made a hat.
Yeah. Nice. My husband says that you have to leave for working for me because I said also that it’s so like natural
and you have enough power and condition. You have felt it really much. There you go. See, but I even felt it in my arms because I’m not used to doing that motion all the time. Right. Like your bodies are very good at adapting. So you do that all the time. So you
Yes. Oh, I have to show you. What is the my equipment for training?
Okay. Wait. You have to put this and you just
Oh, okay.
Around.
Yeah.
Around. Okay. If you don’t move your uh hands.
Yeah.
And then you put it so far then you can over here.
Okay. Cuz Yeah. I get a
And then you put it that side and then you Yeah. Yeah.
Because you if you don’t uh make this direction, your muscles are only this direction.
Oh, you need both ways. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And this I use every day
cuz Yeah. I actually get some like shoulder pain impingement cuz I go to when I’m in Canada I’ll go to the gym but like my shoulder’s quite sensitive so I have like shoulder exercises I kind of do. But I think that would help me too.
Yes, that help also
cuz I do like some uh
if you use the gymnastic
Yeah. Yeah. It’s not so good because it is flexible. You have to be right uh angles.
Yeah. and movement to the scrolling. And you have also be 45° when you make this scrolling.
Yeah, cuz Yeah, I do some of this and I do some like face poles that opens up my shoulder. When you take this over there, it’s also 40 uh 45° from your
Yeah.
main point. I I said I have this porter in my uh Yeah. No, you you did say that.
Yes, I’ve been.
So, Ana used to
woman
used to bunch of crosscountry skiing. You did shot put was that the
Yes.
Um what what are they?
Uh jumping high.
Oh, high jump. Yeah.
And long jump. And uh I ran many many many long-term rides and also but I’m just I’m I wasn’t uh quick enough. So I run only 800 m and 300 3,000 5,000 10,000.
So distance not sprint. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. And but you said you were competitive with the skiing.
Yes. Skiing was the my
your best. Yeah. Yeah.
And how did you train for skiing in the win or in the summer? Just
just running.
Just running. Yes. Cuz I see people now they have like the um the long rollerblades that they used to train uh for crosscountry skiing
uh in the summer.
Yes. And um I live in Kal near the Has much sand. Yeah. And I put my father’s um uh kumisoft part on big boots.
Mhm. Through my legs. And then I pulled them for uh from the sand.
Yeah.
And then I run the hill up and jumping down. Run up and jumping down
on summer.
Okay. Huh. I feel it was 38, but my my father’s uh boots are 46. Yeah.
And there’s few filled with sand.
Yeah. That would be heavy. Yeah. It’s heavy.
Yeah.
So, a little bit.
A lot of people do that with like they’ll just put weight on their back and go up and down. But you put like weight on your feet. Yes.
Which is hard cuz like that’s this movement, right? Where the back is
Yes. And when you are skiing and you go up to the hill, you need power on your Yeah. Yeah. No, that makes sense. Never thought of that. And and also I pick up the stones from the yard.
Yeah. In the summers they are big stones.
Mhm. And then um we get um we put the what is aanta? What was a 40 kilo sets for chemical yard when it’s getting better growing this
fertilizer? Something like that.
Yeah.
And this was 40 kilos.
Mhm.
And those I was hanging around with the machine which you put into the yard.
Mhm.
And that’s alo exercising for me. And then of course I clamping to the trees and hanging there and everywhere I use my own body. I didn’t use any other extra weight like you’re not lifting. Yes. Uh I for example stand by hands and then I get down and push up.
You could do a handstand push-up.
Yeah.
That’s real hard.
Yes. And I thought the uh my legs was to the wall. Yeah. And
and then still push.
That’s like the shoulder muscles are hard to like get to that strength cuz like you got to push your whole body weight up pretty much which is hard cuz
cuz my father says that you you use only your own body.
Mhm.
Without any extra weights except for the fertilizer. That’s hard. I can’t I’m not even close to being able to do that.
Yes. So I use only my own body when exercising.
Mhm. But this was 40 years ago. Only now it’s my reminding. But
but you still said you still ski in ski. Yeah. Yeah. Do you um
but not not so it doesn’t I don’t have any meaning for results. I have only just keeping fun. Yeah. But it’s still good for you. Still healthy to
do it recreationally. The um the hay or silage. Is this like a local farmer that
Yes. Yeah.
about 10 kilometers. Yeah. The south of
And since you don’t have animals, do you just
you just do you give it to him or Yeah. He just we’ll uh clear your fields for you? It is a rent this yard.
Oh, he rents it. Yes.
Oh, okay. So, he pays to Okay. Yeah.
But not
Yeah.
Oh, that’s cool.
And is this a couple times a year or just once a year?
Couple times.
Couple times. Yeah. Okay. 13 of actual farmed. Yeah.
One places. Yeah. It has to be
13 hectares of
um what’s the word you use for cuz he wraps it up in the the white things.
Big X.
Yeah.
And then let’s say make silage. Silage cuz it like um fermentss in there a bit in in when it’s wrapped up. I think I forget what the name is. They’ll tell me. What are they making when they wrap? It is in Finnish.
Yeah. But I don’t know what is it English just a hay bale it was more complicated than a hay bale. No worries. Those was all earlier this brown, but I doesn’t like the color.
Oh, okay.
So, that’s the reason we put it gray.
And that’s You did that with the oil?
Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
All have to be because uh these are so much outside.
Yeah.
And then the the deck as well.
Yes. Yes. And uh last summer we have to put new uh wood fu here because uh those have to get so bad condition.
Ah okay. Yeah. Have to make new one. But yeah, like you said, tough conditions out here for everything, the winters and the and lotto of here. What’s next? Going walking on
grass for for a while. So it takes good for your legs when you have been standing and felting. Oh, okay. Some grounding.
Yeah.
Just connecting with the earth. Yeah.
Because you have to take that the
You have a coffee?
I’m okay. Thank you. We can do that. And then with a hat. So, it it dries and shapes for a while. And then is there any other processes or is it kind of done once it’s shaped like that? It’s a shape like that.
Yeah. Okay. So, the hat’s done. It just has to dry. Yes. It’s a dry.
Yeah.
And it doesn’t matter. It can be wet when you put it. Yeah. Cuz wool. So, wool’s pretty good. Yeah.
And uh many say that they put wet felted hat to head when they have very good uh very high temperatures in summer.
Yeah.
So, it keeps cool.
Okay. Okay. Works good in the cold. enough that the wool is taking out the sun
heat but somebody wanted it’s wet and cold.
Mhm. Depends how you want to use it.
Okay. And many use this for sauna. Actually I made this for sauna at first but then I have used those.
Yeah.
Every day.
Okay. Do you still use it in Lasa?
No.
No.
No. I don’t have to because I don’t get headache anymore. Oh, okay. I see. Yeah. I don’t know what the reason for the headache in the sauna, but it doesn’t disappear. Actually, I didn’t I don’t know is it that I have put the felted hat so many times. Now, I have it haven’t it in my head, but if I’m going to be here many times, I have to put something in my head. Uh but when I make first one and I use that every day outside in winter in summer then I get a notice that uh I don’t need sunglasses. Oh okay.
Because my brain was very comfortable temperature all the time. Yeah.
And it was a little bit was uh uh protect my eyes.
I see. Okay.
Because Yeah. No,
I uh when I was hitchhiking for years, I never wore sunglasses and I um like I’d be standing on the road trying to catch a ride and the sun would be over there and I refused to wear sunglasses so people driving could see my eyes. I feel like that was good for hitchhiking to like
humanize a conver because it looks more real to look someone in the eyes rather than look at a lens. But I did that for almost 10 years. And I went to the optometrist, the eye doctor, and they’re like, “You have like UV damage like from the sun, from staring at the sun all the time.” So now I have more sensitive eyes and I have to wear sunglasses all the time. But also on this trip,
like I sleep with that eye mask on
and it cuts out 100% of all light. And like in the morning when I take that off, even if it’s cloudy out, the whole world feels so bright cuz I spent like 8 hours with my entire existence having zero light. Um, so I feel real sensitive to light. I’m wearing sunglasses all the time now. Yes. Okay. Quality inspection. How often do you wash your clothes on the second trip? Do you do it at homes of the house you stay at? Just a random little thing. I do it opportunistically. Um I didn’t last night. I don’t think we will get to here. Um, if I go long enough and it needs it needs to be done, I either stop at a laundromat or like I’ll like book a room for a night and I’ll just wash my clothes in the sink. Um, but a lot of the clothing I wear is specifically chosen for that purpose. This is marino wool. Marina wool doesn’t hold an odor. It doesn’t smell like a lot of clothes will. They’ll still get dirty, of course, like you’ll get dirt, debris, food on it, so it needs to be cleaned. It just doesn’t smell like a bio scented shirt. Just smells like wool. Hello from Roani. Hey, we’ll be there soon. How long have you been without washing my clothes? I washed them last in uh on my day off. That was only like a couple days ago though. So I had Saturday off. So I watched them on Saturday. Any second today? Yeah. I have to leave here by 6:00 cuz we have to ride 15 kilometers to our next destination for 7 apparently. One sec. Sorry. Thank God it’s okay. Cool. Here is too hot for me.
I know. I was going to say it’s really hot out today and the high is 20, I think, today.
Yes. But this is so warm place.
Yeah. You’re so Yeah. But there is not so hot any so that’s the reason I want to do some gain over there can be rest and smell what pardon is smelling and okay
knitting and crushing relax cuz yeah those like um swing chairs we don’t have those in Canada like like that. That’s that’s to me unique.
Okay. Cuz I’ve seen several of those now. But but if you want, you can go in and try how it is.
Is it Did we just oil it or it it doesn’t get oiled the seeds?
Oh, the seed doesn’t.
Yes. Because the it uh it was too too little amount of oil left yesterday.
Oh. To to finish that. Okay. So, it hasn’t been oil yet.
So, you can you and it is dry. I It is dry all these colors in the
Yeah, because what do you say swing chair? Well, yeah. People were translating for me. So,
okay. Swimming.
I think one of the words you said
translates to swing or something.
Swing. Yeah.
Yeah.
Ku ku ku. That apparently equals swing. The direct direct translation. That’s a stone. [Music] We have to move together that swing back to the place.
Oh, the pad. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
We’re waiting that Yorma can also come. So, we are one person in one corner.
Ah, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. It’s quite heavy but and and uh we are going to put we can we put it with three of us when we take it away yesterday. And of course we can you have mush also. Might as well use it while they’re here. Yeah.
Yes. Is that Parma? It’s no aarma. It’s ainen.
Aanin. Do they bite?
Actually, it’s Kimalin. What is Do they do those?
They Kimal and we have
Oh god.
So Kimalin, me and a
Yeah,
we have three kind of bees.
Oh, that’s a bee of some kind. Oh, okay. See what’s inside.
No, that the one inside was the one of the big bumblebees. This one’s got a smaller butt, but similar kimal. I think next we are going to wash a little bit wool.
Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So actually it should be start at the beginning but uh it was so windy as you see this also windy because the water comes like a medusa.
Oh yeah yeah yeah.
Yes. That’s a it’s many many steps for the wool from the beginning to finished what you have to done.
Yeah. Yeah.
Before you get the Yeah. We’re doing this not in the exact order cuz we started by making
the you took the clean wool and we made a product with it, but now we’re going back to taking raw wool
right off a sheep and then processing it, cleaning it
to then do something with it. [Music] Okay, we take the swing.
All right, let’s do it. Do you need clothes or not?
Clothes? Yes. Do you need
I don’t think so. clothes. Oh, gloves. I got clothes on, I think. Okay, there’s bumblebees on the ground. Don’t get stung. I’ve stepped on a bee before. It sucks. Take that corner and we are going to the Sure.
for the stones. Little bit left. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. Now you can try it. This is wet.
That’s wet. Okay.
It’s not wet. Yes. You can come inside.
Okay.
Yeah. And you can sit over there.
I can sit over here. Those swing.
Ah. All right. That was pretty nice. We got to get these in Canada. Yes.
And also is on the boat. The bigger one. You could put table middle of this.
Oh yeah.
Is then. But I don’t want so big.
Yeah.
This is And I don’t like this color. I want also
also the the same. Yeah.
It goes a little bit better for background because there is also green and gray.
I see. Okay. Yeah. And then do you craft out here too?
Like do you would you felt out here or something? No.
No. like knitting and knitting here but or just fresh air breathing.
Yeah. I like it.
Yes. And also I make movement with my um foot.
Oh, like a little mobility. Different kind of trainings. I hope works. It keeps me happy. It’s very nice. I came at a good time. Got some good weather.
Yeah.
So, it can be out here.
Yes. Everything has been great. And now I’m seeing those uh chairs and tables over there and when they are gray they look much much better when they looking this kind of color this.
All right. So you made the right color choice.
Yeah. Two summers I have thinking about what is the right color but now I’m working. Oh actually I have to wait to Yes. because um when this was new you can’t change the color. It have to been a couple of years old that you can put oil top of it. So, and next summer we have to go to the top of the house. What is Kato? We have to paint it. Oh,
okay. Yeah,
it’s next summer.
Yeah.
And all those we have to paint.
Yeah, that’s quite the process. You got a lot of roofs.
This, this, this, this. Yeah, last summer I paint her house. Yeah.
And this I was paint about almost 10 years ago. They are probably come to to-do list for the couple of years.
Mhm.
Some It’s
relaxing.
It is relaxing.
Yes,
it’s good life.
Sometimes I’m taking some book and read here.
Yeah.
But then there can’t be any machine. I have to be really silenced.
Yeah. The tractor ruins the relaxing ambiance.
This is not relaxing.
Yeah. in the my sand place over there.
Children can also be our beach. Sand beach. Yeah. Without water
with sand. This coming two chairs also
where you can lay and take the sun. Okay. Yeah. We have first we have to need sun. Other possibilities are ready but sun is missing. Today we’re like half sun half cloud. Can’t complain today.
Yes.
When we were on the the deck sitting there that was really warm in the sun.
Yes.
Like if like you said it feels a lot cooler. Yeah.
Out here on the yard.
Yeah. Actually this is the place that where I’m with my own own thoughts and I’m was uh planning new products or planning new car colors some products and
I have to check out what the nature
come to come to show me how what the colors like for example see the uh heaven them and look what colors are there, what shapes are there, and then I try to move those to my products.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um and then like like the colors that you would have on the socks and stuff cuz you showed me the uh the slippers
and a lot of them were like fairly natural colors. You’re not going bright and stuff like that. So it’s like some white kind of off white grays.
It’s like that’s a from tree. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it is. Yeah.
Yes. But I looking for
with the socks. You get more colorful though.
Yes. I have brighter colors. Yeah. Yeah. We have to take it from car and look what we have here.
Okay. Let’s do it. At 6:00. Don’t step on a bee. Don’t step on a be Don’t be Don’t be six. Yeah. We’re washing wool now. Done to this. I’m felting. I made a soap. I felted wool around soap. And I made a hat. Hat. Is the wool still? Oh, here we go. My soap wrapped in wool. Yep.
Yeah, I need my samples now. What’s the use for that? Soap. Well, I’d hate to be in your presence. This is the place where I’m going to dry the wool.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Why wrap the soap in wool? Um it it like doubles as like a lofah and soap at the same time. So like as you scrub yourself with the wool cuz it’s has some you know coarseness abrasiveness like it’s soaping at the same time as it’s scrubbing. Let me see. gift. So, that’s what I kind of asked. And you’re mean to me. Can’t handle a little banter. Come on. I didn’t know if you’re talking about the hat, the soap, the wool around the soap. I decided to make fun of you instead. still burning. That’s raw wool.
Raw wool.
Yeah.
But like we’re not going to wash it and it’s going to turn white. This is just a different color wool, right?
Yes. This is another color. Do you want to wash what?
Oh, no. It’s fine. I was just like it’s not so dirty that this will turn white, right?
No.
Okay.
No, no, no. And just take little piece and then make
get the big chunks out by doing that.
Okay.
Those away. I come here because there should be quite windy. So, we need to take it away.
Okay.
And here’s a little bit white, but it doesn’t matter at all.
Yeah. Maybe I’ll do this. As you see there small one and dusty comes away.
Yeah.
So that’s is a little bit wool.
Mhm.
And then just lightly and this bigger one which if I saw I take it away.
Yeah.
But this small I don’t pick up them because when we carton it so they goes out. And this is um uh from in the sock there have been uh the hakeries have made go with this they have bring the bread for the shops. Yeah.
Yeah. So try.
Yes, you can try. Not not so much because Yes, it’s okay. And do you help shear the sheep yourself as well or um because you said it’s uh these are from a sheep like only 20 km from here. Yeah. 30 km. There’s couple of farmers
who have sheep.
Yeah.
Yep. Yep. It flips. It’s okay. Yep. Thanks. It’s full enough. So I bring This is when it’s dry. It’s so much. This is full enough.
Yeah.
And we are now we going today put the water. This is the water. Our river water is not so clean, but it’s clean enough for this.
Okay. Yeah.
And then I have to be careful because it comes up easily. And now they are there. Now we can go here about 15 minutes I think. So it depends how how dirty it is. I just little bit more. Just like I guess if you want you can try it how it feels. But Okay. Not cold water, not warm water.
Yeah. It’s a water temperature in our river now. Well,
it’s not that cold. Yeah.
No, it’s not cold anymore. And as you see, the dirty comes there. Yeah.
Now it can be lay here about 15 minutes and we may clean more.
Okay. Back up here. Clean wool. Okay. I also do this by my own right hand. I can
I know. I’m over here and I’m like I I would be much better with my right hand. Yep. That’s not good wool. This is a uh this is felted already. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Good. So I bring all the garbage. And here comes also quite bad wool like this. Oh, I see. Yeah. But this was the reason why I put only a little amount of wool here. So I can easily see what is there bad or not because it doesn’t uh make sense that you clean lot of wool and half go away. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Your turn. Okay. Okay. I won’t do it with my right hand. This is for the garbage. And just like is that like
Yeah, but it’s too short. It goes away from the garden. But
when gardener it Shake down the wall. Like I don’t know how to like pick out the if there’s any bad or or anything. There is a there it goes a bigger one. This is what they have been eaten.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. This is quite bad.
This is This is already
Yes. This uh it’s not dirty. It’s uh getting felt Yeah. already. So, it’s not the dirty can wash away but felted fibers. No. Is this Is it too tight? Yes.
Here is too tight. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. How can you tell if it just doesn’t pull apart easily? No, this is too tight. It’s have to be like this. You can take it out easily. Okay. So, that’s not good or you just have to pull it.
This is not good.
Okay. This is a quite old sheep.
Oh, I see. Okay. Because there’s so much uh gray in the uh
like me I’m getting gray hair. Yeah. But near in the skin if it’s on the other side it’s uh for taking for sun but when it’s in the
near the skin and it’s gray so it’s uh so all stuff like this is when it doesn’t pull. Yeah. This is too tight.
Okay. Then a lot of their their top layer
yes is quite um tough in this case process There’s like a whole bundle like this. That’s the top and then all of it’s quite Yeah, it’s quite quite bad.
Okay. The whole process. Okay.
Yes. It’s um many old sheeps when they are going to lay very much they can they sleep all the time. So the felt is also going really bad.
I see. Okay.
So, oh, there’s a But it doesn’t matter.
Does that wash out in the next process, right?
Yeah.
Or mostly This stuff looks better. This is much softer. It was cold when it was dry and now it is only this one. So soap little layer here.
Oh yeah. It once it’s wet. Yeah. And it was full. Yeah.
Yes. And I turn it to other water and
you just go step by step.
Yeah. and then I put this one the first.
Okay. I don’t know if I should bring the camera over for that. I did show the first step there. She’s got four different bins of water. And then you put the the raw wool like this in it sturdiest state in the first one. And that water gets really murky. And then each water bath soak it does. It’s just getting cleaned along the way. Oh, my light’s not working. Apparently not. Where is my speaker? Oh, it’s on there. That’s why. Hold up. Sorry. Got to listen to a poem. There we go. O4 HW WKS cheered 100 bits. Today we learning how to clean wool. It comes from a ram, not from a bull. Lat hitch will knit a nice sweater. Would help keep him warm much better. Did we miss the shearing of the sheep? Nothing said from all the chat peeps. Thank you, Austrahawks. Thanks for the daily poetry. That’s a little bit too much wool, so it’s easier when it’s
Oh, I see. Okay. It’s small amount, but it doesn’t matter. Yeah, it’s quite good except over there. Yeah, I know. This batch when I picked up didn’t have as much um tough pieces like the last one.
Yeah, just this is a bad bad place in the animals. It’s a butt ground. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
And just tougher wool and dirty. Yeah.
Yeah. This is too short.
Let’s go to the carbage. Have anyone comments anything about your when you putting your um hands to the raw wool?
No.
No.
Would they? What? as in saying it’s dirty or
Yeah. If anybody says anything,
I don’t think Well, they’re saying stuff, but they’re not saying anything about like, oh, hands on raw wool.
Um,
no,
my hands feel very like oily.
Yeah.
And not in a bad way. Just like
there’s lots of natural wool oils in my hands at this moment.
And taking cares of nails.
Yeah. There we go.
All right.
There’s a para. Now that’s a problem.
Yeah.
Uh oh, they’re out. Just grab some more. And like what are all the flies we have around the wall here? What are these guys? They’re the small guys. This um they love the wall. This macaron.
Macarin.
A really small one. They want to be nearly when you when I’m cleaning this carton and they come immediately.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Do they bite or they just exist? Yes, they buy. Everything bites.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh I have few friends who ask me that uh how you can put your fingers to the dirty wool.
Mhm. But I don’t say what you mean dirty wool. It’s only sand. It’s h this is ha because the plants put pieces of plants. Yeah. It’s not dirty, but of course it’s like dirty, but it’s not anything that get harm for you.
Mhm. Cuz Yeah. No, I didn’t even consider that. I’m like, it’s just Yeah. Just It’s like petting a sheep.
What’s wrong with that? There can find that also, but you just put it away. And this is um when you go to the farm and you scrub the sheeps, it feels like this.
Yeah. Yeah. See feel like any p pieces that are like you can tell where the the top of the wool is very tough. Yeah,
it’s tough. We have to clean here because there little bit windy
in the early in the morning and and
say but now
we can probably move over there. So it’s comfortable when here it’s quite hot. Yeah. Yeah, it is.
You think it’s warm, but I’m thinking it’s so hot. Well, no. Yeah. This whole trip has been very cold weather, so
it’s kind of nice to feel a little heat.
I’m acclimated to the cold. Here is also
another very tough piece. Yeah. Okay. Little bit more. Then it’s ready.
Okay. That’s enough.
That’s enough. Yeah. Now it comes windy. This is really good wool.
I was going to say this looks a lot better. Yeah.
Yes. But here’s a little bit [ __ ] But it doesn’t. You also get [ __ ] But you don’t put it your
on your clothes or anything. We I don’t put it onto a hat when I make it. Good. Your eyes is oiling over there. Okay. Have to do when the weather is good. Yes. No guarantee of good weather. How many uh B are we doing like four baskets for the four tanks? Yeah. So, one more after this.
Yeah. Okay. I’ll show the soaking process this time cuz we only showed it once. What does it smell? Uh, does smell like wool. I don’t know how to describe what wool smells like. It’s too windy. We can clean here.
Okay. But when it’s wet, it doesn’t matter too much. So, this is the first bath. Second, bat, third, fourth. Start with the dirtiest here and work our way to cleaner. Thank you. Oops. And that was most of the water
the dirty water. That makes sense because I don’t want that it moves to the Yeah.
Next step. And then the next level. You can see how dirty it starts with. And then this is cleaner water which I want to put a little bit. talking about something.
I don’t know what water gun. It’s a nice day. We’re going to have a super soaker fight. I kill this one first. Nice reference. [Music] Nice. No. So I this wrong camera. This trailer that has like Are those people being towed by reindeer? The the porro cup. Yes, it’s a uh in winter time we have this uh competitions where people are uh with skis.
Yeah,
the reindeer is running and there’s a competition with skis behind those
reindeers.
Okay. And they go in there to it’s about 1 kilometer that
Yeah.
yard and they are and it’s a race
running race. Yes.
Okay. Uh and like do people train for that or is it like a fun
people training with that?
Do they?
Yes. At the masters reindeers it’s a uh really big competition in Inari in the
Yeah.
Uh end of March.
Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. Have you ever done that?
I have been watching there. You watch it? Yes. When I’ve been selling my products. Ah, okay. Okay. Okay.
But I have no
You never raced.
Being dragged by a reindeer. I don’t know. Cuz you used to ski. You used to do a lot of like things. So I’m like maybe you race being dragged by a reindeer. No, no, no, no.
Ski but not with reindeer.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Like
do they train these reindeer? Are they like, you know, can you tell the reindeer to go like a like a like a sled dog?
No.
No, they just go.
Yeah. Yes, they are. Oh, there’s a gate and when it opens.
Oh, like a horse race kind of thing or dog race or Yeah,
like a horse race. Uh, when I put more water here, I have to put it here because if I put over there,
the wool can be pelting. Oh yeah, that makes sense.
And that’s the reason there have to be enough water that is space for
Yeah.
