 Well good morning everybody You know what time it is Time to go sit outside and do absolutely nothing. You're right I took my socks off though. It's a hot one. I Went out there. I was wearing long pants socks these big like winter slippers. What am I doing? I came in here to put shorts on and get my sandals. It's hot out so my unscheduled week off is Here it's the first day. So sometime this week. We got to get this all covered up with drywall taped puttyed painted Which means we got to paint the rest of this as well. We may not get to everything, but We'll at least get this closed off, right? We can always we don't have to paint it We don't have to paint it right away. I would like to but there's also a few other things. I'd like to get done I'm just about to go out and sit on the porch for a little bit And then we're gonna start pumping water from our creek into the pond see if we can get that pond level to come up The pond is looking really good. It's nice and clear the aeration is really helping it a lot this year So we're gonna be at home for the next week heads up We will get back to trucking, but you can come hang out with me at home for a few days if you'd like Well, when I'm filming this it's Canada day. So happy Canada day wearing the appropriate shirt Got all the stuff for the pond on the back of the truck here Gonna do some trimming while I'm out there So, okay, so what I'm gonna do what I'm gonna attempt to do the amateur that I am This is a big steel post with some steel wire at the top here I'm gonna shove that down into the creek in and then I'm gonna hang the pump From this just so that it's not right on the bottom sucking up everything on the bottom Run the hose Into the pond. Let's see what happens. Oh And I'm excited. Let's see It's a hot day. Well, have I mentioned that yet? It's a hot day Was it it's 27 30 so it's probably in the 80s like 80 No close to 90 Fahrenheit That'll have summertime All right, so I brought those clippers down to clip these little trees to trim them up a little bit Set the drill properly talking about These little guys down there that guy there see how he's growing up more like a bush I want them to grow tall like a tree and it's hard to mow around these guys here So I gotta trim the bottom of them a little bit way up here the pond For WD. I don't even need it And the creek or the pond I mean looks so clear the aeration system is working so well I Show you it's a bit windy I hope the mic won't pick up all the wind the creek is pretty deep because we've been having quite a bit of rainfall this year So it's good lots of water. We can suck out of there and bring it to here This pond is looking really nice and clear remember all that gunk that was on there look at this It's looking beautiful beautiful. Let's go down here Let's take a walk down to the beach shall we So I want to raise the level of this water probably to about here probably about another at least four feet there's a lot of Seaweed or whatever weed at the bottom of this here yet. Probably can't see it because of the reflection But look how clear that is It's wonderful So if we're lucky we might even get to go swimming later on today or tomorrow And this grass is really grown fast here. Look you barely see where the pump is over there It's all covered Got a trim around that yet That's a nice picture right there. Just take a picture of that look at that Chevy up on the hill. It's beautiful I don't know why I left you running girl Wasteful of me Here you rest your beautiful your beautiful chevveness. You just take a rest right there. Okay Enjoy the summer Okay, let's figure out if I can do this No idea what I'm doing. It's gonna be fun though I gotta learn somehow so it's like we got a little snake In the pond Shooting water in there. I'm just letting it dance around whatever. It's not hurting anything goes from here I was using this but I'm gonna try it out with just the extension cord for now if that doesn't work. I can always use this Generator right here and we got it Down there on the stick. You see it. That's the calmest water I could find I got it hanging so that is not touching the bottom I just wish the creek was deep enough so that I could trust that little floating to turn it off But I gotta sit here and watch it the creek shouldn't go any lower but It's not working as fast as I thought it might You know, it's the same thing with those aerators, you know, it's unless if I go and buy a big commercial system This is what I got to deal with Whatever we'll see it's supposed to be 3,500 gallons an hour It'll take several hours to raise this pond up even a little bit Well, see if it works. I mean We may have to go and buy a gas-powered commercial pump, right? Or a bigger pump anyway I'm an amateur what? Don't judge me Trying my best here The water's so clear and the water's so nice. I'd love to go swimming in there already. We just gotta get it a little deeper So we'll see what this does. We'll leave this here for a few hours and see what this does So apparently I burnt already Because I'm a canadian Both sides burnt What can you do you got to do it? You just got to jump in the deep end Just go out in the sun you get really burnt and then After that it turns into a nice tan and then you're good for the rest of the year. You won't burn again I'm pretty sure people with melanoma will not concur What you're supposed to do Skin cancer. Oh pretty sure what you're supposed to do is put on sunscreen and wear a hat and then blots of water And go out for 15 and 20 minute intervals every day. I did wear a hat chevy Protected my head. That's why my head's not burnt. You didn't wear any sunscreen. I don't need sunscreen. I'm a man Somebody please lecture him besides me What I say doesn't get through to him, but if his mom says it suddenly he listens Mom knows everything though. I'm not gonna deny that but I know just as much as very you just don't listen to me Then he and mom will probably say I never listen to her either You do sometimes Honestly, there's been there's been a couple of circumstances