 only a couple more weeks in this house. So we've done quite a bit to this place in the last three years that we've lived here. First thing we did was install this new air conditioner. We actually went a little above and beyond. We shouldn't have spent so much money on it, but it is what it is. We could have gotten away with spending a lot last, but we wanted a good air conditioner, so we got a good air conditioner. Now the new owner will have a good air conditioner. That's cool. We put the air conditioner in, we put an HVAC dehumidifier system in the crawl space. We put a new bathtub in. We got that in just this year. We put a new washer and dryer in when we moved here as well. Painted both rooms. Oh yeah, we put the fence in. This whole fence was installed. The chain link fence, the wood fence behind me here, that was there already, but that was the only fence. I had to keep the dogs in, right? So we closed it all off with a chain link all the way around. This gazebo's coming with us. I've got to take that down yet in the next couple of weeks. So this is Thanksgiving weekend when I'm filming this. Yesterday I didn't make a video. It was Saturday yesterday, so I'm filming this today on the Sunday. We had a Thanksgiving gathering in Winnipeg with Brits side of the family. Today we have a family gathering with my side of the family to get another turkey dinner. It's going to be great. Before the family gathering yesterday, we went into Winnipeg and got some new furniture to furniture our new home, because it's more than twice the size of this home and it has two levels. We didn't have enough furniture to fill it up. So we got the coaches we have now are going to go down into the basement there. So upstairs is a living room up there too. So we bought a couch and a love seat coffee table and end tables for the living room upstairs. And our dining room table is obviously for two, maybe four, the one that we have now. It's way too small for a house like that. So we bought a new dining room table as well with chairs to go around it. I wanted to buy a new king size bed too, but we have to measure out our new bedroom. I don't think a king size is going to fit inside our new master bedroom, which is sad because that was one of the one things that I wanted. We might be able to make it work, but we have to get in there first and re-measure it and think about it. We spent enough money yesterday with a new dining set and new living room set. But those things are all being delivered the day after we move in as well. So everything's all fallen into place. Still got to pack everything though. Diesel came to the shop real quick to help me out. I had to fix the visor. Now, the way this visor is connected to the windshield, I've showed you before, the center is actually adhered, adhesed, adhesed. It stuck to the windshield with glass adhesive. Well, it was so windy last week on the way back. It actually ripped that glass adhesive right off the glass and it took little pieces of the windshield too. Not much, but like little chunks. That's how strong that adhesive was, but I obviously didn't use enough adhesive because I used a combination of 60 pound two-sided gorilla tape and some glass adhesive around the edges. Well, this time we went all out. Just glass adhesive, the real good stuff. And I put a lot on there. That thing's not going anywhere. Come with me. Diesel, thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. You wanted to come and hang out at the shop with me and help my tools for me and stuff. Passed me the glue, right? Yeah, you did a good job. So that's, I know, an excessive amount and I'm just gonna leave it like that. Let it dry overnight. Let me get rid of that front-facing screen for you so you don't see that reflection. One second. I lathered it on there. And then when I pinned it onto the windshield, obviously it squished out a bit, right? But that's okay. That's okay. Thing's not going anywhere. This visor will stay from now on. It was so windy. It ripped it right off the window. It's crazy. And that's how this visor is stabilized on here, right? I wish it would have used the factory mounts like most aftermarket visors do. I don't know why this one doesn't. This one's from 12 gauge customs. It's a great visor. Don't get me wrong. It has custom emblems on it. And it was a gift from Bullsnot. And I really do appreciate it. Just the way it was made, most aftermarket visors use the mounts on there. But this one doesn't, this one uses this. That's why you have to use adhesive to stick it to the glass. So if this window ever, this windshield ever breaks or cracks or needs to be replaced, you actually have to break that off of there. So it's stuck there. Oh, worry about that problem when we get to it, right? Oh, well. Okay, I gotta get back home. We also fixed the LED light on top of the cab there. I'll replace that. So that's done. Diesel, you did a great job. I'm proud of you. I hope that holds. I hope it does. Well, we'll see what happens, right? We'll see what happens. I gotta run back home now. You drive in diesel? Good, good. I'm tired. More and more stuff gets piled up here all the time. Stuff that's gonna be going to the house. So it's the next morning. I checked up on my adhesive job on the visor that we did there yesterday earlier in this vlog. And it's rock solid. I don't think