 Good morning everybody Saturday Today we're spending another day at the land here trying to get some more clearing done We got this done last time already. I think we made some pretty good progress I don't want to see how much further we can get I'm actually pretty Surprised I thought there would still be a lot more snow left here. It's nothing It is a hot day today. So whatever is left is gonna be gone See just a little bit left just a few speckles there by the door But other than that everything's looking in order brought an extra chain today just in case because this one's getting a little bit stretched out already and Realized last weekend that I'm probably gonna have to replace it soon. So I've got a brand new one right there I've got my chain oil chain sharpener Gas for the chainsaw gas for the more. This is my bushwhacker mower I think I'm gonna buy us a new one for the house and just use this one for out here Now we'll see This one's in pretty rough shape already got it at Walmart years ago when I lived in that house trailer That was a long time ago already. Well, she's still going good. Just uh You gotta watch out sometimes she likes shooting things out the back because that guard on the back fell off It's never happened to me yet, but it's actually never I shouldn't say it hasn't happened It just hasn't hit me yet. That's why I got my big steel toe boots on my big work boots Always wear eye protection. I just want to take a moment to appreciate the silence You know Steinback isn't a very big town. Well, it's a city. It's a small city probably 15,000 people living in town But it's not that noisy but When you come out to this place And you just sit and listen you realize how noisy it actually is because this This is beautiful peace and quiet You hear that exactly While we're out here We're gonna free the head because look how white my head is still I've got to catch up that tan on my head with the rest of my body So in short bursts About 10 15 minutes at a time I take my hat off Let the skin on my head soak up some Scott soak soak up some Sun so that I Can get past this look of freshly bald, you know, that'd be nice one even color Anyways, I'm gonna get to work here. You guys have all given me great advice and great ideas for all these stumps this is a whole system of stumps from a bush that I cut down and I Read them all I appreciate all of your input as I go about this process of developing this land slowly I'm gonna always be open to advice and Listen to the people who have done this before Because this is my first time ever building a house. I hope it's my last time too We just want to build this house, but we want to get it right We want to get it perfect. We want it to be the house We we die in that we retire and we want to stay here for the rest of our lives So We want to make it just the way we want it We want to put some good thought into it too so that we don't just build something and you know a year down the road Oh shoot. I wish we would have thought of this We're also taking our time because of finances. I don't want a big mortgage. I want to have a Considerable amount a good chunk if not maybe the whole thing, but let's not get too crazy, you know You never know might win the lottery, but I want to have a Enormous the sum of money for a down payment so that our our mortgage can stay low I don't want to be living at the top end of our budget the rest of our lives I want to be living at a comfortable spot where we can still go out and do some fun things You know when we have kids and everything opens up again We can take them to Disney World and not have to you know suffer for it I don't want to be able to go on trips and go camping spend money take my kids fishing You know put them through sports put them through hockey if that's what they want to do because hockey is expensive Hockey is expensive to put your kids through and I want to be able to have the money to do that for them But I also want to have a nice good home for them to come home to feel safe and feel comfortable in and Be able to enjoy nature like this. So the plan for now is to build In a minimum of five years or so it's going to be a little while. That's why I'm taking my time with this I'm slowly clearing this whole area myself here I took all of your comments into consideration I think my best option to get these stumps out of here would be a little mini excavator I was gonna rent a skid steer, but I think an excavator might work better for this just because you know all of these Big bumps I got to dig in there, and I don't want to tear everything up I just want to get the stumps out right and it's just like bushes like this So I'm gonna cut them all down get this place all opened up get a little mini excavator in here dig up all of these big roots level it off the best I can and We'll take it from there. I want to get a driveway brought in I want to get some driveway stone for this here Get nice graveling because this driveway is gonna stay exactly where it is and Our house is gonna be right behind me here Probably so probably be ready to boat around here and the garage will probably be right around where the pickup And camper is right now in that area But for now I'm gonna bring gravel in get this driveway nice and packed get a big packed in gravel area here for The camper to sit on in the meantime later on the garage is gonna go on top of it anyway So it doesn't matter if the grass isn't growing there This is gonna be our front yard our front