 Good morning everybody. I got the weasel with me. You can see his Ears poking up in the background there We're here at Canadian Tire getting some errands done today Apparently Christmas starts here So I'm home for Christmas holidays now it is December 21st today, so happy solstice The shortest day of the year today daylight hours That means after today we can look forward to longer daylight hours, which is awesome in and of itself So it's gonna be a good day, you know it just from that. I got the weasel with me So that's another reason you know it's gonna be a good day Another reason is Christmas is almost here four days till Christmas Right, 21, 22, 23, 24 including today four days three days if you don't want to include today That sounds even better three days to Christmas So I'm gonna go in here. I'm gonna grab some more kerosene for the truck I'm working in my shop today getting things organized cleared up, and I'm trying to run the bunk heater in my truck I know some of you are tired of me talking about it, but here we go. I told you I was gonna keep talking about it I'm gonna run it through a good long cycle all afternoon With just straight kerosene and see if that helps again if not my next step is to replace the fuel filter Maybe I should do that anyways just needs to be replaced. Maybe I'll go do that I'll run into PBX see if they got a fuel filter for me I want to get new screws for my headlight adjustment Like those screws where you adjust the angle of your headlights mine are like rusted into place So I got to unseize them and put new ones in I might go and get that done, but my main top my main The main topic of my vlog today the main thing that I'm going to be doing today is organizing my shop Getting it looking half decent. I really need to do that I've been talking about doing this for months already since before we moved and now I have a free day I wasn't expecting to be at home this early But I have a free day. It's not quite Christmas yet. So it's no there's no big plans today It's a it's an open day Brits at home with Theo. I'm gonna get some stuff done and I brought diesel with me to help diesel You're not helping much over here, man Just got to call you out here a little bit. You've been kind of sleeping the whole time That's okay. That's okay. I didn't expect you to help at all anyway. You're just here for company So I haven't been working on this area yet. I'm working on this area back here. I've got old blue pulled out of the shop I've got the bunk heater running on full blast on kerosene right now So I'm gonna let that go all afternoon yet for I'll be here for another couple hours probably at least While I work on all of this I didn't want to work in here and have all those fumes obviously in here I need to keep that door closed because it's a little bit cold out there. I wanted to be warmer while I work in here So you can probably hear it. Can you hear it outside the door there? This microphone is pretty Pretty sensitive here. Can you hear it? So I'll share with you what my plan is for this here I've got my quad here that I need to fix up a little bit and sell eventually or drive It needs new rims in the front the rims are bent. I bought it like that a long time ago And I never got it fixed so I got to get those rims fixed those tires got leaks in it and it needs a muffler Don't be fooled. It looks like it has a muffler Hey There's no muffler in there and there's no spark arrester. It's just a straight pipe and I can't ride it legally like that anyway It has a rebuilt engine completely rebuilt it's got maybe 20 hours on the engine maybe That's why I'm keeping it that engine is good It's brand new such that fix up these other little little things and then I can rip around with it, right? Maybe one day when Theo is old enough. He can rip around. It's got quite a bit of power It's a Polaris predator. It's a 2005 Polaris predator 500. So it's got some giver in it And I like I'm gonna fix it. I'm gonna play around with it yet eventually. All right back there is our Big more That's gonna be going to the house in spring, but for winter time. It stays in the shop here I don't want this all here because I need to be able to get to my My heater back there. That's my floor heat my heater boiler Floor heat boiler. I want to be able to have access to that and also my water I've got it coming out here on a hose to here and I'm tired of that. I just want this whole area free So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna move these two machines Over there and organize all of this Back there I've got my bull snot slash house shelf being developed over here You got the Bulls not it's gonna be visible all the way down here some other bulls not products as well I got my house products up here Hats flashlight Probably gonna be doing a giveaway with these Next time I do like a in-person truck show or something when I meet you guys at a truck show Bring those along and give it to some of you guys Tuk back there as well Yeah, using it myself right now see I use this stuff Cleaning this surface getting everything ready Getting all of this. This is the main project here like right now I gotta get all this because this is how it was when I moved. I don't always have it like this Sorry, I'll keep my hand out of the shot keeps focusing on my hand. I know it's a beautiful hand. Look at that ring You see that? You see that? I'm a taken man. Anyway So I got to get all that organized and on the shelf over there looking nice get all of this shelf cleaned up here looking nice Probably get the shelf out of here all together and then move those over here And then my bike will probably go in the same area here as well. We'll see where it fits That's sort of skinny you sort of slip it in anywhere. It's just a little guy. It's a 2008 I believe No 2014 it's a Yamaha V-star 650. So it's a little baby little baby bike Bought her off a co-worker and my plan for it is Once I have room on my frame if I stretch my frame and if there's enough room on there Since it's so light I might be able to build a frame for it and a lift to put it up behind my cab and take it with me on the truck That's why I'm sort of holding on to it because it's it's a nice little bike to take with I don't need to Take a big bulky heavy bike with me, right? It just weighs me down and I don't want to be overweight on the scale. That's sort of my thoughts I don't know if I'm gonna do that or not, but it's still fun to rip around with it. It sounds pretty awesome Maybe I'll sell it