 Well, good morning everybody She's a hot one today 30 plus degrees Celsius one second. Let me do the math for you Americans with your weird Fahrenheit ways So that's Google What is 30 degrees Fahrenheit? No, that's wrong. No, don't stop. Let's try again What is 30 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit Celsius is equal to 86 degrees Fahrenheit Okay, we're in Canada. I'm a Canadian. That's hot. I am melting my skin off. I have got 50 whatever Sunscreen on just gonna plug my phone in here while we go outside. It's a hot one. So I'm all sunscreened up We're in my day off clothes put the pickup out here with all of our stuff on all of our stuff for the pond came Got a family of Dogs in here and one wife Got a weasel we got a Chevy We got a Frankie and we've got a wiener and we've got a wife Yeah, we have this lime green pollen dust on everything no idea what tree it comes from but every year end of May We got a huge widespread swarm of green pollen. Everything's coated and then it stops after like three days crazy It's kind of nice living in the middle of nowhere with everything going on nowadays So we've got the The aeration system. See this is that pollen dust. I left this outside for one night That's that pollen dust. I'm talking about it's like a lime green But so this is the pump. I've got weighted hose in here Extension cord these are the Where the air comes out of air max You know what I mean, we've got a pond rake here and I've just got to create this little enclosure for this and have it properly ventilated so that this is out of the elements out of the rain and stuff so that It's safe. This is where the air pumps out. You'll see we're gonna get that pond up and running today hopefully Alright, let's go to the pond bring all our stuff down there. I want to get this pond sort of aerator like moving and then I'm gonna come down here and mow all this grass and Then by the time I'm done mowing. Hopefully that pond will be you know All the gunk on top will sort of be pushed to the edges then I can use that rake to Pull it out from there, you know. All right. There's the pond. Oh Yeah, this grass definitely needs a cut All right, so I started like pulling the stuff out with the rake yesterday already. So it's kind of clear But not very clear yet, so I'm gonna put those two kits in like one on each end of the pond It's gonna start moving the water and pushing all of this gunk to the sides Hopefully where it'll be easier for me to rake it out And then we'll go from there The pump that I ordered isn't here yet I ordered a pump that'll pump water from the creek over there into here at 3,500 gallons per hour So I'll have to do that next weekend when I get back For now, let's see if we can get this water moving at least maybe we can even take a dip tonight yet So I went back to the house to get my water shoes because I don't know what's at the bottom of this pond and Brett is gonna come with me here first We got to figure out if the outlet I'm gonna plug it into has power and what breaker it's on so I know how the power is getting to it and then I got to turn it on and Well, first of all, I got to bring those rocks The bubble out into the pond. That's why I have my water shoes on so I've actually got to get into the pond I have not been in this pond yet since we moved here and it looks kind of gross That's what we're trying to clean up but Someone's got to do it I'll be your hero Here's comes. She's gonna help me. I will be your hero My water shoes on and everything Hey What's we just throw you in the pond? Do you want to eat dinner tonight? Okay, I'll go in the park. Hopefully it's not too deep. That's so gross Thank goodness for water shoes Thank you Moses for the suggestion I hope you guys can hear him. He's putting that As far to the middle as he can Bugs down here suck Is it cold? Well, entitle this trucker Josh takes a spin. I believe it. Come on trucker Josh Be brave. I'll pull you out. I promise Lots of river weed I'm just gonna suck you in Yikes, you could use the rake. It's not exactly middle but You you could maybe push it with the hose further in or the cable Alrighty moment of truth Here we go Certainly helped so hopefully we didn't get a 50% dud. There she goes. Oh, no, maybe not There was a blob But no preceding blubs Okay Well, probably got sunburned again today, but whatever Think we got it done. I got to clean it up a little bit, but I'll show you What we got going on here? it's Once I get more water into the pond once I get my pump next week I'll be able to raise the level of the pond actually swim out and place those Place those things a little more to the center of the pond and get the water moving but for now it's been out here for a couple of hours and They're not Not even really close to the center. You can see them out there, right? Oh, it's a beautiful day out here That wind Just sweeping over me. It's just the perfect temperature right now The bugs are gonna start getting bad really soon mosquitoes are about to come out We're hoping this is going to do something, but I don't think this is going to be enough for this whole pond You see there's one Over there, and there's one over here Yeah, it's moving the water on the whole pond sort of but it's barely reaching the end there and it's not I'm a little bit disappointed to be honest I thought it would be a little bit more powerful, especially for the money. I spent into it It was about $400 on three hundred and seventy dollars American for this kit and I thought it would do a little bit more than this This one's doing pretty good. That was not as good there, but I couldn't get any further into the pond I actually have to swim out to the center and there's so much like pond and river weed in there right now that I would actually have to Raise the level of the creek I'm actually gonna have to move my pump up higher because I want to raise the level of the creek to that level up there yet, right? See if we can because this is the water level the water table level right now Right so in order to keep it at like at a higher level. I'm gonna have to constantly keep pumping more water into it On the pump I got like I've been saying it's thirty five hundred thirty five hundred gallons per hour Now, I don't know what that'll look like for here. I really don't know. I don't know how many gallons this might be I've raked out a lot of the scum on the top And all the crud but over here on this side you can still see like It's not moving as much as it should And this side still sit sitting over here and I fished out a lot of the crud over here already but I'm gonna have to do some more work there yet but that thing has actually pushed most of it towards the edge of the pond so