yard is going to be No dogs allowed. We're gonna have a dog area fenced off in the back in the bush there Once again depending on finances depending on money I'd like to go all the way Like a big big section of this bush fenced off Several acres at least So that we can you know just let them lose to run off into the bush And we don't have to worry about them running on to the neighbor's yard. It's a deterrent for wildlife I know wildlife if they want to get in they're gonna get in anyways But if we have that six foot chain link fence just like we have at our house in in Steinbeck If we have that going around our whole property here or not the whole property But you know several acres of it If we can afford it You know when a bear comes up to that fence, you know, he's got a decision to make is it worth it to climb over or do you just I'll just go this way then right Does something a little bit it will deter neighbor dogs from coming on our property It'll it'll stop our dogs from leaving our land Things to consider right we have lots of years to make sure we get it just right You can tweak this and tweak that take this plan changed a little bit And if you build on this plan over here so that by the time we build the house for us is going to be perfect exactly what we wanted exactly what we Want to live in you know, it's gonna be dog friendly built around Dogs being in the house easy to clean There's gonna be a dog bath area in the mud room so that when the dogs come in on a muddy spring day We can wash them off right there dry them up and let them into the house Obviously all the floors in the house will keep in mind that we have dogs. They'll probably all be Oh, we'll see what we come up with but they'll be like hardwood or like laminate flooring type deal. So it's easy to clean But anyways, I'm gonna I'm going on rabbit trails here. I want to start working We're gonna start pushing this way so See how far that way we can get today This went pretty quick this side I got done this whole area here. I got done in just about two hours Probably a little less than that. Oh water's good So I think we're gonna call it a day for today or an afternoon spend a few hours here Cleared up behind here quite a bit And then cleared further out that way and We started pushing this down as well here just between the bigger trees where I could get the mower mowing everything down Because all of these are all coming down all of them But it'll have to be another day. It's time for me to go home for supper So everything's straight along here and up that way. This is all coming down A lot of work, but it was a good workout Got the heart pumping probably burnt more calories than I took in today So that's a good thing Probably walked about 10 miles back and forth and back and forth and We had pushed it back to about here last time so all of this to that tree line over there now is what I did today First mowed it down and cut down all these bigger trees that obviously the mower couldn't take Up to here and then it's gonna go across there those big trees back there yet And meet up with that clearing that we just came from over there And this is where the house is going to be Right in front of us here Facing that way with big windows facing that way And then our backyard will be in the trees Starting to feel more like home every time I come here. Just a little bit every time just chip away at it Chip away it slowly slowly Once we get all this cleared down when we left with all the stumps Get that mini excavator out here. We'll dig those all up level it out again then we'll start staking out where the house is actually gonna go and then Start seriously looking up blueprints, I guess and getting quotes. This is what I feel fulfilled doing Well, it's not so tight in here anymore A little easier to get in and out gonna leave these sticks here for now and come Organize them into a big pile next time. I Feel like I made some progress today And I'm hungry. We're having George's burgers and fries It's a popular local. I think it's a local restaurant. It's a chain in Winnipeg. They just expanded to Steinback Try it out. I can almost picture the house here already almost Once this whole area is completely cleared and we can start putting stakes in the ground where we want it It's gonna real come really come together This is where our kids are gonna grow up once they come along. We're still trying Hopefully this month They're gonna miss this whole process of developing it, but hopefully they enjoy it They can look back on these videos and see all the work we put into it Building everything with them in mind. Don't even know who they are yet Boy or girl. We don't care. Just hope that they're healthy George's where are you? There you are. What is this Victoria Plaza mall? Original George's burgers and subs Actually pretty excited. Is it just yeah, I guess it's just takeout got the goods and I'm sore I worked a little harder and I thought I did oh boy You'd think I'd be a little more used to that but apparently not I'm excited to try it out. I'm hungry now. I built up quite the appetite today We do So we had our George's burgers and fries yesterday. We had a little fat boys It's pretty much just a it's a huge burger with we got Greek fries along with it So it's almost like a poutine, but instead of cheese curds that had feta in there with and tomatoes With the fries Greek fries It was actually pretty good, but you were saying that they're better in Winnipeg Yeah, Winnipeg locations