We Are Completely Restoring Our ENTIRE Backyard This Spring

Summary

In this video, the hosts of Serendipity Farmhouse take viewers on a casual and humorous tour of their backyard, highlighting the various restoration projects they plan to tackle this spring. From repairing garden boxes and cleaning up the potting area to dealing with pesky carpenter bees and preparing their wood stash, the couple showcases their rustic farmhouse life. Amidst playful banter and a glimpse into their home life, they discuss their future plans and invite viewers to join them on their journey of maintaining and improving their charming 1927 farmhouse.

Highlights

• Old Fuzz Face admits this is their most unplanned video yet, full of rustic charm 🤣.
• Miss Blondie's garden boxes are falling apart, but Fuzzy manages a temporary fix 🌻.
• Hilarious antics include dealing with nature's aerial bombardment (thanks, birds!) 🐦.
• Wood stoves, carpenter bees, and mischievous squirrels add a twist to farmhouse living 🍂.
• Hints at future content involving kitchen gadgets and thermal cookers 🥘.

Key Takeaways

• Old Fuzz Face, known for his charming yet unplanned antics, guides viewers through the backyard restoration plans 🌿.
• Miss Blondie offers playful critiques and praises 'Fuzzy' for his earnest efforts 🤗.
• A nostalgic glimpse into maintaining a 1927 farmhouse with child-like humor 😊.
• A mixture of practical updates, like repairing garden boxes, and quirky anecdotes about carpenter bees and woodpeckers 🐝.
• Fuzzy’s balance of humor and handiwork makes restoring the vintage farmhouse endearing and relatable 🏡.

Overview

Spring is bustling with activity at Serendipity Farmhouse, as Old Fuzz Face and Miss Blondie embark on a mission to rejuvenate their beloved backyard. Kicking things off with candid humor, the pair stroll around diagnosing repair needs—everything from fencing to potting tables. Fuzzy, with his amusing complaints and Blondie’s good-natured ribbing, manage to keep spirits high despite the daunting tasks.

The couple’s rapport is as evident as their seasoned approach to maintaining a farmhouse born in 1927. Their dialogue is peppered with playful jabs about crooked camera angles and extensive to-do lists. The highlight of Fuzzy’s tour arguably involves a battle with carpenter bees and woodpeckers, proving that living on a farm comes with its quirky challenges.

Despite the lazy nature of winter, the dynamic duo tackles their spring list with the kind of zest and positivity that makes for an inviting spectacle. The audience is encouraged to stay tuned for more episodes, possibly involving culinary explorations—ensuring that both their farmhouse and digital content remain fresh and engaging.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:30: Introduction and Setup The chapter introduces the video as a casual and unplanned session by the speaker, who goes by the nickname "old fuzz face." The speaker mentions that the video will cover aspects of farmhouse living, and highlights the challenges of dealing with the aftermath of a long winter, where many repairs and replacements are needed in the farmhouse.
• 02:30 - 03:50: Garden Boxes Restoration The chapter titled 'Garden Boxes Restoration' begins with a tour around the garden to assess the current situation and tasks that need to be done. A couple of weeks prior, a preliminary inspection was conducted during a colder period with plans made to start work as soon as the weather improved. This day marks the beginning of executing those plans, with Miss Blondie taking on the role of inspector to review the garden boxes and decide on the necessary restoration measures.
• 03:50 - 06:30: Potting Table and Backyard Tasks The chapter discusses the narrator's anticipation of approval for their completed work, mentioning that they expect praise such as thumbs up and gold stars. The narrator humorously refers to a past experience at Aldi, suggesting their commitment to thoroughness in their tasks, and hints at upcoming challenges with filming, noting potential issues with camera angles, sunlight, and inevitable mishaps.
• 06:30 - 08:00: Fence and Arbor Maintenance The chapter focuses on maintaining a 1927 farmhouse, with an emphasis on fence and arbor upkeep. The narrator acknowledges the age of the house and the effort put into improving and preserving it. The video may include historical pictures of the property before the current residents moved in. The narrator also asks for understanding regarding any mistakes made during the process, and encourages viewer interaction.
• 08:00 - 11:00: Woodpile and Shed Preparation The chapter titled 'Woodpile and Shed Preparation' invites subscribers to join the channel, emphasizing the value of supporting content creators. The creator shares a preview of future content which will include discussions on kitchen gadgets, thermal cookers, and more, promising a variety of topics for viewers to enjoy.
• 11:00 - 13:00: Shed Interior and Lawn Tractor The chapter titled 'Shed Interior and Lawn Tractor' starts with the narrator mentioning a request made to 'old fuzz figs' to help fix up garden boxes. These boxes are typically used to plant sunflowers and parsley, indicating a focus on gardening activities. The chapter is introduced with music, suggesting a pleasant and perhaps leisurely atmosphere as the narrator discusses gardening plans.
• 13:00 - 15:00: Compost and Garden Boxes The chapter titled 'Compost and Garden Boxes' discusses the condition of the TX garden boxes that are now falling apart due to aging and warping. An individual named old Fuzz managed to temporarily fix the boxes using spare parts, extending the usability for one more year before a complete replacement is necessary.
• 15:00 - 18:00: Riverbank and Fire Pit Plans The chapter outlines a task assigned to Buzzy, which involves rearranging the garden setup. The narrator requested Buzzy to move a potting table from its previous location and rearrange a box container for a better setup. The area was cluttered with leaves and debris, which Buzzy also cleaned up, fulfilling the request to improve the garden's organization.
• 18:00 - 19:00: Conclusion and Teamwork The chapter titled 'Conclusion and Teamwork' summarizes a day where Fuzzy completed a series of tasks successfully, receiving positive feedback ('two thumbs up'). The tasks included blowing leaves off the deck, and there's a mention of upcoming maintenance tasks such as pressure washing and repainting, along with filling in some unspecified areas. This indicates preparation for future improvements or upkeep, emphasizing teamwork and appreciation for effort.