there's any way that that visor is gonna rip off again. The only way we're getting that off is when we need to replace the windshield. We might have to cut it off. It's on there. Let's see what happens. I have a load out in Canora. I've already got my trailer all ready to go. I just gotta go hook up. Head on over there. It's an empty step deck, a aluminum 53 foot trailer. You can go there, put some lumber on it, tarp it and take it down a brainer. And empty it, roll up the tarps, put them on the trailer to tie those down. Go to Shakopee, Minnesota, grab some shingles, tie them down, zip back this way. So let's make some good time. Let's get out there. I got a Timmy's already waiting in the truck. It's not even in the truck yet. It's right here. I got a Timmy's right here. Let's not forget you or you. You guys are all very important. Very important. Let's put you in the truck right now. Put you right there. We're gonna get the keys for old blue. Diesel and the smell of diesel fumes first thing in the morning. So far, so good with my new mount. I think this will hold better because it's like I was telling you before. Before it was a combination, first I put on two-sided Gorilla Tape and then I glued around the outside of it, right? And this time I just smothered it in like extremely tough glass adhesive. Stuck it right on there and let it cure overnight. I wish I could have let it cure for about 24 hours, but it was about 12 to 14 hours. Hopefully that'll be enough. It seems to be holding pretty well now. Hopefully it remains that way. We're still in Manitoba. We're headed towards Ontario. We're getting very close to the border here. I just gotta throw a little bit of fuel in my tanks, maybe about 75 to 100 liters. We'll fuel up down in the States. Just gonna top them off just to touch, just to make sure we don't run out of fuel later today. That wouldn't be good. Once we deliver this load tomorrow, I've already told you we're able to go to Shakopee. We'll probably deliver that Wednesday and hopefully avoid any more big wind storms like we had last week that ripped the mount off my windshield. That was some crazy wind. Like not tornado or hurricane level, but yeah, it was enough that it was very annoying. People watching, this isn't the video from the future. American Thanksgiving is next month, I know. Neat, take care, ready for the holiday. Everyone's at home with their families to get a head start on the week to move. That's very exciting and settle into the new home. I've moved out of the house when I was 18 years old since I moved out of my parents' house. I've moved nine times. It's not too big and over the top. I'm gonna put in 75 liters. That'll be good. That would make it a lot more expensive than all the money I would have saved. Buying fuel down there would be spent into fixing my oops. Let's not make the oops. I'm not actually in that big of a rush. I'm in more of a rush to get loaded. I just wanna get the freight on my trailer. And then once the freight's on my trailer, I'm delivering it tomorrow morning. I've still got lots of time to get down there and have a good night and unload it tomorrow. And then my reload appointment in Shakopee isn't till 5 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. We're gonna try to get that bumped up if we can. We'll see. But if it doesn't work out, yeah, 5 p.m. So I got tons of time to get there. Tons of time. I'll probably be there like before noon. We'll see. I gotta work it so that I don't leave Brainer too early because I don't wanna be wasting my E-Log waiting to get loaded, right? I'd rather arrive there when I'm supposed to get loaded so I can just get loaded and keep going, right? Otherwise I lose time. But working with the split sleeper birth rule in the U.S. now that I understand it, it helps a lot in those situations. So there's also that. Let's go throw some fuel in and we'll be on our way. It's about 21 U.S. gallons enough to get us down there. I still have just below half tanks of fuel. This is that Petro Pass that I talk about in Kenora here where people park here overnight all the time but there are signs around the edge of saying no overnight parking. I don't know. You're not supposed to, I guess, but people do. I try not to. Usually if I stay in town here, I have a few other places I can stay. Don't mind overnight parking. I just don't want a risk being woken up in the middle of the night. Turn left on Rabbit Lake Road, Highway 598. Oh, quiet, Karen. I don't want a risk being woken up in the middle of the night. Karen! I don't want a risk being woken up in the middle of the night and told to move or worse, getting a ticket or whatever. I don't think that would happen. You know, it's a privately owned place. If they put up signs, they don't want us there overnight. I respect that. You know, it's not their choice. 