 I've got my new marker lights for my truck, we're going to install the damper tomorrow. It's a clear lens. It does have the orange on the side but that's okay. We're going to put on my new blower motor for the bunk heater. I know you guys have been hearing about this a lot. Slowly getting to the point of getting it fixed. One thing at a time so now we've got a rebuild kit that was sent to me from my friend Jim so I'm able to get everything else rebuilt in it. I've also bought a new blower motor because I think the electric fan motor in there is shot because the fan won't even start turning now but if I reach in there and give it a little helping start oh then it fires up for a little bit and then it gets you know it goes up and down up and down also just shuts off again so I'm pretty sure that blower motor like this in the bunk heater is shot. So we've got anyone we've got to install this day after tomorrow. I had to pick it up today because I say Saturday when I'm filming this and Monday it's the day I booked off to get all this stuff done. It's a Louis Rielde here in Manitoba so it's a it's a provincial holiday. Not much stuff is open and the post office isn't open here so I won't be able to pick anything up so I had to pick it up today so I just brought it here to the shop so it's already checked on everything. I've got to get back to the house. Theo is napping right now and I want to get there before he wakes up. So not much going on today it's my day off. Whoa this lighting is not going to work. How's that? Here he's napping. And Britt has gone into town to uh or crossed town to grab some groceries and stuff. I've still not gotten used straight on here but I'm struggling with my angles here. It's a little bit too low. What if I just jack you up just a little bit? That's not going to work either. One second I've got to figure this out. There sort of got you. Not the most flattering angle I know but uh working here getting all my clips from the last couple of days I'll organize so that I can put them into vlogs for you. As of right now this moment when I'm filming this I have all the way up until Tuesday edited that was where we were in Quebec still and now I have to edit the trip back. So there was a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and today's Saturday four days that I got to edit. That's why the videos are a little bit behind because on the way back I didn't have time to edit. It was just go go go go go. So once I get home and I get some time uh like he's napping now so I have a little bit of time to get everything organized. On Monday I was already telling you that's sort of my day that I booked off to get some stuff done at the shop. I'm probably going to catch up on some videos then as well. What is free time right? I don't have any free time. This is the freest of time I have. The wife is gone to get groceries. My son is sleeping and I have maybe maybe an hour maybe two to get some stuff done not to just sit and do nothing. That's life right? That's life. I like to be busy. I think I told you that this week right? I like to stay busy. I don't like having nothing to do. I don't know what it feels like to be bored. I've never I don't ever have time to be bored. Must be nice. I wish I had more time to sleep. That's what I'd like. I don't even want to be bored. I just I guess that's what happens if I'm bored. I just sleep. I just go to sleep. I'm an old man now. That's what happens. Yeah we'll get this all together and I showed you the blower motor that came in so that bunk heater that I've been talking about for a good month now. There is no just just running kerosene through it isn't doing the trick and now the fan stopped working and I can't remember how much I explained to you while I was at the shop I guess while I'm editing this I'll know if I'm repeating myself or not but I apologize if I am repeating. So the fan doesn't want to turn but I'll reach in there and I'll give it a little to give it a little bit of a help and then it goes up for a little while then it sort of loses power and loses momentum and then it goes back down. So I'm pretty sure that it's the blower fan motor that's burnt out or just old so I'm replacing that and then my friend Jim in the US has very kindly sent me a rebuild kit which isn't like I don't take the whole bunk heater apart it's not like rebuilding a motor it's it's got gaskets so I replace the gaskets I take it all apart I can replace the glow plug all of the screens in there I clean it all out of all the soot make sure that all the airways are clear and then I put it all back together with the new gaskets and new fuel filters and then that new blower motor will go in there as well I plug it in and cross my fingers and hope that that'll work so I'm trying to do this myself to save some money because we've had some expenses pop up lately as you as you saw in my video was that yesterday I shared with you the expenses of the IVF and this is our second time going through it and I like to share that with you because there's a lot of people a lot of people like it seems like it used to be more of a taboo subject to talk about being on or going through IVF but it's so common once you go through it you you meet so many people so many people it's it's kind of alarming how the fertility rates have dropped in our countries it's it has to be in the food we eat right we the doctor can't even explain it everything's working right with me everything's working right with her I have a good count