We Are Completely Restoring Our ENTIRE Backyard This Spring Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hi old fuzz face here not old fuzz face Eric this will be one of our least professional most unplanned videos ever you know some people have asked uh you know tell us about farmhouse living well it was a long winter everything is a mess things have to be fixed replaced so we thought we'd
• 00:30 - 01:00 take you on a little tour around and see what needs to be done what we've done just to show you what's going on right to set this up a little bit uh it was 2 or 3 weeks ago mhm we took our first walk around it was cold and we said as soon as the weather gets warm we'll start to work so there were several things we outlined we're going to be going over those today uh but what we're going to take a look at is Miss Blondie is going to inspect
• 01:00 - 01:30 the work that I've already done i know I'm going to get thumbs up and gold stars and everything cuz she's always very maybe she's always very pleased with everything that I do especially when you're crawling around on the floor at Aldi looking for something okay so never mind that part so we'll walk you around uh like I say uh camera angles won't be good sunlight will be getting in the way any number of things will go wrong not can go wrong but will go wrong
• 01:30 - 02:00 but that's okay because this is an old 1927 farmhouse and we're doing our best to maintain it and to improve it right and uh maybe in this video we'll show you some pictures of what it looked like a long time ago long before we ever moved in so let's get on with the program and please please forgive us for uh our mistakes our errors our flubs and also if you get a chance why don't you
• 02:00 - 02:30 subscribe we can use more subscribers especially if you like this kind of content because this is about all we have and we're going to give you the best of what we have right and I think in our one of the next videos somebody wanted to know about kitchen gadgets and so we'll be talking about that too and a thermal cooker and there's a whole bunch of stuff that we can do we would like to share with you so come with us on this little serendipity tour and uh enjoy
• 02:30 - 03:00 enjoy [Music] [Music] one of the first things I asked old fuzz figs to do was to try to fix up my uh garden boxes here and these I usually put sunflowers and uh my parsley my
• 03:00 - 03:30 basil but we bought this these uh TX boxes years ago and they're they're falling apart they're warping and we're going to have to eventually replace them but uh old fuzz face he found some extra parts and so he was able to kind of shore this up for me and he did a good job you know it took him a while but he did a good job and uh this will probably be the last year before we have to replace these thumbs up for old Fuzz yay one
• 03:30 - 04:00 thumbs up oh okay just one okay one of the next things I asked Buzzy to do for me was to uh move my potting table he had it over here last year and the uh box container was over there but it just it just didn't seem right to me so I asked him to to move it for me and to clean up this area it was full of leaves and and debris and uh he did that
• 04:00 - 04:30 yesterday and he did a good job so two thumbs up oh my golly thank you okay now Fuzzy you know he uh blew the leaves off the deck here and uh did some things um we're going to have to pressure wash this or uh we use a special cleaner on it we have to repaint it we got to fill in some of the
• 04:30 - 05:00 uh the cracks here what are all those white spots uh that was overhead uh flying birds it was an aerial bombardment we left the house for about an hour we came back and uh we had visitors oh yeah they love to do that but we've got to get the um the snow scoops and the shovel out of the way fuzzy has got to fix my little greenhouse it's missing a wheel and one thing he did do he did you know he's
• 05:00 - 05:30 attempting to get all of the wood from inside the porch here and to get some of this cleaned up uh it needs a thorough scrubbing it It's uh we do this twice a year get it really nice and ready for the summer for the kids coming over and different different heats now it's very cluttered yep it is uh because we found out the smoker doesn't stand up to the wind very well so we had to bring it inside uh we
• 05:30 - 06:00 still have just in case we have another fire we still have the ash can and the wood bucket and we've been dehydrating things over the winter so the dehydrators out here and various other projects are going on but when summer needs a thorough cleaning right but within two weeks or so this will all be cleaned up yeah yeah it'll be nice again so on these areas I'll give uh Fuzzy a half thumb [Music] because it still needs a lot of work i