U get the dirty away. If there’s too much too uh small amount of water Yeah.
it doesn’t clean. Well,
can I put this sturdy one in there? Yeah.
It It was the meaning. So, and you have to I I help you a little bit. Yes. And you have to put a little bit hand over there because
it wants to float.
Yes. And if it’s go
Oh, like it’ll come out of there.
Yes. It comes out easily.
Yeah.
Because it dry.
Yeah. And just put that everything is wet. Yeah. Okay.
And you see the first one is quite dirty.
Yes. Very dirty.
Yeah. Oh, not the clean water is also a little bit It’s not so
straight from the from the river, right?
It’s a little bit brown because uh It’s so a small river.
Yeah.
And there’s plants and everything growing on the river.
Mhm.
Yeah. But next one.
One more.
One more. One more. As you see, this is also easy work, but a lot of work. Let’s try it once here. Cuz yeah, like in some parts of there like you’ll get a batch where it just has all the top wool that is very tough and stuck together and other parts like this doesn’t seem so bad.
No, this is really good.
Yeah. I just first turn around and see if there’s a big big What is this? Not perhaps it’s something
some kind of plant.
Some kind of plant.
Yeah.
And then I just put this. Is there something we have to take out? Sometimes it’s so clean that I don’t have to do anything.
Yeah.
But like you said, this is a older sheep so in general there’s a bit more
processing you have to do.
Yes. As you see, this also black, but there almost all are black. There’s a little bit gray.
Yeah,
this other black sheep. I think there was a three seeps on the one boxes. Yeah,
which I have been picked up. I just checking how much there was coming out. Not too much. Is this that’s all like matted, right? So yeah.
Yes, it’s bad.
Yeah,
it’s a It doesn’t felt good because here is felt it already. All this is all matted. So that’s a good bazard with hands and brush is there. How we say it’s something thick. So that’s a quite bad.
Yeah. And you said when it’s grayer here it’s it’s not good as well. Like
No, it’s good.
Oh, it’s okay.
No, no, it’s not good.
Not good.
Actually, this is this is so
got a I don’t even know. What do you think? This is a piece of Is this like plastic?
No, it’s um nails.
Oh, those are nails.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah, sheep nails.
Sheep nails.
We don’t want that in our
No, I don’t. And I don’t use that for jewelry yet. from um some some art artisan makes jewelry from reindeers nails.
Oh, do they? Okay.
Yes, but I haven’t tried. Is it there something? Oh, it’s okay. touch. I think this is there’s one more.
Okay, we can clean it. Okay. Yeah. Lots of flies. Yeah. [Music] It’s going to be a very full one. It’s full enough. And then we just change the basket to the other boxes.
Yeah. Yeah. And then I first because I have dirty hands because I have put the raw wool. Then I first start with the dirtiest one.
Yes. Go a little bit dirties away. Then I go to the other one. Move a little bit. And then very oily. I have 30 boxes left.
30 of like And we’re just finishing one box.
Yes. But we we do only that one post tonight. So you can see what kind of work I have left.
I hope you can be here three weeks. That’s a lot of wool washing. Jeez. Yeah. If I want to use this wool, I have to do this.
Yeah. Can I start straining at this one?
Yeah. Oh, it’s heavy.
Yes, it’s heavy at first. So that’s the reason I um uh when I started I don’t have only at all these uh small baskets.
Yeah.
I put all the wool the this uh box
and then I have to put pick up my hands
a little bit and then move it to other boxes and then I buy these little baskets and I have noticed that this is really good.
Okay. for this. It helps me a lot and it uh it’s much easier and much much quicker because I don’t have to put all the time cuz yeah, this process could go well. I guess it does need to soak for a while. I’m like if you have like a team of like four people.
Yeah,
you just have some people dedicated to like processing cleaning the first thing and helping people like soak it and clean it this way.
Yeah. But uh
but it needs time as It’s a it’s enough time to be one basket here when you clean another. So, but when you turn it at at 7:00 at on the morning and at 7:00 in the evening, so it’s not funny anymore. But so but it’s not every day because it’s not every day good weather for this one. Yes, it’s true. But this is the how this how my process is going. just work your way down the line and the cleaner water. So now I have to clean this away. So Yeah, she wants to open up like a retreat where like you do all these crafts while you stay here. It’s like part therapy kind of thing. Oops. Cuz this is where we’re going to dry it all out on here. What does she do in the winter? Well, like all the wool you’re washing right now, you use for the entire rest of the year, right?
Yes.
Yeah. So you do it and clean it when you can and then you stockpile it so you got enough for the uh for the whole year because I don’t have space enough in out inside.
Yeah.
For tying or washing. Yeah.
And it is more comfortable you do in outside. Now, people are saying you should you have so much property, you should open up like a a campground and have like activities like all the crafting by the people staying here. They can come by, stay a few days in their caravans and then help wash some wool.
Yeah.
Could be fun cuz you’re saying you want the retreat, but one of the challenges is where are people going to stay?
Yeah.
If they come preparing to sleep in their own
Yes. vehicles tent with tents and cappies. Then that’s the whole purpose. Then you don’t have to uh build an expensive uh accommodations. I I have one tent. I can rent it. Clean wool whilst the sun shines is the old Finnish saying. Is that actually a saying? I hope so. I don’t know. Well, oh, dang. I should show you a small box for the but the this is um black also.
Yeah. uh which is uh clean and dry.
Okay.
This is not carbonated. It’s uh just wet it when it get dry outside. This is
so it’s like this but once it’s cleaned and dried. Yeah.
Yeah. This is dried.
Yeah.
And here’s also a little bit pieces of plants but it doesn’t matter.
Yeah.
And I booked this is a little bit garden but this I have get out from the drum.
Okay. But I have to count it again. But this is how it looks like when it’s dry but clean.
Okay. So that’s what our wool will inevitably look like, but we might not see it cuz we have to finish the whole washing process and then start drying it and that will take some time. Let’s just clean the table. Okay. Does this go back inside?
Um I think we can take a little bit sandwich and go then inside that my atalia then.
Okay. So because uh we have to dry this wood enough if this is enough food. I think it’s ready
because it doesn’t get so much dirty at the
Yeah. I can’t You can see the color difference as we go along. I think this is I think this is ready for drying.
Okay. And uh well, I let it dry in this basket for a while.
Oh, okay. While the water’s still dripping out. So, this one.
Yeah.
So, the water comes out.
Yeah. And then I turn it to the towel. Three times maybe. to notice it’s quite heavy when it’s wet.
Oh yeah.
And you can uh thinking how it is feel when I make a outside boots which is about uh 5 600 g wool
and it’s dry. Then I put the water and soap and when it lie into the because it takes about 2 kilos when we make that hat and there was about 120 g this
Yeah.
uh wool.
Yeah.
And it was about 3 and 1/2 kilos when you turn it. Yeah.
But when I have 500 g wool
Yeah. It takes about five liters water.
Mhm.
Six liters water. It is five and six kilograms. But I’m turning around with my hands. So it’s quite heavy.
Yeah. So that’s why I have to be good physics. I don’t have every day good physics. Some days
it’s heavy when you get tired. [Applause] [Music] Okay.
Oh, doesn’t matter. Stay. Okay. Maybe it doesn’t matter. You
have to put a little bit
diagonal. All right. angles. [Applause] Oh, here’s the two. quite a lot of this wool. I have to put more water.
Oh, it’s like absorbed so much that it’s uh
lowered the water level. I’m trying to kill it, but
they’re fast. Yes. I’ve noticed that I have fat feelings. There’s too much wool over there. We have to lay it for a while.
Ah, okay. Okay. Yeah.
Because we put everything on.
We finished it. Yeah. Yeah.
But we can put this frame. This is cleaned and drying in the sun. Oh, it’s going onto here now. Uh,
I turned it on to the towel.
Yeah.
And take the mostly of the water away. Hey fellas. Oh, is this where you showed me like the rolling it in a towel? Yeah. When you step on it cuz it’s uh too wet and it takes so long time if I try this wet wool without pressing the water up.
Yeah. Yeah. So that’s the reason I scroll these to the towels. This is the same technique when you clean for example pullovers. So you just turn it around and then handle it.
That’s what I do with my laundry.
Yeah. when I’m handashing it in a hotel room or something.
It works.
It works.
Yeah. And I have enough weight for press the water away. And then I turn it on other way or she would ship internationally. Uh yeah, like you’d ship your products anywhere, right? People are just asking if you’d ship it to other countries. Yeah,
I have shipped to Australia. I have shipped to USA.
Yeah.
Germany.
Yep. United Kingdom. There you go. Sweden. Yeah.
And
all over. Yeah.
Yes. Whatever is a possibility to ship from Finland. Yeah. Yeah. This is quite wet. So, let it dry. As you notice, it’s so much better get out.
Mhm.
From the wool. Yeah. Without doing this, I guess that would take a very long time to dry. Yeah.
Cuz like from a performance clothing perspective, wool has some great qualities. Like it doesn’t smell. It keeps you warm when it’s wet still, but it doesn’t dry as fast as synthetic fabrics do. So, that’s one of the downsides of wool is um takes a bit to dry.
Yes. But uh wool is strengthening very well. It doesn’t matter if it is a little bit wet.
Yeah. So, you still warm and still still protect your skin.
Yeah. Birds steal the wool for their nest from Oh, yeah. Have you ever seen like a bird’s nest on your property that’s just happens to be have a lot of wool in it? Cuz the birds like to pick whatever they can find to make their nest out of. And it just so happens there’s going to be a lot of wool hanging around. I have seen the birds are taking my wool and to the old cap beans. That’s why I have asked if my cats can be following me when I’m washing wool and when they are drying.
Yeah.
Because uh birds are taking the wool.
And your are your cats hunters?
No. No, they don’t hunter. But uh birds but the birds doesn’t come when
Oh, when the cats are there. Okay.
Because they are a little bit afraid or something.
Yeah. Well, makes sense. They should be afraid. Yeah, cuz this one looks like a hunter. Maybe isn’t. But you look like it. You have This was the weight what we
of what you just washed. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. It’s a lot of water still.
Yeah. A lot of waters in the first. This is enough hot p place for frying towels
cuz Yeah, it does feel very warm on the balcony there. It’s about 40 50° or what you think in the at the wall.
It’s quite hot.
It is quite hot. Yeah. It’s hot up. Well, you go through a lot of towels then.
Yes. And I have this one I use only for wool and
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Not in bathroom like yesterday.
Yeah. It’s just wool. What’s And now it’s clean. So cleanish. All towels are in good good working here. I don’t buy new ones for this job.
Fair. That’s fair.
They’re really old.
Yeah. And my friends know that I need towels when they are getting me buy a new form to their homes. They give me the old ones for this.
Oh, okay.
I think so. So the neighbors just know like if we got to get rid of some towels.
Yes.
Anakah wants them.
And also old home textiles to the carpet.
Yeah.
And they asked me if you need them or not. It’s the best one part. That works too. It’s the last one when I’m It’s not so wet anymore so I can
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then I get a little bit break.
Yeah, that’s also I enjoy from wind and sunshine.
There you go. So, it helps that it’s a nice day today cuz um if it was bad weather, you wouldn’t want to be uh just sitting.
Yeah,
cuz Yeah, this wouldn’t be fun if it was really cold out cuz it doesn’t have to be sunny. Well, drying takes a lot longer if it’s cloudy, right? But you could do it. Cloudy and a little bit windy. So it’s really good.
Yeah.
Uh normally I put a over there but now the wind is so high that if I put wool and dry over there so wind take it over.
Yeah.
Take it off. So we I have to put the door. But this is a little bit too warm place for drying. It’s too warm. What happens when it’s too warm?
Uh the lenoline gets out.
Oh. So I have to um mixing wool many times,
but it’s not so it’s not so bad.
It’s not so good. Best catch best weather is cloudy and little windy.
Interesting.
And enough warm about 20.
Yeah.
Now it’s going to rain. a little bit there. You can try it. It’s quite quite dry now.
Is it? Let’s see. Yeah. And uh it dries so easier. How you spread it out?
Thin.
Yeah. Thin pieces. Yep. Yep. first one.
But yeah, I can see how too much wind is going to make this a difficult process. Uh wool all over the place. Yes.
Okay.
Because it’s not heavy anymore. It’s quite light. But not when you try it now like this, it you feel it. It’s wet.
Mhm. Yeah. What are we making? I made uh wool wrapped around some natural soap and I made a wool hat. And now we’re just cleaning raw wool. Oops, missed you. Those are really hand work and very old ways that I’m using. Yeah.
For this.
Now, I’m curious what the what the mechanical process would be for all of this, like how they do it on industrial scales. [Applause] What’s that
huge fan?
Callersore 84 just gifted one subscription to the community and they have machine who’s slowly moving the wool.
Oh, okay. Yeah.
Yeah. And then press them and then they are moving the huge band again and moving the wool. Yeah. They do exactly the same but it’s about is it 60 or 100 kilograms wool in just in one huge
amount but they have to use they have to use chemicals and hot water that they can clean because
it’s not so they are not using so much time. Oh okay. Yeah. Yeah. But I I won’t be chemical free. Mhm. We’re in the danger zone. Fail is my helper.
Yeah, he likes to follow. Likes to hang out. He’s quite social for cats and he he’s so curious. He always want to know what I’m doing.
Yeah.
Where I’m going. I often say that here happens nothing that my cat doesn’t know. There’s the grooming. I was going to say like for how fluffy he is, he’s very like soft and like he grooms well. I think I put it little bit. It’s windy, isn’t it? Do you like having your butt packed? Maybe. Oh, a little bit. I think so. I think you’re into it. What’s smelling there? I hope to put the last basket. I put it half on the other one because there was too much too much.
Yeah. It was a
It wasn’t spaced for cleaning. Yeah. Okay. Again, this is not so wet. I can put the first right
first for this.
Maybe I can do the the spreading standing process. Give it a try. Of course you can. We must dry the wall. Oh, it comes a little bit out of towel. So you can
Oops.
easier when you come
down. Yeah. So less height to work with.
But if you want, you can. However, yeah, it’s very wet. Understandably so. Yeah. Okay. Just roll her. So through That soaked right through and got the deck wet.
Yeah. This is right to the next one.
Yeah, it is. That’s why I moved it to the stairs because there a little bit wet, but it doesn’t matter.
Yeah.
So,
and then what do you unroll it like this?
No, I just put this like this. Oh,
okay. That’s a better strategy.
Yeah. Oh, now you understand that I have a lot of wood placement, lot big around.
Yeah. For wood, it’s uh easier to let it dry all these
towels. Yeah, makes sense. I’m glad it’s good weather today because if this was raining
couldn’t do this this experience at all.
Yeah. And then we put it up the last one. Those are quite big but it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. This is quite a
is a big one. A
big one. Yeah. But it doesn’t matter. I can take it.
Okay.
Tryer.
Sweet. My dryer. Sorry. Do Per block. Okay. And then this one, can I spread out on the table?
Yeah.
Yeah. We’re already trying [Applause] Is the hat drying? Yeah, it’s drying on a on a form to the size of my head. This all just kind of smells like wool, but also like hay. Like if you’re at a in a barn with hay in it. You can also come in this side. So it is.
Yeah. Yeah. Switch over. looking good.
Yep. There’s another one ready to stomp on or is that still
still cleaning?
Yes. Take that tower also. Okay. With you. I press little bit water away. I use this one the first time. Okay. This is almost dry. Okay.
But it doesn’t matter. Use this. But I do want to do it. So, welcome.
All right. Let’s do it. I can put it and you can make rest. Yeah, very wet.
It is quite wet.
But it’s crazy how different it is by the time you go through like whatever three towels of moisture
to then put it on the table
the difference. And that just takes a couple minutes.
Yeah. Yeah, mosquito. Is that hair? This is wool from sheep. So yes, it is hair. Damn. It’s going to be used for uh well we made a hat with wall. So you can make a hat. She makes socks. Um we can she makes these little soap cover things where you put wool around soap. Use this big one. She makes a lot of different things with wool. It’s underneath my sunglasses. She makes shoes, too. That would be cool to have. Oh, got to grab one. [Music] [Music] [Music] Who bit me? All right. Get it through my shirt. Karma. Have to test on your pencil. [Music] A wolf Can you go is that I don’t know. [Applause] [Music] help. [Music] Oh, realize is like the worst cellular company. Wait, run the internal mic. Is all you’re hearing in wind? Oh, the battery must have died. That’s why it switched over. Yes, it did. Okay, I see what’s going on. Okay, now we’re on the mic. Work fine when you’re not on prepaid. I don’t think that’s a great like business slogan. Our service is fine if you’re not using our one of our services. just avoid using our shitty services. But I do have to leave here in 2 and 1/2 hours. I still have to like pack up my tent and stuff. So I don’t know. I don’t have that much time left. This is a good one.
Uh this was Yeah. Second, I think.
Yes.
Yeah. Over here. It’s quite big also. But it doesn’t matter. Frying better. This is so wet. So I just mostly away. Oops. I have to go drink water. Do you want
uh I’ll have a water? Yeah. And then I don’t know what our timeline is like cuz I got to leave in like 2 and 1/2 hours. Yes. They have to make eating
the salmon soup.
Yes, we are going to
We have time for it.
Yes, we have.
We have my husband comes to help me with the products. Okay.
So,
perfect. Salmon soup. Oh, I’m excited for this. It’s like her family recipe. It’s going to be so good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then we have more stuff. We have we got have to bike like 15 kilometers. Then we got more stuff to do. But like there’s probably some people that like this isn’t exciting enough. I’m not finding this that entertaining. But for me, as someone that wants to like experience things and know how they work and stuff like that, this is much more like educational and like satisfies that need to understand more because I’m actually like doing it and that takes time to do it. You don’t just like observe someone do it and be like, “Neat, I can watch TV for that. Can watch a YouTube documentary. I get to get my hands I was going to say dirty, but it’s not that dirty really. This is number seven. I mean it’s number seven. This is our third batch of drying which after this one we will put on the table to dry. All right, let’s dry it on the table. Here is
Thank you. Wind’s coming in sideways. It’s going to blow away. Going to hear it ripping. I don’t know if the mic’s picking it up, but there’s a good breeze today. We’re just mostly sheltered from it where we are right now. It’s fine. [Applause] Nice. Let’s have some water. All right. Well, this has been fun. Made a Wool wrapped soap. Made a wool hat. Now we’re cleaning wool. Let’s put this down on the table. Have some water. Need to get a new battery. Should actually do that right now. Dry this in the sun. Just going to grab a new battery cuz once this gets low, have some issues. Verac Where did you go? Your device is disconnected. Pairing. Oh, I thought that you disappeared. Yes. Do you have some something good on your glasses also when you have drink water first? Sorry. Which
those you eat in the morning.
Oh.
Oh. So also a nice you have to eat uh drink a little bit water before.
All right. water first and then so guys what we’re having or after the water it’s the uh the berries we had yesterday um she makes it into a soup so it’s the berries some sugar some cinnamon um what else was in it
little bit salt little bit of salt and water
starting with water but we’ll get to the soup
uh in a second here So this is so easy to eat when you have not so much time for
That’s true.
Yeah. Well, that’s how I feel.
It’s not so heavy. You can continue your
what you’re doing because I do all the time something.
Yeah. The time and efficiency thing is one of the reasons why like I drink that like liter of milk I told you about
cuz like
it’s quite a bit of calories in that and everything like energy and you can just have it really easily. You don’t have to like sit down get a plate out or anything. It’s just down then you can move on. One more glass of water then we’ll have some soup. Yes. And my husband doesn’t like like so much soup soups than I have.
Yeah,
this is very very wonderful for me. But I I make this kind of pan and what is katillaa?
So about three two and a half liters what I make today.
So I eat it in two days.
That’s a lot.
Yeah. And it’s just you cuz Yeah. You said Uh, it’s Ula. Ula. Sorry. Your husband’s name is
Yua.
Yua. Sorry. Put an L in there. UA doesn’t like it. He eats it with cream, but uh he doesn’t bring it like I like. This is the best one. Like a smoothie.
Mhm. It very much is like a smoothie. Here we go. This is the soup,
but it’s room temperature now, right? Yes.
Yeah. I doesn’t like it like frozen temp or cold temperature. I I like it room temperature the best.
Yeah. I um I’m kind of like that with my milk, too. When I buy it from the store, like for the bike tour
for energy, I don’t want it like refrigerator cold.
Yes.
It’s like I don’t know, cold to drink.
Yes. And all that. I like to let it warm up. Yes.
And then I can drink it more comfortably.
Yes.
Yeah. It tastes much better and the feeling in the mouth is better cuz um in when things are a bit warmer, you can you can taste the flavors more. So you don’t like this soup?
Yeah. I take coffee and water keeps alive. Coffee. This is too hot for us. 20° which
is actually like exactly room temperature for that’s what people set their house to. Yeah.
But it does feel really warm in the sun.
Especially when the wind is blocked. We don’t have here any palms. We don’t have here before you come here. So you bring them somewhere.
It’s all my fault. But it did just warm up, right? Like yesterday was the first day that
Yes. For me, that felt kind of warm. Yeah. They woke up immediately.
Yeah. Mhm. Is there everything else that bites can’t keep up with me when I’m riding my bike? Like it’s too slow. mosquitoes they can’t follow.
Yes,
Palma can.
Okay. They’ll just like circle around me. Because they they are they are bigger. They can
they’re bigger. They’re faster. They’re meaner. Yeah. Get you guys plugged back in cuz I don’t want this battery to get low. Actually, I should plug it chat phone for a while. Yeah, we’re talking about horse flies. The Finnish name is par parm. That’s a friendly one.
I felt so bad about the There’s a real big bumblebee. There’s a bee as well. Um I was trying to get out the window in the kitchen.
I was just by myself. I’m like, “Oh, I’ll open the window and you can get out the window. But the window has two sides to it and you can’t open the other side, I guess.
So I open the window, the bee flew out to escape and just got trapped between two windows. Now we go through hay balance. I wouldn’t like I I worked on a farm for was a whole day or part of a day in Japan in Hokkaido and I like that biking today. We have a 15 km ride. I don’t know what’s in like what the thing is, but there’s another thing we’re supposed to be at at 7 uh 15 km down the road. Open them too far slightly. I just couldn’t see the way to open the second one. And then Anakah when I’m like I do you know how to open the second window? She just like got the bee out of there in the first place. Wow, my hair’s a disaster. I’m putting my spam hat back on. Wait, those are Why are there socks in my pocket? It’s interesting. Do you want to know? No, it’s okay to not know. Is it exciting? It is exciting. Okay, that’s exciting. Yeah, don’t tell me. I’m already excit I’m getting We’re making salmon soup. That’s exciting. So many bites. Why Finland? Where Finland? How Finland? What? Like why am I in Finland? Is that the question? I need a more detailed question. Nice cap. Thank you. He’s got spam sandwiches on the side. Well, now I feel bad. I’m just sitting here having my soup. Because keen Yeah. Have you enjoyed this Trevor? Have you enjoyed watching this at least? No, it’s been a ton of fun. And um this is exactly what I wanted to be doing on this trip is stuff that isn’t just purely cycling the entire time. Want to try some things, learn some things, experience new things. There’s more to life than riding a bike as far as you can every day down the road. Although I do enjoy doing that on its own as well. I just don’t want to only do that all day every day. You feeling today? I slept great last night. It was a really nice night. It was like just comfortable out and the wind died down and it was just
good conditions. I didn’t like get up until like 9:00 cuz I put the my face mask, my eye mask on and it blocks out all light and pretty much every night except for like when I’ve been in a hotel and I had to be somewhere in the morning. I haven’t set an alarm. I just let myself wake up when I wake up. But there’s no like sun cycle. I don’t like wake up when it gets light out cuz it’s always light out. But in my world, it’s always dark cuz I got my eye mask on. So, I’ve been staying up late, but I’ve been sleeping in a bit. Anyway, hit by the sauna. Real. Oh, that’s true. We did sauna. It was our first woodfired sauna, too. Um, and I had a handmade right from their backyard. Um, v vita is that the right word? The the birch branch whip. So, we’re vita in the sound with the lolu. Yeah, Vasta is easier to say where to skinny dip in the water or I’m still confused. I did ask but now I was I I’m still don’t know if that was the right place or not. Vita or Vasta depending on where in Finland you are. This is a vasta household, right? You guys use vasta.
But I call va.
Oh, you say va.
Yes,
I say.
Oh, how coming from different places. So you can vast.
Okay. Does that cause conflict in your relationship? You’re like, no, it’s vasta. [Laughter] always last words.
Yeah, it’s Yes, my honey. Yes, my darling. Is that the last one or is there still more?
No, there’s one more.
