 We're going to be driving through some snow today. Hooray! A little bit of snow fell overnight. We got our load protected under the tarp here, and we're about to get going. Looks like everyone else is sort of getting ready to get rolling here too. Excuse me. Go around, check out all the tires and everything, make sure everything works, and we'll be on our way. We're in Minnesota. We're right now in Fort Francis, Ontario. This is not going to be too much fun, but we've got to get it done because I want to get home tonight. I have to get home tonight. Tomorrow is Britt's egg retrieval surgery, and I've got to be home for that. So we've got to get this load off my trailer, and judging by the weather, we'll be just pointing our nose straight home and getting home as soon as we can. Probably won't even worry about a reload. At first I was kind of thinking maybe we'll grab something on the way home, but if the weather's going to be this bad, I'm already going to be delayed. It's six hours down to Brainerd where I've got to deliver this. And then it's about four hours, no sorry not six hours, it's three hours down to Brainerd where I've got to deliver this, and then six hours back home. So I have some extra wiggle room in there with my log hours, but not too much. I don't want to risk it, go and try to pick something up and then get stuck somewhere overnight and then I miss the appointment tomorrow. So it is what it is. Hopefully the snow doesn't get too bad. There is a snowfall warning in effect. That doesn't usually mean too much, it just means that there's going to be snow. Watch out. But as we get back onto the planes, I might go up Highway 59 to go back then in Minnesota because that's through the bush rather than going up Interstate 29 in North Dakota. Interstate 29 is on the open plains. And as soon as it starts snowing there, you get a little breath of wind and you get all this blowing snow and everything's blinding. But if you go through the bush, you've got the trees sheltering you and it stops the wind and then you've just got a little bit of snow falling. It's not as bad. You can see better. But it is a two-lane highway instead of four-lane divided. We will assess the situation as we go. We've got to get out there though. This snow is supposed to stop by the time we get to Deer River. It's not supposed to be snowing today in Brainerd. So it won't be all day that we're driving in snow. That's good. As I said, they're expecting a couple of inches. In some places, four to seven inches. So it's going to be a little bit of a snowfall in areas. But I think we're going to miss the majority of it. The majority of it is supposed to start falling here in about two hours. And as we get further south, it's supposed to clear up. Then on our way home, it's not supposed to be as bad out that way. But it's a little west of here. We'll see weather changes all the time. But sure, we're in International Falls, Minnesota now. Just crossed over. The heaviest part is supposed to fall at around 9 o'clock. The heaviest spot is going to be here. It's going to be nearby. But if all of my predictions and calculations are right, I've done all my weather research this morning. We shouldn't miss it. Catch the tail end of it, who knows. We've got to keep rolling. Well, we also got to make our own personal judgment. You know that. We've seen in the past where the roads were open, but I've made the call that to me, the roads are closed. But I don't think it's going to get to that, especially with this snow, I'm going to avoid the open plains. I'm definitely not going to go up by 29. I'm going to stay on the Minnesota side in the bush. Hopefully that'll keep the snow from blowing around too much, you know? We'll see if that plan works. But then again, we'll assess the plan as we execute the plan. Plan for the plan to change. You don't want to get too far out of ourselves. We don't know what's going to happen. Snowing back at home this morning, we'll keep our eye on the weather. Take it easy and be careful. I'm going to stop here up ahead and get a coffee and some breakfast. All upset at me here in a minute, because I'm not going to listen to her. She wants to go left. 300 meters, turn left on Main Avenue, US 2. And I'm going to go right. She's going to turn right back here behind the building. This is the stop right here on the left. Grab coffee, stretch our legs. I don't want to stay too long, though, because I want to rush down to Brainerd. I don't want a whole big line up there when I get there. I want to beat the rush, hopefully. I might be just in time for the rush. Who knows, but I want to at least try to get there as soon as possible. I want to go home. But 15 minutes. Had to clear off the taillights on my trailer. They were all covered in snow. Turn left. These things get covered up so quick. It'd be nice to have heated lenses back there, but those are pretty expensive. You can replace all of them, make all the lights, for the cost of one heated light. So if I own the trailer and I own the whole thing, maybe I'd look into it. At least for the taillights, you know? Turn my nose this way so I can see who's coming. And I'm way too nice. I could have cut in there, but I won't. What is this guy going? UPS is coming this way. Okay, so I'll wait for UPS and I'll wait for this pickup truck here. That wasn't too bad. That wasn't too bad. See, we didn't have to cut anybody off from our delivery now. That's how many speeds I have in this transmission. It's an 18 speed. So I can split all the lower gears and higher gears. I usually split all the higher gears when I'm hauling a load anyway, just to make it a little easier on the truck. That