 Hey, this is Matt from Chicago. You're watching Trucker Josh and Diesel and Chevy and TJV. Keep up the good work. Guess what, everybody? I'm at home all by myself today. Brits at work. She left me at home all alone with the dog. So we got our foster boy, Big Frank. His name's Frankie also. We have another dog named Frankie, so we just call him Big Frank. Because he's bigger than the other one, believe it or not. Fits right into our home. Perfect, we got the almighty, the one and only Lord Weasel. Hey, guys, how's it going? Doing myself here, I miss mom. Oh, come on. Come on, you got goobers on you. You're even fighting with your brother again. You're even fighting with your brother. We'll be fine. We'll be fine. Where's the rest of the crew? Where's everybody? Doesn't anybody want to play with me? Hey, where is everybody? Everybody. I found her Chevy. What are you doing in your cage, buddy? This is my home. That's my safe space. I miss mom. Oh, come on, guys. It's not so bad being at home alone with me, is it? We're going to have fun. We're going to have fun. Have you seen your little brother? Frankie, where's we? There's a wiener. There's the wiener. Hey, buddy, let me turn some lights on in here so people can see you. Oh, there he is. Is mommy home yet? Come on, guys. It's not that bad being here with me, is it? I'm fun. I'm fun, right? Why are you putting in your cage? You guys want some carrots? Does anybody want some carrots? I give good treats. You want to know why? Because I'm the fun one. Come on, come on, come on, guys. Hey, big Frank, you want some carrots? Want some carrots? Okay, carrots. Carrots is their treat of choice. They all love carrots. Carrots, carrots, carrots. All right, okay. Let's see. Let's put this somewhere where people can see. See how much you like the carrots. Okay, we'll put you right there. All right, guys, who wants some carrots? Who sits first? Frankie, you're already sitting. Bit of a big piece, buddy, can you handle that? Chew it, don't swallow it. Okay, good. Coming for Shaddy, diesel, come here. It's coming for diesel. Hey, hey, buddy. You want some of this? Oh, yeah. Remember who the best one is. Remember who you love the most. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Home alone with dad. Woo, whoever gets that one gets it. Frankie, you get it. There you go, chef. Oh, did it roll under the fridge? You get it? Did you get it? Oh no, I got it. I got it. All right. All right. We're in my PJ pants, because I'm all comfy. So yeah, Britt said I work today. She works days all this week, and I'm at home all this week because my truck is going into the shop. I've got to bring it there tonight yet. It's got to get what's called a crankcase breather replaced, an oil separator. It's got to get a full service. It's got to get a tire replaced. It's got a little bit of work, so it's probably going to take them, well, maybe the rest of this week. This next coming weekend is our Thanksgiving weekend. So I'm going to be spending it with family. We're also installing this new door over here. We just picked it up, me and Britt, yesterday or the day before, I think. So this is going to be a sliding door. Maybe we'll prop it up against the wall here to show you. This wardrobe, this is where we store blankets and stuff. That's going to be moving elsewhere. We don't know yet, but that door is going to be going right in there. We're installing it on Saturday. And then Sunday, I guess we're just hanging out here. I think Britt's dad and stepmom are coming down. And then on Monday, which is actually Thanksgiving day, or for the long weekend, we're going to my parents' house. Going to have Thanksgiving dinner, all the fixings and everything. It's exactly the same as American Thanksgiving. It's just, like I said before, we do it a month earlier and Canada doesn't make as big a deal of it as America does. I know Thanksgiving in America is this huge deal. Up here in Canada, it's the exact same thing, just on a smaller scale. It's just, we're Canada. We're just a little bit toned down, except for Christmas. Christmas is the big one out here. Everybody goes all out for Christmas. So it's a beautiful day outside. I'm just editing some videos right now at my work station and then we're going to go enjoy the outdoors. Maybe go on another little hike through our bush or something. It'll be fun, right? Right? It'll be fun because we're going to have fun, right? Right? Because I'm the fun one, right? Why do you all look so bored? Diesel's laying down over there. Are you still eating your carrot? Where did little Frankie go? There he is. Okay guys, we're going to have a good day. Right, Wiener? Right? If you say so, I can't so. This one's for you. Are you willing to dance for it? Dance, dance. Go in a circle. Oh, good boy. How about this way? Go in that way. But I'm not too sure what your tricks are, big Frank. Can you lay down? Down. Shake a pop? You, Chevy. Diesel, shake a pop. Diesel, shake a pop. Good boy, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Can I have the other one? Nice to meet you. You know this one well. Shake a pop. Oh, good boy. Shake the other one. Good boy, nice to meet you. Shake it again. Shake it again. How come I had to do it twice? Because you're special. What other tricks do you know, Frankie? You lay down. Can you sit up? Can you shake a paw? Can you shake a paw? There's a treat. Can you shake a paw? Shake, shake, shake a paw. Oh, good boy. Good boy. Okay, big Frank. Use your chance to impress everybody. Can you shake a paw? Can you shake a paw? Shake, shake a paw. Oh, good boy. Can you shake this one too? Can you shake this one too? Oh, good boy. So yeah, we're kind of bored sitting at home, but we'll find something to do. I wanna say it's almost kind of nice. I have the whole host myself. I don't even know what to do with myself. So many opportunities. I got a lot to get done. No time to have fun. We have to get this air conditioner out of our window there in our messy room. That's actually not too