One more. [Music] I felt that you was so satisfied that you can come later. I said, “Welcome about three weeks at good weather. We can make amazing she actually like translates the conversations for me so I don’t feel left out.” That’s just nice. More water. hot for filament. 20 out pretty much a salad. Um, but then after this I want to ask about my hat if it’s ready to try. Guys, you’re going to, if you didn’t see us making the hat, you’re going to love the hat. The hat is peak high fashion. I was saying before when we first made it, I’m going to have to fight the ladies off me. They’re going to be lining up and I’ll be like, “No, get away from me. Or what’s my tier three uh sound? No thanks. Hard pass. Oh, hi. The fluffy cat’s bag. It’s a sauna hat. You can use it as one. Okay, I think we’re friends now. But I think this cat just is curious and friendly in general. So, where’s the white? White one’s a lot more skittish, at least with me so far. Should add light bulb to the top of the hat. It’s my thinking hat. Get good ideas when I wear it. See the fluffy cat? It’s already underneath the caravan. So, I’ve shown the cat several times, so I I didn’t like immediately grab the camera. We’re just chilling. Me and Cat are bros now. Is better than Is it feels so unnatural? [Music] Also, I didn’t put on sunscreen today. That was probably a mistake. How much that mic cost? DJI Mic Twos are kind of pricey. What are they like 400 bucks for the the two? You can buy like a one mic combo. This is like the two mics, one receiver in a charging case. That could be off. Someone will know. That’s in my gear list. Probably there’s a command for that. I feel bad. €245. Oh, okay. Let’s see. Okay, that’s even better for the two plus case. Okay, I overestimated the cost. They’re really good mics. I’ve tried several different wireless mics and these are definitely the best ones. [Laughter] Are they good? Do you want also this?
Yeah, let’s give it a try. Crazy people here. No, doesn’t look like hair. That’s good.
That’s a good piece. [Laughter] It’s too wet for that.
Yeah, I need to dry it first. Try the hair flip. forgot it was this is the first drying step. So they haven’t stepped on it yet. So it’s just like
soaking wet wool. When are we getting on the road again? 600. So we got 2 hours actually. Um before we switch to food, I might like pack up all my tents and stuff so it’s all ready to go. Yeah, that’s probably a responsible choice. Tent looks so small when you just like walk up to it like this. Pretty sure there’s another tear in this somewhere. Oh, here. Yeah, it’s tearing through. You can tell right above that tape patch. That’s a hole. I got to go in the tent because I haven’t I packed up a sleeping bag, but not the sleeping pad. So, let’s go do that. Tent surface looks like burned sausage skin. What kind of sausages are you buying? Who’s your sausage guy? I got a much better sausage guy. Do you want me to send you their contact info? Yeah. Still need to find and patch my hole in this sleeping pad. Yeah. Part of me wants to try like there’s this um what’s the Swedish brand of tents? They make them in person in in Sweden. Um they’re famous for being like just rock solid bomb proof tents but also costing a lot. Cuz some of those people bring it up and I’m just like and generally they’re heavy for what they are, but like count. Yeah. Hberg. Hberg. Like to try one of those just to see if they live up to their reputation. parents of three hillbook tents. Oldest one over 30 years old. Still fine. That’s a pretty good review. Military tents are not that lightweight. The ethos with military equipment is generally it has to work and it has to be pretty durable. It does not have to be light. The mentality is these are soldiers. They can carry [ __ ] They do not try to make the super ultra lightweight gear for military. Where’s the stuff stuck? There it is. One person melting tent is 3 kilos. That’s so heavy for one person tent. Well, ultra light. Look at Big Agnes. Big Agnes isn’t even ultral light. I have a Big Agnes Copper Spur HVL2 bike pack and a Copper Spur HVL1 bike pack 10. They’re fine, but they ain’t ultra light. This is ultra light. This is like my cups for HVL1. I think it’s like about 3 lbs. This is one 450 gram. It’s also falling apart, but I’ve really used this tent, so I’m not disappointed with it. The daineea slowly dying on me. Uh the e like the mentality with this type of tent is people buy one of these like pleximid tents now they’re called a plex solo tent I think and you can expect it to last one through hike. So like one four to five month long hike and then it’ll start falling apart. MSR Freelight one by two is 890 grams when packed. Not bad. No for like um free light is the free light the um partially freestanding like the head is freestanding but the foot just has like one center pole and you have to stake it out for it to be proper or is that a different MSR tent? All double wall lightest is one to one with three kilos. Like a real bomb-proof oneperson double wall tent has a lot of benefits that I’d be willing to carry a bit of extra weight and pack space for um in my opinion. Did you bring your drone? Yeah, I did. I haven’t set it up to run with Moblin, though. That’ll take a little bit of setup time. How long? Uh, I don’t know cuz this is what I’m broadcasting from. And in order to do it, I probably have to not be broadcasting. So, we’d be in clips for probably like 10, 15 minutes. And then if I have issues, that will be another problem. Can it follow you without you steering it? Depends on where we’re going. I wouldn’t do it next to a roadway because it’s too dangerous to have around fastoving vehicles. It’s not reliable enough. [Music] [Music] Why? Awesome. Thanks for the $13. [Music] What’s up? Send two more things. Need your opinion. Okay. [Music] I’m in love. I’m in love. I’m in love. I’m in love with you. [Music] Tanya, if you want me to compare two fonts, you got to send the same. So if one says Instagram, the other one should say Instagram because they look uh pretty similar. I know there is some difference, but likeum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum. [Music] It’s the same. I know, but it’s hard to compare when they’re different words using different letters. [Music] They both have a tea in them. [Music] Maybe the first one. I don’t know. real train that sells hillbug tents in Finland called Peter. [Music] I’m going to really expensive though, aren’t they? Like a thousand bucks kind of thing, right? [Music] Like actually, honestly, this is not that far from that mark. All right, let’s actually pack this up. I only have so much time left here. I want my tent and bike to be all loaded up so when I’m going to go, I can actually go. Starting around €800. Ouch. But like especially with what I do, like I understand investing in high quality equipment cuz like when you use it a lot, like if you’re going to go car capping once a year, I feel like it’ probably be overkill to get like a€,000 tent. But if you’re going to spend as much time in a tent as I am, could make sense to invest in one that does a great job of keeping comfortable dry prices average out to life expectancy. I feel like ultral light stuff is kind of outside of that though. You’re paying for like still a good tent that is as light as physically possible. But when you make things like as light as physically possible, it has to come at the detriment of durability. Like daea is a strong material for its weight and has some nice features, but like it’s so freaking thin. It just there’s only so much it can do against abrasion and and puncture, right? should have 10 sponsored. Yeah, TA, I know it’s really hard with me only having a Twitch presence on Twitch, like a a sponsorship level presence on Twitch to actually uh find appropriate sponsors. Our issues outdoor gear brands are just straight up don’t even know about Twitch or where is my stuff sack? Just realizing I don’t know where the bag for this is. Might be in my down jacket which is in the kitchen. H Okay. Okay. I’m going to go look for that cuz I do need the stuff sack. Unless it’s in here, but pretty sure I sack. Often I just stuff it in my jacket pocket when I’m setting it up. I’ll be right back. Alex lepre day tip $10. Thank you. [Music] Oh, it wasn’t even in the jacket. Alex, thanks for the tenor. It was out in the vestibule. I forgot about it. There’s a dead pen mine here somewhere. [Music] Maybe it survived. Anyway, YouTube not let you over 12 odds. Yeah, I can stream over 12 hours. It just doesn’t keep a record of it. So lonely. So lonely. Feel so lonely. Maybe we should get a Hillberg tent. I got to look at what their models are like and what features they have and the specs on it. See if it fits what I need it for cuz I think I need a new tent for this trip actually. Like I This tent is As soon as I patch a hole, another one pops up. The the the daea is just dying on me. It’s delaminating. So lonely. So lonely. So lonely. Feel so lonely. [Music] End of an era. Yeah. I this tent started this first trip was first night I slept in it wasn’t hey my toiletries are not supposed to be 37 this tent January 2020 it’s first use was in Lisbon Portugal on the hitchhiking to TwitchCon Amsterdam trip that ended up getting cancelled because the whole world shut down because there was a global pandemic Toms has 100 bits. There is a part store in Roven and you’ll find some Hilly products there. Do I need anything else? I I I still have like fantasies about like having like not just the Jet Boil, but like proper cooking stuff and like a pan and then you can like buy local ingredients and then like just cook food. I’m not much of a cook, but like you could learn. Anyway, that’s my fantasy. Reality is I’d probably buy all that stuff and barely use it and I just eat
bread, cheese, and meat. as a mouth sandwich. Doomer, thanks for the gifted sub. Feel so lonely. Solutra. Why not grilled cheese and heat up on some tomato soups? That would be nice. And a coffee in the morning without relying on going somewhere. Be nice. And the trailer means I have enough capacity to bring that. the weight would add up and I’d feel it cuz I I just sent like 5 kilos away to Tanya. She’s complaining about it. Uh RSTPRN uh something probably not familyfriendly. Thank you for the three-month prime. full American style breakfast with a little stove. I need more than just my Jet Boil with a one liter pot. That’s where I was going with Jet Boils with that stuff are good for essentially just boiling water and that’s about it. There’s a lot of things you can make with just boiled water, but electric sounds. Those are 3 kilow. Ouch. Now, that’s where we we’d have a a wood burning one. That would be much more much lighter. We just get wood locally. Good cast iron pots and plans. I’ll be like Sam Wise Gamji. He’s got all the cookware just hanging off his backpack. Got to get the cast iron. It’s got good heat retention, you know, cuz that would probably actually be annoying with like all your super ultra light cooking wear. Um, how thin it all is. So, like as soon as it’s not on heat, it immediately cools down. I’m guessing blue. Okay, we’re not leaving right now. I just want to be close to being ready to go when we actually do head out. It’s not the best backdrop, but that’s so good. What’s this battery at? Swap it. Do you like sauna? I’m a big fan of saunos now. It’s hard to stream. notably hot and sometimes very poorly lit. I know a little phone image sensor is uh doesn’t do well in low light situations. All right, let’s go. Take a little bit of time. So, we had a sound last night and I had a great sleep after. Oh, they brought out run away. Oh, I left my phone. I brought out the goods. Phone is still on the bike. How many clims today? Zero. So far, we started here and we’ve been making crafts. There we go. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. First cameraman. Oh, look at the outdoor boots. Like those boots. My hats like like this one but lighter colored. Those slippers would be nice, too. Oh, this is my hat.
This 37 cheered 100 bits in sauna. A very important part is getting the burn. So when the heat is enough, the vapor will actually cause a burning sensation on your skin without damaging it. It’s the best Teaovo, I tell you. We’ll have to try and get hotter. All right, guys. Prepare to be impressed. I made a hat. I made a hat. I made a hat. I made a hat. I’m getting bit by a fly. What do you think? Is it a nice hat? You like it, [Music] Alex? All pretty cheered 100 bits Canadian Gandalf. And I got my own soap. This feels well made. Yeah. Okay, let’s go in before I got to leave. But like, where is this guy? Not Slytherin, eh? Well, better be Gryffindor. All right. Ah, so hot.
It is warm in here.
Yes, it’s too warm for us. Yes, it’s too hot for us, believe or not. Uh, I have some here I have working overnight because it was too hot in the hot daytime.
Yeah.
So, I was working on the night.
Oh, you do? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. It was like this at night. Yeah,
it’s very off.
And in the summer that’s it’s it’s not like there’s a light issue. You can be outside. You don’t even need to bring a light with you. Have exterior lights. It just is light enough out.
It’s nice. I like it. I like it.
Also, so I prepared this soup. Now I have cook water. And then I have put cheese.
All right. So, heating up water. We got cheese. This is special cheese or just
uh this is this is uh soal. You can um it’s it’s um melts.
Mhm.
Quickly.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
But you can also eat this as well.
Yeah. Just on its own. Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
You can eat it if you want. But I use this for soups. Did you notice that uh we get some products to the outside?
I know. I was looking at them. I wanted to see like the the outdoor boots and stuff. That’s cool to see. Yeah. Doesn’t go open. small pieces. Calakito. That is that the name for the the salmon soup is the Finnish nameto. Okay. Loto. Loto. Yep.
Okay. [Applause] Somebody has left those outside. I don’t know who it was. Everyone. Team effort. Yeah. Exactly. Secret receipt. Now, everyone who follows you knows
your family recipe.
Yeah. Enough cheese, enough cream. cuz yeah, I had I had another one of these further north, but people said it wasn’t creamy enough. So, not enough uh cream, not enough cheese, according to people watching. So, I haven’t had a really creamy one yet. First have to put the cheese to the hot water.
Okay. And uh have to we spit it so it’s melts everything.
Yeah. Then I put a little bit cream. No recipe. No measuring here.
No, I don’t measure anything. It’s amount.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. I guess add an amount of cream. Yeah.
However much you feel is appropriate.
Yes. And then I add more of water, but I have to cook it. It’s easier to cook in with tea pan. It’s faster.
Oh, yeah. That makes sense. because we don’t have so much time.
Yeah. Sorry.
Right now we have working and we just discussing and we don’t we have to do anything.
I know there isn’t much time left.
So much more that only some products but I give you experience.
Absolutely. Very much so. It’s been a very good experience. If you when you see my products I if you want to try to do everything you have to be here one year something like that. Yeah. Yeah.
Yes. You have to move here one year and be your apprentice. So you can’t learn everything. Puppies 37 cheered 100 bits. Trevor will be back. Trevor will be back. When you come say you come back here, that’s what they’re saying. Yeah. Okay.
Come back every year and we’ll learn uh some new techniques.
Yes.
Make a new craft.
Yeah. also year something new that we are visiting and seen each other about 15 times. I think I have that kind of techniques about 15 products.
Uh no no products are more but 15 different techniques.
Oh different. Oh okay. Yeah. Yeah. This is a galiani. Oh uh is it like a broth? like a concentrate like a
um it’s a
stock. No, it’s um taste of fish.
Okay. Yeah.
In the what is a small amount.
Yeah. Concentrated.
Yes. Little there. I clean this with cold water. Everything you have to put. Nice. So [Music] a lot
a little bit milk.
Okay. All stock. As you notice, I measure everything. It’s very precise. And then I need the hot water over there. And I also need this. Okay. Also uh I get water on the over there. Yeah.
And if I want to take put the same amount of milk, I have to put three liters. Mhm. But when I use this bread and water, it is the same.
Okay. Yeah. You’re just finding the right uh mixture and it is also come um minimum cost because about half liter cream is uh cheaper than 3 liters.
Oh, is okay. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense.
Yes. And this is better for taste. So, it’s all about cream. And you need energy.
Oh, yeah. No, like I’m happy about this.
And then I put a little bit butter also and butter. Now we’re talking. This is a lot of fat. Is this some kind of diet? Okie dokie. See, her recipe doesn’t include any potatoes. Her father was a fisherman and they had plenty of fish. So, everything was very fish heavy. So, lots of fish. So like corn starch.
Yes.
Does that thicken?
Yes.
Yeah. Cheese doesn’t make everything. And next we put there some fried onion. Okay.
I this onion is the onion. Yes. And little bit onion.
Mhm.
Yeah, it’s good taste. What you said? That’s onion powder. I haven’t get my telephone at all with me today. Yeah, now it’s also very It’s raining over there. But it doesn’t matter. I call back.
Yeah. Whoever that is calling and this I have to do about 5 minutes. Well, maybe I could mix and you could make sure it’s not an important phone call.
Take over. Yeah. Okay.
Teamwork. See? Okay. Goes down. Don’t stop mixing. I take a picture where you’re cooking that day. Keep smiling. You are here is a a happy cookie. You have to do the same when you’re talking with me. Really smiling. You are so not angry face but something like that. Mhm. Is it okay if I put your
anywhere? Anywhere you want. Of course. It was my toddler and she has caught me twice.
Oh. Is there something wrong? What’s it called? 5 minutes.
Okay. The yellow one. Okay. I guess Okay. Okay. My daughter was calling because I haven’t called her for her in few days. So wondering is something wrong with me or not.
I see. Okay. Okay.
But anything wrong because we are going to discuss tomorrow a little bit more.
Okay. Okay. So it is 5 minutes is go.
Okay.
I think so. And then I have to This is salmon. That’s a lot of salmon. Nice.
Yeah. The of course here can be a little bit these bones, but
yeah,
it
that’s fine. Yeah.
Be careful.
Eat carefully. Yesterday I put this the oven.
Mhm.
And there I put uh salt and dilly.
Dill.
Till actually it’s
dill. Yeah. Dill. Yeah.
Yeah. Salt and dill. Nothing else.
And continue mixing.
Yes.
Yeah.
And now we are going to mix that. It’s a pulp. And then we turn the heat off.
Oh. till it uh boils like it bubbles.
Yeah. And then lower it.
Yeah.
Okay. But uh with the cream sauce, do you have to always be mixing to uh when I put corn flour there?
That have to mix 5 minutes.
Oh, that was for the cornstarch to thicken. Okay.
Yes. And um
and uh if you don’t mix it so it comes like a glimpse.
Yeah. It doesn’t
feel good.
But still right now continue mixing just Yeah. Okay. That until it pulps.
Okay. Do it says my daughter says that um she heard when we are discussing here.
Yeah.
And the phone is still ringing. I don’t know how it is can be possible. How how she heard like she was watching this or what do you mean?
I heard on the her own phone when we was just discussing here. I can’t I don’t know.
I don’t know how it is possible. But he says, “I heard what you say. I don’t have anything matter. Everything is okay.” She must have been uh yeah watching the stream. So she knew what we were talking about before you call. Right. Right. I’m guessing if Anakah’s daughter is watching. Hi I’m I’m down for just chewing some bones. But compared to the last salmon soup we had, like that one didn’t really have much creaminess. It was very tasty. It It had dill in it, I remember. But it was like almost like a clear broth. This is a lot of cream. It is going to be creamy. That’s the [ __ ] Not too wanted to smell the soup. Didn’t realize that was so close to my head. to have my school. [Music] Uh, you asking where are you going to be on Thursday or Friday this week?
Do I know where? Um,
do you know?
I think I’m going to um what’s the city south of here called again? Uh, yeah, I might be there those days. Storm is coming.
I heard. Yeah, someone said there’s a summer storm. So maybe I’ll apparently there’s a lot of stuff to do in in Roven. Um so I might spend some time in the it’s so it’s boiling now. So we got to turn it down.
Yes. Just over there. Okay. So I might spend time there and then uh I can do stuff inside while it’s stormy out rather than just riding my bike through the storm.
Okay. tomorrow and Thursday by my plan. Okay, we’ll see if the weather’s going to be horrible. I could always like take a storm day on Friday or whatever, but we’ll see. We can do some rain, but if it’s a proper storm, we’ll see. Also, my tent is not cut out for a storm, but in Roven apparently, it’s a good outdoor store. We can potentially buy a new tent, so my tent is falling apart. Okay.
So, it works fine in conditions like this, but if I’m going to be tenting in a storm, I need to uh improve my shelter. Now, I have to taste what I have to put in his penthouse. Penthouse. Only a little bit more salt.
Salt. Is it enough? Probably not. Can’t go wrong with salt. Well, you can’t, but And is that everything now? And it just needs to simmer for a little bit. Is that the the last addition? And now it just simmers like a cooks for a little while. Or is it done now?
It’s done now.
Oh, it’s done. Okay.
Yeah, it’s done now.
It’s finished.
Just taste is the enough salt or
Oh, I’m sure it’ll be enough salt.
Or not. Run a cottage and cook himself. It’d be fun to try to cook some of the stuff myself if I took a day off. We could do a finished cooking stream. Probably wouldn’t be as good as yours, but I could try and that’s the best you can do.
There’s something which it’s not here yet, but uh I have to put it This is the main thing. Finish
butter.
Yes. Finishing.
Yeah. Butter because if there is not cream and butter, it doesn’t feel salmon soup. That’s why you guys were complaining when the the other soup didn’t look creamy. It looked like a the the broth was like still kind of clearish. So they’re like there’s no cream, there’s no
it’s like it’s raw. It’s not really good soup.
It still tasted good, but now this is going to be a completely different soup. So like yes,
that was a completely different
but this is really different. And when when I’m my children has eating like this and then they have to eating at school and this
light soup and potatoes,
carrots.
Yeah.
And and they they said it was all full. I can understand those
cuz because this is like as far as things in the soup, but as far as like pieces, it’s just salmon. Um there is no potatoes, no vegetables like what they had. So that would be a very different experience. Oh, dill. Yeah,
dill. But is it just butter melt? Is it melts the butter? Is it
I think so.
Yeah, it go easily. This bill I have um grown myself and I have tried it.
Really? Yes. Oh, cool. I dry so much herbs if um what I can I use um this um knock on him. It’s really good. I use is I show you it’s um when I make the tea when I give some um good condition to my blood it is hemoglobin is too low so I eat this is noon noon
yeah you can smell it it smells very familiar
yes
it’s uh growing here everywhere.
Oh. Oh, people are translate stinging nettle.
Yeah.
So, it’s if you touch it, the planted.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I um
I dry it also.
Yeah. And I use like a tea and I put it uh with meat.
Yeah.
Cooking.
I did um I went to an uninhabited island to like try to do like a survival like eating only what I could find on the island. Okay.
I ate a lot of stinging nettle cuz you once you boil it, it’s like spinach kind of thing
or you make tea with it. Oh, I’m sorry.
No, you’re good.
This is a good
uh ladle. Yeah. Okay.
I have to taste again.
All right.
Is it okay or not? This is the best part. I think I must put a little bit pepper. Little bit pepper. Is it citron pepper or is it white pepper? But not so much pepper. I was telling to my to that you are making salmon soup here. So So uh Tia asked that do you have own recept or are you going to do it with my recept? What’s that? Is it your own precept when you making salmon soup here or are you going I think this is good. I cleaned this away. So we just going to eat.
Yeah. Okay. Eating time.
Best part. [Music] Just uh just the two of us. No, three.
Three. Okay. Sit.
You want? Sure, ma’am. I leave those here because we need it immediately. Now you are going to sit there.
Sure. It’s that this soap gets better tomorrow.
Oh, it’s a it’s like it’s like the uh salmon mayonnaise, too.
The flavors they
get better. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yes. And salmon. Oh, sorry. I’m in the way. Arm chair. start the compass after activity tonight. Did you come up with an interact like where people can know what they’re voting for? Also, when would we stop it? Oo, more cheese and butter.
Cheese and butter and uh naki bread cuz then hard bread.
Hard bread. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. This we are going to eat always with soup. Yeah. Soft bread we eat evening.
Salmon mayonnaise or
Yeah. Like evenings.
Okay. Yeah. Everything is better tomorrow. Did you notice that in the morning the salmon mayonnaise was better?
I think. Yeah. Know, I think it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
There’s there’s a lot of dishes that are like that. They need time to have all the flavors.
So, it’s so sad that everything after that day after cooking.
Yeah. Yeah. But everybody understands that because everybody knows that angle’s tough as I filled my bowl really full cuz I’m hungry.
Yeah.
And this is only a little bit energy in this uh
only a little bit of energy.
Only a little bit energy. Is that
cycling or something you’re going to do or sleeping?
Yeah, I think it’s good energy for sleeping.
Enough for sleeping. All right. You’re welcome. No, you’re
I can go. Okay.
Yes, you can start because [Music] people don’t have to wait. Uh that’s uh warm. Yeah.
Eating only cold eating is starting together.
Is that it? Okay. I didn’t
I I have always
Yeah, that’s the way
that is right right way.
I’ve never heard that before. Like there’s nothing wrong with that. I just
hot eating you eat right away. Cold eating together. Yes.
Interesting. Huh. Yes.
Yeah. Oh, that’s good. That’s so creamy. But uh on four liters there are only about six decillers cream
and half liters.
Yeah. Rest is water.
Yeah. Salmon soup by my way. No potatoes, just salmon and cream and butter and dill and salt and pepper and milk. Yeah,
I got most of it. Now I know how to make it myself.
Now you know how do you do when you cook like me.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
And as you notice, it’s always cute simple.
Mhm. Yeah. No, like objectively this wouldn’t be that hard to make. Like you made that from just a pot of water to being finished in it was like
20 minutes or something. I don’t know.
Yes.
Yeah. Take some cheese. How would you would you put cheese on the bread and then and then eat the bread with the like what what do you do with the cheese? No, because I eat like this.
Oh, he gets it like that. Okay. Yeah. And he he dips it.
Butter butter and cheese and
Oh, butter and Okay. I got to try it that way.
You But you can eat actually. Well, you want
I can have anyway, but I want to try the different ways to eat it cuz then I I can like pause. 45 minutes later eating what I was thinking.
Mhm.
At the first time, but because I don’t know what the time is when I’m doing the outside.
Yeah.
And you can decide which size you put butter.
It can be either. All right.
It doesn’t matter.
Free for all. Nice. M.
How about you?
Taste it or not?
The soup?
Oh, it’s delicious. I love it. It’s like so like creamy and like wholesome and it’s like feels cozy.
Like like I don’t know if this even more if this was like a like a cold day. Like this soup would go so nicely. Like it would just be so comforting. Is it this way? Is it? I don’t use these in Canada. Oh, no.
I can help you. [Music] Just take a guess.
Yeah. Do you?
Oh, yeah. Pro. Pro. All right. Thank you. A little bit more. Oh. Oh,
sure. I’ll
Oh, can I take it? Oh, how you can Oh, you just take a knife when you take this.
I know. We just use a knife and like I I know these work well. I just have used one like once in my life before this. So
yeah, Europeans, I agree with you. It’s a superior method of cutting cheese. We just don’t It’s not common in Canada, right? I’m inexperienced. Do you do like the brown cheese here as well or just you know like in Norway they have like this brown cheese
and they slice sit and put it on lots of things. Is that in Finland as well? I forget the name of it, but yes, but I don’t know how many people eat that here in Finland because it’s a quite Norwegian style.