all depends though. Sometimes you skip gears, sometimes you don't. It's nice having all those gears available though, even if you don't use them. All the flags are still at half mass. It's been all week. What happened? That was not at half mass. Easy, easy driving. Having some fun tonight. So I'm not even gonna bother with a reload. No, I'm just going home empty. If I'm driving into that, I just wanna get home. I don't wanna waste any time tonight to have to be home tonight. I'm not sure I was even gonna get this load done. So this load's sort of like a bonus one for me. I was just gonna go home this morning, but they got me loaded last night. So I was really thankful for that. Really nice of them to do that. Because of that, I got an extra load in this week, which is gonna help out a lot on payday. Just down the road from Brainerd. Usually this time of day are pretty good. There's sometimes a lineup in the morning like we saw yesterday. But by this time, that lineup is gone. It's throughout the day trucks sort of come and go. I've never seen a huge lineup in the middle of the day. It's quarter after 11 right now. So I'll get there at about 1130-ish. Untarped, all my equipment put away in this trailer to the yard. Especially if it's snowing. I want this trailer in the yard where it'll be out of the way. The storm up north is calmed down by the time we get up there. We might actually benefit by slowing down a little bit, you know? More lifts on that side. Diesel. As soon as we're done here, I'm gonna stop in Pillager, Minnesota for fuel though. And a coffee. Here's the blizzarding up there right now. Got all my paperwork done. Oh, it's kind of windy out here. Shoot, I didn't realize that. I didn't feel it inside the cab. There might be a bit of wind noise on the camera. Just excuse that. Let you know in advance. Oh boy, I gotta clean this truck out. What is this doing here? Oh, this is my wipe anything rag. I always have a rag or a microfiber towel laying around somewhere that I use just to wipe the headlights or something that I can easily quickly grab. I saw this here. I need to get that snow off my trailer. And I saw this and I figured I could use that, but it's not loose. Shoot, I thought it was loose. Ha, ha, ha, ha. This is loose though, this'll work. Oh, windy. Fricker George, you should have a shovel with you. Ah, no, I know. Man, when did that wind get here? Yikes. This off so that it doesn't fly through one of your windshields. That would ruin your day. We're all visible. License plate's visible. I mean, it's soft snow. It's not gonna hurt any vehicles. It'll just disintegrate on your windshield, but it might scare the driver, make them do something crazy and then end up in the ditch or in a tall and coming traffic or something. I'm just gonna put this where I found it. Oh, it's windy and it's coming from the north, which is great because that means that, oh, what's, what's going on here? Wait, what's going on here? Hey, no, don't mess around with me. Don't mess around with me. Oh, man. Looks like I've got a project this weekend. That's great. Always something, it's always something. Let's put our forewars on, see if, oops, see if the signal works in there. Okay, so the signal works in there. Oh, what in the hunt? Oh, sorry, I'm trying to keep you guys out of the wind. That's why I'm keeping my back to the wind. Oh, come on. You can see it's sort of on, right? The wires aren't quite connected. Why? Okay, well, that's something we're gonna work on inside the warm shot, not out in the cold wind. Seriously, there's always something. I like lots of lights. I like chicken lights, but tell you what, there are a lot of maintenance. It's always something. That's fine. That's why, maybe going down the road, the vibrations will fix it, you know, if we're lucky. Oh, wait, what am I doing getting? I gotta change first, look at me, I'm filthy. I'm a dirty man. I gotta get new pants on at least. New shirt, I sweat through these. One second, I'll be right back. All right, I'm all cleaned up, ready to go. I'm just waiting for two cars to come from our left here. Nice, not Alexis Lincoln, Lincoln. Oh, the other guy turned, okay, let's go with that. Another flag at half mass here on the right. I guess I could just Google why. I haven't decided yet, yeah. Turn right on Washington Street, LF 210. And I don't really watch the news. I definitely don't watch cable news, none of that. I get my news off of online sources, podcasts, and YouTube a lot. Very rarely do I watch cable news, like in Canada, that would be cable. Cable news would be CBC, Global, CTV. I don't watch any of those. I can't, they're like nails on a chalkboard for me. And get going on my next trip on Thursday. I haven't hit this snowstorm that way through here yet. I'm really hoping that we're not gonna hit it. We're staying here on the Minnesota side of the line as we head north, like we had planned. We're on Highway 59. We're doing this because there's more shelter. As soon as you get into North Dakota, it's just open plains. And on windy days like today, it's just nuts. Especially after a recent snowfall. All that snow on the ground is gonna blown all over the place. You saw last time I was in a blizzard, right? That video went, it got quite a few views. I think we're at over 400,000 views on that video, maybe 500,000. I don't wanna overstate that though, dude. Few 100,000 views anyway. That was a popular one. I don't wanna get caught in a situation like that. So we're staying here in the bush. Feels like it's a little bit open here, but get more treat in a little bit. On commercial crosses, I can't cross there with free. I thought he said it's very windy over there and visibility is pretty low. Stopping most of the wind. There's some blowing across the road here a little bit, but not nearly like there would be. We don't have that wind and we have full visibility. Like this here. Obviously snowed like crazy earlier today, but it's all gone now. Where's he just plowing? Ah, he's just plowing, okay. That makes it even more slippery. Road didn't need plowing, it needed something. What is 15 Celsius in Fahrenheit? 