 good morning morning diesel I know I'm a little confused too woke up in a strange place so if you didn't catch yesterday's video our truck is in the shop and they're waiting for a part a simple part that's going to take a little while to get here so until then I've been put up in this motel and try to keep ourselves busy better than what it is back home back home they go snow on the ground I'll take it there before you see that's why I need the coffee I almost started the coffee maker without the cup under there there we go perfect so yes good morning we are here another day yep it's not so bad I mean this coach here I'm just oh yeah sit right down here making some coffee for myself diesel and I are gonna go for a walk in a bit right diesel I'll explore this place it's a little chilly outside today I wish I would have brought a warmer sweater but whatever or Manitoba's you can handle it right diesel lucky we find it found a pet friendly place to stay so quickly yeah actually they're saying that the hotel industry right now is is pretty much decimated by all the lockdowns and everything so I think they only had 10 rooms booked and it looks like they probably have like 150 rooms probably more than that probably close to 300 rooms here they have like 10 rooms booked so I had pretty much my pick of the hotel whatever I wanted I could have had a big master suite but this is all I needed just a nice big bed TV good internet access and pet friendly so and and cheaper I mean not my fault the truck broke down and it's not my truck so I'm not paying for the motel but I'm not gonna go and grab the most expensive expensive room either I mean that's just taking advantage of it and I took the cheapest one cheapest most comfortable one I'm a basic kind of guy I don't need anything fancy so I know there's more than a few of you who've reached out to me want to you get together or you know hang out while I'm out here and I'll just let you know now you know due to the whole pandemic and stuff going on right now it's probably best that I just hang out in my motel room as much as possible by myself you know I've I've got to go all the way back to Manitoba I've got to go with Georgia back to Manitoba I've been in BC it's best that I stay you know self-isolated as possible so maybe next time maybe once this is all over and I'm out here and the truck breaks down again in the future and we can go over coffee hang out a little bit but for now I'm just gonna hang out by myself at the motel I'm okay with that I'm more I'm a truck driver I'm used to being alone it doesn't scare me or it doesn't affect me much the only thing that sort of bums me out is that I'm gonna be home later now and Brit was talking with her mom and her sister maybe they're gonna do their girls we can't at our house so that she can watch the dogs I'll probably be home like mid weekend so maybe they can do half of it at our house so she can watch the dogs and they can leave to go where they were going to originally go the next day like one day later or something and then I'll be home after that to watch the dogs but you know dogs are like kids I was gonna have someone to watch them and they need special needs it's Chevy is special needs when it comes to his food he's allergic to everything he's very finicky when he goes outside he's got to go through a certain routine weiner and big Frank especially big Frank has to have his routine when he eats his meals otherwise he won't eat and diesel well he'll be fine he's he's he's a traveling dog he's seen it all he's been right close to the border with Alaska hasn't been in Alaska yet but he's been to every province of Canada and every territory except Nunavut we've never been to Nunavut I've been to he hasn't been to every continental US state yet but he's been to a lot of them and we haven't been to Hawaii obviously and Alaska but maybe we'll go to Alaska yet we do have loads that go up there I'm gonna request it one of these days in summertime when I have like a month because it's like a four to five week endeavor to go there and you know have a reload deliver that and come home so we'll see what happens my coffee's ready yes God does love me like with life it's the first one of the morning I drank all my coffee in here last night I had to go down to the front desk to ask if I could have some more they're gonna get to know me pretty well I think see any kind of some more coffee please I drank it all again oh hot and black that's good that's good wow I'm not gonna say it's like wow wow but it's like a wow it's good oh that hits the spot yep mm-hmm so I've got this new game Age of Empires 3 definitive edition or something like that it wasn't too bad I spent last night playing until 4 in the morning coffee numero 2 what I wonder if I drink more coffee when I get bored where are we going bud where are you taking us oh dear oh boy where are we going man going on an adventure are we well okay okay keep going bud keep going right behind you keep going oh boy these are what you go around that way right there I got it took a shortcut it's a long way around if we go on the road so we figured out we'll just cut through the bush we're man it's open bush people will be fine yeah it's not that bad it's not that bad diesel just keeps getting his leash tangled up and everything okay bud why don't you let me guide let me guide okay I'll find us a good path okay you walk where I walk okay and we don't get all tangled up see how much easier that is come on diesel exactly where I go okay one second exactly where I go we made it open pasture all right that saved a lot of time actually just going back to the truck to grab some stuff that I left there much better so dealership is just right up the hill there realized it last night but I had left my passport in the truck and I don't like spending any amount of time that far apart from one of the most important documents I own I mean of course you can always get it replaced but that doesn't happen immediately I'd probably be stuck in New Brunswick for a couple of weeks and as nice as the place is around here I'd like to go home too you know that's tough to do there this is a good excuse for a walk though a little bit of a hike in the hotel but it's good for me it's good for him too and I don't want to pay for a taxi because I'm cheap there she was up on the hill got everything we needed and I picked up diesels what do you call it they in a halter that's a little easier to walk him I'm not so hard on his neck a little more comfortable for him now we go back and we play more computer games because I'm 32 years old I need something like this a little bit bigger though when we get the new property I've been running definitely gonna have to do some tractor shop these are Mahindra's anybody know anything about this brand they good brand or even now and over there I don't know if I'll need the backhoe but the bucket would be handy I'm sure you get a snowblower attached before it too I want a cab on it though so that we can snow blow in the winter time in comfort because it's Manitoba and it's minus 50 trying to do a roll-by we're so good this morning but I started from the other side you don't want to be there around you over man we go you're ready I don't know right what are you using you want to do a roll-by okay push you around here we go I got you one more time one more time here we go oh you did good you did good diesel that fun no so I was able to get everything I needed from the truck the main thing was the