200 meters, slide right on. Trans Canada Highway, Highway 17A. That's where I'm going, Karen. I know, I know how to get there. So bossy. Don't go swear at me. Tell you on this road for 11 kilometers. When he saw me merging in, saw his headlights just suddenly pointed the sky when he floored it. Put my clear lookers on. I'm gonna clear view of what's going on. Oh, those are dirty. Dirty. Oh, it wasn't any cleaning. So I'm checked in here. There was three trucks ahead of me when I got here. That were in line. There's three getting loaded. And two at the tarp station with one waiting to get in. So it's pretty busy here. Hopefully everybody knows what they're doing. And tarps efficiently and quickly. Otherwise I'll be waiting in the tarp lineup for a while. Like I said, no big rush now that we're here and checked in. We'll be okay. We'll be okay. It's a holiday today, right? You don't want to push it too hard. So from here, we have six hours of driving south once we're out of here. It's a shame that, you know, we got to tarp it all just to go six hours down the road on a nice, sunshiney, clear day just to untarp it. But just in the off chance that you hit some rain or some dirt, right? Tarping is mostly for winter time because you want to keep that road drive off of everything, right? Especially with this wood. This isn't regular lumber. This is engineered lumber. It's very special. That special purposes was created for a very special purpose, just like you. And so we got to protect it, right? Is that clean now? So hard to get these things clean. You just clean them, you put them on your face and suddenly they're just dirty, magically. Man, these things are scratched up though. Yikes. Before I got these lens wipes, I was pretty careless and was wiping them with microfiber towels, which I thought would be safe because they're soft, right? They wouldn't scratch the lens, it's just soft. Turns out the things that those microfiber towels catch inside them like the grains of dust, those are very hard. They scratch. And now I've got scratches all over my lenses. So now I use these, not an ad, but if you want to know, I bought a bunch of these off Amazon. Zeiss. Zeiss. Zeiss. Lens wipes, they work pretty good. They also sterilize it too, right? I think it's whatever. Okay, so now we twiddle our thumbs and wait. Hopefully we won't be here all day. Didn't take long and we're off. It's about two hours from the time I got there to the time I left. So it's actually pretty impressed with all the trucks that were there. Things moved along pretty quickly. I'm making my way down the King's Highway 71. Take us towards International Falls, Minnesota and Fort Francis, Ontario. One of my most popular crossings now. Never used to cross here, but with these loads, you go through here all the time. I actually don't mind it. It's nice, there's never any lineups. Everything's closed up, it's Thanksgiving. I wanted a coffee, but I guess we'll have to wait until we get to the US because it's not a holiday in the US today. There's our gift-wrapped present for Minnesota. I hope they like it. I wrapped it myself. I got those bungees back there crooked, didn't I? Well, I hope Minnesota forgives me. So I'm not redoing it now. We can continue going. It's a beautiful fall day. As soon as that sun goes down, it gets cold fast. Minnesota welcomes you, thank you. It was two hours from my pickup to the border here. Now I have three hours down to Brainerd, I guess it'd be a little more than a third in this little downtown. I never see a lot of people on here though, but then again, I usually come through here later in the evening like this, later at night. We're way up here in Northern Minnesota. Is Minnesota considered Midwest? I guess so, right? Yeah, it's gonna be a Midwest state, Northern Midwest. Last time we came through here was just what, a week or two ago? Well, last week. And we were saying how all the trees were still green. Now look at that, like a week later, all the leaves are gone. A lot of them are anyway, happens quick. These trees off to the left are just beautiful, big red trees. We're hoping to plant a new tree next spring in our new backyard. There's already a nice little spot landscape for it. The tree that the previous owners had put in there looks like it didn't make it, it's dead. So we're gonna take that out and plant our own tree in there. We're thinking of putting a weeping willow in there and just watching it grow as our family grows. Maybe take a picture of it together as a family decided every year. We can look back on how it's growing, sort of represent our growing family. We're here in Brainerd and ready to unload. Just gotta wait for them to open. Go around and check all the tires. So if you guys missed the video where I explained why this tire was wearing faster than this one, it's because that inside tire was over inflated. When I got that tire patched, the guy who did the tire repair didn't check the air pressure of this tire and filled that one up 15 psi higher than what this one was. And that's why it wore down. So I lost quite a bit of rubber off that tire, but since then I've equaled out the pressure and the wearing has become even again. So lesson learned, always double check your tire guy when he fixes a tire. I thought that that was sort of just obvious that you gotta make sure that you fill it up to the right pressure. I don't think he asked me either. Well, it could have been an oversight. You know, it was late. I don't hold it against him, he was a nice guy. Now I know double check when you get a tire fixed. Make sure that the tires all are at the same pressure because any uneven pressure will cause uneven wearing. And then you lose money because all that rubber that wore off of there, I don't get that back. It's on the road somewhere. I caught it before it was too big of a problem