Yeah, it is Norwegian. Okay. But I know what you mean. You have a saying that because you is a holiday now. Yeah. a few days ago left. So when he was in the city, he was thinking that go to the eat some burger.
Mhm.
But then he thought that if I don’t have enough time for eating, so I come at at home quickly making this oil stuff for me. Yeah. And I say to her him that of course you don’t have time because you are on holiday. He’s going for work for a rest sometimes. So much much easier in working place than at home. It’s true. It’s hard to be on a holiday.
That’s that’s the reason I don’t at holiday at all. I’m always working. Don’t do it. Okay.
Well done.
Wait, I’m going to use the corner and then you use your fingers. Okay. It’s thin, but we got there.
Yeah. And you can move it closer for you so it’s easier. You’re being so nice. You have to drink the water.
Um, you won’t drink water.
Yeah, maybe I should.
I doesn’t never eat while eating when when I eat soup. I don’t drink.
Oh, okay.
Because this is so so wet. It’s too much liquid.
I drink water but not with soup. [Music] with humans emoji.
Agreed. Raspberry, thanks for the three months. [Music] But now you have seen the different kind of soups.
Mhm. Suka soups.
Mhm. Actually, yeah.
Salmon sauce without potatoes and salmon soup.
Mhm.
Somewhere else with potatoes [Music] in Christmas time when my daughter was here helping the Arctic Circle was the selling products. Uh the main thing she want to eat here was the salmon soup. Yeah.
Then it was the mushroom soup and then it was the exactly this uh turisopa. Mhm. And um she put everything warm up warm up pottle that can keep outside
and that should stay warm almost all the day and she was eating salmon soap on the Arctic Circle in the fridge outside. It was really really good.
Yeah. And then we was thinking that if we put a big big pan and uh make this kind of soup and sell it for tourists in winter time.
Are they ready to eat salmon soup outside in winter time? Like I think I think they’d want it in any form inside, outside anywhere. It’s quite famous, isn’t it? the salmon soup. But I haven’t even seen this kind of soup anywhere.
Oh, see, but then that’s your that’s your marketing hook. You can only get this type of salmon soup here. People will drive to come get it. Then I think that if I make this ready and put put them to the small plastic boxes
so people can go with the that yes takeaway look standing but I’m not sure
I’m not sure what I’m going to do next winter because
I think it would I I think so many people would want that. The hardest part is like having tourists actually know that they can come here and get that because they’ll be driving past here. You’re on the main highway.
Need like some good signage. And you are on Google Maps like the the studio here. But like people have to know that you can stop here and get some delicious salmon soup cuz right now your sign on the highway is very very small.
Yeah.
Yeah. I must have put a big blanket to the top of my this cap in
and say cut salmon soup.
Yeah.
Away salmon soup.
Yeah. So everybody, the millions tourists are going to buy salmon soup with us. Set out in 15 minutes. Yeah, I know. You probably will sell out. And last winter the tourist says me many times that the food in the Arctic Circle was really expensive. I don’t know how how high the prices are because I can’t go and eat because people are smelling so much perfume. So I can’t eat in any restaurant.
Okay. Yeah.
So I don’t know how level high level is the price is.
M what did I pay? My other salmon soup was I think €18. No.
No.
Salmon soup 18. 18 hours.
Yeah. One portion.
Yeah.
Or can you eat so much as
It wasn’t as big. It wasn’t in a I was like hoping for a big bucket size bowl. Like a real big one, but it was kind of small. Tasted good. I think it was 18. I could be wrong. This is crazy. I was working. I was cleaning some wool. No,
we’re just lunch break.
I just watching. What are you going to do? Jeez, I’m slow. Yes. And we are thinking take more.
Oh, okay. That’s a good idea.
So, you have to eat and not speak. No talking, only eating.
Yes.
It’s not a time for socializing.
Yes.
Need calories.
We have been socializing all day. Now we are going to eat. [Music] Galactic subscribed. Galactic Funk. Thank you for the Prime. Nope. Can’t talk. Back to eating. It’s lunch and dinner in the same time. Yeah.
Just for for time table. is I think I’m having seconds. So, it just is taking me longer to eat. You also can drink it.
That’s true. That would be faster. I see you when you’re going to bike and you take some of
Maybe I’ll just pour some into one of my Yeah, my cycling water bottles and I can just squirt it into my mouth. That’ll be hard to clean, but it doesn’t matter. And when you drink many times water after that, then it’s always tastes like salmon. It’s salmon water.
Let’s try my salmon water. If this day was bad for weather.
Mhm. It’s it’s rainy or something like that. Then we have been on the my
the inside studio.
Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yes.
I saw the sign on it. Yeah. Yes. And then we have making some looms or
Oh, carpets or something.
Next time I’m here. Yes. And when you have seen the some kind of products then you have some experiences but you’re going to wait here.
Mhm.
So it’s easier. It is quite hard at come to the place you don’t know anything.
Mhm. No.
At the beginning
I’m acquainted with everything now. both of you, the place, everything going on, the process of the wool, how felting works. pressing is ordering seconds.
Yes, you can take so much than you want.
There is a lot. Okay, I have so much social life couple of days, but now I can be alone here 3 months before I get to social life all in the article. Aren’t you going to um an a trade show next weekend?
I’m in Kula next weekend. Yeah, that’s socializing, right?
Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. And then I’m going to working here two weeks and then I’m going to Tangavara.
Yeah. There’s a competition. Gold
mining.
Gold mining competition.
Oh,
mining.
Gold mining. Oh, gold mining competition.
Yes.
Oh, and you’re selling stuff at the Yes. Okay.
I’m like, are you competing?
No. Wait, you have so many talents. You have all these arts and you gold mine. No, I don’t want that title. Maybe. Who knows?
I wouldn’t be surprised. There is a golden museum and I’m going to put put my popup.
I was I was just there like two days ago.
Okay. I actually have some gold in my bag. I can show you.
Okay.
A pan for gold.
Yeah. This is actually really fun. I cut the cheese just fine. Thank you very much. They’re making fun of my cheese slicing capabilities. In the end of July, I’m going to Lost selling my products.
Mhm.
There’s the music festival so called Ltoy. This is classic music. Mhm.
All around the world. come cellist, pianist, violist, many instrument. Yes, there and the beginning of um beginning of August where I am and also and then then I have one week break and then I have been it’s this old style marketing in Romania. It’s middle of August.
Yep. So busy summer.
Yeah.
And the end of August, I’m going to u there is um soal. It’s Finnish nature day. And there I’m going to be selling my products. And September probably every weekend somewhere in Lapland, but in the middle of September is the uh this um marathon competition in Levy. So then I’m being there.
Yeah. A lot of places.
Yeah. And you always take the caravan.
Yes. And this is the first first summer when Yua camp can also come to the levy because other times you has been working. So I’ve been there alone.
Mhm. quite a busy summer I have to say and I have to do many products to the storage because uh it could be quite a busy season in the winter in the Arctic Circle.
Mhm. That’s tough to plan for cuz um You have to make a lot of products to then sell them at these shows,
but you don’t know how much he’s going to sell each time. Yeah.
So, but yeah, I’m guessing I’ll be very busy. But this is now my lifestyle. Mhm. And then when I’m some marketing place for selling and the time when there’s customers then I knit socks or do some hair don it so something small. Mhm. All this bigger products I have to make here in home.
Yeah. Yeah. People are saying you should make a a live stream of you making all this stuff. [Laughter] They can see the whole process.
Yeah. But it doesn’t look it doesn’t sound that it’s my life if I don’t because I told you I can’t be in the camera. I want to be just It’s your like relaxation. But my daughter can do this filming. But I’m I can’t do that.
Does your daughter work in like um marketing or cuz she built your website.
Yeah.
And does your um online stuff?
Yes. And helps sometimes. Probably next Christmas. She’s also here in Arctic Circle. It depends what is the working days in is you have possibility be with me in arctic circle or is it working? I don’t know yet. But if I have to be alone then I’ll be alone.
Mhm. It
doesn’t make sense. Oh, many months left. But I don’t take the stress if I don’t have enough product. So I don’t have enough product.
Yeah. No, that’s nice. [Music] Thank you. You’re welcome. We changed language to discuss each other. Thank you. I’m surprised he said that in English. Sometimes I speak with my daughter English because I have I need to practice.
Yeah.
Because I’m going to work in the with tourists in winter time. So we last autumn we decide to discuss in English our telephone sessions and it helped me it helped me a lot
and from what I’ve heard it’s just like you need to continue practicing languages if you don’t speak it for years it’s hard to come back. It needs to be like a regular thing. But I’m Canadian but I’m from the very English part of Canada. So, as a Canadian, I should be um bilingual um English French,
but I barely know any French um cuz I’m from Vancouver and there’s not much French there.
Okay. Thank you. You make really good soup. I stirred it. I didn’t add anything. But it was really important thing.
Yeah, it is important. I’m stuff. I’m not sure if Tia has seen this your liver stream because she said that I saw you. You must have been saw.
Yeah.
Yeah. I think she she’s so curious that what what we are going to do must her shame her mother
or not cuz yeah like a a live stream like this is a very much like a I don’t know it’s a new modern thing.
Um I bet she’s curious what it’s like to see her mom on uh on Twitch on YouTube on on cake. Um, but it is really warm in here. I’m gonna have to switch to like my my hot weather cycling gear today,
like shorts and a a short sleeve jersey. Mhm. [Music] the hell. What?
Now we are going to see how it looks like in my studio inside.
Oh, let’s do it. Feel it in my stomach. This is good. Good energy. Now it’s easy. Go to sleep.
Yeah. Luckily, I only have to ride like 15 kilometers, I think, or something. So, I can probably do that. But
do you need that helping with car?
Yeah. Just drag me. Yeah. Yeah.
You can put the what is trailer
your bike the co. Yeah,
of course. Hey, we’re coming. I might need it. That is some heavy soup. Cream, salmon, butter, and good.
No, like delicious. Like heavy is a good thing to me. It’s just like wholesome, nice. So many things try to be like like zero fat, zero everything, and it has no flavor. has no soul.
Yes. It’s really bad for health if it is zero everything.
Mhm.
Because what is that you eat?
You need
You need something. Yeah. Yes. You have to eat something. Everything can be zero.
Yeah. Well, let’s go.
Let’s do it. Studio.
Oh, yeah. [Laughter] Okay. You don’t want me to help clean up? Just follow you to the studio. Yes, she goes.
If she goes, okay.
Yeah, I come later.
Okay. [Music] 37 bits. Killer culti. And some sandals. Okay, sprite. Keep it.
One more try. The first one. Oh, here we go. Yeah.
Almost dry this first one.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, it is.
I have to put a little bit turn around.
Yeah. This is all the wool that we washed and are now drying. Very sad. You have to be
Oh, okay. I can Okay, that’s a loom, right?
Yes. Holy that looks complicated. This is finished. That’s a uh I have make all these carpets. So I was thinking if the weather was raining so we have making new uh and first we I have only this smaller size.
Yeah.
And uh as is I don’t need water here. I need only uh these machines and one weavingings.
Okay. But uh then I learned a little bit more and I’ve make some new wishes and then we repair these older bigger size also here. And this is the place.
Holy it keeps going.
Yeah. Wow. There’s a lot of These are called looms, right?
Yeah. Why do you have so many? Like they’re all set to different sizes. sizes, different uh style of uh textile and this is what I have make a new loom and we have to put it
uh make a um make this together and then we have put new loom which is the same size.
Okay. And here’s the ready for weaving only put to the new start. And I was I didn’t doesn’t do it the ready for you because I would want to show you how it goes. But it was outside. And there’s also uh one kind of different model here. It’s still remember that means it’s worth it. Yeah. So, one of the nice things since I’ve been streaming uh you just put it um yarn over there and then you
can make cup.
Okay. Okay.
Yes.
And does it look something like
Yeah, this is Yes. This is also finished. I have make all this new loom
similar loom over there.
Yeah. And they have have also one loom which is finished. Have to make new alpaka. It’s the scarves which I have made. As you notice here is uh next one. Next one. And then I get five new looms. Then I pick up these small pieces out. and then make new one I saw. Okay. Huh, that’s crazy. I didn’t realize these have so many.
Yes, different textes.
And uh I don’t have cartons. So, I have to put a paper because uh sun is coming to the loom and I don’t want it. So, I have to
move place. So, but let’s come to the wool. 37. My husband usually do this for my grandmother. Okay. This is Yes. Yes. elastone any other.
Yes. Before as as you see this is a wool is like this when it washed and dry.
Yeah.
And with this swing we’re going to open the wool.
Yeah.
And then it comes like this.
Ah I see. Okay. So as you see it’s
that’s the starting and then it gets opened up. When I started, I open this by hand like this.
A long time.
Yes. Very slow. Yeah.
And then I asked that I need this kind of Is that when that’s homemade?
Yes.
You made that?
Yes.
Wow. That’s impressive. I want something. So you have make
Yeah. Those equipments.
Oh, nice.
You did. Well, good job then.
Yeah. Well, that’s how it works. Okay.
Yes. It helps a lot of
it’s open. Yeah.
Yes. It’s open the wool wool fiber and then it’s open. Then we put the cotton.
Yeah. First I have I show you. First I make the cotton wool by hands with this. I put the wool and then I harden it like this.
Uh it was really slow. Then I buy the uh crumb carton.
Yeah.
Then I put a wool here. I’m just around. This was quite fast.
Yeah. Yeah. But uh then I get I haven’t time to do this gardening
because I have to felt
so I asked that you have could be carton me some wool. Of course you have. was doing this few times then he said that no we need electricity and a little bit bigger one you handmade those
uh and he you made it too okay
everything is handmade homemade
wow that’s actually impressive
yes
and you were you’re the engineer aren’t you
yes I just say and I draw I want this kind of
oh you you draw the diagrams of like what you want exact schematics No, no, not everything can do. That’s very impressive. I didn’t realize your studio would be like this.
There’s so much going on.
Yes. And so that’s the reason I want to learn people weaving and felting and something and
keep a small courses.
Mhm. because I have enough space and I have enough equipments. Next time you can really
Yeah, I would like to. I would like to. But now you got an electric version, but it’s probably more satisfying to do it manually for like the first
Yes. little bit.
And I use that when I’m going to mix wool because I have black wool and I have white wool.
Mhm.
So I mix those. I get different kind of grays. Yeah.
Okay. Cool. That’s very cool. Um, see I got to go in like 12 minutes apparently unfortunately.
Yes. And we are going to check the products. Now you have
Oh yes, the products. Yes.
Yes. Now you have
I I saw them very quickly. Oh no. That’s
small machine. I’ll make this.
What’s that?
Small machine also. Uh when I make these uh scarves. Yeah. And uh I want to make these um cups.
I can show you. And uh I have put them together by hands.
Yeah.
And only two pairs and very long time takes it. So now I put the yarn that’s here. And then I just go for a while about 10 times like this. Yeah.
Then I take the yarn away and put a solom and then I let it do. So it’s go with a spin.
Oh, okay. It’s got a homemade something for everything. Yes. Yes. I’m just working electricity. That’s big garden.
Mhm. But homemade.
Homemade. This is impressive.
Lovely husband. And that is um machine when we are making the loom.
Yeah.
I put this yarn between those. Yeah. And it
around how long you want then.
Yeah. That’s very cool. Everything have to be here. And you want that’s um that’s a marino using
is is the most common. Yeah. That I use.
This is alpakka and I can come there.
Okay. This is alpaka and marinable together. Oh. Oh my god. That’s soft.
It is really soft.
That’s very very soft.
It’s really famous beans. And now it’s uh four time in this side. Okay.
And if you want you can use it also like a scarf.
Yeah. I was going to say it’s quite tall.
Yes. And when you wash it it’s easy take out. And when you have rins it cold water and you just turn it towel and stand like
Oh yeah. Press the water out. Yeah. I make those with alpaka marino wool and then I have make those from sheep wool. Yeah. So all those are are like the hat scarfs over there.
Hats. Yeah. Uh is there also some uh some beanies mittens which I have finished yet? This is um This is alvaka and shape wool together. But I haven’t finished this mittens yet. Yeah. Yeah.
Then I brushed them. They are little really soft.
Yeah.
I can show you some pair of softs. But let’s go through.
See the
All right, let’s do it. Freddy products. And be careful when you come down.
Yeah. Watch the head. All right. Oh,
here it’s so warm. There’s few few kind of products. I show you the differences from bean is wool. I show you for example this is wool
like the wool we had.
Yes. And and that was Marina wool and alpaka together. This is sheep wool.
Sheep’s wool. Yeah.
Yeah. And uh I said I have make those uh mittens with alpaka and sheep wall and I have brush then they are coming like this.
Oh yeah they do really soften up.
Yes and I have felt it. Yeah.
Oh that’s nice.
But not everywhere. And these are the carpets which I say that can make squares
and paloons. This is square. And here I have balloons.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Balls. Yeah. You make a lot of different things.
Yes. And those I make from recycled texture.
Yeah.
Yes. And uh earrings which I I make those when I have made these kind of slippers. Yeah.
And I cut a piece of
Oh, so no waste.
I have held.
Yeah. earrings.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And slippers. They sell.
I like the slippers. Those are nice. Yeah.
Bottom rock. And also I use recycle leather on the bottom. Old furniture.
Oh, cool.
Old sofa.
Yeah, I do like the the shoes. These are really comfortable to use. And I have one bigger one. But this is too big for you, I think. So
yeah, those look real big.
But this is a my
Yeah, the outdoor boot.
Yeah, really big boot for outside using rubber is also bottom here.
Yeah, those are impressive.
Yeah. And this is also outside suit, but this is a shorter
Yeah. That’s cool.
And these are the hut models that was about this kind of brick. And this kind of And this is a rose. You can also
That’s kind of cool. Yeah.
Take take it out if you have long hair and you can want to protect the straw.
Okay. Yeah.
So you can put a hair inside here.
Mhm. And this is a pushing hat.
Ah, yeah. Yeah, I recognize that styling. Yeah. Of course, socks and for babies. Oh, this goes down. And this is your hat. You have made
my hat.
You have made this is wet, but it is comfortable to use in hot summer. Okay. Yeah, let’s try it on. All right, hat time front. Okay, hat on head. [Laughter] Really?
Um, we made this hat today. I’m proud of my hat. If I didn’t have to wear a helmet, then we could just ride the bike wearing the hat.
Yes. That it ride when you pulling the bike to the red schooler.
Yeah, exactly. And I made a soap. Soap wrapped in wool felted wool made it happen. How it feels?
It’s comfy actually. It feels pretty good.
I like it. I like it. And then you see you can put push it down, pull it up depending on if it’s hot or cold. I got a wool hat. No more no more spam hat needed. All right. What do we got? only and uh here is few socks which I have made and I I also made socks for uh small children not only the adults okay
but these are marital wool for babies these three pairs
and these are wool 80% wool
mhm
and it’s also are 80% wool but this pair is that aloe vera and yoyoba as these really thin socks.
Okay. This is a yarn that I get left.
Yeah. Yes. And as you see earlier these baby shoes what make from
Yes. I saw that the other day. Yeah.
Yes.
Lots of good stuff that you use but only few is what you can see now. But
I put a pig tent in marketplace and everything is over there.
Ah okay. a syrup for you. It’s different.
And it is here because I don’t have space.
I like popcorn.
I was going to say, what is that popping sound? Popcorn. I’m running out of time. I only got like a couple minutes. The popcorn. ship stuff over. She’s She’ll ship wherever she can ship, too. So, yeah, she sent stuff overseas. [Music] The small machine is there. It was scrolling. This yarn is like make this. Oh, the ends like are the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that looks good.
And this is alpaka. This scarf.
It’s different looking outside. Other side.
Yeah.
And then when you turn it, it’s different.
I like the feeling of this. Feels nice. This is really comfortable.
Yeah. These are nice. Like complicated designs on the scarfs, too. If I don’t want to be late, I got to at least start like switching over to my bike mode. I don’t have to immediately leave, but I I got to start switching everything over. So, I’ll be back in just a second with a bike. Okay. Got my hat on. Making popcorn. Got my soap. Life’s good. Get that. Oh god. [Music] Google maps to the place. That’s not that bad. Right. Right. We can do this. I can do it too with can do. See, I’m I’m not leaving yet. You don’t have to get mad at me for not saying thank you yet. I just have to get ready. Save your Twitch rage for like after I leave if I don’t appropriately say what you want me to say when I leave. Okay. Um, no, wait. I did it wrong. 16.1 km.
Okay, that’s a lot more, Tanya. There there’s a big difference between 16 and six. Okay. Okay. Is this on? Crap. It is on. Oh, the hat looks so good though. Okay,
at least say bye and thank you. I’m [ __ ] am. Jesus. Yeah. Switch the mic over. [Applause] I need this cable. [ __ ] Okay. Oh, it’s going to be hard to pedal with that. That was a very heavy soup to have to ride hard with. Oh god, this is going to be a spicy ride. That Mosquitoes leave me a while. I show you also I have make this kind of flow.
Oh, that’s nice. You’ve actually made full like sweaters.
I was going to ask about that.
Actually made full like sweaters. I was going to ask about that. Yes. This is a alpaca and sheep wool together.
Oh,
really soft. That is really nice. Oh, I like that a lot. And this is model. I usually do these for customers measurements. For customers what?
Measurements. Own measurements.
Oh, okay.
What’s the size? Yeah,
they should be. Huh? Oh, those are really nice. I like it. There’s so much I’d like to get. I’m going to have to shop and come back in. You have to come another time because there is so much to discuss.
I know. I know. I’m kind of sad I got to go.
Yeah. Um but yeah, I like
But hat is really good for you.
I like the hat and now I’m in the sun and I’m like, “Oh, it’s I need this hat right now.” Okay. Sorry. I’m just trying to get everything together and then I will uh I won’t just run away on you here.
Yes.
All right. to do. There’s quite a process to everything I got going on here cuz you there’s multiple cameras going at the same time here. Do you film all the time when you’re biking? Yeah. So, it’s live the whole time. And then I can show you. So, I don’t know if it’s easy to see, but there’s like a camera facing forward and a camera facing backwards. And I can switch to just backwards camera, frontwards camera, both cameras. So you can kind of see everything around.
Get the whole scenery landscape. Really great. Uh that this gloves this that [Music] people Finland and this is such a hot day for biking.
I know I’m going to have like as I work further south the rest of Europe’s like 30 40° right now. So, like us having 20 is like it still feels really warm, but I’m like I know it’s going to get even hotter. Okay, that that I close this. That this this that. Hopefully the mic’s on the correct mic. And this is Keep that. Okay. Okay. Here we go. All right. Do you have everything with you?
I hope so. Otherwise, I’ll definitely have to come back.
So far, if you lost something,
that’s true. I could ride back. Yeah, that’s true.
Yes. Or you can call me that. Could you bring me some something of really nice that you come here? No, I really appreciate you guys having me and then uh taking a chance on like you just got like an email being like, “Hey, can this guy live streaming guy come and hang out? Try some crabs.”
Close. It’s more special. All right, we are going to to go get a weekend and we put more stuff back. Okay. Say hello to Subie and Walt. And you’re going to French schoolers.
To who? To who? Sorry.
Subie and Walt.
Subie and Valtry.
Yes.
Yeah.
They are young couple.
Oh, is that’s where I’m going now. Okay.
I don’t tell anymore. Okay. But I know those and say hello.
Okay. And they saw where have you been? Oh, yeah. They would recognize us probably.
They probably recognize that. And I think that when you’re biking uh people around can skip. What a nurse you have. All right. But I really thank you so much for having me. It was a lot of fun. Thank you very much. Very nice to see you later.
Yeah.
Somewhere somehow. Okay. Yeah. I hope I get to come back. Um as long as I’m welcome. You’re always welcome.
Okay. All right. I got everything. Okay.
Be careful.
I’ll do my best once I’m on the road. I’m switching to a helmet. The wool doesn’t do quite as good of a job. If we had
good, but it’s not
it’s not impact resistant. Oh, I haven’t make model that. Oh, you have to put a much more bigger this uh protect your head. So, you have put the wool hat inside and
Oh, yeah. There you go. All right. Uh Kito, thank you so much. Thank you.
Um until next time.
Until next time and have a nice evening.
You too. We’ll see you guys.
