Welcome back to the island life of us.
We are surviving and celebrating island life this week. There's a lot of goodness packed
into this life and we are so happy to be here to share it with you.
Good morning
We are in need of some more veggies. Jase and i are heading over to the gardens today
feels like a little bit of a date really getting off the island just the two of us
and i don't think Jase's realized but it's valentine's day so this is like classic
island life date and he doesn't even know it
hello there Sir. [Jase] Hello Madam
are you uh are you my driver for my date? [Jase] i'm your date driver date driver and your date whoa
hope this is everything you thought it would be darling. Everything i dreamed of and so much more
see ya have fun
[Jase] wow love you like a bag of potatoes [Katie] love you like a bag of peppers [Kids] Love you like a pomelo
[Katie Voiceover] In our recent episodes we have shared a few adventures to the gardens to harvest vegetables
for our island family. As COVID is really just now making its mark on the Solomon Islands we have
been in a pretty strict isolation on our small remote island and relying on these nearby gardens
on the mainland for the bulk of our vegetables. We grow what we can at home we spearfish for protein
and we've been using up supplies that remained with us since the closure of the resort in early
2020 with only limited foodstuffs available to us locally throughout the turmoil of this pandemic
A lot of hard work goes into every aspect of remote living
not just on our part but all the people who support us on the periphery
and our family who send us goods from overseas ( even if it takes months to reach us on the island )
[Jase] So much colour. [Katie Voiceover] We created a watch from the start playlist if you're interested in seeing our
stories leading up to this point you should go and check that out and if you'd like to support
us to continue making these videos please subscribe and tune in every Tuesday when we
upload our new episodes. This was a pretty special garden visit and you'll see why in just a moment..
oh she did it
[Katie] that's how you do it
Did you write me a love letter? [Katie] I dunno open it
oh you're kidding is it really yeah
[Katie] a good day to be out on a date hey? [Jase] it is you can tell i'm not on any form of
social media at the moment. Yes i'll be your valentine darling sorry
what a day to spend it hey
now you're gonna make me look terrible for not knowing what day valentine's day
we're not we're not really valentine's day people but i just figured since
we're out on a date we've got a little bit going on at the moment
since we're out on an actual date just the two of us, i thought it would be cute. [Jase] very cute
It is hot work up here..
but it's so nice just being able to come up and harvest beautiful vegetables like this i really feel lucky
so being here seeing all this stuff i'm definitely planning all the things we
can do to preserve some veggies as well so we're taking a lot of red peppers this week
because they're really sweet and delicious and we can only only get mostly green ones
and i'm gonna have a try at lacto fermenting snake bean if anyone's ever done it let me know um
we usually make sauerkraut with cabbage but nobody grows ball cabbage here in the lagoon
you can only buy it in the capital so we can't get it at the moment but yeah snake beans are
quite a strong vegetable so i'm thinking maybe we could ferment them we'll see we'll give it a try
let me know if you've got tips and if not i'll let you know how i go..
[Katie] Down we go
[Katie] This way? [Jase] Yeah that direction.
thank you
[Jase] Grab that bush knife. [Katie] Where's that? oh here
*rain splatters on the boat*
[Katie] Not a bad haul...
let's go home the end of our date... in the rain [Jase] Such enticing weather
Washed and sorted, ready to put in the cool room. So much good produce
this week. i'm gonna roast up some veggies now
[Jase] What are you doing Papa?
What? [Jase] Are you scrubbing the banana bucket? Yep the banana bucket for the cooking bananas to go in to
[Jase] We have got, oh some ripe bananas and some yummy bananas here
ready to go and katie is cooking up i'm just gonna roast some veggies i'm gonna roast some
eggplant and some peppers and then we're gonna preserve it in some lemon juice and oil in jars.. [Jase] yum
the kids would never do that they would never ever get in the water with sharks so that would
be definitely the first time they've ever swum with five sharks. [Katie] it's just the beginning... So cool
*Grandma singing happy birthday onFaceTime*
[Arlo] Thank you Grandma
[Grandma on FaceTime] Are we saving the sticky tape? [Jase] Apparently [Katie] it's probably not a bad
idea we are pretty short on sticky tape at the moment. [Katie] Grandma say hi to youtube. Hi to youtube
Woah Arlo..
[Jase] Now Arlo read this one on the front..
say happy birthday Arlo.. [Ophelia] Happy birfday Arlo
[Arlo] Thank you Filly
Grandma she lives in Aussie see this .. This is Australia it's a big island
*Jill and Grant singing happy birthday*
happy birthday happy birthday, to you.
*cheering and laughing*
This is a special historical gift historical gifts a history gift for Arlo
[Jill] Happy birthday Arlo, [Grant] happy birthday mate
[Katie] Oh this is the natural wrapping we like... [Jase] Can you get down on the floor there Papa
[Jase] Wow... wow Arlo [Grant] Look at that!
careful mate.. it's a very very very very old seashell and it comes from
Nepal we can show you on the map on the globe yes from the Himalayan mountains
it's got very precious metals made into a pattern around it and some gemstones and some gemstones
so it's a treasure treasure wow [Katie] but that Scubapro container.. that's gunna be... [Grant] It's one to keep
wow Arlo look at this look they've covered the shell a real shell that's covered in gold and turquoise
wow i feel like are you sure about this now that's just like a pretty
extreme gift for a four-year-old wow as you know i'm giving away all my
treasures in advance..
[Jase] Arlo that is a real treasure
like an actual treasure it's like you know when you when we go to the pirate ship and
you find treasure in a in a treasure box that is a treasure from a treasure box like whoa there we go
oh there's geodes.. [Katie] smile Arlo ..see if there's crystals in that.. Happy birthday dear Arlo, Happy birthday to you...
Yay! Good job Arlo
Man it is solid too yeah [Jase] Stone cake haha
that's molten rock
Ok which side... this way?
*laughing* I dunno how we're gunna...It's been in the cold room and it has solid chocolate... ohhh look at that!
*Counting*.. Staka cushions staked in a tower.
[Katie] These are a finger puppet to make stories on your fingers *speaking pidgin*
some people are taking this slightly more serious than others *laughing*
Joyce hasn't had a go on the paint brush yet..
and this week on parents take it too seriously
happy birthday happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday
to you happy birthday
Happy birthday to you