anyways. So here's my load. It's all gift wrapped for them. Ready for them to open first thing in the morning. This trailer is so dirty. I might wash it on my way home. I was thinking of getting a truck wash anyways. Tomorrow. Or the next day, whenever we go through Fargo, right? Yeah, tomorrow or the next day. I'm thinking I might pay for them to wash this trailer too because this trailer must have gone up north because it's just like filthy, filthy, filthy. Look at the rims here. See if I can get my shadow out of the way. Look at that. We'll see. I don't like paying to wash. Someone else's trailer too often, you know? I don't mind doing it every now and then if I'm gonna be holding on to the trailer for a good while. Cause I like pulling a clean trailer but I'm just gonna be switching to a different trailer. I could probably call and get a PO for it. That I could probably do, I'll probably do that. What a PO is, is a purchase order number. So I call and I get a fancy little number and then they pay for it. It's their trailer and they pay for it. But usually if it's just the trailer, I'll pay for it myself. Like I said, if I'm gonna be holding on to the trailer for like two weeks, I don't mind. I don't mind doing that. They do so much for me that the least I can do is wash their trailer every now and then, right? Not every time. I might do it with this one too, you know? Like to give back and I get something out of it too. I gotta pull a clean trailer. We'll see. If I'm gonna be holding on to this trailer for this whole week, yeah, I'll probably get it done. We'll see. I'll talk with that tomorrow. It's time to go to bed though. Time to call the family. Go to bed. It's definitely sweater weather out there. It's almost zero degrees, three degrees Celsius. And that would be, what is three degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit? You don't feel like talking, okay. 37.4 degrees Fahrenheit. And today, when I was filming, this is Thanksgiving in Canada. I'm in the US now, but it was Thanksgiving where I'm from. So I'm gonna say a couple of things that I'm thankful for. I'm thankful for my wife and my son. I'm thankful for our new home that we're moving into. I'm thankful for my family, my mom, my dad, my sisters, my in-laws, my nephews, all of them. I have a really great family on all sides, on Brit's side, on my side, I'm very thankful. Very thankful. So first and foremost, I'm thankful for my family. I'm thankful for my friends, thankful for my truck. For the work that I have to do. Of course, I mentioned our new home. I'm very thankful that we were able to pull that off this year. Wasn't looking like we'd be able to do it, but like I said, the stars aligned. And it was made possible for us. You know, it wouldn't have been possible without people coming together to help us. So I'm thankful for that. You know who you are. Very thankful that you helped us make this possible that we could move into this home. And I'm thankful for peace and safety in our region of the world. Living here in North America, we live in what sometimes feels like an impenetrable fortress with our good friends and brothers and sisters, United States right next door and with us on the same continent with a combined military defense force of North America. I'm thankful that I can raise my son in a land that's not at war, where there's no war happening here. I realize there are wars raging around the world. And my thoughts are with you guys out there in Ukraine fighting. My thoughts are with you guys in Israel, Palestine fighting right now. My thoughts are with all the conflicts, all the different people fighting and dying. I just wish we could just find a way so that people could just stop dying much easier said than done, right? Terrible to hear what's coming out of the Middle East now. Terrible to continue hearing what's coming up Eastern Europe. So on this Thanksgiving, I recognize that there are conflicts around this world that are just terrible, but I'm thankful for the safety and security we have here at home. And I wanna remember that that doesn't come for free. That didn't just happen. Many, many people in the past have given their lives, been slaughtered in brutal ways so that we can have the peace and security we have. So without going further into that, like I said, I don't like diving deep into these things because I know these are hot button issues. And I don't wanna start up controversy. I don't wanna start up fights. I just want people to stop dying. So anyways, I hope you sleep well tonight, wherever you are, I hope you're safe. And when you get out on the highways here, please remember to drive safe. Go down below to the comments section, even if you're not Canadian, tell me something you're thankful for today. There's just one thing, what are you thankful for? Maybe we'll do this all over again for American Thanksgiving next month. And you gotta pick something different. So you gotta find something different than that you're thankful for. So if you wanna save the good one for then, okay. But I look forward to reading all your positive comments and hearing all the different things we have around the world to be thankful for. Even when sometimes it might be hard to find something. I know, I believe in you. I'm sure you can find one thing to be thankful for. I'll see you tomorrow.