See you. Bye. Bye. All right. A bit of a rushed getaway, but that’s okay. Oh, there’s a reindeer on the road. Oh my could have spent a lot more time there. She’s like, “I thought you were going to spend a few days.” And I’m like, “I should have.” Wow, you are very pretty. Look at the rack on you. I’ll be very upset if Chap doesn’t buy anything from Anakah. I’m not coming for you. Just keep going the same way I’m going. I come in peace. All right. I do have to actually wear a helmet or I want to. And now you’re just running down the highway, dude. That’s not helpful. Let’s see. It was right in front of me. The hat will come back. Don’t worry. I’m not getting rid of it or anything. Safety first. Hopefully. Like the issue is I can’t really like not have it like crammed in a bag somewhere. So, it’s going to get like squished a little bit. So, hopefully that doesn’t ruin the hat. Okay, but we are on a tight deadline right now. So, I got to go. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Oh man. Randomly my phone started playing Spotify. Apparently I had Sabrina Carpenter on last time I used Spotify. Playlist of hitch music. Hitch music. Go listen to all of it. What do you mean hitch music? The freaking reindeer is still just running down the highway. It’s not like 200 m down the road just having the best day of its life. All right. Let’s see. I I rode right next to the reindeer and we’re about to catch up to it. It might run off the road before then. We will find out. It’s still on the road as of right this second. Oh yeah, I got to turn on my GPS. Real timel should be on. Please, please, please. I turned it on. It’s on. Well, it should be on. The reindeer really wants to be on the road just walking down the road. Like here it would have struggled to get off because there’s a railing on both sides. But where it is now, there isn’t. [Applause] Is this the AI music? He’s coming to my horse ranch. Is that where I’m going? I don’t even know where I’m going. This is a surprise. [Applause] Stopped in a village to grab a quick bite. Locals laugh out of smile as we hit the next hill. This is the dream weak but stronger again [Applause] [Music] will Never let the currency reindeer really wants to be on the road. Crossing the border, the sunsen [Music] with glow. The world is watching our two wheels spin. This journey is a treasure deep within. Just pick a side. I don’t really want to come right up to you. You could try. You could charge me. There you go. Please subscribe. There you go. That’s a good place to go. That is a good choice. All right. Rangers don’t charge you. I probably could. I’m sure someone’s been charged by a reindeer before. In general, it’s a good idea to not just like come up too close to wildlife. Did I miss a sub? Jaci, thanks for the sub. Welcome to the Hitch Bikers. Are my not working? All right, there’s the short 15 km bike ride. [Music] enchanted by a reindeer. Had to hide behind a rock. Yeah. Like they’re not the most aggressive species in the world, but like if they feel threatened or something, then could mess you up. Same for like just any random deer like where I’m from. They’re more likely to run away. But if they feel I mean I’m just going to do a little bit of impossible. I think sounds good to me. Okay. Okay, I guess the network in this section isn’t that great. [Music] Coast, Canada, Arctic, Finnish Russian border, Alaska around the world. We ignore Russia. Well, you’ve kind of just ignored like the entirety of Asia. Said to be watching the whole thing, and I am very, very excited.
Okay, sounds good. All right, Tanya, sounds good. TA is exciting. It probably involves goblins then [Music] the Arctic around the world. Yeah, I guess so. As north as we could at this time given the world climate. [Music] get that tattoo yet? Of course I did. There’s a command for it. I think one activity I desperately hope would say yes. Oh, now I’m excited. What is it going to be? [Music] Nice. I could definitely be in my uh short sleeve cycling jersey and just shorts right now. We’re just a little bit behind schedule leaving. So, side questing part of the plan for the trip. feel anything you just add. I wanted to do more stuff, but the exact plan that we have right now was of like Tanya helping and planning all this stuff was a a TwitchCon decision. You need to burn off that salmon soup. I need that salmon soup. I could probably afford to put on a few pounds. Why only this song today? This is the only media share we’ve had. Drunk switch kind of season, might add. We weren’t even that drunk. This is even worse.
Why is it got to be high pitch? breakfast. I’m in love. I’m in love. I’m in love. I’m in love with you. This burrito. Yum. Yum. I was sober. You took advantage of me and my slightly intoxicated mind. [Music] forced me to do like some fun stuff like some arts and crafts in Lapland in Finland. What is this music? I hate it. [Music] [Music] That was horrible. I want to give you your money back reverse time and never play that negative experience you had for me taking advantage of you. Exactly. That was horrible. I hated having a really like wholesome experience learning how to do arts and crafts and having a woodfired sauna, some local cooking. Sucks. Well, Ben and Dona has um Okay, so back to our uh Corning Redemption tour days where you guys decided which direction I’d hitchhike every single ride. We’re about to have a very, very consequential compass boat. There’s three main routes we can take through Finland south of Revani, which I’m saying incorrectly. But anyway, been fun to come up with like a list of different things we can be doing depending on east, central, or western route. And you guys are going to be able to vote which direction this trip goes on for like the next like two weeks. So very consequential vote. But this is going to be a longer vote. Um cuz I’m exploring Roani tomorrow. So apparently we’re starting it tonight and it’ll just run tonight and tomorrow if you have time to think about it cuz Tanya’s also come up with a list of things so you can make an educated decision. So, you don’t have to be here like exactly at a time cuz uh inevitably if we did it in like 10 minutes, people would be like, “I wasn’t here. I didn’t get to choose.” You’ll have like 24 hours to choose. [Music] How objective is that list? The list of like Tanya’s stuff to-do list. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it. But she’s done a pretty good job so far. So, as much as I hate to say it, puppies 37 cheered 100 bits. But what about instead have the voting going on in every intersection before your team runs out?
Every intersection. Oh god. Like I think it could be fun to do like a compass tour with the bike and every town you vote and go to the next town in northeast southwest direction and it’s just like we go wherever you guys take us and like it could be like we put oursel in the middle of Europe to start with and there’s like a team the Nordics are just like come to the Arctic and everyone’s always voting north and other people want you to go like south to the beaches and the sun. So, it’s just the team that really wants you to go south and then inevitably uh it’ll be a tug of war and I’ll just end up stuck in Germany the whole time. I don’t say that as an insult to Germany, just it’s kind of in the middle of Europe. wanted to specify except their cell network does suck. I think the important part of the vote is that we don’t have a guarantee that we will be able to do all
that’s a good point.
Calls I still have to reach out to them and ask.
That is a good disclaimer. Give you an option routes to choose from.
Yeah. Okay. No guarantees on the activities. or south of your petting the way to Helsinki. Yeah. And then we should be going past Helsinki cuz I still got a month and a half left in Europe legally. So, we’re going all the way Helsinki. You guys are just going to decide which route I take to get there. East is most more stuff to do in the west. The thing is, I feel like there could be a lot of like hidden things that you just don’t think about, like where we just were. It’s We’re in a pretty like nondescript area with not much else around. Although, apparently just 16 km from it is another cool place for us to go. So, I bet within those forests of eastern Finland, there’d be some cool stuff. happens you overstay your visa. Uh, I think the fins make a really really hefty vita vasta and they spank you with it. Like 2025 equivalent to paddling a student. [Music] [Applause] And then all the masochists are just overstaying their visas on purpose cuz they’re into that [ __ ] Anonymous tip $16. Thank you.
Anonymous with the $16 donation. Thank you very much. What is this? Oh no. You know, apparently the place I’m going is actually watching the stream right now and I have this to deal with. You guys are not setting a great example for for me. My community is a representation of me. in the lobby. There’s nothing in the world you do. No long star too bright. No squeeze too tight. No tail too tall. No c too. No gates too low. This town has no central Mr. Blobby in Canada. I have no idea what this is, so I’m guessing not. Although I don’t know what era Mr. Blobby was popular in, so maybe I was before or after it. Oh, it’s a heavy soup to be cycling on. Oh god. ’90s mascot from a TV show. Was it popular in North America? Oh, UK TV. No, I don’t think that’s me then. I am Commonwealth. That was something anonymous. Thank you. We don’t know what it is. Some of you guys apparently know what it is. I’m just uncultured on ’90s UK television. You requested this instant van. Uh, they put their name as anonymous, but I can see their name. I know who it was. Your secret safe with me for now. Unless you keep requesting songs like that. I’m watching you. There is some more reindeer on the road if you’re interested in reindeer. Oh no, I have it stuck in my head though. Nope. [Music] Danger tipped $6.90. Thank you on the
D. Thanks for the nice donation. I appreciate it. Hooray! Up Canada way when the maple leaf flies high. When the silver jets from east to west go through our sky, we’ll be shouting up Canada. It’s being Sarah from Anakut. I ran out of time and I wanted to ask to buy some stuff.
But I might just have to talk to them and and order some stuff [Music] cuz I I really wanted a few things. It’s Canada Day today, everyone. It’s Canada’s birthday. Happy birthday, Canada. She can ship. Oh, she’s already shipped to like Australia and all over the world. So, we flag the people forever. It’s Canada Day. Up Canada way. The long cold winter’s done up for the great days to come.
Hey D, thanks for a little Canada. Is that stomping? Huh? Roveni 60k. We’re going there tomorrow. [Music] I need answers on a couple of things and sadly there will be some spoilers but out of this list of things to do is there anything that is not possible or you don’t want to do water park brewery tour bike shop with static bike fitting finish neurosic treatment and floating all of the above is free
is free. Depending what we’re doing at the water park, it can either be just like really hard to stream cuz water and electronics or really creepy to stream cuz I think obvious reasons. Um, let me go through bruter. Absolutely. Bike shop with static bike fish fitting. You can try it. Uh, finished neurosic treatment and floating. Don’t know what that is. Sounds spicy. Midnight sun canoe. Oh yeah, that wait. Midnight sun. That must be soon then. This is tomorrowic [Applause] and floating. Yeah. I don’t What does that mean? I don’t know what the water park situation is. There’s water parks that would be fine to do that and there’s water parks that I would not. That’s the only one that gives me like pause for concern cuz like I’m just there with a bunch of camera equipment and everyone brought like their whole families to a water park is not the best. Once you’re done with this activity, you need to get close to Romani as you can. Like as in tonight we got to get close or early tomorrow all night long. We can then that’s what I’m inquiring with TA about here. Sensory deprivation tank. That’s the floating part. That might be hard to like get the camera working in there. Yes, tonight. Oh, [ __ ] 60k. Um, how long of an activity are we about to be doing? Bike fitting is at 1000 a.m. Oh my god. I guess just to see if my bike fits me. five to two hours. So 7 to 9 patch black in a tank so you couldn’t stream it. Oh yeah, it’s sentry deprivation. That makes sense. Oh god, that was the sketch. Buzz is like, “I ain’t got time for this.” It’s their own beer as well. Well, that sounds good. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Like sensory deprivation. We couldn’t even stream, right? I’d like to do it, but you’re just stare at a tank where you couldn’t see me in it. Mhm. Are we drinking at 10:00 a.m. at the bike shop? [Music] Free beer. I’m I don’t know if they’re even allowed to give out free beer. I think in Norway you weren’t allowed to cuz I actually would I’m curious about sensory deprivation. I think that would be interesting. I’ve been doing some meditative uh meditation stuff back in Canada. And I think like being in a place specifically devoid of all your sensations could be an interesting place to have your mind do its thing. Oh, big mean looking dude just riding on my handlebars. Be gone. Okay. The static bike fitting includes taking rider measurements and based on those measurements, we will possibly make changes to riding position based on the software’s optimal cycling position.
The software’s optimal bike cycling position. I’m curious what it’s like based off of cuz touring is often at a very different position than like road cycling. But I’m I’m more than happy to try cuz like generally for touring it’s a more relaxed riding position. So you’re not like like this on your bike in the hoods cuz uh it’s less comfortable being in an aggressive riding position for an extended period of time. Night canoeing sounds the most fun to me. But we got to wait for midnight for that. That’ll be at the end of the day. Hoods. The hoods of your handlebars are like when you have drop bars. It’s like up where your brakes are. I don’t know if you can even see this part. It’s the hoods. These are the drops. End of day tomorrow. Yeah. So that would be end of day tomorrow [Applause] tires using uh these are 38 mil wide trial bey marathon pluses. There’s a like a dozen different types of marathons. Forgot which ones I’m on right now. Spare tires. Laugh shop. I have spare tubes. If you get a puncture, you don’t swap out the tire. You either patch the tube or replace the tube within the tire. Well, being that I have a tubed tires. Now, when you do that, you want to make sure whatever punctured the tire is not still in the tire to just repuncture the next tube. Oh, yeah. New tent. I got to go tent shopping. Need some sound. I did. And it’s so heavy. Even for me, like that’s a lot of fat to then immediately ride the bike on. Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, chowder. Was it good? Oh, it’s delicious. It was so good. But like in general, it’s recommended to not have like the fattiest foods before you do cardiovascular exercise. So your stomach is trying to digest it while you’re doing cardio. And then you when you’re doing cardio, your stomach kind of turns down the whole digestion thing. And if it turns off digestion and it’s got this heavy stuff in there, what happens is it comes back out. Cheer in my country right now. Kin loving Finland so far. And look at the luck I’m having on the weather today. It’s been pretty cold on this trip till the past I guess 3 days have been kind of nice today. Yesterday, the day before. Who else is finished here? Did I get some people Finland? And it was a few of you. There we go. There’s the fins. Only you seven years. Happy to finally see you here. Yeah, I’m happy to finally be here. I have pitched this as like I’ve wanted to go to Finland ever since my first international trip. I ended up going through like Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and I loved it. That whole time I’m like, I should go there, too. And the thought has been to go there on several different trips and it just hasn’t happened. So, I’m finally doing it. And I’m trying to absorb as much of Finnish culture as I can. So, I’m I’m trying to like sauna as many days as possible with the lu And then wait now. No faster. Smacking my Hey, I knew someone would throw out a Swedish flag. The Swedes can’t help even though you’re Belgian. Oh, and the can’t forget the gakon. Gakon gakon gon. I was thinking if so their fan meet up. There’s nothing planned yet, but I am going to the sky sauna in Helsinki. So, we are going to Helsinki. I’ve already planned it. Sky sauna. So, very excited for that. If the only thing I do in Helsinki is the sky sauna, I’ll be happy. But I think we’ll do more than that. I haven’t actually put in my map where I’m going. Am I Am I close? Dakf just subscribed with Twitch Prime. Dak links for the two-month prime resub. What’s up? Not much. What’s up with you? WhatsApp. Okay, maybe I should check that. Stop in this driveway. It’s before a downhill. Oh, is it right here? Wait, I do have to go. Wait, what? Oh no. Okay. Got confused on the map directions. 3.6 km 11 minutes. Oh [ __ ] I’m I’m I’m late. I’m late. Well, I will be. It’s a lot of canot. Is that what we got here? Okay. I got to wait for this truck to go faster though. Now I don’t want to get hit by a truck. Tanya’s like, “I don’t care if you’re dead. Get there on time. this light. I’m actually quite punctual. I’ll have you know reindeer. Oh my god, dude. Come on. [Applause] He was about to cut back onto the road. I’m like, come on. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heavy bike road kill a deer. Yeah, but I think the person riding the bike is just as likely to die as the deer is. Yeah. Biggest hill in Finland. Yeah. Yeah. Turn off the highway in 700 m. Okay. Need a beer stop. Finally, I got time to stop for beer. Boy, it’s looking toasty. Happy Canada Day. Happy birthday, Canada. 200 m meters. Turn right. Guess it’s this turn right.
All right. Gravel roads, I’m guessing. Continue for 2 km. You
want 2 km of this gravel? It’s going to take a minute. No, this is going to take a minute. We’re going to be a little late. Little late. Oh, some big potholes or just squash boarding on a gravel road. Kind of different than potholes. This is downhill, but I got to come back later tonight probably and ride another 50k to Roi. It’s going to be a long day. Cross. They’re all dead. started to stay cool from France. She took a day off to avoid the I think today was supposed to be the hottest day. She got an AC hotel. She took another day off on a hot day a few days ago and had no AC and I called her and she looked like she was melting. And Sarah likes the heat. 37° today. Yeah. For your sake, I’m happy you’re inside and in air conditioning. Look at that man. It’s 20° here today and people here are saying it’s really hot. Can’t even imagine. Some places down there in Europe are 40 plus. I say down there in Europe and we’re in Europe, too. But, you know, south of here. So, got 850 meters of this. Supposed to be there right now. Didn’t happen. If we were on the pave the whole way, we probably would have been within a minute of on time. But maybe that’s just copium. So some Tokyo drifting. This is a rougher section. Uh-oh. That doesn’t look good. Is that my readers? No. No. Mine’s the other one. I thought we had to turn right up here. Like that looks soft and steep. Jeez. This is not a gravel bike. Well, honestly, this bike would do fine on gravel. What would the trailer set up? It is not set up for gravel. Looks clear on the other side. Plus, these tires are not known to be the best like off-road tires. They got a bit of tread, but it’s definitely much more of a fair weather touring tire. This looks right. meters. Your destination will be on the left. I smell farm. I see horses. Your destination is on the left.
Hi. Not the best bike for this road.
No, it’s not. It took me a little bit longer.
No, that’s okay.
Welcome. So, I have no idea what I’m doing. This is surprise to me. Um, so I don’t know what we’re doing here. But first of all, uh, what’s your names?
My name is Sui. Sui.
Hello.
Subie means summer in Finnish language. So, summer.
Summer. Yeah.
Yeah.
Wre Yeah.
Trevor.
Hello.
Nice to meet you guys.
Welcome. Um, this is our new destination.
You should uh see my old our old stable. Yeah.
Couple kilometers before you came here. Oh, we did. Okay.
Yes. Um, couple kilometers after Anika.
Yeah.
Yeah. Uh, but a couple years ago, we buy this place and we start to build up this place. Yeah.
So this is our new place and we opened this officially in September. So now it’s look a little bit like building place.
But what we are doing here? What are we
what we are doing here? What do you think?
Uh I heard it’s a horse ranch. So something to do with horses. So Walter is professional to do something specific with the horses. Yeah.
So we are doing the horseback archery.
Horseback archery.
Yeah. Oh my god. Okay. All right. I’m in. Uh Okay. Definitely. I’m like maybe like a little horseback riding and you like guide me through a trail. No. Archery. All right. Uh I didn’t know you could do that. Um today you learn it.
Okay. We’re learning horseback archery. Okay.
Ever ride before on
um when I was 12, our school went to like a summer or like a spring camp and then they like guided us around a trail. So today we make a little bit different.
Little bit different. Sounds a little bit different.
But Walter is very good teacher.
Is it?
Okay. I hope so.
Very good horseback archer person. So first we just learn how to do the archery. I never do archery.
Uh like a couple times
so they get the ball.
Yeah. Um but I uh so I get the concept, but I probably do it wrong and I’m probably going to like hit my forearm and stuff. So
So kids how to how to do that?
Oh, yeah. He’s going to teach that. So we start with archery and then we move on. Yeah. And then horses separate and then we combine them.
Yes.
Okay. All right. This is cool. Oh, I did not expect this. All right. Horse bag archery. All right. That’ll definitely be a first for me. All right. So,
all right. Okay. Do you also horseback archery?
Me?
Yeah. just not an expert.
I’m I’m I’m good teacher, but I don’t do by myself.
Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Maybe it’s a good idea to leave the bike here.
Yeah, I was going to say. Yeah. Well, we’ll just
We can go to the archery line. Yeah, let’s do that. Okay. So, I need to figure out my camera setup for all this. Um, yeah, we are going there.
Okay. I’m just deciding whether to do like an action camera on a backpack or um a cell phone camera so you can put it down somewhere. I think it’s a cell phone camera
is better. Okay. All right.
Stand.
Yeah. And when we are going to horseback then you can take the actual camera.
Okay. Oh, that’ll be cool. All right. I’ll bring both. But we’ll start with this. Okay. This I got steal a mic from here. This just takes a minute.
Yeah. But first we shoot on the ground like 1 hour and then we Okay.
The horse run.
All right. or as much time as it takes.
Yeah,
if it takes a while to learn.
Super good. Then it can take only
Yeah, we have the midnight sun, so you can
Oh, we can go all night long.
All night is
enjoy your time with Ana. I did. It was a lot of fun. And I haven’t done like I I made a hat today. Yeah, I see that.
I made some soap today.
Yeah.
Um No, I really enjoyed that. Yeah.
So, you guys know each other?
Yeah. Ana is my good friend.
Oh, that’s amazing.
Yeah. It’s just you see yesterday that you crossing. It’s uh surprising me that there’s so much stuff right here. All right, let’s bring this.
And this is probably the smallest village in Roani. So,
yeah, super small.
There’s not much here. All right,
maybe 50 person living around. Okay, let me bring a battery. Live streams are complicated. All right, here we go. And this. Okay,
cool. All right. Oh, and like the uh the Palma came out like a day ago, like the uh the biting flies.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, they came a couple days ago.
Yeah. No, I don’t like those guys. Probably don’t need a helmet on. Maybe I do need a helmet on. Yeah, I think we can change the riding helmet after. Okay. So you don’t break your your helmet. Yeah, that that’s what I’m worried about. Not my precious helmet. Oh my god. So you ride a horse down here and shoot at the Oh. And of course you go as fast as impossible. Oh no. Yeah. Here we have couple of our horses. There is a few pin horses, few Norwegian fj horse and then uh
couple draft horses.
Yeah, there’s the Estonian draft horses.
Estonian draft horses. So they’re good at that one. It’s my big boy. 1,000 kg. That one is pin horse around 800 kg.
800 kg.
Yeah. And your horse is that light one.
Oh, the light one. Yeah.
Who eating now?
All right. Getting prepared.
Yeah. Calories important.
Okay.
All right. Okay.
Just a little pissed off.
Yeah. Okay. Take my helmet off. [Music] So this is the bow which we are using today.
Okay.
This is the traditional um bow
from uh South Korea.
Oh okay.
So they use in history this kind of bows when they shoot on horseback and um they don’t have any aiming devices or nothing. Yeah.
So this is like a instinctive u
shooting.
Yeah. Yeah.
So you have the aiming on your mind.
Okay. Yeah. So few things. Um don’t release the string without the arrow. So always doing like that because it can break the bow.
Okay.
Yeah. And how we take the fingers and grip to the ball. So take the ball like that.
Mhm. So you are not
Yeah. Okay.
on your forearm.
Memories.
Yeah.
Yes.
If you do it like one time then you remember it. Okay.
Okay. So keep it like that and there is step around handle take it there.
Okay.
And arrow will goes top of your thumb.
Okay.
And also you can use little bit finger here. Keep keeping it on the right place.
Okay.
But it is top of your thumb. And then
cropper tipped $5. Kingdom come deliverance two time. Okay. Back on music.
And then these two fingers come under the arrow.
Yeah.
And arrow is coming top of that tape which you have on the string. So two fingers there and this
index finger is going top of the arrow and it’s pushing the arrow against the ball. So you can turn your bow anywhere.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
So it keeping the bow
uh the arrow uh against the ball and then when you release you just like open these fingers. Okay.
Yeah. And um make other also here. And how we do um shoot uh horse is going on that that that direction. Yeah.
So and it is middle of our legs and your knees a little bit like that bending and then you put your bow like not uh straight. Uh you can keep it little bit like that. Okay.
And then when you pull the bow, your hand is coming to here and it is really good to take the string uh somewhere where you can put it like uh like that. Okay.
So then when you’re aiming this is only thing with mother to the aiming. Okay.
If you have like it here then
this also do it. Yeah. Yeah. So, it’s then really hard. And how we aim with this bow, you have here you have the like aiming point when the arrow is like that. Now, you look uh the whip of the arrow.
Yeah.
And when you pull it, then you need to remember where that was and then you shoot.
Okay.
Yeah. Okay. And I can say first time when you are shooting all the arrows are going right. So you need to like aim lots of to the uh left.
Okay.
Like edge of the target.
Okay. Okay.
Yeah. So pulling the string like that and release.
Okay. Okay. It looks easy.
It’s not going to be easy. I already know. Well, you’re shooting like up to thousand arrows per month.
Are you?
Yeah.
Okay. All right. It’s not going to look like when I do that. All right.
But u the only thing when you do it like first time Yeah.
aim like here and then you’re going to be somewhere here.
Okay. This is for all our benefits so we don’t have to go chasing arrows. Yeah. Okay.
I thought we had lots of
Well, we’ll see. We’ll see. Yeah. Yeah. My turn. All right. Uh do you mind like holding this like a we can hold?
Yeah. And
it’s okay with gloves so far.
Yeah, it’s
should I?
It’s okay. I think you can take this glove off. Yeah.
So, but this can be because also the arrow can
take your thumb. So, it’s like I came prepared with the protective gloves. Okay. Okay.
So,
you’re holding this way. Yeah.
This way.
You have the arrow and it goes top of the tape like that.
Okay. And then this was like
and this is coming top of the arrow
like that.
Yeah. Okay.
And
And it’s just these two fingers.
Give it a little bit pending like that. Yeah. Okay.
Like this.
Yeah. Like you said, it goes right. Yeah. They are always going little bit right. Okay. I almost hit the target, guys.
Yeah.
Almost. Okay. That that this
Yeah.
Okay.
I got to figure out where I want to put it on my face. Yeah. Yeah.
That was good. It almost hit my forearm. I think I Yeah. Keep it.
Keep it out. Yeah. Yeah. This This Yeah. Oh, okay. That went further left.
Yeah. But it is the same place where the first arm.
Yeah. We’re going backwards.
Yeah.
All right. Everybody say that you need to take your new hat on. Okay, that’d be kind of funny. I’m just imagine me like riding the horse, shooting an arrow, wearing that hat like Yeah.
Yeah, that would be something. Okay, so you’re like this down
down.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, like this.
Better. Okay, good.
Four points.
Woohoo. Oh, I can help with this teamwork. Okay. Well, now you’re already done next time. All right. We’ll work it together. All right. And and one and I do one thing. Uh when you are pulling the bow, do it like you have the bow here and you boost a little bit with this this hand and same time like
both together. Yeah. Both together. So then it goes like that.