15 degrees Celsius is equal to 59 degrees Fahrenheit. What is minus 15 Celsius in Fahrenheit? Minus 15 degrees Celsius is equivalent to five degrees Fahrenheit. There you go, that sounds better. I'm like 50, wait a minute, isn't 50 warm? I mean, I don't speak in Fahrenheit, but that sounds a little warm. Yeah, five Fahrenheit, that's what it is right now. It's gonna go down, down, down. Didn't even have to drive through too much snow today. The old blue would beg to disagree. I had some problems with lights again today. First of all, this is working again. I told you, there's a little bit of rattling down the road and it'll fix it. I'm a mechanic. And then, can you see it from here? I might have to jump up on the step. In the center three, the one on the left, LED on top, stop working. I'm kind of disappointed in these parts and parts. Parts-M, that's what they're called, Parts-M. It's the brand I've been going with for all these lights. They don't last. Seriously, that's the third one I've had to replace within a year since I've replaced those. I've had to replace these strips underneath here, twice, both sides, twice already. I went with a different brand than Parts-M this time for these, so far they've been lasting longer. The lights as well are Parts-M. And I think, actually, this one's not lit up as bright as it should be. I know the camera doesn't really show it, but that one's brighter than this one. Oh yeah, see, there's a bit of a short on that one there. Or not a short, but a loose wire somewhere. So the wiring, that's my fault, okay? That's, can't blame them for the wiring. These lights are awesome. But remember, my signals I had to replace, those were Parts-M. These were Parts-M too, I went with them again, because they're some of the easiest to get. But I don't know what's going on with these LED lights, man. It's just, it's always, always something. But I'm gonna keep adding lights to the truck because I like chicken lights. I like the truck lit up like a Christmas tree. It's just, the more lights you put on, the more you gotta replace them and redo the wiring. Especially in wintertime here in Canada, it's just that road grime gets in there. Ruins everything, everything. Except my day, I'm not gonna let it ruin my day. Okay, so, let's see if I can show you from up here. Can you see it there? Nah, yep. To top it off, my taillights. Wire got disconnected in the snow. So the taillights up there work, right? Nobody home. So, look at this, where the wires are coming in. This is why I said old blue disagrees. We went through some snow today. It's all filled up here. I can't even work on this until the ice melts off. So, somewhere in here, the wires go down here, into there, behind there, through the snow. Somewhere in there, a wire got disconnected. So, I gotta get going home. By the time I come back here, on Thursday, the snow will all be melt. Did I catch it on film? Oh, now they're off again. There's ghosts. What in the world? So, there's obviously a wire that's just not connecting properly. Same thing as that front one. Are you gonna do it again? Well, not all blue. What did I touch here before? What did I? Okay, well, so we know the lights work. That's a Thursday problem. I'll fix it before I hit the road. The good thing is, even if these aren't on, I have those taillights up there. So, and signals, and brake lights. So, I have those if these just wanna be stubborn, but I have a feeling, especially since they popped on a second ago there, I have a feeling it's gonna be pretty easy to fix. I just have to find out where the loose connection is and just exactly like that and we'll fix it. It's always something. It's always something. All right, I gotta go home. So, I'm gonna end this vlog here. Theo's already sleeping at home and Brith's probably gonna be in bed already. Tomorrow is the big procedure day, the big fertility egg retrieval. It's her second egg retrieval. It's our last one. We're only doing this one more time. So, tomorrow is, oh, it went back on again. It's gonna go off. You watch it in the background there while I wrap this vlog up. See if it goes off again. So yeah, I gotta go and do my part tomorrow and then they will take her eggs and take my guys and they will begin the fertilization process. And then we wait five days for them to mature. We see how many of them are fertilized and how many of them last and after five days we'll know how many embryos we have. I believe it's five days. It's been a little while since we did this last time. We'll talk more about this tomorrow. Why don't we leave this for tomorrow? Cause I gotta talk about something tomorrow. If I explain it all today then we got nothing to talk about tomorrow. 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I'll see you tomorrow everybody. I gotta go home and go to bed. Need my rest. Well, it's not really about me now is it? But see you then. The day after tomorrow we'll be leaving on a trip again and we'll have some time in the shop here to work on all this wiring and we'll see if we have time to replace that one up there. That's not a priority because the majority of it's still working. Decide that then. Have a great night everybody. Take care, be safe.