she has good eggs like but the meeting is just not happening but we know it's possible because we have our son right it with the help of the doctors yeah it happens just like that it's just a thing in life that's just how our life has been I guess it's the cards we've been dealt so thank god for modern medicine and modern doctors and it's amazing what they can do it's amazing incredible and then we get him so in the coming months you'll hear me talking about it a little bit just to keep everybody up to date on what our second journey is like going through this process if you guys were with us through the whole last process it's the same thing all over again we just live in a different house now and we'll see how that goes but the truck I need to go there also after I'm done working on the bunk here hopefully we can get that working then I gotta replace little signal lines yet I need to rinse it down and I want to start trying that POR 15 the rust sealant little little sections at a time I'm trying to seal my frame behind my cab all of the paint has been sort of sandblasted off by the road and road around over the years right the truck's got a lot of miles on it and all the paints come off which means that the metal is exposed to the elements exposed to oxygen and exposed to moisture you know what that does with metal it creates rust and rust isn't good because rust eats into it and can weaken it over time and I don't want it to get to that so for now I'm going to seal it so that it's not exposed to the elements so that it doesn't rust further that it maintains its strength and in about two years is what my plan is right now it's in my two to three year plan I'm thinking probably early 2026 so that's all 2024 all of 2025 in early 2026 is when I want to do the frame job on my truck which means we want to put an extra 24 inches on it I want to mount an APU on it an APU is an auxiliary power unit for those who aren't in trucking what it does is in wintertime it keeps the cab of my it's a separate engine that runs runs off diesel fuel I believe I've shot of the tanks but it's a separate motor all together so you don't have to idol your truck motor which saves a lot of money in the long run it uses a lot less fuel than idling as well it keeps your whole cab warm in the wintertime and it also keeps your engine warm and keeps your batteries charged so you never have to worry about having to have batteries in the morning and the thing that that does that my bunk heater that I have now doesn't do other than charging the batteries it also provides air conditioning in summertime so I'm a Canadian I kind of like it cold I don't like it minus 30 cold that's beyond cold but I like it cool I always like everything to be cool in summertime I really struggle in the heat especially if I go south and it's ridiculously hot I find it hard to breathe I can't sleep and if I'm not sleeping that makes me more tired I like to have it cool so this this APU what it'll do is it mounts on your frame in that extra 24 inches that extra two feet that I'm stretching it it'll mount on there it hooks up and then it pumps air conditioning into your truck and you don't have to idle your engine again there's some states in the U.S. where you're not even allowed to idle your engine like New York where we were recently not allowed to idle your engine so you have to have something like that to keep cool otherwise you know you can get hot and bad things happen when you get too hot especially if your body's not used to it that's the plan for that and then on the other side of the frames APU on the passenger side probably on the other side I'm going to put a chain rack there it's just pretty much hooks with a lock that goes over it where I can put my tired chains that way they're nice and visible they're out in the open they're easy to get to they're also visible to DOT when you go over the scales when you're in a region that requires chains they can see oh yeah this guy's got his chains on there they look neat they look clean they look well kept and then there's more of a chance let's just let him go through like this guy's good this guy's gonna they won't want to pull me in to make sure I have chains or something I can see right there so that's that's one thing I want to do with that and see where we go from there not much of a vlog today this is just sort of an update video just me sitting down chatting to you guys it's the weekend I hope you guys are having a great weekend I don't know if you're watching this on the weekend or not but whenever you have your day off if it happens to be today great whenever you have a day off I hope you have one coming soon I hope it's a good one I hope you get a relax and take some time just to decompress a little bit tomorrow there'll be another video up we have what are we doing tomorrow well I'll be at home again tomorrow so I'm not sure if there'll be a video filmed tomorrow here at home unless it's just another one like this just sitting down us chatting maybe I'll do a live stream but on Monday that's when we'll be at the shop you can come in and laugh at me as I attempt to fix this bunk heater once and for all it's been my urchin emesis this winter I haven't been able to get it fixed so I'm doing the real thing now I'm taking it apart you can feel free to tune in laugh at me see if I can actually fix something or not I have no idea what I'm doing I got YouTube and I got the parts I got tools so I'll figure it out I'll see you guys a little later