• 06:00 - 06:30 know over here okay what did you do over here i removed all the wood and Okay cleaned up some so this wood is still here mhm and uh we took the wood out from inside the porch this wood stays out here until we're sure we don't have to make any more fires this season right uh so it's in reserve okay and this area really needs to be cleaned up because the leaves tend
• 06:30 - 07:00 to get stuck back here yeah so I'm going to give you a half a thumb on this one too oh another half thumb so that means you've got three thumbs okay that doesn't sound right no three thumbs yeah we definitely need to get somebody out here to do some fence repair and this poor thing is falling apart and uh so it's going to take some doing on that one okay can you talk a little bit about the uh carpenter bees and the woodpecker oh
• 07:00 - 07:30 yeah yes yes let's go down and take a look at that we get a lot of uh carpenter bees and the big old woodpeckers love to get over here where the carpenter bees have been and get them out and they tear this whole fence up it's just disgusting but they're getting rid of the carpenter be so what do you do so bottom line is is we have to make repairs and the fence definitely
• 07:30 - 08:00 needs to be cleaned off and to be stained we've got to fix uh several places where there's rot has set in so that's going to be not just this spring but through the summer it's going to be a continuing project ah my famous grapevine arbor it's uh made out of vinyl we've tried wood we've tried uh metal and those didn't work but this one is very lightweight and when we get big heavy winds it topples over so Fuzzy says "I'm
• 08:00 - 08:30 going to fix this." And so what he did he dug a trench deep enough to sink the legs back down and then uh have some wire so he's got it you know secured there and then he and I both we washed off the arbor to get some of the old the mold off of it and I think the grape vine is happier and uh I'm gonna give old Fuzzy two thumbs up on this one good
• 08:30 - 09:00 job Fuzz thank you very much that was joy and effort it was yeah I needed help doing this one there are several places where two hands just weren't enough now you'll notice that this is absolutely vertical and absolutely horizontal it's just that the camera is crooked and Blondie is crooked hey I am not crooked i'm always on the up and up i agree in fact I've got a picture of you showing how levelheaded you are that's right
• 09:00 - 09:30 oh you you see this big old wood pile here this was uh some wood that we got a couple of years ago yeah and it needs to be uh cut in half because it's just they're too big for the wood stove and so Fuzzy he has his saw horse he has his saw his electric saw he just hasn't done it yet so he's got to got to get this
• 09:30 - 10:00 done yep to follow that up there was wood left over from the year before so this last year we bought two cords and we had at least a half a cord remaining this winter was a uh cold and so consequently you used more wood so there's not as much left in reserve
• 10:00 - 10:30 nope and so this is what's left from two and a half cords right here so uh this year we're going to have to order three now at the request of Dear Miss Blondie I clean this place out the reason is uh because in just a few months we're going to be using these
• 10:30 - 11:00 racks right here we're going to have a table in here and this is where we dry our garlic okay so anyway the woodshed is clean right we're ready for drying garlic and we're ready to load on new wood when the time is right any family member that wants to come over in September to help move the wood we would appreciate it here is the barn shed and it definitely needs to get uh some little
• 11:00 - 11:30 bit of repair and stain it it's uh yeah but it's really nice now part of that is going to be that uh I'm getting to the age where yes I can still climb on ladders but maybe it's not the best thing mhm so we'll probably have to have somebody else come out and join me in uh doing this right to get the high spots because it is two level one the lawn tractor comes back on Monday old fuzz face he got it in early not like last year so I'm going to give him a two