I'll be able to Reach it easier with the rake and this slide is it needs to come down as soon as I have time and energy mostly just time We can't use it even if we had enough water in here and it was clean You go down it you're gonna hurt yourself so that's Needs to get out of here. What I've sort of been thinking though is Like here's our creek, right? This water is constantly moving And last year the water got so high in this creek after a big rainfall that it almost washed out this bank here And it's sort of like this little peninsula or this little not a pencil You know what? I mean this little barrier between the creek and the pond, right? What if I get a big backhoe in here and just rip this whole piece out right here rip this whole thing out so that the creek Flows into the pond, right? Constant fresh water coming into our pond then and then it can just go down there and what we can do is we can sort of make shift build a dam or I can maybe Become allies with the beavers around here that keep destroying my property Get them to build a dam down there or I can just build an artificial one and just stop the water a little bit so that the fresh water flows into my pond and Keeps it at a higher level and you constantly got new water sir circulating into here, right? But for now, we're gonna try this because I really don't want to take this out of here It's nice to have this here. We have this whole area over here yet. I wouldn't have access to otherwise I guess there's a trail on the other side there, but We're trying this first. We're gonna try to keep this water aerated With this system here as soon as I get the water level a little higher I'm gonna swim out to the center and pull those things a little closer to the center evenly spread out And hopefully that'll help But I guess we'll see what happens In the next weekend, we're gonna be pumping water from here Most likely probably this is an old beaver dam here if you're new to the vlog Pesky beavers. I think I've chased them all off our property. I think they've gone to build dams elsewhere Which is good. I don't like I don't want to take them out. I don't want to kill them. I just I want them to go build their little dams elsewhere Because it really messes up my property and they take down a lot of my good trees and then they don't even use them You know they they they knock down a good tree and then they just leave it there and they don't even use it. They just Anyway I have to clean up their mess all the time So the water is deeper on this side here. I'll probably put the pump down into here And then I have about a hundred feet A hundred feet of hose just pump it from there And just shoot it right into this corner of the pond here to get this water moving as well And You know maybe in a few weeks Maybe next month. Maybe the month after maybe next year. Maybe we'll have a place to uh Have a little swimming hole On the hot days like this and we can like look it's not a cloud in the sky. It was a beautiful day today Really hot like I said just under 90 Fahrenheit That's hot for us And uh Yeah on the hot days we can go and take a dip in the pond We'll see it's a work in progress. Uh, I'm new to this stuff. So It'll take a little while for me to get the hang of it I'm not a professional. I'm just an amateur pond caretaker. I love the smell of nature though All the new leaves that just came out they have this I have this smell. It's that smells like spring Oh man, I love it winter was so long. I'm done with it. We never had a winter again I would be totally okay with it But if we didn't have winter We wouldn't appreciate our summers as much Another idea that brit came up with today is uh, we might do the reverse and pump the water out of the pond into the creek as much as we can and uh Dump river rock in there like a couple of loads of river rock spread it around so that it's not so clay and muddy at the bottom We'll see it's a good idea. I think let's go see what's for supper Smells good in here boys You making supper You making supper. Who's making supper? Mom's making supper. Mom's making supper. Yeah, so many good smells today What's going on in here? What'd you do with her? frankies Where is she? Well, what she's behind us Putting on the table for like 10 minutes. You said you were just going to get your camera. Oh Anyways, I blame them. It should still be hot. It's wrapped. Let's go It's outside. Oh, that makes sense. I'm sorry. I couldn't wait. I was so hungry. I always get so hungry after a day of like Sweating from the heat guys stay stay Chevy. I'll come get you later. Okay. No, no you stay Sorry, I didn't realize you were in here It's okay I thought you heard the door closing and I I even said what you doing when you were going inside But I guess you closed the door too quick. Oh, did you guys hear her? Probably probably I'm deaf So these are what fajitas Oh, yeah added cheddar cheese Well Can you see that light out in the sky yet? It's almost midnight That is the absolute best part of living in canada At least in my part of canada See if we can show you more YouTube always like makes it darker than what it actually is Best time of year When the sun just refuses to go away It refuses like nope. I'm staying And all it does is that glow in the sky right there All it does is it just moves over that way to the east and then it comes back up over But over there like We're over there It comes like back up but over there And then the sun goes up And then sets back there and then just barely goes Back there below the horizon, but the sky never gets truly dark During this time of year This is obviously my favorite time of year Glad to share it with you Thanks for joining me today, everybody. Tomorrow we're going to do a little bit more work in the yard I may add it on to this video. I may add it on to tomorrow's video either way Hope you guys hang out I know my home time vlogs are kind of like all over the place and My mind is going a million miles a minute and I'm trying to just enjoy time being at home And also show you guys sort of what I'm doing here just to include you guys a little bit and Uh Before you know, we'll be back on the road tomorrow afternoon. I head down to Iowa. So I kind of hope all these riots and stuff are Uh Calm down by then We'll see but I will be avoiding I already told told the load gods And dispatch I told them I am avoiding Minneapolis and they already told me that's okay. They routed me around the cities I'll be going through some small towns Tomorrow so that'll be and the next day that'll be fun. I'm not going through the big city There's no way But I may see you in a few seconds and I may see you tomorrow We'll see what happens when I edit this Take care everybody