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Welcome to your 35 minute restorative yoga class.
Hi, I'm Dana and that's my husband Lou.
For the past five years
we've been on a mission to live creatively.
It all started when we quit our jobs in New York,
moved abroad, bought a rusty old van named Odie,
fixed him up in the mountains in Spain,
drove through most of Europe,
wrote a book, sold the van, and bought a sailboat.
Our next goal is to circumnavigate the earth
in our 1976 Rasmus 35.
But first, we need to prepare Penelope
for the voyage of a lifetime.
So, welcome to the Winter Build Series.
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To self care Sunday.
Isn't that great?
I love you.
- Love you. Bye.
- [Dana] Have a good day.
So today we are doing a self care Sunday
and you know self care looks different to different people.
And for me, it means that we need to clean this house.
Well, I want to clean this house.
The before.
This is the before also super unorganized.
The before.
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(engine humming)
- All right, so today is a beautiful self care Sunday.
Dana is at home in the house being a house mess
and I get to come to the boat and do fun, easy projects.
Today, I want to get the solar cabinet done,
at least like the rough part of that.
And then I also want to fix the situation going
on with the couches.
Some of the boards are uneven.
So I just need to trim like 15 different boards down to size
and then cut the plank like the larger boards
that are going to go on top of that.
It's confusing.
I'll show you really quick.
All right.
So here's where we're at.
This board is nice and perfectly flush here,
but these ones ended up being just a little bit too high.
So, when the board comes on here, it's not perfectly flush.
And so I just need to trim all of these little boards
just a tiny bit so that this whole setup will be fixed.
And then I'm going to make a couple more of these.
One goes there.
And then I'm thinking for this section here,
I'm actually going to put a divider in,
on each of these.
And this way we can have like a section for rice,
a section for beans, a section for cans.
And it'll just be like really nice and organized.
So the divider will go down there to stop stuff
from like moving around in between the sections.
And then each of these will have its
own separate little top.
So you can get in there.
And obviously the dinghy wheels are going
to go somewhere else.
Then the other project for today is to make the cabinet
that's gonna hold all of this stuff
and then I can start varnishing it in the house
and we can get that situation covered up,
so it doesn't keep collecting so much dust.
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(boards clanking)
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(tools clanking)
(liquid shaking)
(liquid pouring)
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(happy music)
♪ Do you miss me at all ♪
♪ Do you think about the things we used to do ♪
♪ No you couldn't stand it all ♪
♪ So why didn't you, why didn't you call ♪
♪ So many years has gone by ♪
♪ But I think about about you all the time ♪
- So since we had been living in a van
for a couple of years,
and then we got the boat.
It's been so long since we've actually had plants
and it's been so much fun taking care of the plants.
And that I feel like, I don't know if any
of you have plants out there.
You'll know the new leaf excitement.
So one of the leaves on this plant opened up two days ago
and another one is unraveling now, and I'm so excited.
So this one is a new, new growth.
This one's unraveling.
We've got another little baby coming here.
And I just love this plant so much.
And so now I'm going to water all of our plants
which is one of the most relaxing things to do.
Once a week on Sundays I normally water them
but you kind of have to tell, some of them don't need water.
As it's gotten colder, they seem to like
not need to be watered as much, but you know, play it out.
This one is also a new, beautiful leaf.
And these ones I think are the old ones.
I don't know if anybody knows what the speckles are.
But this one has speckles.
And this guy over here has some speckles.
This guy I need help with.
I don't know what's going on.
They came and it was like doing fine.
And then I think like a spider or something
it might have like made it its home
because there's like always cobwebs
and stuff on it, or like mites.
I'm not sure.
And then a bunch of the leaves started dying.
I tried to like clean it off, but I'll show you.
This is obviously like dead.
This is dead, but then it's got some that are doing great.
So I'm like maybe it will come back to life.
(plant rustling)
(water running)
(water pouring)
Some leftover curry, rice, shredded carrots
into the marvelous microwave.
(microwave beeping)
(finger snapping)
What a relief.
So it took me about like three and a half hours
but I did have lunch.
And it's crazy.
Like that's the beauty of having like a cozy little cottage
is that it doesn't really take that long to clean it.
And we've definitely found that when we were in the van
it would get crazy so quickly.
And the same with the boat this summer.
It would get crazy so quickly.
But when you have small spaces actually really
quick to clean and especially living in the cottage
it's so easy because you have dishwashers
and laundry machines.
So I feel like that was actually a really casual,
really lovely experience.
And I feel like self-care sometimes can be a thing
that people make out to be like,
has to be like expensive or something like that.
But honestly, like cleaning your house is self-care
because now that the house is clean,
I feel like so much better.
And I'm really excited to do a little bit of research.
And then I might try to squeeze in a little run
cause it's like, I've been cooped up inside so much lately
because we've been working on the grit rocks.
We weren't working on Penelope that much.
Oh, speaking of which, I wanted to show you guys
how they turned out.
Lou worked so hard on these.
So this is the one that I wear
like all the time and I love,
and that is from Casares in Spain
and we have a bunch from there.
So if you want like your own one from the donkey pen
like those are going to be going up on our website.
I'm not sure when he's launching the store
but I think like very very soon.
These ones are from Peniche Portugal.
I don't know if you can see that.
They're really beautiful.
A lot of like very smooth stones and Peniche,
we were there for actually a while in the van.