So yeah. When when you can keep it like a little bit here.
Oh, just stay up here. Yeah.
Yeah.
And there. Yeah. Just like that.
Okay.
Cuz when you are on the horseback, you can’t do that when
Oh, yeah. You can’t be like that cuz the horse is in the way. Okay. Oops. Okay. Oh, wait. This goes here. Yeah. Yeah.
That one. Okay.
There. There is good
many things to do. Mosquito. Oh god. Okay.
Yeah. Okay. Okay. We got this.
Next. Shoot an apple of someone’s head.
Who’s going to volunteer? Yeah.
Any volunteer? Mult trainer do that nice. Okay. I just want to find like know how this feels like happens naturally. points. One day I’ll hit the yellow. Tomorrow we’ll see my wrist. Okay. This go one.
Yep. Okay. Then you can take your arrows. Oh, those are
Yeah, they are really in.
Yeah. Okay. I got one.
You have power in your hand. So, it goes in. So, when you’re when you’re shooting as much, are you always using a traditional bow or do you use like compound bows and stuff like that, too? Um,
I always use like that kind
Walter, you have the own bow here.
Yeah, it’s like
it’s like a handmade.
Oh, wow. That’s cool.
It’s like 800 year old bow.
Okay.
Yes.
You don’t give those to the to people like me. We’re going to break it.
And it’s more hard.
Yeah, it is too heavy for
Oh, the draw. Yeah,
draw weights. Okay. And you can take it. Take the ball a little bit like uh on your hand like
Oh, sorry.
Like that.
Yeah.
So then it’s not going your arm.
Yeah.
Because I see the I Yeah, it’s not bothering me yet, but I’m sure it would. Okay. Yeah. That looks better.
Yeah. Does Walter hunt with the bow? Walter is not hunting yet with the bow. Maybe in the future.
Hey. Yeah. And yellow. So this is going too easy for you.
Okay. Yeah. You find it
hopefully. See you can keep going. Okay.
He’s just faster. I always feel like I want to help, but I think he just knows his way.
Yeah, Walter is better. Yeah, Walter is better. So, the next thing Oh, we’re doing the next thing.
Okay,
is we go like that.
Okay, we’re going to get down. Yeah.
Here. And when we come up, uh, we same time pull the string. And after we are up, we aim and release. So do it like that.
Okay. Then you your under body and your upper body is making different things.
Yeah. Okay.
So it’s preparing you for the horseback.
Yeah.
Great.
Yeah. When you are on the horseback, your your legs need to do little bit different things and your arms. There’s also a question about the arrows because uh why we put the arrow on this side not the on the other side like on the real bow you know on the real bow they put the arrow on this side.
Yeah. You you can do it like that
but
it’s faster to do this.
Yeah. When you do it faster Yeah. Yeah. It’s easier. And also when we are on the horseback the air is pushing the arrow against the bow and if it
that side makes sense
it will fall. Yes. Now you have
so
I’m just like squatting like this.
Yeah.
And then was that
when you come up you same time pull the string.
Okay. And then
after that you aim and shoot.
Okay. So
yeah doing like that.
Very good.
Yeah. So, it’s activating your core.
Okay.
A little bit. So, we’re riding, right? Okay. And yeah, I got to arch this. Okay. Just thinking through everything. You should try to doing this while cycling same time.
While cycling, honestly. Yeah, that would be pretty cool, too. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah.
Nice. Have you taught some people that are like maybe a bit out of shape and this part is really difficult for them?
Yeah. Yeah.
We have a lot of like um groups like um company groups or something and then we just fixing a little bit with someone.
Okay.
Like the hardest part for everybody. So,
and then
because you have the fresh legs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And now we do uh on one leg. So, you’re standing on one leg and
bend a little bit
your knee.
Yeah. And here.
Okay.
You should.
Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, just like this.
When you are on the horseback, you need to find your balance. Okay.
Yeah. So,
yeah.
And
you pull the string and then you find your palance and after that you release. Okay. So,
to start with I’m I’m just like this and then when I do this I pull.
Okay.
Yeah. Just pull the string.
Yeah.
Very good. You are soon ready to for circus. Ready for what? Circus. Oh, maybe. All right. All right. Here we go. Next trip. Horse riding throughout Mongolia. And I’m I’m just shooting arrows around. I don’t know. Mongolia has big big country to do this. Yeah. I I want to go to Mongolia and do a bike tour there. So, um but maybe I should do it on a horse instead. Seems more in the the culture. Okay, bow this out. From now, buying food is illegal. We only can hunt
and forage. That would be quite the tour.
Yeah. Okay. Oh, I hit my wrist.
You are very good. Thank you.
Yeah. One more. Yes. Oh, missed.
But if we put the rabbit here.
Oh, then Walter is putting
You need to only eat the grass. Sorry. Let’s see what you are eating today. Nothing or rabbit. We’ll see if I’m starving tonight.
Now we have a rabbit. And now we do it on the other leg.
Oh, the other. Oh god. Okay. All right. Because I think that with your tools f first it was the easier easier. So
now it is the harder.
Yeah.
And it’s the same thing like kind of down and back. Okay.
Okay. Oops. Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh, that was wobbly.
Yeah, almost
almost got a rabbit. Okay, rabbit is closed.
The rabbit’s real scared right now. It’s no worse for wear, but real startle
doing like a circle. All right. Come on, rabbit. Rabbits. No food tonight. This tour is not going to last long if I can’t hit anything. Okay, rabbit is gone now.
Yeah. Okay, then. So when you are on the horseback,
yeah, the horse will move. So you can be only in the standing. So So the horse will move and we need to follow the target.
Yeah. If you don’t follow the target, then we will miss.
Yep.
So when you come uh to the target with the horse
uh you take your eyes to the target and also take your ball uh like here where you aim.
Yeah.
And then you are coming to the target. And when we are here, we can pull the string.
Yeah. And shoot.
Little bit after the target. Yeah. A little bit after.
Okay. So, this whole time you haven’t drawn the bow back yet. You’re just aiming.
Yeah. I shoot a little bit uh after the target. Uh I I think that I shoot after the target, but still the arrow is straight. Okay.
Straight on the track. So if you shoot too early, it will call somewhere here.
Okay. Yeah. So you’re kind of releasing it like this point.
Yeah.
Yeah. It’s like the best place.
Okay. And don’t pull the string too early because then it is really hard to keep the bow steady.
Yeah. So
yeah,
you
only right before
and then find your palance and shoot.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. So we’re going to do this.
Yeah.
You can come a little bit like here like here and then start to walk. Okay.
Yeah. Everything ready.
All right. So we’re just going like this like that. And you can pull the string. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
Very good. Okay. There’s it. Easy. Uh, I wouldn’t say easy, but I feel like I’m getting a like Well, I’m better than when I started. Oh god. All right. Keep your thumb like here. Like that. Not here. Because then it’s little bit like affecting the arrow.
Okay. Cuz I feel like it wants it to like Oh, this is the thing that holds it in, not my thumb. Yeah. Okay.
To keep
I guess I’m like using my thumb and my finger. But yeah. Okay. Just finger. Okay. Good.
Good. Okay, nice. I think we are ready.
Next we need to run.
Run and shoot. Everybody say here like run shoot. How the horse color?
Yes.
Can Can you give me a piggy back ride?
Do you know hobby horse is like a horse on
with a little stick?
Yes.
And you do. Do you know how the horse gallop like
like two hitting coconuts together?
Well, I show you. I’ve got boots. I should probably switch to my boots.
Sandals is
Yeah.
So, do it like that. Oh, just a little skip.
Yes. All right. There’s the arrows for you.
Oh, these are mine. Okay.
But uh when you have a little bit more speed, then you need to push your uh upper body a little bit forward and give your core really strength.
Okay. Upper body, forward, core strength. So, I’m just like Yeah. And the target for the arrow.
Sorry.
Yeah. Just on the crunch. So, this is the part when the arrows are missing.
Yeah. Especially on the horse. I feel like I might even miss the burm here. Okay.
Now, remember to follow the target. Follow the target.
Yeah. Hey.
Oh god. Okay, I lost it. It went off my finger. Finger pushing.
Yeah, finger pushing. Okay. All right. This is a lot harder now. On the target almost.
Like it hit the the the the general vicinity
home but not on the target.
Yeah. Scared if my target was a really big person. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yes. Push. Okay.
Almost on target. Well, this one hit the paper. Yeah.
You know, that’s an upgrade. Going better. Okay.
Yeah. Try to keep your ball as steady as you can. So you can
do it like Yeah. Yeah. That’s like that point. And the last arrow. Five points.
Let’s do it. Okay. Stable.
Yeah.
Push. Okay. No.
Okay. I don’t know how I hit the border twice. It’s hard to do. Couldn’t do that. I tried. I was feeling good until that part and now I’m like, “Oh, now that we’re moving, it’s hard to keep your arm like I don’t know. It wants to be all over the place.”
Yeah. Maybe we are now ready to take a horse. Yeah, we can try.
A little riding le. Walter, make a little riding le.
All right. Do you have the other shoes?
Yeah, I got boots. I’ll switch to that that for horse riding. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I can take the ball. So, we can put it here. All right. This take this one.
Yeah. Horse riding and shooting. Uh, archery. Yeah. Yeah, you can change your Yeah. Okay. There’s just so much at play here. Okay, so like I’m like, “Okay, I’m getting a little bit comfortable with the whole archery thing. Now I got to learn how to ride a horse and then I got to put them together.” Jeez, 3 just subscribed with Twitch Prime. Yeah. Ah, thanks for the prime. I am hitting my arm some of the time though. It’s all tangled. Okay, [Applause] got some socks somewhere. There we go. Oh, I would love to see him. Yeah. Bottom. Can’t get off of me. And you’re not. It’s rude. Smack you with my sock. I doing Iron Ranger. These boots are not These are from a thrift store. Okay. Apparently you bit me. These are from Valley Village. 20 bucks. I actually like them. They’re good. I feel like they’ll work well for this what we’re about to do here. his feet. Oh, we’re slowly starting to get a foot tan on the sandal tan lines. It’s the premium town lines. Practice my balancing. All right. Feel free. I don’t know the best way to film this. I’m probably just getting to film me. Peter Safe just subscribed with Twitch Prime. So, my backpack isn’t the best like active backpack. It would be bouncing around too much on me. That’s probably just the best option. Mosquitoes, please. I’ll put some deed on though. As soon as I get rid of one, another one’s back. No, I think yeah, one of them will be more than happy to film me. This would be cool to kind of see first person, but I don’t have the best way to do that right now just cuz I don’t know how long this is going to last. So, I think I’m going to swap the mics. I don’t want to die while I’m doing stuff. Fresh mic. Oops. Actually, I should give one of them a mic, actually. Oh, but it doesn’t have a windscreen on, so that could get really annoying. [Applause] [Music] Cropper tipped $5. Thank you. [Music] Copper, thanks for the fiber. What is this from? [Music] No, never mind. I got to do a different battery. Die. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Yeah, we’re switched off. Okay, YouTube. Yeah, I don’t really want a bunch of AI songs on my YouTube. Like, music made by people has a vibe. AI music is not it. Um, where did the cable go? Swear it was just plugged in. Okay, hang on. I’ll do that later. I know it can make really relevant songs really quickly, but [Applause] are you ready to come preparing your horse?
I am ready. First, you need to brush the horse. Okay.
Your horse is very calm.
It’s already 24 years old, so it’s super old. Uh, it’s best for the Becky nurse.
Okay. It’s calm, super calm and nice. And she never do anything bad.
Okay.
So, super nice beginner horse.
All right. This is good. Here we have a beginner. Walter can show you how to crush the horse. I can hold your
Yeah. Yeah. Sorry, he’s got more camera. I got to keep the camera.
I’m the cameraman again.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Yeah. So, we are doing like that. And you can push the press a little bit. So, you can use a metaphor. Yeah. Okay.
So, we just take the dust out.
Dust out and Yeah, it’s fine.
That’s fine.
There’s the bugs. So, just moving a little bit further. And that is the reason why the horses are moving the tail a lot.
Moving the Oh, yeah. Because they’re bugs.
Oh, yeah.
Okay. No. Yeah. I’m annoyed by them, too.
Yeah.
I understand.
Yeah. They don’t like that.
And you do it kind of everywhere like
it’s
Yeah. Here also. But the most important places is like where the saddle is coming here and also under.
Okay. So there is no mud under the saddle or saddle belt. The horse looks young.
It’s not young. Look. It’s already gray here.
Inside your shoe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It’s already gray is here. It’s my oldest horse. Yes. Yeah.
Okay. Then you can go the other side.
Yeah.
And as you can see when you go
Yeah. horse doesn’t uh see like to the backwards. So when you move back back of the horse always like keep your hand here
and then the horse know that you are behind. So yeah, nar is so beautiful horse. Okay, maybe we are ready for the saddle. Oh, he’s got so many flies down here. That sucks.
Yeah, empathy. So bad for you. Okay. The press. Yeah. And then we have the set. And we have your helmet here also.
Oh, cool. You might can I just like quickly spray some deep on this?
Yeah.
Yes. So deep break. [Music] It’s normal riding helmet. All right. Do you want to put your helmet?
Yes. People’s asking it is traditional Mongolian helmet, but no, it’s the really European helmet, riding helmet with the old uh It’s fit.
Just got to loosen the strap a little bit.
Yes. Good.
It’s one size up or is this This is it. I think so. And there is also one
where Oh yeah, we have another helmet here.
It is a little bit bigger.
There’s another horse, but there is more fluffy one.
Oh, you
more fluffy one. So, uh in the normal riding helmet, there is a wiser like sun wiser. But when we shoot with the uh with the bow, the string came so close. Valter can show. Valter, can you show where the string came? It
comes here.
Yeah. So when you shoot, it’s touchs the wiser. So we take the wiser off.
Yeah.
And when we take the visor off, it looks so stupid. So the flurry is good.
Okay.
And is that better?
Yeah, it looks actually goes around my head. Okay, glasses are fitting the rain.
Yes, but they will put the the bridles for the horse. The saddle is already on. You have like a pocket on you. Does this run?
Yes, I have.
So, I kind of have to keep this phone somewhere.
I have it. It’s okay.
Do you want to put the GoPro? Uh, my backpack isn’t good. Probably once I’m like bouncing, so I think we’re just going to have to handle, but
that’s good.
Yeah.
You don’t mind being a camera person?
Yes. I’m a cameraman.
All right. Thank you very much. Okay. Okay. So then how we ride with our horses. Here we have the rains. So horse stop when you pull the boat res at the same time.
Yeah. And when you pull the right
rain horse will go right and left it will go left.
Yeah.
Okay. And horse start to move when you push both legs here at the same time.
Okay. Just little bit.
Yeah. Just a little bit.
Okay.
And it is also the mark for the horse. If horse stop then you can little bit push your legs and horse start to go.
Okay.
And if the horse start to eating.
Yeah.
You can just pull both reins up and then little bit push your legs here. And also horses know like sound commands.
Yeah.
Yep. Yep. Or means that you are going. And if you want a little bit breakdown, just Oh, I can’t roll.
Yeah, that’s good. That’s good.
Okay.
So, that that is the the mo most important and tag things. Okay. So,
are we ready to go on? Yeah, we have the
invalid pen bench.
Yeah.
To go up. [Applause] [Applause] You can put your leg inside the steerup. Yes. The the metal thing.
But by holding put your uh that one there. up. Ny, don’t move. And there you go.
And then you can come over.
Yeah.
Like
very good.
And here is for the other leg. Okay. I think you need a little bit shorter. Okay.
These ones. So put your legs like a bit here. Do you feel comfortable on the horse? This is actually quite comfortable. Yeah. like it’s been like 20 years since I’ve sat on a horse like 30 minutes. So, and here
and now again. Yeah. But I don’t remember cuz you know it’s a long time ago. So like like here is also [Applause] make [Music] Okay. Power up. Battery high. Your device is connected. Okay. So here is your streeting feel, steering wheel. So okay, now you need to push your legs a little bit. Yeah. And
start to follow Walter.
You can steer the horse here.
Yeah. Now pull the range a little bit. Yes. Very good. So many candies. [Applause] All good.
All good. Yep. And if you want, you can take your hands little bit more here. So it’s more like
and turn while they show how to hold the brains. Yeah. You can come it like here and like that. Oh, okay.
That’s the right way. Yeah.
Same on here. Okay.
Yeah. Okay. Okay.
Good. [Applause] We will go faster soon. Everybody say go faster. Okay. Now you need to just relax yourself and the saddle and you can move your uh body a little bit like horse is moving. So maybe it is more for the horse and you happy. Thank you. If you guys didn’t just get here, we’re uh shooting horse car. I’m learning how to ride a horse. Okay. Okay. Now you a little bit feel how the horse is moving. Yeah. And there is a turn to the track. How it feels?
It feels good. I like this. This is quite actually quite comfortable. All right.
So, let’s change the cycle for the horse.
Yeah, let’s do it.
And end of the trip is riding.
Yeah. Well, like you know,
one person one person ride uh with the horse from from North Cup to the Helsinki,
did they? Yeah.
Couple years ago
cuz they used to separate like what they used to put towns like one day’s horse ride away. So in a lot of places you could just ride one town to town to town to town.
Do we Walter start the shooting or on the next next round? Oh, we’re shooting soon. All right.
Yeah. And you feel comfortable for shooting? Yeah.
Well, like I’m just holding the rains, but I assume you put the rains down.
Okay. And also when the horse is moving.
Yeah.
And your body is also moving when you are uh sitting on the saddle. So now you need to stand up with the steer. Yeah.
So take your Yeah. That’s like that.
Yeah.
And Yeah. And you need to move your body a little bit more forward.
Yeah.
And you think that your you do like straight line
like this. Yeah.
So you straight.
Okay. Yeah. Just like that.
Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Okay. And then you can go back to the saddle. And
this horse is not pregnant. Then we come back here. Everybody askked, “Is this horse pregnant?”
It’s not.
This is healthy. Yeah.
Happy. Yeah.
Good.
Okay. Then you can do that standing. Yeah. Good. And now I take the horse and you can like
go up.
Yeah. Go up and
don’t pull the range.
I got to balance
and you can just leave the range on there and take your hands
like that. That is the thing when you are shooting. Oh god. You need to do it like also like that. Oh my god.
Yeah, that was hard to balance cuz the rains are like free swinging, right? So
Oh my god.
And also
Oh my god. You need to find the balance and key thing is your core. So you need to
All right. [Applause] Stable.
Yeah. Stable. Yeah. Just like that. Okay.
The legs can be more closed for the horse. So you have a little bit more like feeling the balance feeling from the Yes,
that’s looks good. [Laughter] [Applause] Yeah. Yes. more.
Yeah. Good. Push my legs up. And now the horse know that we are going on the walk.
Yeah.
So now you just need to trust the horse that she knows what we do. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Good. Yeah.
Are you ready to shoot?
I’m ready to try. And you can take the range and break your horse little bit more there. And here first we shoot when the horse is just standing.
Okay.
So there is the bone and and always when we shoot Yeah.
we are on top.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah. Good.
Yeah. Nice. Got to remember there’s a horse here. Yeah. And now
and remember how to take the that one. So it’s
Oh, yeah. Rotate. Yeah. So I don’t think and nice. Yep. And there you go. Thank you. This is okay. Nice. Okay.
All right.
Then I think you can take the ball and you can just walk the circle.
The same circle. Now you are on your own.
All right. I got this. Is it like can we try going like one speed up? Is that like a thing you can do or do?
Yeah, we can do it next.
Next time. Okay. When he’s with us. Okay. Next we do the shoot him on the wall and then we can try to speed up.
Okay. Sounds good. All right. And the flies are just horrible. But you’re just kidding. You’re doing a great job. Yes. Pull the rain a little bit. Yeah. The food problem. Yes. Okay. Here’s my little snack. That’s right. I’m hungry, too. Now pull the left train a little bit so it goes
around. Yeah.
Yeah. [Applause] Yeah. They’re so responsive. Like just when you just like pull it all a little bit like he’s just like, “Yeah, it’s cool. She know what to do.”
Yeah. Beautiful. So next we have three targets on the track. Okay. And we are shooting one arrow each. Okay. When you when the horse is walking. Yeah. And I give the new arrow.
The horse name is Nora. Here is the ball. And here is the arrow. Someone say that maybe your microphone is off. my microphone.
Yeah. Just one person or everyone?
Couple peoples.
Okay. Well, we’re going to do this first anyway. I think
Okay, you stand. And there you go. [Applause] Good. And yeah,
remember your score. Core
core. Yeah.
Yeah. [Applause] [Applause] Okay. App nice. Two four points short. So that shoot better on the horse than us. [Applause] Good.
Nice. I can take that one and then we can try to drop a little bit more speed for the horse.
Okay. Yeah, usually we use English saddle. I have also some western saddles, but now we have a like hiking saddle. Walter’s horse coming to say hi for Walter’s horse came to say hi for your horse. Are they still saying the mic thing?
No. No. [Applause] Now they say Mick is good.
Mick is good. All right, good. We might just get a little bit out of rain sometime soon. Valter will show you her skills soon. Yeah, we’ll see.
The be asking. Yeah, just take the saddle boat. It’s fine. So when we speed up the horse, you need to stand up a little bit. So
because the horse is pouncing this. So
yeah, [Applause] you see that the horse when we go back to the track.
Okay. [Applause] And you can throw the horse when you pull the boat. Yeah. Horse will go down.
So now it’s action. Here comes the end of the track anyway. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. So she know that. Okay. So you can speed up the horse pushing your legs like that. But I helped you a little bit. Okay.
Oh my god. Hands down. Yes.
Okay.
You can take your little bit shorter like here.
So you feel the horse’s mouth a little bit. Yeah.
And then we go again.
H up. Oh no.
Yes. Very good. [Laughter] Okay. Oh my god, it’s hard to advance. Good. Horses like you don’t know anything. Okay.
All right.
That was just the second speed. Then we have the third one.
There’s more. Ah, it’s a pooping break.
Yeah, poop break.
Now we can see how it’s pooping. [Music] Yes, Walter will show. Okay, you can come back. anymore. Give me tips when it’s cuz it’s like it’s much harder distance. You need to keep your core really tight and then uh uh you can little bit like
find uh the balance from here.
Yeah. and put the legs a little bit here. And you do can do it like a little bit like this. Like
And you can put your hands down and you can hold here if you need.
Yes. Yeah.
Uh we can do the speed up also here.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. And remember uh keep your legs on the front. Yeah. Couple seconds left. [Applause] [Applause] The front the nut is always going like up and down. Yeah. And then the horse have also the cover and the horse is like front legs and back legs. So then the move will be go uh little bit more smooth and it goes sounds like a just go like up and down but
we are going center next
but I think some now I need to run and then [Applause] Very good. Push again. Yes, you try it. Nor is like a beckinner horse. So if she feel that you are not enough balance then he go slow down.
Yeah. Yeah. Do riding pants have like uh Oh, you really want to go with this um protection on the like inside of your legs? No. like snack break like over here.
Yeah,
cuz I’m like I got pinched by the uh the leather.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Some uh materials are stuck into the leather and then it’s little bit like
Yeah, it’s fine. It’s just like Okay. I can see that being annoying over time. Okay. Yeah. Do you think that you have enough balance for shooting the same time
at like one target?
Maybe we can try.
Yeah,
we can try. Okay. Well, we’re calling.
I will stand on the middle. Okay. The middle target.
Try that middle.
Middle target. Okay. Now we can go front uh here a little bit. No sandals.
Uh release the res also and try to find the palance like that. Yeah. Just
on a second here.
Okay. Now up. Start like that.
Very good.
Good. Nice. Okay. Yep.
Now we are ready for the archery. Yeah. Just like that. So you First you need to like push your Now they are coming. Okay. And remember also follow the target
and I think now we can up. Very good. Woohoo. You did it. Not a bullseye, but the actual board. You learn very quickly.
It’s really fun. It is. It’s like adrenaline goes very high. And this is like my calmst horse.
Yeah. for for very very beginners. Okay. When you see you can see when Walter doing with that, it goes super fast.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Do you want to do it again?
Yeah. I want to try that again.
Yeah. We can shoot two targets. One on the front. Then we take a little bit walk. I give new arrow and then this last one.
Okay. Sounds good. Walter will demonstrate that soon. Snack break. This horse is definitely the diesel version. Someone These kind of horses, they are like a gold because like a gold.
Yeah.
Because uh you can put anyone on the horseback and they’re just
Yeah. And they are calm.
Yeah.
And you can trust them like 100%.
Unless they get a little hungry. Yeah. That means the horse is relaxing.
Is it? Yeah.
Oh, cool. Relax. So we have this target and then the last horses can usually carrying like 20% from their own weight but that’s definitely like maximum. So, hey, are you ready? They are going faster. Miss it a little.
Yeah. Do you try to go center next?
No.
Okay. Okay. Are you ready?
Yeah. Yeah. Yay.
Woohoo. We get the hit. All right. Really good. Maybe we can ride now the horse on the the the more wild one uh to the place where we keep care of the horse.
Yeah.
And Valter can swipe for the own horse.
Yeah. If you are ready.