are definitely like the st. Mary's location as well established I think that was the original actually much much better But this tasted good. It's just that their patties were a bit thin and they marked our burgers wrong But made them right but opposite markings and they forgot our tzatziki sauce with our fries So I was a little bit unimpressed. I called and they sounded super confused They were nice, but super confused so disorganized So they just opened here. So all the employees are probably brand new Yeah, and they probably don't understand the food because most people here know Mennonite food. They don't know Greek food Yeah, well Greek diner food, so So they they'll get it going. They're just getting the Getting the hang of things there. The food was still good But like I said, she gets extra pickles on her burger because she's Gross One of those and I get no pickles on my burgers because that's how a burger supposed to be No pickles Pickles don't belong on burgers I don't know what's wrong with the rest of all of you and the whole rest of this world, but I'm right. You're all wrong Anyways, they they marked her burger as mine. So I took a big bite out of her burger and it had extra pickles I can still taste it and The fries were pretty good, but like she said that's got the tzatziki sauce So they were a bit dry, very flavorful, but they definitely needed some sort of dip So I dipped I didn't eat my many of them I ate the rest today and I dipped the rest in ranch which helped Okay, I thought it was delicious anyway, but we're on the next day. It's Sunday right right now I don't film anything on Sundays. Usually I just sort of relax and hang out but since I kind of left you guys hanging with the George's burgers pick up there and I didn't Didn't talk to you after that I figured I'd at least fill you in and let you know it was delicious No, I thought I'm almost so hungry. I totally forgot about it. I was just let's see Careful with that butter. Yeah, it's violent. They say you can't hurt yourself with a butter knife. Watch me Anyway, so for this Sunday evening, it's 6 30 just about Britt is making my absolute favorite I wasn't feeling well, so I'm making up for it now. So it's gonna be twice as good, right? Absolutely Fought and pasta, right? That's my oh shoot you turn the wrong one on no, I didn't turn it up to the correct size I always forget we have that feature shoot. This is a confusing stove. It really truly is a lot going on here Time to stay out of your way to put this together So it's a good day. We got a lot of progress done at the land again It's just gonna go slowly one thing at a time like to yesterday all I did was clear some of those bushes next time I go there. I'll just clean up all the bushes I cut down and Hopefully sometime this summer I'll be able to get a little mini excavator out there and dig all those Stumps out and level it off a little bit that other Nat. We're not planning on doing too much more there this year Maybe Maybe we'll bring in some crushed rock for a foundation for the driveway sometime later this year, maybe not But I just want to get it cleared and usable right now. I'd like to build a like a three-season screen room Or just a screened room like a little gazebo Somewhere there as well so at least we can sit and get away from the mosquitoes and be outside while we are there But enough space for the big guys to play together. Yeah without we want to possibly put a wood stove in it So that we sit in there in the chillier evenings get the most use out of it as possible But we got to be able to help them in there playing without being in danger of touching the wood stove So we'll have to come up with something probably a raised wood stove to keep them safe Yeah, we'll think of something But we'd have to get a building permit just for that as well and because it has a wood stove in there A wood burning wood stove we'd have to get a get it all insured and everything So it's a couple of steps, so we're not sure if we're gonna get that done this year But like I said, this is like at least a five-year plan It might stretch out to be longer because if we if we don't end up having kids for a few years We don't need any more space than this. This is all we need we could take our time then but if we end up having like a Say a set of twins and then another set of twins or just a set of twins in another one Well, then our days in this little house are numbered and we're gonna have to set a More of a definitive date when our build is gonna be done so that we can have the space we need when we need it But until then stay tuned. Yeah, don't stay tuned. We're nowhere near that point yet. I wish we were but we're not That's okay. We love this little house. That's all we need Look we got a bathroom. We got a living room a kitchen and two bedrooms and a Chevy It's all we need I got my little workstation here for making these videos for you guys We got our new bed Gotta get new end tables yet, but what else do we need? Got a nice fenced-in yard for the dogs got good neighbors on both sides of us Life's good here I'm not complaining. I love this little house. You guys have a bit more counter space, but I make it work. Yeah But it's perfect for us right now. And until we have more than one kid We don't have to rush Building So we'll see what happens. Let's see what happens. I'm gonna keep on with the Lotto max We'll see Our long-term plan winning the lottery We'll see you guys tomorrow tomorrow we go back to work