welcome to another episode of vlogmas today i'm going to show you something that i've found to be
uniquely slovenian from all the places i lived it's how we keep warm in our houses in winter
it's just behind the store let's go check it out
okay and here it is a gigantic pile of wood that we use through the winter looks
like we're going to run out of some wood here at some point let's get some more
so all these pipes is how we get warm water for the bathroom and to heat the bedroom i'm going
to show you something that a lot of slovenian households have it's called a patch which means
oven and it's a big fireplace it's made out of clay and it stays warm all day and night we're
gonna go build a fire in there first we gotta grab some small wood that'll catch bring that upstairs
and right here is the patch open it up
a little paper get it started and i'll build a little wood fort here
now this stuff right here is like magic fire starter i haven't seen too much of this in the
usa to be honest but here it's a life saver even though it's expired still works and we
only need a little bit of this stuff and it does wonders our magic fire starter put it in there
and it's going to light those logs right up
hi rui
it may not be enough today to be honest it's not looking very promising
i believe in you
i believe you are a man who can make a fire
what do you say rumi how did daddy do um not so good too
show me again your magic cube you use half of this half of this yeah i use half of this when i do it
that's not a good place for and i would just put like yeah put this no put this on top this one yes
so here has been doing the patch your whole life i think yeah she's the professional here
in slovenia we have a lot of wood maybe you killed it with this big one no no
slovenia a lot of wood we'll take a walk in the woods one of these days when it's
covered in the snow we're gonna pick up a christmas tree roomie loves to watch the fire
it's kind of like nature's tv show roomy everyone needs to see roger
our fingers is good
you need to be changed dirty roomy
yeah she needs to be changed slowly started there is hope we're gonna end up throwing like
five of these big logs on there and it's gonna heat things up we still need to wait i think
yep i will wait
but it's going
drawing now so time to put a little bigger log on there
and maybe an even a little bigger longer than that let's slide it in there
is that funny it didn't work it fell off
this is how we keep warm in slovenia
do you like fire do you like fire oops she's like daddy what you're doing she's looking at me yeah
and here is the much awaited patch we were talking about still cool enough that we could sit on it
when it gets really hot you'll burn yourself if you touch it yeah but then we can drive
clothes here when we come from a walk and everything is wet and yeah it's super great
yeah it keeps us warm it's like a big tagine
and that's today's lesson in slovenianology how we stay warm inside the house
i see the vacuum cleaner at the background that's why because it gets a little bit messy
after we do a catch and like any good slovenian wife andrea does the cleaning
and yeah and by the way this is what we're dealing with outside today
cold and rain so curling up next to the patch is just what we need