bad. Yes, we have separate blankets because Brett steals all the blankets. So me and my mastermind devised the plan. We shall each have our own blanket and then she can't steal my blanket. And if she does, that's just greedy. That's just greedy. So far it's been working good. So the weather has clouded over a little bit. The forecast is calling for snow in the next couple of days. So hopefully we won't have to install this thing in winter weather. It's not supposed to be winter weather, but it's the changing of the season. So it snows and then it melts and then it snows and then it melts. But we haven't had our first official snowfall of the season yet, but it's coming. We're supposed to get a pretty good dumping this weekend. It's gotta happen. We gotta go through the cycle so that we can get to next summer, right? This is the season of change. Beautiful out there though, beautiful. Even though it's cold and miserable, still beautiful. So yeah, not much to show you today. I'm just sort of hanging out around here. Tomorrow we're gonna go spend a little bit more time outside. If it's not too rainy, not too wet, I wanna blaze a couple of new trails through our bush because we have our trails through there right now, right? But Brit and I, we really like to walk. We haven't done enough of that this summer, but it is something we like to do. And I want to extend our network of trails through our property and through our bush here just so that we have a nice little nature hike we can do whenever we want to, right here on our own property. We can take the dogs with us. So I'm gonna start clearing the trail. We'll see how far we get. We'll start on that tomorrow I also have to go into town this week because I think I'm gonna do that on Thursday though. And it's Tuesday today when I'm filming this. So this door we're gonna install on Saturday. So on Thursday I think I'm gonna go into town, go to E.G. Panner Building Supplies and I gotta get the brace, or pardon me, not the brace, the frame because we gotta build the frame, right? So we're gonna tear this wall out just big enough for the door and then we gotta have a two by 12 header on the top. And then we gotta get two by fours for the side, like two on each side to hold up the header and then two on each side of that or one on each side of that for the frame up to the roof. So it'll be a little bit of work but I got my dad coming down, my father-in-law's coming down, my cousin Chris is coming down to help a little bit and all of them have experience in framing. I don't have any experience in framing. I'm pretty sure I could get it done but it'll probably take me a lot longer than it should and I don't wanna make any mistakes. So they're gonna come down, give me a hand and we should be able to get it done. I think we'll be able to get it done well definitely before supper. I know we should probably be able to get most of it done like in the morning, just a couple of hours. Like all we gotta do is cut a hole through here, throw the door in, put the flashing on, seal it up, bada-bing, bada-boom. We have a new back door. And then like I was telling you, our next big project is this massive deck that's gonna be in the back here. From approximately that tree over there, it'll go about up to that tree, starting there, all the way across to meet up with the gazebo over there. Let's all be platforming the whole deck. Can't wait, because then we'll be able to sit back here and have our coffee back here. So I sort of like in the morning, me and Brett always like to, at least in summer mornings, we like to sit out on the deck as much as possible, have our morning coffee out there. And this is a nice view of nature. You know, you got a lot more trees here and stuff in our front yard where we've been sitting currently in the mornings. It's nice, it is. It's a lot more open though, right? It's the front yard. We gotta, I was hoping to be able to mow that lawn before this snow came, but I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't know, just have to let it get covered by snow and we'll mow it in the spring. But yeah, it's just much more open because it's the front yard, right? And I'd much rather, like this is a nice view and everything. The back won't have this veranda roof over it. It'll just be open. So on the rainy days, we'll have to sit in the front. But on the nice sunny warm days, we'll be able to sit back here. Just enjoy it. Yeah, tomorrow we're gonna go out into the bush and work a little bit out there. So yeah, a little bit of home time video is coming up yet. I know it's not the same as trucking. I know it may not be as exciting as the trucking content, but you know, this is a vlog of my life and part of being a truck driver fits what you're thinking of doing. Part of that is your home time. My truck is in the shop, I've talked to the shop already and it's most likely what we thought it was, the oil separator or the crankcase breather. And it's a $1,900 part Canadian, so probably like $1,300 in American. And plus they're gonna fix my mudflap for me. They're gonna weld that up for me. My license plate light was burnt out in the back and fix that for me. Apparently two of my wheel seals are going as well. They're gonna fix that up for me. And I'm gonna get a new passenger steer tire. So a lot of money being spent right now. But we're gonna enjoy this time at home, right? I'm not gonna think about that right now. Don't worry about that next month. Let's just enjoy our time at home now. So I hope you enjoyed these home time vlogs. I would love to give you trucking content, but you know, I need some home time too and I love sharing what I do here at home with you. So this is a day at home alone with Trucker Josh. I know, riveting entertainment, right? But subscribe anyways, cause it gets better. It gets better, I promise. Okay? I'll see you tomorrow. Tomorrow, we've entered out into the wild. Hey, this is Matt from Chicago. You're watching Trucker Josh and Diesel and Chevy and TJV. Keep up the good work.