Yeah. Yeah.
Or do you want to do more? I want to see the master at work.
Okay. So, you can ride this way. Yes. This way.
Good. And follow me. Then you can stop your horse. You can take the bow for me. You can take your legs out from the metal styrups. Then you can move your back a little bit on the front and put the other leg on the other side and slide down.
Very good.
All right. So good.
Yeah. Now the horse just eating. If you hold this.
Yeah.
You can do this one.
All right.
All right. You can talk your What is your feeling?
That was a lot of fun. It was hard to stand once it was like um G. Is it gallop or what’s the level I was at?
Trot.
Trot. All right. Trot was hard. You guys see me kind of hit a lot. And then a bit faster. It’s even less bouncy. It’s like the the medium is the hardest.
Maybe you can go to Luke. Walter is preparing the
is he? Oh, it’s like warming up. All right, let’s go check him out. Should I keep the helmet on? probably. Um, sorry, the mic disconnected. I think the power disconnected and Oh, this phone is about to die. It’s at 15%. Why is that? Good thing it didn’t die. Was it charging? Yeah, now it’s charging at 30 watts. Okay, we lost power. So, probably one of the cables got wiggled and then it disconnected the mic. That’s often what happens. Oh, she’s got my other be able to run off of one network. Mic change mic switch. Is it on my my mic now? Yeah, we’re on the external mic now. Your device is disconnected. Pairing. Yeah. Oh jeez, it’s got a system for Oh, I like the arrow holster. Keep switching. Oh, it is continuing to switch. Um, oh, looks better. Well, okay, fine. But the phone’s going to die cuz it keeps coming off of power is our current issue. [Music] There’s just luckily no uh wind right now. This can just go on the table here. Yeah, you can just put it the uh what do you call it? The uh
this is a quiver.
Quiver. It’s quite cool for connected.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, you need something where you carry the arrows. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, I think one more time and then we are ready. What do you think? Am I close? I’m almost there. Okay. Nice time in the bor rain. So
yeah.
So we need to build the new ones. [Applause] This horse don’t like the mosquitoes.
I don’t think anyone does. Do the horses get any protection like overnight from the mosquitoes?
Yeah, we have a little bit like a like a
Oh, you something for horses. Yeah,
like natural one. Yeah. Oh, I can take my phone back now.
Oh, yeah.
Before I forget and ride away with Thank you. But thank you so much for filming that. Yeah, I know. I’m usually filming with my camera.
I saw that’s a serious rig you got there. Yeah,
it’s my camera. Hello.
Do you have your own bow as well? Me?
Yeah, you.
I shoot maybe 10 times. Oh, okay.
So, I don’t do this. No,
I’m like the I’m organizing everything and I’m see. Okay.
So,
when we we have international camps here a lot.
Okay.
Uh and like the best in the world came here for training. So, uh I’m just making the food for them like
like that. So,
well, like what countries um perform the best in uh horse archery?
France and Finland is the best.
Are they? Okay. Interesting.
Yeah. Uh at the moment, Turkish is also good. Indonesia is growing and being very good. It’s very This year we have in Tennessee, USA, we had the World Championships.
Oh, cool.
Yeah. But Finland is not participant. But
do you participate in a Oh, he’s busy.
Okay, he’s going up. Does he like compete internationally like in Tennessee?
Um, yeah. If Walter is not there.
Okay.
Because the Finland is not participant. Russia is there.
Oh, fair. Yeah, understandable. Yeah.
Yeah. So, Finland don’t send the peoples there.
Yeah. Yeah. Walter is ready.
All right.
Yeah. Okay.
Okay.
This horse is very exciting to do this.
It looks excitable.
Let’s go.
Yeah. We can stand here.
Yeah. In the middle and see him go, Bus.
Yes.
Alter down the horse a little bit first. It’s too exciting to go. It needs to like settle a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they’re training at the moment to being part of the Finnish national team.
Oh, really?
Yeah. Oh, that’s cool.
But it’s uh he’s not in, but maybe in the next year.
All right. We are going to the France for the competition soon.
Yeah.
And is it safe to be like here or do I should I be okay? As long as you’re behind the Okay, he came on the center or gallop very fast. Yes, horse fly. Yeah, that’s fast. Yeah, you can’t running with the moving. It’s like uh we counting the time also. Okay.
90 m track.
Your horse is maybe like a 18second horse.
Yeah.
And this horse is 9 second horse.
So like half. Is that part of the scoring? So it’s like the faster you go that’s a factor in your score.
To be the best in the world, you need to go very fast and shoot very well. If you want to be just good and you have more time then you take like middle level horse.
If we have different different days
and different competitions like you see there’s a tower on the back. You see the the big uh thing is a tower.
Walter,
can you shoot the tower? Tornia. Yeah. So now Walter is shooting on the tower. Is that like set up for international?
Yeah, it’s like um when you shoot that then you can shoot as many arrows as you have time to shoot all over all the time on the same target.
Oh, only one target the whole time. Yeah.
Like like that whole
Oh, so on the left side there’s a target.
And then right and there would be one on the other side too.
Yeah. Yeah. But it’s down. So you shoot all the time the same target as many time as you can.
Small targets. What did you shoot? Yeah,
it’s right targets. So then you have like three targets what you need to shoot and one arrow per target. If you miss it, then you miss it and you can shoot again.
Okay,
so now it’s shooting on the tower. Okay, miss on points points [Music] and miss. And the last one is miss. Okay, that’s fast though.
Yeah. So in the when we shoot the tower uh the par time is 8 18 seconds. If you go slower then you get minus points from your uh target points.
Okay.
And if you go faster uh you’d get plus points.
Yeah.
So if you go like 9 seconds and you shoot five arrows, you get super good points.
Ah okay. Yeah. Then we have also the hunt track on the forest or fields where it’s like open area where you see like 3D animals or 2D animals or long shoot or jumping and shooting same time.
Jumping and shooting at the same time.
Jumping on the when the horse flying.
Yeah. Oh yeah.
So I give one arrow and we shoot uh yarmaki. is the special target.
Okay.
Um, okay. I will take jumping. Okay. Jumping is not okay. I put the target here.
Yeah.
And now he come and shoot this. You can come this side.
Okay. He’s shooting that on the ground.
On the ground.
Oh, okay. So, it’s safer to be this side.
Yeah. What is um
It’s yamaki. So, you shoot that
like from here.
Oh, over the Hold up. Do that again.
Like like here.
What? Or you can shoot also here. But it’s it’s looks beautiful if you do that. Yeah, I bet.
What’s Walter doing? Because the horse is super fast. I don’t know if he have time to do this.
Yeah. Yes. Oh my god. That is so cool. Something different. And you can see there is also on the on the sky there’s a target.
Yeah.
We at the moment we don’t have the arrows because you need specific arrows. But that target you will shoot like like this.
Okay.
On the up.
That’s really small too. But it’s make big voice when you hit. Yeah. I bet it does cuz it’s a metal target.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So this is not boring. No, it’s definitely not
thinks what you can do it.
Yeah. Or riding and you usually shoot this side, you can also shoot on another side.
Yeah.
Other side of the hole.
Huh. I feel like this needs to be a bigger thing. This is quite exciting.
Yeah. And it’s very like show moment.
Yeah. Exactly.
Evently. Uh you can also shoot like a fire arrows. Fires. Of course you can. We can go to say hi for All right. Probably ready. He
like on the same class as like jousting, you know?
Yes.
Lancing people. Oh yeah. Um we can also doing the archery with um with the uh sword
at the same time.
Archery with swords.
Yeah.
And how do you you need two hands for archery?
Okay. I’ll say
do you have swarm here?
Okay.
No swords. Okay.
I’ll say with the sick So it’s very like we many times we are some events to showing this.
Yeah.
And we have big competition here and Okay, we have some board stick. This one. Oh, there is lot. That’s why
there’s a lot.
Yeah, because the horses are now warm.
Oh, okay. They’re attracted to that.
Yeah, they come. And then this is like there’s a few weeks that are the worst for him in the summer, isn’t this? Yeah. Part of that. You guys can see how much flies there are.
Yeah.
So, you put the sword like that in
your hand.
Yeah.
You just come here, you shoot, and then you take it. What?
Oh, that’s cool. And then you can make
So it’s like here and you shoot and then and is that part of these competitions too or is it more like
Yeah, it’s more like shows.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Did you like
that? Was a lot of fun. Uh yeah. I definitely didn’t think I’d be I as soon as I heard ranch I’m like okay maybe I’ll go for a little cute horseback ride and that’ll be nice. I didn’t think we’d be shooting arrows. It was a cute cute
It was cute and I got a cute hat helmet. Sorry. This is for safety also fashion. Um but
but also a nice hat. Um yeah. No, that was that was a lot of fun. Um that was the last thing I thought I’d be doing today. Um started with some like I made a hat. hat and made some soap. Horseback archery.
It all goes together.
Yeah, that’s cool. Okay. Have you had like is this your busy season? Do you have a lot of people coming by?
Yeah, summer is busy.
Summer is busiest season for the horseback archery and also we have lots of competitions.
Yeah.
Everywhere in the world.
Do you have any coming up soon cuz you you’re competing, right? Or Yeah. Yeah. Middle of July. Yeah.
Okay. The next ones. Yeah,
you have to try here.
Like actually on the home
tour and then uh end of August we are going to France and
Yeah.
Yeah. Okay, cool.
So maybe in Poland or Switzerland.
Yeah.
Is uh Have you left Europe for a competition before?
Yeah, last year in France.
Okay. But like like I know you didn’t go to Tennessee this year because the international stuff, but like you would in theory if there was a in a country that you
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. That’s cool. I didn’t know. Yeah, there’s like international competitions like like travels.
This part growing a lot at the moment.
Is it? Yeah. Growing a lot.
I hope it continues to cuz that’s a really interesting sport.
But like almost every country there is some places where you can hobbying this or just take a private lesson
and learning little bit the archery and things. This is a very nice hobby like you know uh if you like horses where horse riding is kind of expensive so you can’t go like riding many times per week and if you want to be super good like professional level horse rider you need to have own horse. Yeah
maybe two horse if the other one is sick.
Yeah.
So this archery 90% 80% of training is ground working like what we do first.
So you just uh shooting on the ground. So you can do it that in home. You don’t need to go to stable to do that and it’s cheap to do on the ground. So then once in a week or once in a two weeks like if you look 10 best horse archer in the world maybe two of them have own horses.
Oh okay. Because
so it’s very
so it’s more accessible that way than
and also most of time when you go to competitions you rent the horses there and
you don’t need to be delivering your own horses in the everywhere. Are you allowed to? Is that considered like a
Cuz I feel like if someone’s got a lot of money and stuff like that that like and you’re comfortable on the horse that would give you like a a little edge cuz you just know the horse well. So kind of
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
That’s interesting though, huh?
Well, now I know about the sport. Can you like actually do they like film this and like broadcast it anywhere? I last winter we had
um two bigger like TV group here who filming about the horseback archery but uh most of the like TVs they don’t filming the competitions yet
but in the future. Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe
cuz I feel like it there is like
in YouTube there is lot about horseback archery. It’s mounted archery or horseback archery.
Mounted. Okay. Or horseback. Okay. Cuz no, I kind of want to look up some more stuff and they like see a competition how that works cuz like when you showed all the different things and like the the up. Yeah, like that stuff. That looks cool. I want to see how that works. Well, not I I probably won’t be able to do it myself.
Yeah, because you have to if you want all the points that you can get on that target, you need to go like here and shoot it. The horse neck is here. So you
Oh, okay. here.
Not only like this, but you got to go down. Okay.
Have you hit it? Like cuz you don’t have the right arrows right now, right? Yeah. Yeah.
Cuz also that one is like if you miss it, the arrow is going to go.
Yeah, we have different arrows for that. They have different uh not the
the flies flies are different. So, it’s not fly forever.
Okay. Still hard to track cuz like at least with these targets, you kind of know where it’s going.
It goes like really far.
Yeah. Cuz it’s straight up can be anywhere. Yeah.
Okay, cool. All right. Well, um I guess I’m supposed to ride another like 50 km today.
Yes. Going over near me
or close to Yeah. Yeah.
All right.
So, I guess I’ll start packing your stuff.
My glove might bring.
My helmet isn’t as cool. I’m a little jealous.
Maybe you need to make a fixing.
I might. Yeah. I’ll get a fur pelt around this.
Yeah. But no, really, thank you guys for uh for showing me how it works and being kind and helping me stream and everything. Um, no, it was a really cool experience for me. I will never forget that.
Yes. Great. That’s nice.
Okay. Well, have a great
take care of the horses and
Okay.
Thank you.
Get a picture with
Get a picture with Oh, can we get a selfie? Is that okay? Of course. All right. With the horse.
Yeah, might as well.
So, if you can run, take an organ on the photo. So, we will open a restaurant here.
Oh, really?
We pulled up together with Walter. It’s 110 years old log house, but we move it here
with a uh a forest truck.
You you moved the building 500 kilometers.
Yeah.
The big one.
Yes. Really?
Yes.
Did you to like close the roads?
Yeah.
Cuz that
No, it was like a like a launch. I can show you.
Yeah. Okay. All right. There we go.
Okay. Three, two, one. All right.
All right. Great.
All right. Sweet. Thank you again.
It’s nice to meet you. That was a lot of fun.
Now it’s trimming the crash. But yeah, so the house it’s 110 years old bank.
Yeah.
Old bank.
Oh, that’s a bank.
Yes.
You just brought a bank here. All right.
And
this this guy.
Yeah. We can go to look more close if you want we will open this place in September. It’s like upcoming restaurant.
Yeah.
And so we take the house log by log. You can see here is old logs.
Yeah.
Uh in the forest truck we take with the on the truck.
Yeah.
And then we move it here. And last summer we pulled up all the logs up.
Wait. Oh, so you didn’t do it in all in one piece. You did it piece by piece. like these pieces.
You can see this is my upcoming sauna.
Is this?
Yes, it’s upcoming sauna.
Will it be part of the experience here? Can you book a sauna too?
I have a sauna base already here. So, we just need to have time to build up this up.
You can see there’s a a number. Yeah.
What is the layer?
1 2 3. And the the charter here D everything is D. Yeah.
Uh so it means that they are on the one wall.
Oh, okay. So it gives you 1 D2 D3.
You follow formula to rebuild it
and they all go in the same place as they were before.
I can show you inside the house how it looks
because it’s old house. It’s not make all the instructors uh for the new buildings.
Yeah.
We need to make extra insulation for the house. Uh but you can see here it’s made with the logs.
Oh okay. Yeah. Yeah.
It’s we can also look inside. It’s like a building. You can see
you still see the original log by log.
Oh that is cool.
Log by log. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. So this is my upcoming restaurant.
It will be open in September.
What kind of uh like food are you? We try to make everything like like basic ones.
You can see here
uh maybe you see in Anika’s place the old oven made the bread.
This is a Valter make the same kind of oven for me.
Ah okay. For for making bread and everything here. Okay.
So I try to make and I also on the future we start to make like a bakery classes like you can come here to learning how to make like classic Finnish traditional food.
Okay.
Yeah. Huh. Well I now I got to come back.
Yes. and see the finished product. I’ve seen it as a work in progress and then you got to see the finished product.
Yes. So, it was lot of work
but it start to be on the final
cuz you September. So, do you know this painting?
That’s like the traditional paint. Yeah, I make the paint.
By myself.
Most people take the paint
everything by myself and then I paint all the move right there. 200 liters paint.
200 L.
Yes,
that’s a lot of paint.
So, it’s it’s traditional.
Yeah.
Paint.
And then protective, too, cuz um Anakah was saying how often they have to like restain and paint things cuz
otherwise it all falls apart.
Yeah.
Winters are harsh and all that.
Yeah. Yeah. So, you came like a half year too early.
It’s still cool to see.
Do you need to come next summer or winter? Maybe next summer you’ll be so busy cuz it’ll be hard to squeeze me in.
Hope so. We are busy
cuz the restaurant also helps pull people in and then they can also watch this and then decide to do that too. It’s a
cuz there a sign on showing uh not yet.
Not on the road yet. So you you wouldn’t get people just being like spontaneously coming here yet.
Yeah, but in the future we will up the
beach logo.
Sweet.
On the road. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well,
all right. load back up on my bike and
yeah,
my royal steed.
Yeah.
And I’ll be out of here. All right. Thank you for visiting.
Well, thanks for having me. That was a lot of fun.
Something totally different.
Way to go today.
Yeah. But I got 24 hours of daylight. So, in most places, like what time are we at?
Yeah. 9. Like I wouldn’t be like, “Oh, I’m going to ride another 50 km now.” But yeah,
out here I can do that.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Now your horse is like um automatic crash trimmer. You know the robot trimmer.
Robot streamer.
Robot uh crash trimming. Crash streaming.
Trimming. Trimming.
Oh, trimming. Okay. Grass trimming. Oh yeah. It’s not really a robot. It’s like a It’s the natural one. But like in some places they bring like goats to just clear.
We have also sheeps but they are in our old place now.
Ah okay. Are they going to come here soon or stay?
Yeah, in the in probably in the winter.
Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Yeah.
Let me just see if these are connected. One is connected.
Ah, yeah. Cuz with the two camera setup, it’s
it’s quite a bit and all the battery everything batteries. And then this charges all my batteries. The solar panel.
Although right now I’m using as a table all night long.
What’s that? Oh yeah. And like you recharge your batteries like all the time.
All the time. And then I never have to like try to plan to sleep inside somewhere to recharge like power means. I have that freedom.
Which is really nice.
Yeah.
All right.
This will take me a bit cuz I got to switch shoes
cuz these are not cycling shoes.
I was glad I had like boots though. This is
They are like riding boots.
Yeah. No, I I I was planning to get rid of them cuz I uh before I started this bike tour, I uh
I also stream hitchhiking in different countries. So, I just brought some boots to hitchhike in.
Oh, yeah. And then I was going to get rid of them, but I’m like, I kind of like these boots. I don’t want to throw them out. So,
they they came with me on a bike tour, which is weird, but
anyway, it’s working out so far cuz I uh I’m doing uh horse archery. I’m curious what was up with the mic. So many so many flies. The audio is not going to be synced until I uh plug this in here and switch it over. Uh, that’s plugged in. It should be on my mic. And I know you guys are like, “Ah, we like the internal mic.” As soon as we ride a bike, you would not like the internal mic. 13. Mandis shared 300 bits. Put it over here. Send me the picture before you start cycling, please.
Gotcha. One sec. Plugging in the battery. We’ll send it your way. That’s good, too. Okay, we’ll grab that battery. Oh, yeah. How did you I haven’t really read that much chat because I was busy with all the stuff going on. How do you guys think I did? Okay, that’s very much done. Yep. The target at a trop mate. That looked tough. Yeah. No, I actually my first pass through of actually like shooting off the horse. I’m like, wait, why am I hitting the targets better than when I’m just standing stationary? When we got faster, it got definitely a lot harder, but didn’t fall off. That was like my biggest like, can I please not fall off the horse? That was my goal. As long as I didn’t do that, I was I was like, I’ll be happy. I feel like you’re falling. Uh when we first started to trot instead of just like walking or whatever it’s called in horse terms like when I was walking I’m like standing up and I’m like okay I can do this. Yeah. Now we started trotting and I’m like
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200 bits thigh muscles tomorrow. I’m glad my legs are in decent shape cuz if I had no muscle mass in my legs all that would have been really difficult cuz like get my legs in there and then like at first my legs are just like out like this. I’m like I can’t balance like this and then they’re like you got to like squeeze your legs in. You can’t even see. So I’m like squeezing my legs in. I’m doing like the what’s it? Leg abductor adductor. One of the two like squeezing them, squeezing my core. Yeah, it’s good to be in shape. Oh, there’s so many flies though. This is ridiculous. And I still haven’t switched to my cycling sandals. Nor with you. Nor was really hungry. Every time we went around, not every time. Once once I wasn’t being led around, it was just me and Nor. Nor is just like, “You’re I know you don’t have enough sway here.” So every time we went around after the lap, he’d go for a snack and try to go hang out with his horse friend. Okay. I’m going to have to eat something kind of soon though cuz I am feeling hungry. Get out to the road and ride a little bit and away from these flies. I might stop and see what I got to snack on. Hit sleep in the helmet. Safety first, baby. The helmet stays on during sex. Okay. How much water do I have? Enough for now. I might have to ask them for water before I go. [Applause] No, but they’re way over there. Okay. Well, everything else strapped up. Just get my boots on. Let’s go and ask. I should I only got like a few hundred milliliters left. And I haven’t drank this whole experience, so I’m thirsty. So, I’m going to drink the whole bottle pretty much as soon as we leave. Yeah. It’s actually warm today. Oh my god. I’m like inhaling these freaking flies. Sure before this. So, is there a spot I can refill my water bottles?
Yeah. I can put the the pump on so you can get the water from the hose.
Okay. Have to let this hose run through. That’s the thousand kg big forest.
This one?
Yeah. The shoes are like a plate.
Oh, yeah. Those are big. Oh my. Yeah. Up close. You can’t tell from a distance the scale.
Yeah. I put a little bit the water on there.
Yeah. Do all all the horses do like this kind of horse archery stuff or
these horses here? Yes, all of them do. But we have more horses in home and then we have also baby horses.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Like the youngest one is 2 weeks old.
Oh, wow. Okay.
Yeah. They are in the island. I have like island middle of the river.
Yeah. So the horses with their babies, they living there.
Yeah. Okay. Maybe it’s now fresh.
Yeah. Perfect. That was a lot of work to fill up the water. Just got to turn on a generator. Yeah. We don’t have electric connection here.
Oh, not yet. Okay.
Oh, it’s not coming even here.
Oh, not at all. So, I’ll be off the grid.
Solar panel.
Yeah. Oh. Oh, cool.
And then we have like big big generator.
Yeah.
So, I didn’t realize you had to turn a generator on to get the water going.
Yeah. But doesn’t matter because Oh, okay. All right. That works. All right. Had to turn the generator on. And we got hose water. And it’s like a 200 m hose. So I think it’s been sitting in there for a while. So that’s that’ll be tasty. [Applause] generator for well pump. Yeah. Or maybe from a string. Uh probably well though. Don’t worry, Tanya. I haven’t forgotten your picture. How about my next step? Okay. Oops. Keep it off. Oh, these [ __ ] flies are ridiculous. Ow. What are you going on? And now we’re back to me being um boots are annoying. Why do I have boots on a bicycle, too? had a 2hour experience where I’m like, “Fuck yeah, I brought my boots and then many months of being like, why would I do that?” Okay. Took like three pictures. I got to pick the best one. Okay, I got you. Okay, going to ride away from you and I’m going to pee once I get away from the flies cuz I got to pee. [Applause] I will eat first.
Okay, sounds good. Have a nice trip.
Thanks. Thanks again. Oh. All right. Now, the rough gravel road out of here. 2 km of just over 2 km. Some sections are fine, other ones are pretty rough. All right. Well, Tanya, that was definitely worth worth going to doing biking archery now. Should get into it. Is that a sport? Should be whenever this stream ends cuz apparently I still got to get close to Rovenmi for our first activity at like 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. I want to watch some horseback archery on YouTube or something. This was the one that you said that you’d never forget the experience, right? Oh, the tire pressure seemed okay. I checked before, but just by like pushing down on the bike and seeing if the tires looked a bit low from the weight of everything. I checked them like I think it’s like 2 days ago or something. 3 days ago possible today. Oh yeah, it’s possible. Well, that be like to the
fiverr. It would not be a day of bike touring in Finland if we didn’t have a little kon. Really slipping. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get. Thank you very much. Well, pe horseback archery. Definitely did not see that. heard ranch and I thought it was spoiled, but I thought we were just gonna like hang out with some horses and go horseback riding. Don’t try for biking. I’m not. Someone else is. My boot fell off. I can hear it. Try duels tip $10.80. Thank you. [Music] I am really glad I could surprise you with this. This was the one I really wanted to try because it’s just so absurd.
It is. Definitely did not see that happen. Got a bunch of sand in the boot now, too. [Music] And I say I love you situation. [Music] have it not fall. When I get it set up well, it never falls out. But they don’t like
it’s still strapped to it. It just starts dragging. I tried things with a 1080 [Music] [Music] been worth it. Today’s been great. We’ve only ridden like 16 km, but we’ve experienced a lot. Hey, by the time we finish, we should be at like 50ish kilome anyway, so it’s fine. You’re so bumpy. Oh my lord. Yeah. Raise your hand. Raise your hand. My heart. You think you’re smart. [Music] It’s straight. We’ve done so much on this trip. I usually don’t do that many things. I just go. Oh my guys try. Okay, I got to figure out a better boot solution. I had it really well secured and then I just kind of chucked it back on hoping for the best. Apparently I got to do more than hope for the best. I actually got to do better. All right, we’re not going to get very far if I have to pick up my boot every 200 m. Okay. So, boots. What’s up? I just got to tie them closer together. Why do I have boots on a bike tour? Who brings boots on a bike tour? No one does. This is why [Music] Yeah. All right. Where have you come down again? I’m going be very disappointed in myself. Oh, my chat app crashed. Let me just make sure my alerts are still working. Yeah, that’s a repeat or replay.