passport I don't want to leave that there I don't think anything would happen to it we're in New Brunswick what's the worst that could happen but then again you never know so I got the passport brought back here it was only like a what was it four kilometer round trip walk like three miles it was good as the perfect length for me and diesel I got to be careful with this guy though he's getting a little older so can't work him as hard as I used to he used to only start settling down on our walks and running out of energy around four kilometers or three miles now by the time we get to that point he's done he's done it's time to go lay down and have a snack that right diesel don't worry man life catches up with all of us eventually you got a long time yet though buddy he just got to start doing things a little differently that's all still got a long time take good care of you I think on the next trip I might be leaving him at home he's got to go to the vet when we get home sort of like an old-age check that I'd like to do he's got a dry patch on his belly of skin that I'm kind of worried about and I want the vet to take a look at it he's also got this little mark on his eye him and Chevy were wrestling and he got a little bit of a scrape under his eye here and it's taking a little longer than usual to heal it swelled up a little bit in the past couple of weeks and then it went back down it was almost healed and he scratched it open again and I had to clean it and I just want to give him an overall check you know make sure that he's he's doing all right see if he needs any any meds or anything that he should be on and at this age and what kind of supplements could help him be a little more comfortable he's already on glucosamine supplements salmon oil and Frankie well Wiener the Wiener dog back home Brits dog he's on he has heart meds that he has to take every day with every meal or twice a day anyways and that's because he has an enlarged heart and we caught that early so it probably won't affect his lifespan at all but you know everybody needs a good physical every now and then just to check make sure everything's working right all the pipes are clear right at your heart's doing all right oh yeah it's the good stuff man worked up a bit of an appetite on the walk hey oh yeah eat it all buddy eat it all so I make it into like a little soup for him a little porridge loves it he won't eat it if it's just dry but if you add a little bit of water in there it just gobbles it down I think his uh it hurts his mouth a little bit with the hard food and food needs to be softened up just a little bit but not too soft because if you soak the food and it sits for too long and it gets all mushy it won't eat it then either it's got to be freshly souped you put the you put the well lately what I've been doing is putting a little bit of water in there first then putting the food on top of the water just swishing it around a bit and handing it to him he seems to like it that way because I used to let it soak for about five ten minutes or whatever and then give it to him because I thought that he wanted it softer but then he wouldn't touch it either now look at him go gotta find the perfect balance of soupiness and all of our dogs are picky like this and I know I know it's probably a product of us that's we probably encourage it a little bit I don't want to I want him to be happy he doesn't have very long on this earth you know it's nine years old the senior now I'm hoping he's got another like six years and I'm yet but I want to make him comfy make him make him happy you know whatever he wants I don't got any actual skin babies to spoil so Britain I both we spoil our dogs a lot I know we spoiled at least they always get the best of everything right yeah that's one reason why we can't always just have anybody watch our dogs either because each and every one of them has a specific need especially Chevy like I've been saying he's got all these allergies and everything gotta make sure you don't let him have what he's not supposed to have or he'll have the runs for a week and each one has a specific eating pattern big Frank back home the little big guy he he won't eat unless if you do it just a specific way for him he's worse than diesel like what I was describing for diesel it's just and they all have to go out and go to the bathroom at the right time otherwise they won't go and then they'll wake you up in the middle of the night and we know our dogs very well we're a little bit obsessive but hey I say it's better to be a little bit obsessive than a little bit negligent right maybe we're a lot obsessive maybe probably yeah we're pretty obsessive we're pretty obsessed with our dogs yeah what do you think diesel what do you think got any words for the chef very nice may very perfect a level of suitiness each one said you're going to be every last will come here always good very good oh yeah get it all but I like to see you eat like that sometimes he doesn't eat when he's on the truck I guess he doesn't like on the trucks moving all the time and I don't like it when he skips a meal he always leaves a few kernels gonna finish look there's still food in there so food there diesel okay there you go see he always leaves a few kernels and let's fire a mind don't you have a waiter you like it you like it you old man keep my compromise to the chef tomorrow will be another day at the motel here and the next day will be another day and the next day now they're supposed to have my truck ready Monday afternoon they said the parts should be here by midday and they'll get it in the shop right away and it shouldn't take long to replace the sensor if that's the only thing that's wrong so if we can get all these ducks in a proper line again and get them to stop going off track on rabbit trials stay on the duck trail you know get them all a nice little line all nicely lined up we should be out of here Monday afternoon I'm gonna drive into the night Monday try to get a full day's drive in yet so I'm gonna sleep as long as I can Monday so be driving late end off probably around on this side of New York City because once you pass New York City this is gonna be very hard to find parking late at night so we'll have to find a place where you can park it's gonna always gonna be hard to find parking but we're driving late into the night on Monday Tuesday we're gonna get past the congestion of New England and the Northeast US we're gonna get into the south hopefully hopefully down into like Virginia area I'm hoping close to Moses and Colleen maybe I'll run into them maybe I'll be going I don't know that'd be cool and day three we'll be down in Georgia that'll be a Wednesday night I guess in Thursday as early as we can as soon as the logbook lets me move the truck we got to go and unload and I'm hoping that there's gonna be a trailer waiting for me near Atlanta that I can just go and do a drop hook and book at home and then it's another three days home from there and if everything lines up perfectly it's going to be a very busy busy week of just hardcore trucking what's what's the what's the phrase again nose to the grind that sounds like it hurts nose to the grindstone I'd like to come up with a better less painful way of saying that we're gonna be working our butts off but I have to end this today so I'll see you here tomorrow for another day in the motel here we'll find something to do we'll we'll make it an adventure see you then thanks for tuning in hanging out with me today