The thing is if I sell the bike, I'm gonna sell this as well at the same time but I was just showing you here and I'm gonna take the money from both of those and I'm gonna buy our family a side-by-side ATV so that we can go out as a family and go touring the trails around Manitoba There's lots of awesome trails to explore and I think once Theo's old enough that would be a lot of fun So that's that's probably what I'm gonna end up doing Well, these are what do you think? I think we did a pretty good job I'm not quite done, but I'm done for today Everything moved to the back so that I can access the hot water boiler over here and the Water itself right down there Got my bullsnot and how's corner Set up in here, but there is obviously still more to do Obviously, but we got a little bit more space now and I'll be back I just got to move those bins out of the corner there so that they're not blocking the exit And then we're done Thanks for your help diesel It took all day me all day. I'm tired. I won't go home. I'm hungry. I want to heap All right So, I mean, it's really not that much neater at all the neatness or the the clutter is just a little neater that's that's What I mean and I got my I did get that shelf back there done that took a little while And it's hard to find place for all this I need to build like a second level up here for storage So I'm gonna have to do got that doorway clear there And I got to go through everything go through these boxes. So this is gonna be a long project My main project for today was to move these big machines back here though Like I said, so now I can get to all the important stuff over there And I don't have to And climb over everything to get there, right? It's still a mess man still a mess But that's okay. That's okay man It's true. I Just kind of rearranged the mess, but I feel better about it, and that's what matters Looks better to me And I'm the one that has to deal with it We are far from done though far from done shelving has to go up in here a second level probably for storage So far from done. It's just a Little bit better. Yeah, keep telling yourself. Yeah, man keep telling yourself. Yeah Make it whatever makes you feel good man. We will float your boat. It was nice It was really nice to be able to just spend a little bit of time in the shop rearranging listening to music just I have a vision of how I want that whole shop to look and I still have to hang up all my flags all my signs make the whole shop sort of Guess little reflect my personality a little bit feel a little bit more I wouldn't say homey because this is home. That's not home But more like my own space, right? The walls aren't painted though. You can see they're all muddied, but I'm not too worried about that. It's a shop It doesn't have to be perfect But we'll continue on that Another day. I feel a lot better about how it is. I think that's what was bothering me the most about it was I went in there and it's it was absolute chaos. I didn't know where anything was It's still a little bit chaotic right now, but at least that back section I've gone through every single little thing Every individual little thing and I know where everything is now So now I just need to get the storage capacity like shelving and stuff people put it on its own little space That's a step for the future and then in front of the camper there. You saw there was that little bit there That's some stuff we have to go through yet since we moved Get gonna get rid of a lot of that or some of it anyways and Again, probably need to build a second level in the back of the shop there just to give myself that extra layer of storage and then I'd like to because it's plumbed in for a bathroom in there for a toilet and a shower and stuff and A hot water tank. It's already all plumbed in ready to go. I'd like to install that I'd really like to have a washroom there. There is one that I can use Nearby but that's not really the same when you're working on the truck You got to go out in the cold and walk a little ways to get this bathroom Maybe nice to have a bathroom right in the shop because for whatever reason, I don't know why But whenever I get to the shop, that's when my body suddenly decides it's time to go right now. I Don't know why but every single time I keep track. I keep track Before I go okay, everything's good. I feel good. I don't need to go. Let's go to the shop second I walk in the door Need to run back out the door find a bed anyway You guys don't even know that but that's one of my plans to is to frame in a bathroom there to solve that problem And that'll all be for the future one step at a time right now. I'm still focused on this house We have gotten the house that was the main focus like I was telling you over the past year That was the main focus to get into this house. We've got the house You'll find out in future videos upcoming We had some upgrades to do in the house right a ways that were unexpected But we got those done and we're a little bit expensive, but we got them done And it's gonna be time to focus on putting our nose to the grindstone and working hard through 2024 2024 is going to be the year of the working Working working and working a little bit more and then after we're done working a little bit more we're gonna work a lot more and That's what you got to do to have nice things you have to work for it Nothing gets given to you for free at least very rarely maybe in some special circumstances you win the lottery or something or you get born into money For me I got to work for it and I want to have nice things and we do right now We have been blessed we have a lot of nice things and a lot of them are paid off already Which is great some of them aren't and I got to work for it Especially this house The world is a different place than it was you know 30 years ago houses are a lot more expensive now It's more expensive to run Of course, there's more bills and stuff than they had back then too. So now we got internet cell phones and Streaming services all that stuff But I got it We got everything out of control. We're doing okay, so you don't need to worry about us Oh, that's not what I'm trying to get across here. I'm trying to get across We're doing just fine, but you got to work for what you have work hard. That's what I intend to do So I'll see you in my next video. I have a couple of Christmas videos coming up before we get back on the road yet, so I'll see you in my next one. Please if you haven't already don't forget to subscribe. It is free