Mondis cheered 200 bits. Okay. So itchy. What’s that? If you would post the selfie you took on Instagram, what would you write? Like, thank you so much to Ranchquillers for letting me come and try horseback archery. This was a very unique experience and I hope I’ll be able to come back maybe. Uh, yeah, something like that. Just without misspelling the word and. Sorry. So bumpy. I hope you get a what? Okay. I feel like you should be happy. My only critique was a spelling error. All right. The meat of it as a message was good. Like if you did like a like a research paper and you’re like your professor the professor just like came back and just like underlined one word that had a spelling mistake. Would you would you be like real pissed at your professor for that? Okay, that’s assuming I’m a professor. I’m not a professor. So all the time
if you handed a a short letter to a chimpanzee and the chimpanzee just underlined one spelling mistake and handed it back to you, would you be mad at the chimpanzee? the bike on dirt road on this kind of gravel road. Not that great cuz there’s these big uh loose rocks all over and the very heavy bike with these tires, it just kind of like skips over them. Doesn’t ride over them really well and gets a little questionable. So, I wouldn’t choose to do like a gravel section with this load up like ever. Doing it for 2 km for an activity. Sure. But we’re not going to like be like, yeah, we wouldn’t choose this for funies. Yeah, washboard surface. Yeah, I know. In sections, I don’t you might be able to see them kind of the sun’s getting low, so you can get a little texture. There’s some washboardy sections where there just like I maybe some people don’t know what that means. It’s just like there’s just like continuous grooves in there and then once it starts like cars the tires start skipping in them and they just get deeper and deeper as time progresses. I think I see the end of it. Actually, I don’t know if that is or not. It’s probably still further. Chat, can I ask you a favor? Can you go and like this picture that Trevor did a very good job at taking on Instagram? Pretty please. I Yeah, I thought that was actually a good picture. I was proud of that one. I think everyone in the photo like looks good. Oh yeah. Um probably pee before I get on the main road. I liked. Thank you for liking, liked, commented, and subscribed. Wow. I don’t think you subscribe on Instagram. Speaking subscribe to my YouTube or my Twitch. Oh, you’re already subscribed to my Twitch. Never mind. Could subscribe to my YouTube. It’s a perfect pre-road pea spot. It’s up to YouTube, too. Oh, okay. You got it all. See me turn the mic off. [Applause] Yeah, I just had to pee. I actually had to go like even before we did the horse thing, which means I’m dehydrated if I waited that long. Been a moose on this adventure. Just a lot of reindeer shadow leap. Oh, could you see my shadow? It’s premium content. Hardly clocked 30 seconds. H suspicious. Just cause I am on a roll. I made a playlist on YouTube of all the AI songs that Hannibal and has made. If anyone wants to listen to some hitch tunes, there are 666 new subscribers on YouTube in the last 28 days. Thank you all.
That’s suspicious. I am I don’t I don’t That’s that one. I’m conflicted. I don’t like AI music very much. AI music like takes the soul out of music. Like it’s surprisingly decent, but still AI. Wish I knew this. Yeah. Well, people used to say about it autotune in the 2000s. I think it’s different. It like you just give it a prompt and it just creates everything. Some fun clips to the AI music. I know the sugar. Yeah, I can have some great uses, but I’m kind of on the team with like AI art, the music as a form of art. and just kind of like Yeah. Okay. I think we’re good to go back on the road. I slap this thing. I um Oh god. One of the things I really like about what I make and what I’m proud of with my stream is that it’s like something that’s just real. And that’s why I started streaming hitchhiking is live streaming it. Showed it as it is. There’s no editing. There’s no filtering. It just it just is. Um and I just feel like more and more stuff, especially what we consume online, is just artificially manufactured and isn’t real. So, we just consume all this media that is just there’s just nothing real anymore. So, if I can, I’d like to keep things real. [Applause] Okay, what do I need? I’m going to get I’m just snacking on some sugar right now, but I’m going to have to eat something more substantial before we do 50 km to town. I like that candy. Yeah, this is some Finnish candy. I forot what it’s called, but it’s good. This text based on your travels like Yeah, I have mixed feelings cuz I’m like, “Wow, that’s so relevant to what we’re doing.” It’s like traveling from cycling from Norway to Finland. But it’s just the fact that I don’t know, you just put a couple sentences of prompt into it. Be like, “Make me a song about this guy streaming a bike tour from Norway to Finland.” And it makes all there’s just something that is unsettling to me. D asphalt’s going to feel so nice. Oh yeah. Wow. That was so nice. Woo! Yeah. Oh, it feels good, man. Feels good. Yeah. Oh, it’s I was getting pretty warm and that was just like some air conditioning right there. 40 to Romani. I just checked before I started. It’s 55. We’re still quite far. I don’t have to necessarily get to town, but we want to get close cuz we’ve got stuff starting at uh 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. [Music] Be there in an hour. If I could maintain 40 kilometers an hour dinner on the way. I am hungry. I don’t think we’re gonna get a proper meal though. It’s late. I guess if I make it to Roven, then maybe something will be open. But it’ll be very late at that point. It’ll be like midnight. What do I have? I got two donuts from yesterday. A protein shake, but I don’t know. That’s still good. Is that one thing? Neuro sensory thing. But like so sensory deprivation or like what is it? Use your arrow skills. Did you get dinner? has 24/7 store and 24/7 Mackey’s as in McDonald’s. The deep relaxation package starts with a neurosake treatment where Trevor lie on a devan with headphones on and if desired blindfolds on eyes. The room is completely dark dimmed during the treatment. Floating is also known as sensory deprivation. The idea behind floating is that stimuli are kept to a minimum. The customer decides for themselves whether there are lights. But we recommend floating in complete darkness. Uh, if I was whether the are lights in the tank during the flotation, recommend floating in complete darkness. See, like I want to try that, but like that sounds like the least streaming activity because it’s notably one, nothing happening. Two, we don’t want anything to happen. So you guys trolling me would kind of ruin the experience for me, and three, you just can’t even see anything in the first place. Cuz I do want to try it. Like, but it’s just I don’t know what everyone watching. I recommend floating naked. Yeah, like that is something I’ve honestly want to try for a while, but it’s like the I I don’t see the benefit of doing that on a stream. Wait, and it’s 2 and 1 half hours as long again. I would love to try that. But like as far as like entertaining content is concerned, that’s probably one of the least entertaining for the viewer cuz there’s nothing intentionally so have to try that just on 2.5 hours. I’d love to do it for 2 and a half hours, just not when I’m streaming. But I’ve been getting it all in onto like some meditation stuff. I’ve been doing some yoga, been doing some stuff where you’re just like essentially stillness is the goal and I’ve enjoyed it. And I think adding the whole sensory deprivation to it is like a great opportunity to take it a step further. Not interested in watching you float. Love to hear about the experience. The thing is, you wouldn’t even be able to watch me float cuz it’s in darkness. But yeah, no, like I’d very much be interested in doing it. I’d probably just do it off stream when I get an opportunity myself and I can tell you all about it. DMT floating. You definitely need a sitter with you. That sounds dangerous. Not a regular DMT just to do Iawaska. What’s the actual chemical component of Iawaska? Aren’t they like similar to DMT? No, but it’s longer, isn’t it? forget. It has DMT. Oh, it does. Okay. H. Will it be tipped for $10? Thank you. This time it’s not eating or discoy. Thanks for the tenor. Thank you very much. What you got? Not. And then disco. [Music] [Music] What are we listening to? Will that be? What are you doing to us? He’s got a voice though. [Music] DMT is a short trip. I am personally aware of that one. Yeah, DMT is a very shortless experience. [Music] The soundtrack of your DMT trip, please. No. [Music] Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I can boogie. Is that what he’s saying? [Music] Sounds like he can boogie. [Music] Well, thank you very much for that. That’s great. It’s a cultural experience. Thank you, Willie. Okay. DMTs make cycles. I don’t think that’s legal, unfortunately. Well, maybe it is. Who knows? It was a crazy experience though. Also, there’s different types of DMT. DMT5 MEO is [ __ ] I don’t even know, man. One of the strangest but most beautiful experiences of my life. Next destination, Revenia. Yeah, tomorrow we got a bunch of stuff in town. Like a whole day, it seems. Our issue is tomorrow’s Wednesday, right? Thursday, Friday, there’s supposed to be a storm apparently in Finland. Roman summer’s going to be at Friday. So, as I head south, we’ll be riding into it. All right, let’s figure it out. I think they’re going fast or there’s just been like no cars. So, I’m not used to the sound of cars anymore. Worrying about high UV tomorrow seem legit based on weather. Oh, so it’s supposed to be like sunny tomorrow. Well, that’s nice. Oh, tent shopping. Yeah, once I have a better tent, I’ll feel a little more like comfortable about like pushing into a storm. And if I have to end early, I can just tent wherever [Music] Yummy. Might I get some myself? All right. We’ll probably end up like leaving Roveni and riding south into the store. [Music] I know I’m saying it wrong. Roveni. Roveni. Roveni. Our town. It’s now our town. Our town. In the middle of this street. Our town. Any plans for Roven? Uh, a few things. We’re doing like a static bike fit thing. We’re going to bike shop and they’re using like some person in software to like adjust my bike fit. And they have beer. Are they a brewery or they just have beer there? Wait, there’s a bike path up here, but why? And also, is it ribbed for our pleasure? Cuz honestly, the roads in Finland have been fine. The bike paths though, I’ve honestly they are a little bit rough. Why is there new bike path up here? I can already see the the lines on it. I want to see what the purpose is, though. We’re going for it. Hold on to your ass. I don’t know why that would help, but do it anyway. Like so far not that bad. like worse than the road. Yes. But like all things considered pretty freaking good compared to was there one yesterday that we were on and I just like left and went back on the highway. Okay. Like cuz it was like that the whole time. [Applause] revenue this evening uh in the general direction. See how far we get. Oh yeah, our town. Calling our town. Nordic style has just resubscribed for five months. Nordic styles. Thanks for the five month resub. Ding. Goal for today. Trying to go another like 40ish kilometers. So, we didn’t even start riding until 6 and we rode from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. and we didn’t get back on the bike till like what just under an hour ago. We spent less than two hours actually like this being a bike touring day where we’re actually touring and most of the day making a hat, making some soap, riding a horse, shooting a bow and arrow, riding a horse while shooting a bow and arrow. Just a normal day of bike touring. Uhoh. Looks questionable. No. No. Finland, please. No. [Music] Fin, you’re breaking the car. That’s some [Music] Oh god, I hit it. All right, aripit $7.50, Bill. Well, thanks for the 750. Appreciate it. Oh, it still goes on. I’m so surprised there’s a bike path at all out here. Like, yes, it’s a little bit big. Get my ass painted. Don’t quote that. Good trade, failur. A seat. Oh, we still have a pen message here. We should probably take that off if someone’s here that can do that. Wow. Wow. this about Instagram post. Oh, okay. It’s not about the art. [Music] All right, I think that’s the end of our bike path. Well, I don’t know why you were here, but it says nice to get off the road. I’m not surprised there wasn’t much maintenance put into it for the past while I’ve been on worse bike path, so can’t really complain. Second left until cross back below the AR. Oh, wait. Are we going to do that today? There’s like Roveni like sorry our town right by the uh right on the border pretty much. Plans post trip long hi or plans for elsewhere. See the thing is I don’t usually have plans at the end of the trip. I end this trip and then I just go home to take like a bit of a break and then we see what happens. As soon as there’s a trip on my mind that I want to do, I do that. Like I didn’t plan on taking seven or whatever months off last time. I just spontaneously happened to have a midlife crisis and uh spent a long time working on myself. That was not my expectation, but that’s what we did anyway. This car sounds weird. Something dragging. Yes, something’s dragging on that car. Early mid life. Okay. See, but when someone said that before, I said I had my early life crisis when I started hitchhiking at like 19 because I didn’t want to finish my business program and become an accountant. I was scared I was going to get stuck in a corporate job and like never actually do anything. So, I took a semester off and started hitchhiking and then I just never went back to school. Anyway, early life crisis. And then I’ve been doing that for I started streaming blah blah blah. Now I’m in my 30s and uh yeah, that 7 months off was some form of crisis. You have bear spray. No, I’m not that concerned about the bears here. Wanted to ever come back a long time. Like what’s been very consistent for the seven years I’ve been streaming is when I finish a trip and I go home, you won’t hear from me until I’m on another trip. So, it’s been several times I’ve been gone for several months. I think this was about tied for the longest. I had about the same amount of time off when CO shut down the whole world and I didn’t know what to do with myself. It’s the same thing too though comes out with fire on it. What’s he been doing? Yeah. Jay actually has like successful YouTube channels though. When I stopped streaming on Twitch, I I like I don’t have like a job. I just like last year with the uh Quinning Redemption Tier and stuff like that, I was able to save money and then I just pretty much spent all my savings to uh pay for a bunch of therapy and just time off work. Therapy ain’t cheap. He has. Do you stop posting completely? Jay, doesn’t he have like a like a Jay’s VODs? like it. All his India content has its own channel. segment to Helsinki. Yeah. Yes, we are. I wonder. Okay. What do we think has that VOD channel 30 viewers something? No, I mean like a YouTube channel for his uh India VODs. I think it has like a few like 100 200,000 subscribers. Um what was about to say? Helsinki. Yes. Uh go through east or western Finland. Oh, we’re about to vote on that actually. Tanya still here. Are we doing that tomorrow? We’re doing the most consequential. Yeah. Daily J. That’s the one. Um most consequential compass vote. You guys get to pick uh east, central, or west using our compass. And that will determine the next few weeks of content. Give me a minute. I’ll inform soon. Okay, cool. So, Tanya is making like a list of things that she has that she think would be cool to see on each route, I’ve been told. So, people can like look at our options. And they’re not none of them are guaranteed cuz we still figure if we can even train them or whatever and then you guys can pick which route. [Music] When is the vote? Uh, tonight it’s starting, but we’re going to do it like cuz I’m taking a day off in the city. Not really a day off. Like probably going to stream all day and maybe into night cuz we might doing like a a midnight sun canoe or something. Um, which sounds nice, but also late. But yeah, it won’t be a short vote so people have time to like consider their options. I’ll run from sometime tonight until end of the stream tomorrow or something. So then we’ll know which direction to go. But yeah, we’ve never had a vote that has this much consequences because this is going to be like two weeks. of riding probably. Oh, there’s so many bugs. Anonymous took $13.37. Thank you. Have some finished music from the ‘9s to your Oh, man. Thank you, Anonymous, for the elite donation. 1337 music from the ‘9s. [Music] Weird. It never gets funny like that. Sorry. [Music] [Music] Oh, stop. [Applause] mouth needs to be closed. [Music] I knew that was going to happen. There’s way too many bugs out. Okay, I think I’m think I’m okay. No, I still don’t feel it in the back. Oh, that’s horrible. Yeah. Take a direction. One or the other. [Music] Are you a dog? You’re a go. What? A baby reindeer. Okay. Where’s the rest of you? [Applause] has a little white dog at first and then it kind of hopped. [Music] Thank you, Anonymous. Let’s start with tomorrow’s activities. Tomorrow you start at bike shop at 10:00 a.m. Then I think we will go to Santa’s Village. Undecided. Then at 400 p.m. you will get a brewery tour and tasting. And at 9:00 p.m. you start the midnight canoe tour. It’s 3 hours long. Yes, based on activities and today, maybe you should sleep in a hotel and park the solar panel. I think we should start the vote tomorrow, but I will give more info about what you can vote on and not soon. Just finishing something.
Okay. Okay. Vote’s probably tomorrow then. H we have to consider accommodation. We’re doing that like you said so we can ditch the solar panel. H [ __ ] I don’t want to pay for accommodation. It’s logical. Hm. I know cuz like we’re about to have like some bad weather coming up potentially with the storm. I’m like that would be a good time to zip inside. Isn’t your tent broke? Like, yeah, that’s probably one of our activities tomorrow. will be tent shopping. Thank you, trucker. That’s nice. Tent shopping after beers. That might help cuz what? Who are you? It’s another reindeer. Yep. Just chilling. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Rainers everywhere. You see that side eye? Yeah, he was. See moose at this point on this trip? No, not yet. Just a lot of reindeer. We started in Norway seeing like none. But the past few days in Finland has been a ton. But like this sign, that is a caution moose sign. So we’re in moose area, I guess. Oh, another swarm of bugs. Cuz yeah, I I’m ever since I’ve been doing outdoor stuff, I’ve heard how good like the Swedish Hburg Hburg tents are and I’m like I kind of want to try one, but they’re real [ __ ] expensive. I don’t even know what style they are. Like need to inspect. It’s going to be an absurd amount of money. There’s so many bucks just like pinging off my helmet. cheap and expensive tents. Huge difference. Yeah, there will be as far as just like Well, okay. When you get in the expensive category can be expensive for a couple different reasons, but like my current tent was expensive because it uses like an expensive fabric called Daima. Um, and it’s made in-house by an American company like so it’s just a small production place that sews them in Florida. Um, so it can be materials, manufacturing country, variety of other things. But like a cheap tent, often it’s just going to weigh a lot more. Pack down a lot bigger. I think it’s going to be hard to put it in the bag. It’s just going to be this giant bag full of tent. And then coffee. You won’t trust it to keep you dry at night. I can hear this execution music about Trevor. Oh, is it? I think I’ve heard the song. Unless there’s multiple Trevor songs. [Applause] [Music] Yeah, the tent’s taking different directions. Uh my tent was going ultra light and with that I’ve had it for 5 years but I’ve used it on a ton of trips but there’s only so much a super ultra light thin material even if it’s strong for its weight it can do so it’s just end of life it’s falling apart I’ll patch it I’ll tape it I’ll repair it and then it’ll just keep tearing ripping and everything bug tents though are expensive for and they’re known for being very very durable and lasting like your entire lifetime. But they’re going to weigh more. Does this fiber help with condensation? Uh, no, not really. So, like actually the 10 time using the ultral light one is known for being a bit more challenging with condensation cuz it’s a single wall tent. So, right next to your head is like the [ __ ] daea fabric. And it depends how you pitch the tent and like how well you ventilate it and a variety of factors and sometimes condensation happens. And with the single ball tents, you don’t have like a mesh barrier separating you from that like tent fly material, the weatherproof stuff. That weatherproof stuff holds onto that condensation. So, double wall tent. If your biggest concern is condensation or biggest annoyance, you’re probably going to want a double wall tent. And that’s a tent that has a tent body, which is just like the tent floor, the screen, mesh screen, and a mesh top. So, you can set up the body on its own, but it won’t protect you from rain or wind. Just keeps the bugs out, and it’s like the frame of the tent. And then you put your fly over top. That system deals with condensation a lot better than a single wall tent. I used to sell tents and backpacks and shoes and jackets and all the stuff, all the outdoor stuff. [Music] [Music] The big one seems to be around a,000 US. That’s silly. But like, okay, how I have in the past, it makes sense. I have to like look at an expensive camping equipment by like divided by how many nights I use it. So, you get an expensive tent and you like camp like one weekend a year, it might not seem like the best purchase, but if I spend like a 100 nights in them a year for many, many years, it starts to get pretty economical. Okay, here we go. Chat LG. Route one is nature plus history, waterfalls, reindeer, nightw wish. Route two is beaches, sauners, snow castle, and coastal towns. Three is weird museums, alpacas, chocolate, floating savers, and castles. Route four is along the custom route with a mix of the best. Okay. Will it be $5? This song was important. All right. Works well in a crowded area towards your tent. Will that be? Thank you very much. Seek God. Seek God. Seek God. [Music] loud. Yeah. But yeah, so Tiny was telling you the different routes we can pick and we’ll pick them. Route 1 till 3 are 1,000 km. Route 4 is 2,000 km. The vote for the route will start tomorrow morning.
Wait, one is twice the distance. Jesus. All right. It’s that much longer. We’ll have to keep in mind it’s a 2,000 km. I got a month and a half left. So like 45 days that’ll burn most of our shenan visa. We won’t have much time to go much beyond Finland. But I’m happy to spend as much time as is fun in Finland this summer. I’m enjoying soaking up all the Finnish culture. Anonymous tipped $20. Thank you. I will say our lovely internal Chloe made this. Good timing. All right. Uh 96 with $20 for the banger. I didn’t hear any of that. [Applause] I will say no you won’t apocalypse all power rise Rocklers [Music] [Music] that shall be saved. Brothers and sisters [Music] down. Yeah. Tanya just posted a
Google Drive. I don’t know if it includes a map, but it has a list of stuff and the different directions we can choose to go down. Rock [Applause] [Music] has a map. Oh, okay. Oh, really nice. I have to check it out. [Music] on my back. I got on my head. My flex are sharp and my eyes are red. Not quite an angel, the wonder. Now choose to join us for you. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] Yeah, water. After all these bugs, [Applause] it’s empty. Good thing I got two. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Candy one might have bears. Good. [Applause] Me and bears get along great. Except for that one that stole my cherry strudel. [Applause] [Applause] Almost a thousand care. I said our intern Chloe made the document. Well, thank you Chloe. Don’t know if you’re watching right now, but appreciate the hard work. Got to check it out when I finish. Double tent for three persons for 80 years. I don’t want a threeperson tent. It’s going to weigh like 10 lbs for 80 bucks. I think it would take up an entire pure in my bag. So, we’re taking a break. She’s taking a It’s a freaking sauna in most of Europe break. It’s 37 where she is today. So she decided so she wouldn’t like you know get like heat stroke or something to take a day off in some air conditioning. Toms has cheered 100 bits. Thank you, Chloe. All roots are
4,000 km.
Good job putting all that info together into these roots.
Route one and four are so sick. I love being out. Okay, this is when I feel like we’re like we’re into a trip now. We got four freaking digits. You feel like you’re you’ve gone far enough where you’re like you’re well into the adventure, but we’re really just getting started. But now we’re really in it. Yeah. And Tom, thanks for the hund bits with the Chloe hype. I’ll ding for that. And for our thousand km. Wow, my bell’s sad. bell, please. There we go. Anonymous tip $15. Thank you. Happy 1,000K. Anonymous with the $15.
Happy. Thank you very much.
What you got to celebrate 1,000 km with a thousand bits.
Let’s go, baby. Thousand km. Yeah. hills and rings. The first thing I met was the buzz and the sky with no cls. The heat was hot and the ground was dry, but the air was full of sound. I’ve been through the desert on a horse. Felt good to be out of the rain. In the desert, you can remember your name cuz there ain’t no 487 followers to go for the goal of 150,000. Try to do a thing. If you’re watching on Twitch right now, we are trying to get to 150,000 followers. We are 497 away from that goal. If you like the stream, hit that follow button. If you don’t,
what the [ __ ] are you doing here? Hate watchers. They’re real. They exist. Feels good, man. Tip $5.90. Thank you, [Music] Blueberry. Thanks for the 590. I assume that’s got a song that’ll be in the queue after this one. Oh, it feels so nice out right now. There’s like no wind. It’s just like some pure riding. Barely any traffic. [Music] Just subscribed. Thank you. Thanks for the sub. Welcome to the hitchhiker beyond the bridge. Subscribe with Twitch Prime and Beyond the Grid. Thank you for the Prime. Welcome to the Hitch Baker. [Music] It was nice when we started the trip. I was excited for it. Like right now it’s 10:30 and I have no issues about riding as long as I want to tonight as far as light is concerned. Um I just need an eye mask to sleep. [Music] So I’m excited for it. There’s like a few times where it’s annoying,
but it’s been so cool out. It hasn’t been an issue.
If it was like 20° and sunny in the morning when I’m trying to sleep, it would suck. Sunshine your tent is uncomfortable one day just subscribed with Twitch Prime
Zavia for the prime hitchhikers. I’ve heard this before. [Music] Anyone here got a laugh like that? He laughed upon duty. He laughed upon his feet. He laughed at everybody before. He says he never died. But once he did arrest the man and laughed until he cried. Turn up. Okay, now I got to turn down. [Music] Fly in my head. watching dude cycling with a huge ass trailer and all you hear this is is that laugh. Yeah. Okay. I think we’re making some decent time. Think I’m going to burn out before we get to our town. So, I haven’t eaten much. Well, when did I eat? 5. What time is it? 10:30. Had some soup. Some really heavy soup, though. Heat. Heat. They’re like halfwayish from the uh horse archery. I love that I could say that as a as a landmark location. We’re halfway from the art. Going to something vera. Big hill. Nicely good camping places. Uh before we get there, I have to consider what I’m doing. I want to try and purge. One moment, please. Okay. See if this one can do it. Yeah. Um, as we’re taking all day off tomorrow from riding like for distance, we might ride around town. Um,
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Are you guys streaming together or is that just interesting timing? Merco on tour and Marco Kochi. Hey Swiss man. Thank you very much for the raid both y’all and welcome to the Arctic Circle Finland. Well, actually we won’t be in the R2 for much longer. Been the raid. Hope you had a good or both of y’all had a good stream. We uh haven’t ridden very far today because we’ve been busy. I made a hat out of wool. I mean, like did some wolf felting. I made some soap. I did some horseback archery. It’s been an interesting day. It’s 10:40 p.m. It is Arctic Circle in the summer. Sun does not set. Heat. Heat. [Applause]
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