And that is where I started my first Inktober,
which was like a daily drawing challenge.
Which I absolutely loved.
It's where I had my birthday.
I think I turned 28.
I turned 28 in Peniche.
Then he has ones from Greece, from an island in Greece.
These ones are really beautiful.
They're like kind of like crystals.
I might like switch it up, but catch it aside.
Like, do I switch?
Lou said I can have one from every collection.
There's ones from Iceland.
Oh yeah.
These are really cool.
They're like black.
So yeah, Lou worked really, really hard on those.
I helped him a bit, but it was mainly him.
But yeah, I was thinking I'd go on a run
after I get some research done today.
I am researching which Caribbean Islands
that we want to visit.
We're hoping to head to Bermuda and then the Azores
and then maybe to the Cape Verde Islands
or the Canaries and then go down to the Caribbean
when we do our beginning of our circumnavigation.
It's a little bit of an extra Atlantic circle,
but you know we're trying to see as much as we can.
But, for the Caribbean I'm trying to figure out
where we should go.
So if you have recommendations for the Caribbean,
let me know.
I'm thinking potentially St. Vincent or St. Lucia
as a like stopping in point from the Cape Verde Islands,
but I'm open to suggestion.
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(sandpaper ripping)
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- So, that's the basic idea.
I'm going to take it home
and varnish it before I put it on the wall.
Cause it's going to be so much easier to do when it's not
like mounted on the wall.
These are all the air vents.
They're gonna get nice little stainless steel covers
and then the doors still need to come on.
And yeah, I think it's going to look really nice.
It's the same mahogany that the boat's built out of,
but obviously the mahogany on the boat is like 40 years old.
So it's not going to look exactly the same at first
but hopefully over time
it'll like match a little bit better.
And now, the next project is to tackle this little disaster.
(coffee pouring)
(wind blowing)
(cheerful music)
♪ Who am I to say we tried our best ♪
♪ Who am I to say we kept ignoring all our promises ♪
♪ Who am I to say there's nothing left ♪
♪ Who am I ♪
♪ To look down ♪
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(peaceful music)
(camera snapping)
All right.
So I'm going to call it for today.
I ran out of clamps.
So I can't keep clamping and gluing stuff
and it's kind of cold anyway.
So it's probably not a good idea to be gluing stuff
in these temperatures,
but the projects need to keep moving.
And none of this stuff is like too important.
So yeah, it's been a nice day in the boat yard.
It was really beautiful weather.
The sun was out, it wasn't that cold.
So this is where we're at.
I just need to make the cover for that one,
that one, and that one.
And then this whole area is done.
And this cabinet is pretty much done.
I just have to put the front on it and then varnish it.
So yeah, we're in good shape.
(light switch clicking)
(peaceful music)
(car trunk slamming)
(car engine humming)
- I just got out of the bath and
it was like the most relaxing bath ever.
And I didn't do a hair mask or a face mask it's just
like just relaxing in the bath was plenty.
I just started a new book and it was really good.
I finished How to Think Like A Monk by Jay Shetty.
That was really good.
I read that the last few weeks
and now I'm starting Atomic Habits,
which has been in our Kindle for ages.
Lou read it, I think when we were in the van
but I've never read it.
So I'm really excited about that.
But now I am going to start cooking
and I'm going to make latkes
which is something that Lou has been requesting.
I honestly would say for months,
like truly he has asked for latkes so much,
but it's kind of a lot of work to shred all the potatoes
and then they go in the oven
and I feel like you make so much effort
and you only get a couple of them.
But I have rested all day.
I feel rejuvenated and I'm excited to get cooking.
So I am going to get started on that.
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(door knock)
Hello.
Hi beautiful.
- [Lou] Hello, I missed you.
- [Dana] I missed you too. How are you?
- [Lou] Good
- [Dana] Yeah
- [Lou] Yeah
- [Dana] I started making your favorite food.
- [Lou] Oh yeah?
- [Dana] I'm making you latkes.
- [Lou] What?
- [Dana] I know, I just got started though.
Five minutes ago.
So I took a bath.
- [Lou] Oh wow.
- [Dana] And did a three mile run.
- [Lou] Wow.
- [Dana] I researched St. Lucia.
So, you did the cabinet.
You did the structure.
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(knife chopping)
(pan clanking)
(oven beeping)
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Dun dun dun duh duh.
- [Lou] Latkes!
- [Dana] Six months in the making.
- Thank you
- [Dana] You're welcome
- This is really exciting.
Oh, they're so crispy.
- [Dana] They're going to be really hot.
Yeah. And now we're going to play chess
which is our evening ritual.
We've been playing so much chess for the last few weeks.
It's like this chess board I think has given us
I don't know, like 50 hours of entertainment
- [Lou] More than that.
- You think?
- [Lou] We play like two hours a day.
- It's like one of those things that
- [Lou] We got it at Christmas.
- Yeah, we got it at Christmas.
We've been playing like every single day for months now.
And it's like, you know, we're getting sleepy,
maybe it's eight o'clock and then we play chess.
And then it's like 10:00 PM.
And we're like what are we doing?
It's like, as if it's like a Netflix binge
like you don't even know what happened.
I feel like that is what's happening with us and chess.
Just all of a sudden time has passed
because it's so much fun.
And I actually have a tip.
If you are playing with somebody who is much better
than you, which is Lou is much better than I am at chess.
What you have to do is you have to make them play
without their queen.
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