 These apples are getting huge, so we've got a little spot on it. What's that one? Oh boy. You all got that? It's huge. They're looking tasty. Good morning everybody. I'm feeling much better today. You know it really is amazing how quickly these things get dirty. I polished it and you know on that one street I was showing you the other day where they're doing that water work, redoing the pipelines and all. Every morning they got a little bit of water flowing across the street and I always forget to go around the other way. Just a few little stretches of just a little bit of water and you just get a mess to clean up later. Oh well, that's part of life. Just a few puddles. Just a few little puddles and you get a whole mess to clean up later. It's impossible to keep anything clean. I gotta just stop trying sometimes, you know. Look at this girl. Old Betsy. You know, you clean her and she almost looks dirtier than when you started cleaning her. And the next day she's all covered in dirt and mud again. Ah, but it can get depressing if you think that way, so we don't want to think that way. Oh they got my strap up on the seat there. That's good. That means they fixed my steps on the other side. Because that's what was holding my steps, I remember. Let's see how they did. Just about fell out of my truck yesterday, what did they do here? Ah, okay. See, they didn't weld it this time. This time they bolted it on. I think that'll hold. Right on. Good job, guys. Good, good, good. Okay, I'm going to check the oil in this beast. I just want to get the computer booting up over there. But I got to turn the key on so that the computer starts booting up. There we go. So by the time I'm in here, I can log in, open her up, check out her innards. What are you doing? Oh, I have this wire hanging here again. It's been bugging me. These are the wires for these right here, right? And I keep slipping out of here. I'm going to need two hands to tie that on there again. Now I don't want to complain because everyone's going to tell me how much I'm complaining and that I should stop complaining. But I'm going to complain a little bit here, okay? So get ready to complain because I'm complaining. People who drive Peterbilt with the Cummins, do you agree with me that that is the most inconvenient spot for the washer fluid jug under the hood? First of all, it's on the passenger side. Why isn't it on the driver side? Second of all, it's right underneath this so you can't even really fully get anything in there. I mean, you can, but it's very difficult to get that last little bit out of the jug, you know? Am I just being whiny? I'm sorry. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. That is a bad design. I'm sorry. I'm sticking with my guns on this one. Sticking to my guns. You know what I mean? Sticking to my guns, isn't it? That's terrible. And you know, everyone's just going to be telling me, just get a funnel, trucker Josh. Just get a funnel. And use a funnel. And it'll work every time. I mean, I got to go and get an extra part because your part isn't placed correctly. So I got to go and get an extra part to make up for your part. And then I got to bring a funnel out every time. That's even more stuff to complain about. Boy, you're going to get a lot of complaining then. That was the last of mine, so I'm going to have to go and pick up another couple of jugs at the shop before I head out today. There you go. There you go, old Betsy. Rusty old fart you. She may be old. She may be rusty, but she's still pretty, right? Right? Just wink and nod. You're a good looking girl. I want to keep her happy so that she doesn't break down on me. Well, she's looking like she's ready to rock. Some of these LED lights are going to have to get looked at soon, though. One benefit of having the LED lights with all the little lights in there is that if a couple of them burn out, the light is still good. Whereas the old incandescent lights, if you burn out, the whole light is bad, right? Like here you see there's two burnt out in there, but it's still good. Two burnt out there was still good and a bunch burnt out on that one, but it's still good. And this one's also working fully yet. This one also has the switch for the warning lights right at the back here, which is handy, I guess, but you're never going to be hauling over dimension freight on this trailer. It'd be pretty hard. It'd have to be poking through the through the tarps. Very smoky out again today. These fires just will not go out. It's not as bad as it was the other day, but we got what, maybe a mile of visibility approximately. It's about as bad as it was that one day when we went to go pick up those culverts. It's about the same. Everything smells like bonfire. Even your clothes, when you go home at night, your clothes just smell like smoke, like bonfire smoke, not cigarette smoke. That would be gross. I hate the smell of cigarette smoke. Bonfire smoke, I kind of like the smell of it, but usually that's because it comes with a good bonfire experience. When it doesn't come with that same experience, it's kind of as hard on the lungs too. Oh, look, it's getting even thicker here. You can't even see the bridge yet. Wow. That's going to be another one of those days. I've got a step deck. You already saw it behind me, rule type. Those are always the fun ones. These step decks are always such a pain to open and close. They're not that hard. There's a lot of drivers out there that'll talk like it's the end of the world when they have to open these things. I did this by myself in like five minutes. It's just it is more inconvenient because of the step. This part right here, you can see it on that side there. Those little wheels there got to get onto that little piece of steel there or aluminum. And then you got to tie it together up there. It's not that difficult. It's just a little bit more of a pain in the butt. We've got two risers down there just in case we need it. There's one of my pieces over there already. We're going to put four of those on the bottom here. And then I have some smaller pieces you can see right through there. Three over there, one right here that we're going to stack up on the step. There's Stony Mountain Penitentiary. That's our max security prison here in Manitoba. So the worst of the worst are hanging out right there. A lot of them for their entire lives. Oh, it's cleared up quite a bit. I can sort of see a grain elevator way up there that's about two miles ahead. I'd say that invisibility has gotten up to about two miles. Very hazy at that distance though, but you can see clearly for at least a mile. Just crazy. This summer has been crazy. I have never experienced so much smoke. Like there's been forest fires before, obviously. But usually, you know, it's smoky for a couple of days and then it clears up. Now it's just like all summer comes and goes and comes and goes. But when it goes, it doesn't fully go. It's still kind of smoky all the time. We never get to see the clear blue sky anymore. It's always, even on a clear day, it's always like a hazy, hazy sky. A little smoke. It's too bad. It looks like the fields are getting ready to harvest. I mean, getting closer to harvest season though. Before you know it, the farmers will be out there harvesting whatever they can. It's been such a dry year. I mean, I'm not a farmer, so I don't know how bad it's actually gotten. But, you know, they say it's been bad, really bad as well. If you're a farmer down below and you're in the prairies of Canada or maybe in the plains of the US, Northern Midwest of the US, like North Dakota, down to Kansas, that area there. How are your crops doing this year? You guys got some rain where you're at. Well, well. Oh, it's moving now. It's moving. The train had stopped on the tracks again on the perimeter highway. There's a few cars backed up here. It's not bad. No need for an overpass. Don't worry. We can wait. We can wait. I'm sure there are much more important things. I found a gear. Man, what's wrong with me? That sneeze was distracting me. Oh boy, this train goes all the way out there yet. We're on the east side of Winnipeg right now. Whoa, these brakes are sharp too. What's going on with me? Must have adjusted everything. It was hang tight. This will be a while.