• 11:30 - 12:00 thumbs on that one yay you want to show them where the lawn tractor goes uh if I can remember how this open just open it just pull it no the other side there we go oh the other side yeah okay so so this is where we park the lawn tractor and we have some of our other power tools before when we first moved here there was no wooden floor in here it was just the mud underneath and it was really sad
• 12:00 - 12:30 when you came out in the spring and you had to dig your lawn tractor out of the mud because it would sink down about 6 to 8 in so we had wooden floors put in yep we're going to Buzzy is going to have to uh like I said replace these uh TX boxes and we've already ordered the metal boxes so he's got to put those together and I came in here the other day and cleaned up my two herb boxes back there and they're looking pretty good the garlic is looking pretty good except the squirrels want to get in
• 12:30 - 13:00 there and dig it up but I think we're going to have a good garlic crop yeah we're also going to have a good black walnut crop h because the squirrels love to plant black walnuts i do not like black walnuts what a pain they are yes another thing that will have to be done is uh our ability to make compost uh I was sort of lax on that last year didn't do what I needed to do this year I hope to use the compost the way it's
• 13:00 - 13:30 supposed to be done yeah yeah okay so how many thumbs do I get this was mine i get two thumbs up what what did you do in here i watched no thumbs for watching well when you watch me you get thumbs up h I think I just got a thumbs down okay this is the middle part of the
• 13:30 - 14:00 shed and it really needs to be cleaned up you'll see two boxes right in the foreground those are supposed to each box contains two of the U corrugated steel or say um garden boxes two of the garden boxes and uh we're going to do a box unpacking and show you how they go together and then also give you a little bit of a feel whether it was worth worth the money that we paid for them all right these are the other garden
• 14:00 - 14:30 boxes we use and um I came out here the other day and cleaned up the asparagus bed and there's my um strawberries are coming up but all of these boxes have to be replaced too yeah so let me do a close-up on just what's happening to those boxes i don't I don't recommend that you know uh TX will last a long time but it isn't sturdy enough right it bows and then
• 14:30 - 15:00 eventually falls apart so it's time for these a couple of these boxes have been here for 10 years uh and it's understandable lifetime of 10 years but really uh I'd prefer something that had a much longer lifetime yep so working on that so that's pretty much of the to-do list that we have right now just second no there's one more we need to take a walk down to the river oh down to the river down to the river i thought that's
• 15:00 - 15:30 all you had for me to do no okay let's walk down to the river don't you love spring every autumn I pay some a landscaper to come out and clear all of this area out by the river and then over the course of those months you know old tree limbs fall down and ice storms ice storms and weeds
• 15:30 - 16:00 start growing up and so Fuzzy every year he says "You know what i'm going to get down here and we're going to clean this up." And I'm praying that he does this year uh there are three ways that this can be fixed one way is we can have pay somebody to come out and do it which is what we normally do once a year once a year but not twice a year and
• 16:00 - 16:30 uh another way is that we can have a big flood and the water will wash everything away that's not likely i can hope can I you don't want a flood you're right okay then the third way is old FuzzFace is going to have to put on his heavy boots uhhuh and come down here drag that stuff up and then determine what can be used in the wood stove and then the fire pit then the fire pit
• 16:30 - 17:00 so there's the fire pit way down there mhm and uh it will be the scene of or the site for many a good fire in the evening time oh yeah and a lot of what you see here is going to end up over there right anything else you'd like to say we got our work cut out for us somebody has their work cut out for
• 17:00 - 17:30 them i help you now don't give me that line you're right you do and I love you love you too sweetheart now one thing that we be a little bit more serious When two people have been together as long as we have uh we've learned how to set up priorities and to do things together and this is just one of the ways doing our spring walk through figuring out what needs to be done right and then planning
• 17:30 - 18:00 it and going ahead and doing it yep so anyway that's all we have for right now all righty [Music] [Music]