where like I'll give him advice for like a year straight a couple times And then his mom will come out and say the exact same thing like energy drinks I kept telling him speaking of this first one. I've seen you drink in a while This one's got the this one's a special one I preached at him for like two years straight and then his mom sends him an article and then he stops drinking them Really? Mama mama says mama say that's just top drink energy drinks Bobby Billy is Billy medicine my mama say bouche my mama say energy drinks all to the devil My mama say my mama say So we've been sitting here on the porch most of the day Uh, just enjoying canada day Is the flag right there. We're just watching her uh Flop around doing her canada day thing suddenly the winds died down, but it was pretty windy most of the day It was really nice. Mm-hmm It's been a hot day though We got the pump working at the pond so far the pond has raised two inches I think I'm gonna go down there and check on it again Of course you are Oh, I gotta check on it It's my project You gonna come help are you coming? No, I'll be right back Come on diesel Go check on the pond Come on bud. Come on. We're going down to the pond this way. Hey Come here Oh, I love the way these trees smell they have that smell of nature All right, so let's see. I put a marker Where the waterline was when I first started the pump. I still got it pumping water in. Yeah, it's still going Okay, so Oh, let's come up quite a bit All right, where this stick is here diesel careful Every that stick is there. That's where the waterline was a couple of hours ago Or yeah, put two hours ago. See that now the waterline is there So it's slow It's a slow process, but it is getting deeper Really want to go swimming What do you think diesel you want to go swimming? I once again have our house in a mess. It is drywall day Britt went off to work and I have been left with the task of one second. I got a sneeze I'm excited We're doing drywall So I already got these two outlet holes for those down there A lot of people would do the drywall horizontally like this. I'm going to do mine vertically Just because uh, I'm here by myself and it would be pretty difficult for me to lift up a whole piece of drywall and hold it there Even if I put in like little screws to rest it on that's how the drywall was before already That's the last people did it. That's just how I'm going to do it again I've cut off an inch Off the end here already because it is one inch short of eight feet to the roof Should fit in and now that I got those Holes cut out. I'm just going to cut the power to those those outlets there Poke them through there and let's see if we can get this First piece up and we're almost half done All right diesel you gonna help You gonna help man What are you doing? Did mom know you're doing this she's gonna be so mad. She's probably that's probably her right now. She won't what you're doing You work in your house I'm fixing the house diesel I think look that way. It looks like you're making a big mess man It'll look good. I promise Promise And so what I've done I've cut the power and I've confirmed double check to make sure that there's no power We're going to these outlets here this light switch in that outlet. I've just Arranged them in a way that they can poke through these holes as I push the drywall into place Let's see what happens. Let's see what happens Okay, let's put you guys there All right wish me luck my very first ever drywall installation Number one and you're here with me Okay, we got a Okay So I totally messed the first one up made those holes too big So that's why I bought extras. You know me knowing me Figured I may as well have some extra sheets here just in case so here we go round two This is the most difficult one because this one's got the outlets, right? The rest won't be as difficult Let's try again There we go. That's better. All right Fits a little bit more of a gap at the top than I want it, but I can fix that with tape and putty Much more of a gap than I want it like I only took off an extra quarter inch And now it looks like I took off another inch at the top That's frustrating. I'm glad I don't do this for a living But then again if I did do this for a living I'd probably be a lot better at it I'll just stick to driving trucks. I guess There we go. I got it pinned up. Just got to put the rest of the screws in got two in there Holding it there. I was able to uh Leverage it up push it up just enough so that it's even with the roof there as close as I can get it Tape and putty will fill up the rest The lights and socket down there. It's perfect I think it turned out pretty good. Not bad for a first timer huh Not bad Very nice Now for the next one I'm gonna screw this one in totally first and get those plugs put in but That was the easy one I think we're making progress All the drywall is up All day For just this little section imagine if I did this no one would hire me if that was my job I still gotta putty it First coat and then do the second coat tomorrow what took a lot of the day Though it wasn't just the drywall. Uh, we also Installed this An outdoor plug so that we have Power in the back because there's no other outlets back here so once again We got to get this all mopped up last time I did this My camera didn't even like it that I was doing so much cleaning and it corrupted all of my files apparently remember that day All my files were prepped from that day so I'm not even gonna try this. I'm just gonna get this all cleaned up before brick gets home I've got about two hours. So I'll get this all cleaned up the floor is mopped then I can start mudding putty and whatever you want to call it taping the other stuff Well, at least I gained some experience now and I know what I'm doing What do you think Chevy? What do you think? Not bad Got the first layer of mud on there We've got to do a second layer eventually yet, but for now it's all closed up and almost ready for paint Almost ready. Well, that's it for today guys See you again tomorrow